What is EMR Syndrome? 

EMR Syndrome is a medical condition arising from exposure to human-made electromagnetic radiation (EMR), including wireless radiation. EMR is emitted by a wide range of technologies, such as cell phones, cell towers, antennas, smart watches, tablets, computers, wireless earbuds, smart meters, Wi-Fi networks, and Bluetooth devices.

EMR Syndrome is becoming more common.

A shocking 1 in 8 U.S. adults report adverse health effects from wireless radiation—and many others may be experiencing symptoms of EMR-S without realizing the cause. Common symptoms include: insomnia, tinnitus, headaches, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, dizziness, skin rashes, and heart arrhythmias. Symptoms can range from mild to life-threatening.

Of those who reported health effects from wireless radiation in the U.S., Australia, and Canada, 80.6% also reported being chemically sensitive, 53.8% had autism/autism spectrum disorder, 73.2% had asthma or an asthma-related condition, and 84.8% reported fragrance sensitivity.

An important aspect to consider with wireless radiation is that it does not act alone. The damaging effects from wireless can be stronger when combined with other toxins.

Research shows wireless radiation can have synergistic effects with other pollutants, such as heavy metals, pesticides, chemicals, and mold. Consider a metal spoon in the microwave—or baking soda and vinegar. The combined effect is more powerful than either element alone.

With the growing toxic burden of modern society and inside our bodies, it is essential to reduce our exposure to EMR and wireless where we can.

There are safer ways to connect with technology. Simply plug an Ethernet cable into the back of your router and turn off the Wi-Fi settings. Then, connect the Ethernet cable to your device using a USB-to-Ethernet adapter. Be sure to place the device in Airplane Mode with all wireless antennas turned OFF. This will significantly reduce wireless radiation near the body.

Many games, videos, and movies can be downloaded and played more safely with the device in Airplane Mode.

This is especially important for children. Research shows children are more negatively affected by wireless radiation due to their smaller bodies, lifetime cumulative exposures, and developing brains and nervous systems.

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Arizona lawmakers have taken the first step of banning ultra-processed foods in schools.

HB2164 bans some ultra-processed foods from school cafeterias, snack bars, and vending machines if the meals are funded wholly or in part by federal dollars. The Governor signed it April 14th. Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne was all in, saying, “Synthetic food dyes are associated with behavioral issues which then affect a child’s ability to perform academically and engage socially.”

A related health bill, HB2165, would have stopped people from using SNAP money, what is commonly known as food stamps, to buy soda. The Governor vetoed that bill April 15.

HB2164 – Bans some ultra-processed food

HB2164, the Arizona Healthy Schools Act, bans schools from serving, selling, or allowing a third party to sell ultra-processed foods on campus.

It takes effect in fall 2026; schools have time to prepare.

The banned ingredients will be written into state law. It is a list of 11 different additives: potassium bromate, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, brominated vegetable oil, yellow dyes 5 and 6, blue dyes 1 and 2, green dye 3, and red dyes 3 and 40. Scientific studies have shown these ingredients to be harmful and potentially cause “significant health risk for children.”

Thus Frosted Strawberry Pop-Tarts, Froot Loops cereal, and nacho cheese Doritos chips, for example, flunk the new rules.

The bill had unanimous bipartisan support. It was sponsored by State Representative Leo Biasiucci (R-Lake Havasu City). He credited U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make American Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda as impetus for the bill.

Secretary Kennedy came to the Arizona state capitol on April 8 for a news conference sponsored by Biasiucci and Senate Majority Leader Janae Shamp (R-Peoria) to lend his support to lawmakers who brought forth the two MAGA-friendly bills.

“It’s happening at the grassroots,” Kennedy told those gathered at the state capitol. “People are saying we are not going to take it anymore. We are not going to be mass poisoned.”

Kennedy said America ranks fourth worldwide in obesity. He described how decades ago, tobacco companies diversified and bought food companies. Tobacco scientists became food scientists and made food more attractive and addictive. “The body is hungry because it is looking for nutrients associated with the taste of the food.” But when the nutrients don’t come, we overeat.

“What we are doing to our kids is criminal. It’s bankrupting our country.”

Biasiucci said Arizona lawmakers can add to the list over time by submitting new legislative bills.

California banned most of the same chemicals with the passage of the California Food Safety Act and California School Food Safety Act in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Some of the other additives prohibited in Arizona and California’s bills have been banned in the EU and other nations due to potential carcinogenicity and hormone disruption.

Federal school meal guidelines set limits on calories and unhealthy fats and require the inclusion of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The new Arizona law expands the requirements by specifically addressing additives not covered by federal rules.

HB2165 – SNAP dollars for soda

Rep. Biasiucci also sponsored a bill to restrict the ability to buy soda with SNAP money, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

It was designed to provide those in need an opportunity to put food on the table. “But it has turned into this free-for-all where, outside of alcohol and tobacco, you can buy whatever you want,” Biasiucci said. “The word ‘nutrition’ is literally in the title. We need to get back to these dollars going to foods that actually provide nutritional value.”

Kennedy agreed. “Ten percent of food stamps go to soda. This is the most obvious place to start.”

But Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs and most Democrats thought otherwise. HB2165 had only Republican support.

Gov. Hobbs wrote in her veto letter, “I appreciate your intent to improve the health outcomes of Arizonans.” But, she continued, “This legislation unnecessarily deprives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program participants of their purchasing power and relegates them to a new underclass of grocery shoppers.”

Democrats argued against micromanaging what SNAP recipients could or could not buy. “At its core, this bill is paternalistic and judgmental,” said Sen. Lauren Kuby (D-Tempe). “This is food shaming.”

Indiana’s governor, on April 15, signed a new law specifying that candy and soft drinks will no longer be bought with SNAP benefits in the Hoosier state. Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, and Tennessee are next in line.

Meetings in Arizona to support tribal health

During his confirmation hearings, Kennedy promised to name a Native person as an assistant secretary “to make sure that all of the decisions that we make in our agency are conscious of their impacts on First Nations.”

Kennedy’s work with Indigenous communities dates back to the 1990s, when he represented various groups in negotiations to halt dam construction projects, oil development and industrial logging in several countries. He was also one of the first editors of North America’s largest Native American newspaper, Indian Country Today.

On April 8, the HHS secretary toured the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center in Mesa. He also met with the Gila River Indian Community where Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis told a room of 1,200 people that when it comes to the Department of Government Efficiency, “we need a scalpel and not a chain saw approach to making these changes.”

Uneasiness about government restructuring

The recent cuts throughout HHS and the agencies under its umbrella have caused much concern in many quarters.

While Kennedy was inside the capitol, Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes held a news conference outside.

Mayes said the federal government has terminated $190 million in public health money to Arizona and job losses are expected. That money pipeline affects more than 200 grants to various local organizations throughout Arizona, including to all 15 county health departments, several tribal health departments, and university partners.

Kennedy got a lot of heat last month after he announced he was reducing HHS by 20,000 jobs.

Kennedy walked into an agency with an annual budget that exceeds $1.7 trillion, more than 80,000 employees, and 13 operating divisions – including the National Institutes for Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Department of Agriculture (USDA), Indian Health Services (IHS), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMMS). Most of its non-discretionary spending goes to Medicare and Medicaid.

RESOURCES

The federal government spent $1.9 trillion on health care programs and services in fiscal year (FY) 2024. Put another way, more than one out of every four dollars in federal spending was used to pay for health programs and services in FY 2024. Get more detail at KFF, formerly known as The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health policy research, polling, and news organization.

“Ultra-Processed People: Why We Can’t Stop Eating Food That Isn’t Food,” award-winning book by Chris van Tulleken; paperback came out January 2025

Mary Budinger is an Emmy award-winning journalist and a certified nutritional therapist practitioner (NTP). She lives in Phoenix, AZ, and writes about functional medicine and nutrition.

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Are you aware that in Arizona as soon as a child turns 12, the parent’s access to the child’s medical records becomes restricted?

This way a child can decide to have medical procedures such as gender surgery, abortion, birth control, etc. done without their parents knowing. The child can sign a form to give the parent proxy to all her medical files and have it be unrestricted.

The Arizona Medical Association (ArMA) provides a comprehensive booklet on this topic: Consent & Confidentiality in Adolescent Health Care: A Guide for Adolescent Health Care.

Parents, Children and Health Privacy

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Employees

SB1824 offers minimal protection for employees.  Employers may require Covid-19 vaccination as a condition for employment.  However, in response to an employee providing notice of sincerely held religious beliefs, practices, or observances that prevent the administration of a Covid-19 vaccine, the employer is advised to, “provide a reasonable accommodation unless the accommodation would pose an undue hardship and more than a de minimus cost to the operation of the employer’s business.”  Pointedly, the bill specifies that health care institutions cannot be prohibited from requiring vaccinations (including Covid-19) of its employees.

Schools, Colleges, & Universities

SB1824 stipulates that those vaccines which are not fully approved, and have only received the FDA’s emergency use authorization (EUA) cannot be mandated by schools.  As such, Covid-19 vaccines must not be required for school attendance.  Additionally, the bill prevents schools from requiring the human papilloma vaccine.  Masking of students is addressed in Section 35 of the budget amendments (SB1826), which prohibits any school district or charter school’s governing board “from requiring students or staff to use face coverings during school hours and on school property.” At present, some health freedom protections are in place for students of Arizona public colleges and universities. Executive Order 2021-15 prevents college students from having to accept a Covid-19 vaccination, show proof of such vaccination, or submit to routine masking or testing.  Similar to medical providers, healthcare students and interns are exempted from these protections and are subject to Covid-19 vaccination requirements as mandated by their clinical sites.

Enhanced Surveillance Advisory

On June 1, 2021 Governor Ducey signed Executive Order 2021-14 into law, which authorizes the state’s creation of an Enhanced Surveillance Advisory (ESA), creating a system by which Covid-19 test results (including patient identifiers) are collected and curated.  Additionally, vaccine providers are obliged to report all vaccine administration data (again including patient identifiers) every 24 hours to the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS).  Data will then be shared with the federal Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC).  The ESA authorizes the sharing of private personal data regardless of whether a patient opts out.

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Resources

• Executive Order 2021-14
• Executive Order 2021-15
• SB1826 As Passed
• SB1824 As Passed

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