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Building My Wellness Network: Twitter verses Facebook

For the past few months, I've been building a "Wellness Network" using Facebook and Twitter and have found myself spending way more time on Twitter. 

The Reason is it is much easier and much faster to build up followers using Twitter than is to build up friends on Facebook.  And there is no limit to the number of followers you can have.  In just three months, I have 60,000 plus followers for my accounts and a year from now, who knows? 

Among these accounts are: DavBunnell, BrainFitWorld, GretaBFit, DrDavesBest, BeatingDiabetes, MaxLifeOrg, GreatBlackburn, HumanPerform, DoctorTwitts, and WellnessTwitts.

Through "retweets" or "RT's" I can send tweets across all these accounts so everyone's reach is magnified. 

On Thursday evening, September 24, three of my clients participated in a Conference on Telomeres in New York which was sent out over the Internet through a live Webinar. 

In the days leading up to this event, I was able to deliver several dozen tweets across these accounts which when retweeted and retweeted added up to over one million impressions.  (One tweet sent to one follower equals one impression)

During the event itself, hundreds of people tuned into the live online Webinar and sent questions into the speakers using the "hashmark" #askta.  (Hashmarks, for those of you who don't use Twitter, allow you to isolate a stream of tweets that focus on the same topic or event.)

This made the evening very exciting as the speakers had all these questions to answer from the "twitterers" who were watching and tweeting.  In fact, they were many more questions from them than the attending audience. 

On Friday, the day after the event I woke up to read in the New York Times that Twitter is on the verge of raising an additional $100 million. 

That must mean there is plenty of growth and excitement ahead for Twitter and people like me who are trying to use Twitter not only to build a business but to send out educational messages.  My clients and I want people to live healthier lives and we want them to live longer lives as well.

The Following Chart shows you how fast Twitter's been growing just this past year:

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15 Reasons to Worry About Getting a Brain Tumor from Using Your Cellphone

For years I’ve been reading that (a) cellphones cause brain tumors, and (b) cellphones don’t cause brain tumors.

Every six months or so, it seems there is a new study on this topic that contradicts the previous one. 

Turns out there is a reason—with a couple notable exceptions the studies that conclude cell phone do not cause brain tumors were funded by Telecom companies—whereas, you might have guessed it, the studies concluding they do cause tumors are independent.

A scientific analysis of this situation, spurred on by yet another industry study—the massive, multilple-country “Interphone Study” has me convinced there is a very serious problem that needs immediate attention.  

If we keep on wishful thinking things are going to be OK we are going to wake up 10 years from now with a epidemic of brain cancer. There won't be enough neurologists to go around.

The paper, titled, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors, 15 Reasons for Concern: Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone,” was written and edited by a group of very smart professionals, experts in subjects like bioelectromagnetics, biosciences and radiation research.

But, you don't have to take my word. 

You can see for yourself by downloading the complete report from this website.  Just look in the upper right corner of my homepage under “Downloadable Posters.”  Click here and you'll get the actual report, all 44 pages of it, as a PDF file. 

Meanwhile, here are the 15 Reasons:

1. Industry’s own research showed cellphones caused brain tumors.  A $25 million industry study in 1999 found “a statistically significant doubling of brain cancer risk.”

2. Subsequent industry-funded research (2000-2002) also shows an elevated risk of brain tumors.

3. The Interphone studies, published to date, consistently show use of a cellphone for less than 10 years “protects” the user from a brain tumor.  This proves beyond a doubt the Interphone study is “riddle with design flaws that underestimate the risk of brain tumors.”  Perhaps for this reason, the final findings of the Interphone studies have be delayed now for over four years.

4. Independent research shows there is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use.

5. Despite the “protective skewing” of the results of Interphone studies released so far, significant risk for brain tumors from cellphone use was still found.

6. Studies independent of industry findings show what would be expected if wireless phones cause brain tumors.  For example, the higher the cumulated hours of wireless phone use, the higher risk; the higher the number of years since first use, the higher the risk; and etc.

7. The danger of brain tumors from cellphone use is highest in children, and the younger the child, the higher the risk.

8. There have been numerous governmental warnings about children’s use of cellphones.

9. Current “exposure limits” for cellphones are based only on the danger from heating.

10. An overwhelming majority of the European Parliament has voted for a set of changes based on “health concerns associated with electromagnetic fields.”

11. Cellphone radiation damages DNA, an undisputed cause of cancer.

12. Cellphone radiation has been shown to cause the blood-brain barrier to leak.

13. Cellphone user manuals warn customers to keep the cellphone away from the body even when it is not in use.

14.  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) scary warning for cordless phones.

15. Male fertility is damaged by cellphone radiation.