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Few people think that completely mundane the things we are used to can harm our health. Creating comfort and coziness in our home, we do not we regret money for a miracle technique that helps to quickly cook food, properly store products, communicate with each other. Acquiring one or another product, we are usually interested in the benefits models, warranty periods. But it doesn’t even occur to us to ask at the same time the question of its safety for health. But authoritative experts, doctors and scientists are increasingly worried about that in the six most unsafe for our health household appliances mean the most necessary things for us. The harm about which in question, it is not immediately noticeable, but it tends to accumulate in the human body due to exposure to electromagnetic waves. Is it possible to somehow protect myself and my family from their negative impact?
Disastrous cold
In one of the household appliance stores, I was able to observe such situation: the couple for a long time chose a refrigerator. Determined with the model, young people began to question the sales assistant, how to use the unit and whether the new No Frost system is harmful for good health?
– Harmful! – answered the store employee with a smile. – If for a long time you will stand in front of the open door, you can catch a cold!
Young people appreciated the joke and went home with a purchase.
In reality, the “No Frost” system is more suitable for humid countries. But the products in such a refrigerator, where air forcibly gets rid of moisture, you have to hide in plastic bags from overdrying.
The refrigerator also causes noise and vibration on the kitchen. Freon gas also causes harm to the environment, without which no freezing possible. But, as the head of the department for certification of mechanical engineering and services of RUE “Belarusian State Institute of Metrology ”Tatyana Yakusevich, unit with The No Frost system is also a source of electromagnetic radiation, whose level is higher than that of conventional models. Being on closer than 1.5 meters, each of the tenants falls under this impact, from which, it turns out, not even brick protect walls.
To protect yourself from exposure to radiation, you must install a refrigerator in the far corner of the kitchen or in the hallway. The main thing is that even in adjacent rooms at a distance closer than 1.5 meter there was no berth.
Sit right!
Today it is already obvious – the further development of mankind impossible without computers and their production is expanding rapidly the pace. Modern LCD monitors are much safer than their bulky beam tube predecessors but and they are harmful to the eyes and may impair vision. People whose work connected to a computer, spend more than twelve in front of its screen hours in a row. Plus, the load on the spine, which can lead to a disease of the musculoskeletal system. But the most the unpleasant thing is electromagnetic radiation. It spreads from the workplace in different directions and often as a result long work exceeds a dangerous threshold.
– You need to sit at the monitor no closer than 70 centimeters, – warns Tatyana Yakusevich. – For monitors with electron beam tube radiation is stronger in the back and side the walls. Therefore, locate computers in offices a distance of at least 1.5-2 meters from each other so that their rear is not was turned in the face or back of another employee. Try to take regular breaks at work.
Destructive waves
The microwave oven has been popular for many years. all over the world. But there are a number of studies proving that she far from harmless. The very waves that speed up cooking food, and are cause for concern. Acting on particles moisture inside the product, warm it from the inside, forcing molecules water to move quickly and thus heat food. Wherein a significant part of the vitamins and useful properties of the product is lost. The process of heating in the microwave can also be called aggressive because electromagnetic waves affect the environment items. Although modern microwave ovens, according to manufacturers, equipped with good protection that does not give electromagnetic field break out of the working volume, one hundred percent guarantee that waves do not penetrate, no one gives.
– It is advisable not to be closer than one meter to this household device when it works, Tatyana Yakusevich advises. – Many, wanting to see how food is prepared, look out the window the door. In no case should you do this – in this place the most powerful radiation. Do not use an expired oven service, you can’t repair it yourself if it is broken. Necessary monitor the state of the gasket and the protective mesh on viewing window, and also disconnect the device from the mains when do not use.
Iron, but without fanaticism
Who would have thought what is harmless at first glance occupation, like ironing, can harm us and deliver inconvenience? On average, each housewife spends from 8 on this occupation up to 10 hours a month. Most irons have a magnetic field detected already at a distance of 25 cm from the handle, and only in the mode heating up.
The same high intensity of electromagnetic radiation and an electric kettle that can boil in minutes two liters of water. But you can turn it on and move to a safe distance until it boils. As for the ironing, dear ladies, you must treat her without fanaticism. In order to lower exposure to electromagnetic radiation, it is better not to use iron during heating.
The pipe is “magic” but not harmless
We probably would have easily refused a microwave oven, and even from an electric kettle, but they would not agree to live a day without “magic” tube, thanks to which in a few seconds you can connect with any corner of the globe. Security Disputes mobile communications began to emerge simultaneously with the sale “cell phones.” Thanks to the research of scientists, for sure found that some harm from them still exists. A tube the phone generates electromagnetic radiation around itself, like any electrical appliance. But the particular danger of a mobile phone lies in the fact that he is constantly in contact with our head, and this greatly enhances the negative effects of electromagnetic fields on such a complex and sensitive organ of the human organism like a brain.
Experts recommend: to at least somehow minimize the harmful effects of the “mobile phone”, reduce the time of calls. Use headphones. Many of us carry the phone in our pocket, but Better put it in your bag. Do not leave the phone near the bed during sleep time is closer than 50 centimeters. Keep in mind that power the electromagnetic radiation of a mobile phone also depends on the status of the communication channel “telephone — base station.” The higher the level the signal of the station at the receiving location, the lower the radiation power phone, and therefore the harmful effects below. Therefore better not use the phone in places where there is poor communication if are in the elevator or metro. Children use mobile a phone is generally not desirable.
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