You never know what a cell phone can grow in your brain!

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Suddenly cell phone has emerge as one of the must have gadgets for everyone. In the first half of 2007 itself, statistics show that American has been using cell phones for more than 1 trillion minutes. This is a no surprise results as most of the users are trading their landlines to cell phones. The health conscious community start to question the impact of cell phones towards our body.

Cell phones transmit and receive a form of radiation in order to communicate with their base station via radio frequency (RF) which is consider as a low frequency radiation. High frequency radiation such as X-Ray is well known to cause cancer, but how about low frequency radiation like RF? Even though many cell phone companies deny the impact of it's transmission, however there are still radiation circulation to the users.

Recently, Israeli researchers reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology that long-term cell-phone users faced a "consistently elevated risk" of developing tumors in the parotid gland (a salivary gland located just below the ear). Also a handful of small studies have indicated that using a cell phone for an hour each day over a 10-year period can increase the risk of developing a rare brain tumor and that those tumors are more likely to be on the side of your head that you use to talk on the phone. Many researchers believe younger cell-phone users may face a higher risk of developing tumors because their nervous systems are not fully developed and their skulls are not as thick as those of adults.

One good tip for all cell phone users is to understand the phone's Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) before buying it, because you never know what's going to grow in your brain!