I'm not the first person to be sucked in by a local television news tease and the other day I'm drawn in by one promoting a story about cell phones and sleep deprivation.
Only the story starts with a warning about cells phones and the potential risk of cancer. Hummm, I've heard that one before. Leave it to those clever newspeople to get me to stay through the commercial break to check out their special report. Is it Sweeps? Doesn't have to be.
Talk about a long lead--yet, the newspeople redeem themselves with me. It's that cell phone radiation, baby, that may keep you from falling asleep. Thank you LocalNews8. A small-scale study finds that it takes participants exposed to cell phone radiation 10 minutes longer to fall asleep than those not exposed. Yet our local sleep expert, Dr. Darron Scherr, finds another reason for the worry. "The amount of power we give the phone in our life is more of an issue than the power of the radio waves coming from them," he says in the news report.
Phone Anxiety. And I really like his quote, "Sleep isn't for lazy people; every body needs sleep."
Want to get pro-active about cancer prevention? Use an earpiece, or a hands-off device for your cell phone.
Want to get to sleep at night? Turn your cell phone off and focus on a good night's sleep.
And stop smoking.
Janet Muniz
