‘Smart’ Utility Meters Causing Sleep Trouble, Headaches, Heart Problems
_Featured_, Smart Meters Monday, January 7th, 2013
(By Lisa Garber | Natural Society)
January 7th, 2013
Smart meters—utility meters that use radio frequencies (RF) to report data to utility offices for billing and other purposes—may be harmful to your health.
Just ask Joe Esposito, on whose home the Public Service Company of Oklahoma slapped a smart meter despite his explicit wishes it not be installed. Shortly after installation, Esposito began to experience tooth aches, constant tingling, and aches in his leg that kept him from sleeping. After watching a video by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt called “Smart Meters & EMR: The Heath Crisis of Our Time,” Esposito put up lead sheeting around the meter. He began immediately to sleep well, to feel no pain in his leg, and relief from his other symptoms. He even experimented on himself by removing the lead once in a while, noting that the pains and sleeplessness returned upon doing so.
Esposito is not alone in this experience; a survey by Dr. Ed Halteman, PhD, found that the many of the 318 residents of a surveyed area with smart meters installed in their homes experienced:
- Sleep problems (49 percent surveyed)
- Stress (43 percent)
- Headaches (40 percent)
- Ringing in the ears (38 percent)
- Heart problems (26 percent)
Admittedly, symptoms like stress and sleep problems come from many factors. Halteman noted, however, that sleep problems doubled after smart meter installation.
Industry Bias is Showing
It’s no surprise that the study by the industry group, the Electric Power Research Institute, found smart meter radio frequency emission levels well within federal safety guidelines. Even the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) study found emission levels to be in “full compliance with Federal Communications Commission regulations by a very wide margin.” Their bias—like anyone else’s—is patent.
Many other studies back up Halteman’s findings, however. The American Academy of Environmental Medicine’s report, “Electromagnetic and Radiofrequency Fields Effect on Human Health” warns of medical conditions that may make some people more susceptible to RF and EMF. The AAEM also requested “an immediate and complete moratorium on [the Public Utilities Commission of California’s smart meter] use.” They add that existing FCC guidelines for RF safety used by the PG&E and Electric Power Research Institute studies “only look at thermal tissue damage and are obsolete, since many modern studies show metabolic and genomic damage from RF and ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) exposures below the level of intensity which heats tissues.”
Radiation Unsafe at Any Dose
In 2011, the World Health Organization stated that cell phone radiation may have a carcinogenic effect, and a Swedish study has found that 10 years of cell phone use leads to an average of 290 percent raised risk of brain tumor development. The Wi-Fi emitted from laptops is also a point of contention, which is why we advise against its use directly on the lap.
Radiation is unsafe at any dose, and it would be little more than arrogance to think that our careless leaps and bounds into greater technology could not come without (potentially) ugly consequences.
Source: Natural Society
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Smart meters are, indeed, dangerous. The two I had on my property have left me with major reactions to RF radiation, which I had none of prior. The BioInitiative Report 2012 has just been published, based on 1800 new studies, with recommendations for exposure limits that are a million times lower than the obsolete FCC guidelines. I would like to know exactly how the lead sheeting was placed for shielding the smart meters. If shielding only the outside of the meter, it forces the wireless signal to ramp up and go inside the house at higher levels. So was lead sheeting placed behind the smart meter as well? We need to figure out how to shield these meters so the shielding does not make things worse (as with metals, which can attract radiation and increase it). Lastly, the California Coalition to Stop Smart Meters has terrific brochures that you can order and use anywhere in the USA and beyond. Order these at info@stopsmartmeters.org. Learn more about smart meter dangers and solutions at http://www.electrosmogprevention.org.
Many are ignorant about these devices being strapped to their home. The SDGE worker that removed mine said that he has been overwhelmed with people wanting them removed NOW. He mentioned while here that he went to a poor gals condo, where something like 20 meters were right outside her bedroom wall and she had NO WAY to remove anyone elses, other than her own. We have enough exposures on a daily basis. The science is there people, if you take the time to read it. Anything over 2 milligauss from my understanding causes “cellular change” – so what of these meters that when measured with something you can buy from Radio Shack – measuring over the maximum “100″ on a 0-100 meter????? Is 100 not more than 2? YES, I had mine removed, but my neighbors isnt much further away from my home than mine was. WE NEED THESE REMOVED AND REPLACED. Forget the moratorium- REMOVE THESE PLEASE. YOU KNEW THEY WERENT SAFE WHEN YOU ADDED THEM TO OUR HOMES. Why are we not shooting for the end goal being NO EMISSIONS? I hear of a generator in Australia that can heat, cool and run our homes for free. Does money have anything to do with this? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
Smart meters are the devils toy to harm us, all part of the agenda 21, there is evil all arround including cell phones and masts, chemtrails as well they all work together and haarp, money is top of the list. we get sick, doctors prescibe drugs which cause more problems, side affects. We have to pray for good as good has to win.
I have been calling my local utility authority for the past 18 months to get mine removed. I live in the panhandle in Florida. I get the total bs runaround. Anyone had any luck in Santa Rosa County Florida?
Do these dangers apply to the use of those wireless headphones, which I use as my hearin’s a naff I I don’t want disturb people in the other flats. I do use one of those biodots & wear bracelets with between !,050 to 2,000 gausse natural “earth” magnets in each (not sure if this lot affords any protection or not);luckily the pay-as-you-go electric meters are in the main entry hall to the flats; British Gas has said they’re going to replace these with some sort of smart meter though I doubt they will unless there’s some sort of law put in place. it’d cost too much!! Not that I’m implying that any of our electrical suppliers ar tight wads!???!
All wireless technologies are toxic to us as the frequencies they use interfere with the natural frequencies of our bodies which are in harmony with the frequency of the planet. http://www.radirid.com for more info all in one place.
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