Recycling

Cell Phone Dangers: Loaded with Mercury, Chlorine, Cadmium, Health Risks

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NaturalSociety | October 14 2012

Mobile phoneNot that you’ll be eating your cell phone anytime soon, but did you know that it’s loaded with toxins like mercury, chlorine, and cadmium? Helping to analyze cell phone dangers, the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, Michigan teamed up with ifixit.com to take apart and identify components of 36 models of cell phones. They found at least one of the following in every device:

  • Bromine
  • Chlorine
  • Cadmium
  • Lead
  • Mercury

In total, ifixit dismantled over a thousand cell phones to test for toxins by utilizing X-ray fluorescence to irradiate and measure the radiation given back by an object. Certain materials—like the toxins—are identified by the signature of radiation the object re-emits.

“Even the best phones from our study are still loaded with chemical hazards,” bemoaned Jeff Gearhart, research director of the Ecology Center. He published the results of the study on his website, HealthyStuff.org. “These chemicals [are] linked to birth defects, impaired learning, and other serious health problems.”

Cell Phone Dangers to Children and Adults

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Give Yourself Full Permission To Attract What You Want

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Inspire Me Today | August 1 2012

Admit what you want without hesitation and give yourself full permission to attract it as you go about the business of living your life. ~ Charly Emery

No matter what you’ve endured in life, you can “recycle” your experiences into tools and stepping stones that propel you forward faster and simultaneously bounce your baggage to the curb.

If you’ve ever felt consumed by your choices or challenges, I know how you feel. In my late teens I suffered two incidences of rape that left me emotionally scraping and crawling through a sea of shame and assumptions about what my life could then be. I left the college education I worked so hard to achieve and hid my secrets within a marriage while packing on an extra 50 pounds for almost seven years.

When our experiences confine us, we often define ourselves by default, which then dictates our lives. I’ve learned that it’s less about what happens to you in life, and more about what you decide about you and your life after it happens.

After losing my extra weight, my memories resurfaced revealing that virtually every aspect of my life was a lie. When I looked closely I saw that I’d built my life as someone else because I’d decided I could no longer be the person I wanted to be. Who do you give yourself permission to be, and why?

Understand you are a combination of who you were born to be, and who you give yourself permission to be —and you can change the ratio anytime.

Your rules and beliefs drive your choices and actions. If you modify the beliefs that are sabotaging or limiting your life, you can create new results just as powerfully. The key is to use your experiences as stepping stones so they propel you forward faster. By recycling your challenges for insight, even the hardest experiences reveal value that empowers you to reconcile those experiences and heal as you move forward.

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