{"id":516,"date":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/07\/living-with-emfs.html"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:00:00","slug":"living-with-emfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/07\/living-with-emfs.html","title":{"rendered":"Living with EMFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>EMFs. No, it\u2019s not  \u201cEvaporating Muppet Fans.\u201d Nor is it \u201dEvery Man\u2019s Fantasy\u201d or \u201cExtraordinary Meditation Flexibility.\u201d What it stands for is, of course, Electromagnetic Frequencies. You can\u2019t run, you can\u2019t hide from these invisible little suckers because they\u2019re emitted by all your basic electronic appliances, from microwave to refrigerator to TV, computers to cellphones to track lighting. While many in alternative medicine consider excessive exposure to EMFs to be dangerous to the body, the jury is still out (according to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/niosh\/emf2.html\" target=\"_blank\">government-funded sites<\/a>) about how damaging they are to humans. And, as always, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/skepdic.com\/emf.html\" target=\"_blank\">skeptics<\/a>. But don\u2019t let that fool you.<\/p>\n<p>For three years, I worked in an office that, unbeknowst to me, was situated directly over  an enormous electrical transformer that powered the entire building. My co-workers and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercola.com\/article\/emf\/emf_dangers.htm\" target=\"_blank\">frequently suffered<\/a> from headaches, nausea, fatigue, and even sporadic rashes that, strangely, would only appear Monday through Friday. Then we found out about the transformer, and since we were certainly in no position to quit our job, we each did some research and found a whole world of devices people wear or place near themselves (I also got one of these for my cellphone), to protect from EMFs. They seemed to work; while not completely \u201ccured,\u201d we all felt much better after getting some of these.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your opinion about EMFs? Do you notice any physical discomfort when you are around alot of electrical appliances?<\/p>\n<p>(posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/serabeak.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sera Beak<\/a>, substituting this week for Amy)<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMFs. No, it\u2019s not \u201cEvaporating Muppet Fans.\u201d Nor is it \u201dEvery Man\u2019s Fantasy\u201d or \u201cExtraordinary Meditation Flexibility.\u201d What it stands for is, of course, Electromagnetic Frequencies. You can\u2019t run, you can\u2019t hide from these invisible little suckers because they\u2019re emitted by all your basic electronic appliances, from microwave to refrigerator to TV, computers to cellphones&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Living with EMFs - Chattering Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/07\/living-with-emfs.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Living with EMFs - Chattering Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EMFs. 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