AP (Access Point) Diet

This fall I am on my first sabbatical leave from KAIST and am living in San Diego.  I had many plans for my precious sabbatical.  To read books and papers I had no time for, to cook and eat more at home, to get back into shape, etc.  I sigend up for the gym and got a scale to monitor myself.  In the first week or so after arriving in San Diego, I lost weight by half a pound or so, everyday, consistently, even though my plan of regular exercise was not implemented yet.  Odd but nice, I thought.  Probably due to exhaustion from the move.  But then I started to notice a nagging fatigue even after two weeks in San Diego.  I hardly experience jetlag and a day of good sleep is enough for me to get over any time difference.

Then I noticed that there was a wireless access point in the closet right in front of my bed!  I read a blog posting titled "Brain Frying Wi-Fi" at Pablo Rodriguez's blog  and related article on BBC Panorama.  I don't know much about the damage of high radiation.  But the idea itself gave me a chill.  So I started to turn off the access point when I went to sleep.  My weight stopped going down and slowly began its recovery to where it was before.

From time to time, I forget to turn the access point off and sleep through the radiation.  Next morning in my routine weighing, I am startled to see an unexpected weight loss -- no regular exercise yet.  More startled, if I have had a bowl of ramen noodles -- a favorite nighttime snack for Koreans -- at midnight.  Being a scientist keen on data collection and analysis, I guess I can keep a log of all.  But even a few mornings of weight loss without any particular reason are scary enough to stop experimenting with my own body.  Am I freaking out on an unscientific basis?  How can I experiment without taking much risk for myself?  Can we have a collective investigation where we all weigh ourselves before sleep, keep an access point on right next to the bed, weigh again in the morning, and see if any statistically significant weight loss is observed?

What does radiation do to our body?  What does it fry?  Water or fat?  Either is bad, I guess. 

I told this yet-to-be-proven radiation story to a friend and he joked, "I want three access points near my bed to get this beer belly off!"  So stuck the term "AP diet".