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January 8, 2006
Pamper your ears to save your hearing
Turn down the iPod and wear hearing protection for concerts, power tools. Noise and aging are the two primary causes of hearing loss. Here are a few things you can do to prevent damage from noise:
•Earbuds can boost the sound in your eardrums to a damaging level. Listen via earbuds for no more than an hour a day, and keep the iPod/MP3 player volume control at 6 or below.
•To listen to your iPod/MP3 player for longer periods of time, use earmuff-style headphones and turn the volume down even more.
•Parents should monitor their child's headphone/earbud volume. Put the headset on and adjust it, if necessary.
•Always wear earplugs at concerts and clubs.
•Earplugs don't have to be the expensive, premolded kind; the cheap ones sold at drugstores are fine.
•Be sure your concert seats aren't right next to the speakers.
Source: http://www.statesman.com/life/content/life/stories/health/01/9hearingtips.html
Posted by 4HL on January 8, 2006 6:15 AM
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