by Sean Croxton

It’s been mighty quiet around these parts this week.

Last week, I came to the conclusion that keeping up with my almost-daily blogging while writing an e-book was going to be next to impossible.

The book is coming along better than I could have ever imagined. Having a coach makes a BIG difference. He has been a tremendous help in walking me step-by-step through each part of the process.

Last night, I made it to page 45, which I consider to be the point of no return. It’s getting DONE this time. At this pace, I should be finished with my first draft by the 10th of June. Then, I can start editing and hire someone to design the book layout.

There’s a light at the end of this tunnel!

In the News

Book aside, there were a couple news stories that I wish I had the time to blog about this week. The first was front-page news regarding the World Health Organization’s declaration of cell phones as possible carcinogens.

Didn’t I just blog about this? (links below)

Looks like we were ahead of the game, as usual. Another win for the underground.

I write it. People roll their eyes. Then shortly thereafter, it makes headlines. That’s typically how it works.

Speaking of cell phones, we heard back from Dr. Devra Davis’ people (author of Disconnect: The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation). She’ll be on UW Radio very soon to tell us even more than the WHO revealed.

Update: Dr. Davis just confirmed for next Thursday, June 9.

From the Ridiculous File…

Last year, Good Morning America sent me through the roof with their segment on The Cookie Diet. Yesterday, they did a fun little piece featuring caffeine-infused leggings that claim to take two inches off your hips and one inch off your thighs by just wearing them for five hours a day for 21 days.

Watch it HERE!

Now, this is silly. I almost choked on my breakfast.

Apparently, America has a caffeine deficiency…in our pants. Obesity solved.

Keeping it real, if you’re wearing your mocha latte, you’re not just overweight. You’re kinda gullible, too.

Just sayin’.

Then again, stories like this should motivate us to keep spreading the word about real health and fat loss. We’ve got a quite a mountain in front of us, but that won’t keep us from climbing.

The people of the world need us to save them from amped-up pants.

That’s all for me. No radio show tonight. Gotta write and watch the Heat crush the Mavs.

Allyson will be uploading a radio show clip from our show with Chris Kresser today. It’s a goodie! Check it out on the YouTube channel.

I have a Friday Fun Day workout video with Brett Klika in the can. Your abs will burn! Look for it right here tomorrow.

Happy Thursday.

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Sean
www.undergroundwellness.com

by Sean Croxton

My friend SAM has a humongous head.

That thing must weight at least eleven pounds.

Then again, SAM’s a pretty big guy in general. In fact, he’s a beast.

Standing in at six-foot-two, his size and mass are about equal to the top 10-percent of all military recruits.

I like to give SAM a hard time about his head. I hope he doesn’t mind me blogging about it.

Sometimes I wonder if there are any brains in that noggin. There are days when I could have sworn I heard water sloshing around in there!

But I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. At SAM’s age, I would imagine his brain is fully developed with a nice thick skull. But you never know. His weird habit of talking on his cell phone for only six minutes at a time makes me wonder. Dude doesn’t like to talk much.

Okay, okay! SAM isn’t really one of my buddies. He’s a figment of scientific imagination created back in 1996 to estimate safe exposures to cell phone radiation.

His given name is Standard Anthropomorphic Man.

SAM’s brain is unlike any human I’ve ever known. He has no hypothalamus or medulla oblongata (I love saying that). Nope, his brain is perfectly uniform. In the 90s, scientists poured liquids of differing densities into SAM’s plastic dome to measure how much radio frequency (RF) radiation reached specific parts of his “brain” as a cell phone is held ten millimeters (about 1/3 of an inch) from his ear. (Davis, 75)

When was the last time you held your cell phone 1/3 of an inch from your ear?

SAM may have liquid for brains, but at least he practices cell phone safety. Then again, Blackberry phones come with instructions suggesting that you hold your device at least 0.98 inches away from your body.

SAM didn’t read the fine print.

The Blackberry directive must be there for a reason.

Could it be the fact that cell phone radiation has been shown by multiple studies to breach the blood-brain barrier, leaving our noodles wide open for toxic exposures?

Or could it be that studies from various nations have shown that cell phone radiation causes DNA strands to break in animals, as well as human and rodent cells?

Could be.

The accuracy of these studies can be debated for eternity. But one thing that cannot be disputed is the fact that my head is pretty darn big, but nowhere near the size of SAM’s. Nor are the heads of most women I know. Or even most men I know (with the exception of my Mom’s boyfriend).

And definitely none of the kids I know!

Furthermore, my head (nor yours or your child’s) is NOT filled with “liquids of differing densities”.

What is most disconcerting to me is that these days three-quarters of all 12-year-olds and half of all 10-year-olds have cell phones.

Children’s brains are much different from yours, SAM’s, or mine. Hang out with one for five minutes and I’m sure you’ll agree.

A child’s brain contains more fluid through which RF deposits itself. It has thinner marrow, increasing RF absorption. The skull covering the brain is much softer, offering less RF protection than an adult skull. And the child’s brain cells replicate at a feverish pace, leaving them more prone to increased replication errors.

Also, let us not forget that the lifetime exposure of today’s children to potentially harmful cell phone radiation is much greater than yours and mine.

Sounds like a science experiment to me.

In her book Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, Dr. Devra Davis writes, “children’s brains and skulls absorb at least twice as much radio frequency radiation as those of adults. Bone marrow can take in ten times more radiation in children than in adults, according to reports from Austrian scientists is 2010.”

Your child is not SAM. None of us are.

Realizing the limitations of using a liquid-filled plastic head to measure safe RF levels, Dr. Om P. Ghandi, professor and chair of electrical engineering at the University of Utah, utilized a biologically based model of the human head to determine where and how invisible RF signals are absorbed. (Davis, 85)

Appearing before Congress in 2009 and referring to Dr. Gandhi’s research, Dr. Davis showed that cell phone radiation goes about 2 inches into the brain of an adult and much deeper through the brain of a five-year-old. (Davis, 85)

Despite an ever-growing mountain of evidence showing multiple problems with cell phone radiation, an alteration of safety standards is out of the question as conflict of interests abound in the committees that call the shots.

Tune in to UW Radio TONIGHT to hear more about SAM and the shenanigans going behind the scenes that keep you itching for the next iPhone with no regard for the potential dangers of electromagnetic waves, which cannot be seen, heard, or felt.

If you’re like SAM you have nothing to worry about.

Six-foot-two.

Two hundred pounds.

A max talk time of six minutes.

And a plastic head filled with liquid.

Good luck, my friend.

Sean
www.undergroundwellness.com