Wearable tech health concerns?

Mar 21, 2015 2:18:16 GMT -5 njchick said:

www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/style/could-wearable-computers-be-as-harmful-as-cigarettes.html?_r=0

"In 1946, a new advertising campaign appeared in magazines with a picture of a doctor in a lab coat holding a cigarette and the slogan, “More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.” No, this wasn’t a spoof. Back then, doctors were not aware that smoking could cause cancer, heart disease and lung disease.

In a similar vein, some researchers and consumers are now asking whether wearable computers will be considered harmful in several decades’ time.

We have long suspected that cellphones, which give off low levels of radiation, could lead to brain tumors, cancer, disturbed blood rhythms and other health problems if held too close to the body for extended periods."

I tend to believe this is true but yet I have a cell phone, wifi in my house and I was wearing a Fitbit.

Radiation has been with us since.....our sun.

I think the rad thing about cell phones was just another "the sky is falling" article typically posted in Woman's Day magazine.

I was reviewing some old 60 Minute Stuff for a HS term paper when "Alar" some kind of fungicide was held up as an "Intolerable Risk" product, killing our children.

Later research showed that Alar, although technically listed as a probable carcinogen; one would have to consume some 2,300 average size apples, per day, for 20 years, in order to even approach true danger levels.

The fact is there is money in Consumer Product Panic.

Their target, us.

We're the mom's in charge of the nutrition, and health of our entire families.

So if a magazine can offer a heavy number of subscriptions, advertisers flock to them.

When was the last time you ever saw anything empirical in these rags?

Like never! It's always, "suspected, thought to be, inconclusive, but, maybe, etc.

Apr 1, 2015 16:14:09 GMT -5 jengurl1987 said:

And years ago people were told that butter was worse for you than margarine. That didn't turn out to be true.

The fact is, science evolves.

My mom said when she was growing up, her mom provided whole milk for every meal.

8 glasses of cow daily was supposed to be so good for you. LOL!

Of course that was advertising, not science.

Still, we are manipulated now more than ever by pseudo science via the internet.

I try to be careful seeking much information there.

The IT offers wild opinions about health care, diets, nutrition, safety, education, etc, without being subjected to peer review.

People think YT is real. WTF!

Give me my mom's old Merck manual and other unabridged journals.

Let me peruse my college bulletins and other objective data sources that lack agendae.

I'll struggle through all the pages to get what I'm looking for.