Fluorescent Lighting Dangers

Fluorescent Lighting Dangers --- BEWARE THE FLICKERING THREAT

Again our tax dollars are busy at work bringing us the latest BS since Daylight savings time and income taxes. Looks as if they have found a new way to help thin out the population too. Too many mouths to feed anyway; I guess that is how they see it. We are not getting sick and dying fast enough, so here is the next step in their solution:

With Australia and other “progressive” countries, the whole world is turning from incandesecent bulbs to Fluorescent bulbs. The US with California leading, is well on its way. On the surface this may seem just another way to satisfy the demands of the green power advocates in their relentless war against global warming. (by the way, evidence is strong that this warming is affecting other planets and the sun as well, e.g. Mars, Jupiter, and even the Sun, etc. Could it be that they could be exploiting a natural solar phenomenon to enact the legislation that they want. Naw, that would be unethical.) Here is just a taste. You may have to dig hard to find any info on this subject because it is BIG business. Also, you might want to go get the books by John Ott who did some wonderful research on the health effects of light that is still relevant today.

“As always of an investigative mind, I decided to search further into this problem pertaining to these lights having found that the entire matter involved the "radio light spectrum" and other light frequencies which are invisible to the human eye whilst, however, radiating high levels of "radio active" energy containing the frequencies of x-ray, gamma and cosmic rays. There is no solution, even with total lead shielding of the starter unit, transformer capacitor sections and the tube cathode areas as it leaves the illuminating area of the tube itself free to radiate all manner of radio frequency and mercury vapour energies. The only way out is to outlaw them completely.”
“The effects of lighting on the human functioning development and psychological effects are indeed profound. Try placing seedlings/plants adjacent to an unshielded fluorescent light at the end where the starter unit is located, they will surely wilt and die, (and this is most certainly not attributable to "heat" radiation, a conclusion some may readily jump to). Unshielded fluorescent lights are a menace to mankind and should be replaced by standard Tungsten filament lighting.”
Dr. Robert Adams
Sunlight, Lighting And Your Health

If that does not scare you then how about this:

Abstract:
Twenty-hour-exposure to fluorescent light produces chromatid breaks in a line of adult mouse lung cells grown in Dulbecco-Vogt medium supplemented with fetal bovine serum. The light-induced damage appears to be enhanced by increasing the concentration of oxygen in the gas phase of the culture. The effective wavelength(s) of light is in the visible range between 400 and 450 nm andis probably the mercury emission peak at 405 or 436 nm. Addition of catalase or glutathione with ascorbic acid to the culture medium reduced the number of chromatid breaks to a level not significantly different from that in the shielded cultures. It thus appears that the production of H2O2 in the culture medium or in the cell is responsible for the chromatid breaks. Most of the chromosomal abnormalities observed in long-term culture of mouse cells may result from exposure of cells or medium to fluorescent room lights in the presence of atmospheric oxygen. These genetic abnormalities can be minimized by shielding cells and medium from light, lowering the PO2 of the medium, and including reducing agents such as glutathione and ascorbic acid in the medium formulation.
Fluorescent light-induced chromosome damage and its prevention in mouse cells in culture.

For a real good article on this subject of lighting and health you should definitely read the article by John Ott on Dr. Mercola’s site (When Ott uses the term “Scientific Theoretical Irrationality”, we think he is being kind. We would chalk it up to just plain GREED and IGNORANCE. From one school study done by the good guys:

From Part 1
“Full-spectrum, radiation-shielded, fluorescent light fixtures were installed in two windowless classrooms, and in two other identical windowless classrooms standard cool white fluorescent fixtures were used as controls. The results showed that several extremely hyperactive children with confirmed learning disabilities calmed down completely and rapidly overcame their learning and reading problems while in the full-spectrum lighted environment.
The overall average academic achievement level showed significant improvement, and a simultaneous study by the Sarasota County Dental Society showed that the children in the two rooms with the radiation-shielded, full-spectrum lighting, simulating natural outdoor daylight, developed only one-third the number of cavities in their teeth compared to the children under the standard cool white fluorescent lighting.”
From Part 2
“A provocative study appeared in the August 7, 1982 medical journal, The Lancet. Conducted by researchers at the Department of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England, and the University of Sydney's Melanoma Clinic, Sydney Hospital, Sydney, Australia, an investigation was made into the incidence of skin cancers among Australians. Challenged was the theory that sunlight exposure was directly related to the incidence of malignant melanomas.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that there was a much higher correlation between the incidence of malignant melanomas in the office workers than those occupationally and regularly exposed to sunlight! Understandably, the report provoked considerable consternation. Such findings break with long-standing traditional assumptions, such as that there is no threshold of safety, not even at the lowest levels, to ultraviolet light.”
From Part 3
“Another comparatively new field of study involves the effects of negative and positive ions and their effects on human health and general well being: physical, psychological and emotional. A quick glance into any encyclopedia will show that the subject of ions and ionization is very complicated, but, in general, too high a level of positive ions in the air causes a person to feel depressed, fatigued, irritable, and generally upset.
More negative ions produce the opposite effect and make a person feel invigorated, enlivened, and happier. However, from my own personal experience in working with negative ion generators, I firmly believe that too high a ratio of negative ions is not good, either.”
“Albright advises that recent studies done at the Environmental Systems, Inc. with a new highly sophisticated ion counter manufactured in Germany have indicated that the ion count from such electronic devices as TV sets, video display terminals, and unshielded fluorescent tubes is extremely high on the positive side, around 900-1000 positive, and virtually no negative.”

“In addition to the malignant melanoma articles published in The Lancet, there have been other articles in various journals specif ically relating mutagenicity and malignant transformation in tissue culture studies to fluorescent light. The following titles are listed as examples:
"Mutagenicity and Toxicity of Visible Fluorescent Light to Cultured Mammalian Cells," Matthews 0. Bradley (National Cancer Institute) 3rid Nancy A. Sharkey, Nature, Vol. 266, 21 April 1977, pp. 274-726.
"Fluorescent Light Induces Malignant Transformation in Mouse Embryo Cell Cultures," Ann R. Kennedy (Harvard School of Public Health), Science, Vol. 207, 14 March 1980, pp. 1209-1211,
"Genetic Damage in Eschcrichia coli K12 AB2480 by Broad-Spectrum Near Ultraviolet Radiation," Robert B. Webb (Argonne National Laboratory) Science, Vol. 215, 19 February 1982, pp. 991-993.
"Toxicity and Mutagenicity of Radiation from Fluorescent Lamps and a Sunlamp in L5178Y Mouse Lymphoma Cells," Elizabeth D. Jacobson (Bureau of Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration), Mutation Research, 51 (1979), 61-75.
These articles list numerous other references to similar results obtained by other researchers using fluorescent lights. As a pretty general rule, all of the abnormal biological responses attributed to fluorescent lights are blamed on that "theoretical" trace amount of ultraviolet light that seems to be more or less assumed to come from all fluorescent tubes.”
International Journal of Biosocial Research Volume 7 1985

Help the environment, save a few dollars all for only…. your health. Great trade. As if there was not enough electro pollution, chemical toxins, radioactive….well, you get the idea. Those of us that are still alive in a generation or two, will probably have to see our doctor every other day to adjust the flow of the cocktail of drugs we will require just to stay alive, that will be surgically implanted in us. Or, maybe they will be able to control the nanobots inside us from a nearby cell phone tower to dispense the soma or whatever they use to keep us in line. Welcome to the real world and happy trails.

PS Or, you might want to fight for your right to be healthy. Only use full spectrum incandescent bulbs or shielded if you have to use fluorescent.