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Did you know that more than half of the children in the UK who are aged between five and nine now own a mobile phone. This is a situation even though there are a number of warnings about the potential long-term health effects that the use of mobile phones can have on young children. It is believed that their mental and physical health could be affected in a negative way.

At the end of this year a major mobile phone network is believed to be launching a range of recycled mobile phones which then designed to children as young as the age of four. The network has made claims that its handsets are safer and smarter than any that have come before it.

The current government guidelines on mobile phone use no longer focus on adults, however they still warn that the use of mobile phones by children could well affect their brains. The leader of the government is bath and safety research and a professor of physics, has confirmed that there is no way that parents should allow their children to have a mobile phone before they reach secondary school age. In addition once they have reached the stage parents are being encouraged to tell their children to send texts to each other instead of making calls. The reason being that text thing does not expose their brains to as higher levels of electromagnetic radiation as making telephone calls from mobile phones.

This advice is based on the fact that children’s brains react differently to ionising radiation, radioactivity and gamma rays. As with most things because children’s bodies are less developed if they’re exposed to harmful radiation when a young they are much more likely to get some form of cancer than if there are exposed as an adult.

The study was conducted at a university hospital in Sweden last year and the findings indicated that children who use mobile phones were five times more likely to develop brain cancer than those who didn’t.