Check out the latest CNN News Item on the Japanese Nuclear disaster. Still wondering why the U. S. Government is buying up all of the Potassium Iodide? Make no mistake we are all being exposed to cancer causing "ionizing radiation." Protect yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only way to protect yourself from "ionizing radiation" is to hyper-alkalize the blood and tissues. http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nuclear.htmlJapan's nuclear contamination spreads to more U.S. states
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Check out the latest CNN News Item on the Japanese Nuclear disaster. Still wondering why the U. S. Government is buying up all of the Potassium Iodide? Make no mistake we are all being exposed to cancer causing "ionizing radiation." Protect yourself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only way to protect yourself from "ionizing radiation" is to hyper-alkalize the blood and tissues. http://articlesofhealth.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-to-protect-yourself-from-nuclear.htmlJapan's nuclear contamination spreads to more U.S. states
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Ionizing Radiation: Not To Worry?
Posted by thomenda7xx on Thursday, March 24, 2011
Beginning with Madam Curie, the story of nuclear power and "ionizing radiation" is one where key players have consistently miscalculated or misrepresented the risks of radiation.The victims from "ionizing radiation" include many of those who worked on the original Manhattan Project, the 200,000 soldiers who were assigned to eye witness our nuclear tests, the residents of the Western US who absorbed the lion's share of fallout from our nuclear testing in Nevada, the thousands of forgotten victims of Three Mile Island or the likely hundreds of thousands of casualties of Chernobyl and now the Japanese reactors which hold about 1,000 times more "ionizing radiation" than the bombs dropped over Hiroshima.(1)
Every day, the jet stream carries pollution from Asian smoke stacks and dust from the Gobi Desert to the West Coast of California, contributing 10 to 60 percent of the total pollution inhaled by Californians, depending on the time of year.
Mercury is probably the second most toxic substance known after plutonium. Half the mercury in the atmosphere over the entire US originates in China. It, too, is 5,000 miles away. A week after a nuclear weapons test in China, radioactive iodine 131 could be detected in the thyroid glands of deer in Colorado, although it could not be detected in the air or in nearby vegetation.(2)
Even properly functioning nuclear plants emit a steady stream of radiation into nearby water and atmosphere, which can be inhaled directly or ingested from soil contact, plants or cows milk. Many studies confirm higher rates of cancers like childhood leukemia, and breast and thyroid cancer among people who live in the same counties as nuclear plants, and among nuclear workers.(3)
The idea that a threshold exists or there is a safe level of radiation for human exposure began unraveling in the 1950s when research showed one pelvic x-ray in a pregnant woman could double the rate of childhood leukemia in an exposed baby.(3) Furthermore, the risk was ten times higher if it occurred in the first three months of pregnancy than near the end. This became the stepping-stone to the understanding that the timing of exposure was even more critical than the dose. The earlier in embryonic development it occurred, the greater the risk.
A new medical concept has emerged, increasingly supported by the latest research, called "fetal origins of disease," that centers on the evidence that a multitude of chronic diseases, including cancer, often have their origins in the first few weeks after conception by environmental insults disturbing normal embryonic development. It is now established medical advice that pregnant women should avoid any exposure to x-rays, medicines or chemicals when not absolutely necessary, no matter how small the dose, especially in the first three months.
Many epidemiologic studies show that extremely low doses of radiation increase the incidence of childhood cancers, low birth-weight babies, premature births, infant mortality, birth defects and even diminished intelligence.(4) Just two abdominal x-rays delivered to a male can slightly increase the chance of his future children developing leukemia.(5) By damaging genetic matter anywhere in a living cell, radiation can accelerate the aging process and diminish the function of any organ. Cells can repair themselves, but the rapidly growing cells in a fetus may divide before repair can occur, negating the body's defense mechanism and replicating the damage.
Comforting statements about the safety of low radiation are not even accurate for adults.(6)Small increases in risk per individual have immense consequences in the aggregate. When low risk is accepted for billions of people, there will still be millions of victims. New research on risks of x-rays illustrate the point.
Radiation from CT coronary scans is considered low, but, statistically, it causes cancer in one of every 270 40-year-old women who receive the scan. Twenty year olds will have double that rate. Annually, 29,000 cancers are caused by the 70 million CT scans done in the US.(7)(8) Common, low-dose dental x-rays more than double the rate of thyroid cancer. Those exposed to repeated dental x-rays have an even higher risk of thyroid cancer.(9)
This could be the latest chapter in that long and tragic story when, once again, we were told by the powers to be "not to worry."Footnotes:
1. "Fukushima Daiichi reactors contain radiation equal to a thousand Hiroshima bombs," Vancouver Observer, March 14, 2011; Ira Helfand, Robert Alvarez, Ken Bergeron and Peter Bradford (former member of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission), on behalf of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
2. Rosenthal E. Radiation, "Once Free, Can Follow Tricky Path," The New York Times, March 21, 2011.
3. International Commission on Radiological Protection.
4. Bartley K, Metayer C, Selvin S, et al, "Diagnostic X-rays and risk of childhood leukaemia," Int. J. Epidemiol. (2010) 39(6): 1628-1637, first published online October 1, 2010, doi:10.1093/ije/dyq162.5. Bailey H, Armstrong B, de Klerk N, et al, "Exposure to Diagnostic Radiological Procedures and the Risk of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia," Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev, November 2010, 19:2897-2909; Published online first, September 22, 2010.
6. Shuryak I, Sachs R, Brenner D., "Cancer Risks After Radiation Exposure in Middle Age," JNCI J Natl Cancer Inst Volume102, Issue 21, Pp. 1628-1636.
7. Berrington de González A, Mahesh M, Kim K, et al, "Projected Cancer Risks From Computed Tomographic Scans Performed in the United States in 2007," Arch Intern Med, December 14/28, 2009; 169: 2071 - 2077.
8. Smith-Bindman R, Lipson J, Marcus R, et al, "Radiation Dose Associated With Common Computed Tomography Examinations and the Associated Lifetime Attributable Risk of Cancer," Arch Intern Med., 2009; 169(22): 2078-2086.
9. Memon A, Godward S, Williams D, et al, "Dental x-rays and the risk of thyroid cancer: A case-control study," Acta Oncologica, May 2010, Vol. 49, No. 4: 447–453.
Special Note:
Development of nuclear power was halted at the stage of Westinghouse-style fission reactors. We have not really progressed technologically, which means we have regressed. It is because of the blockade against science. "Nuclear power" is not a type of reactor at a given time, but a continuous dynamic of development. The lesson to be drawn is that we all should have developed fourth-generation reactors, and moved into controlled thermonuclear fusion more quickly. Fourth-generation reactors, and HTRs, are inherently safe, which means that when the reaction stops, heat production also stops, in contrast to the boiling water reactors like those in the Japanese power plants. Fusion, in particular laser fusion, would then come into play in some 40 years and supply very cheap energy. Of course, opting for this direction and pursuing our human adventure requires considerable long-term investments. They are impossible under the current financial system, which destroys the economy and is socially unjust, and that's why we have to change systems before it is too late.
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The Young's Lecture at Agape Spiritual Center
Posted by thomenda7xx on Monday, March 21, 2011
You are cordially invited to a lecture of World renowned Dr. Robert Young, and his wife Shelley Redford Young, authors of the best seller “The pH Miracle,” speak at the Agape Spiritual Center on Sunday afternoon April 10 from 3:30 to 5:30. The title of the talk will be “The Miracle of an Alkaline Life - The Diet for Immortality ” and the moderator is TV Host/author Paul Ryan. The address for Agape is 5700 Buckingham Parkway, Culver City 90230.
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Study Indicates Lymphocyte Count Predicts Death in Heart Failure
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In this study, total lymphocyte count was a prognostic factor in patients with chronic heart failure and was inversely associated with predicted mortality.In contrast to earlier research, total lymphocyte count is an independent predictor of mortality in heart failure patients, a prospective study showed. After an an average 4.7 years of follow-up, the lymphocyte count was the second most prominent predictor of death, following New York Heart Association class, according to Gideon Charach, MD, of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, and colleagues. And it was more significant than left ventricular ejection fraction, Charach and colleagues reported online in the American Journal of Cardiology. The prognostic value of the lymphocyte count has been previously explored, the researchers noted, but earlier studies were smaller and had follow-up times of less than a year. In contrast, Charach and colleagues enrolled 305 heart failure patients with up to 8.4 years of follow-up, prospectively evaluating lymphocytes, heart association class, left ventricular ejection fraction, and a host of laboratory parameters thought to be possibly related to mortality. The end point of the study was death from any cause or need for inpatient care. Over the course of the study, the researchers reported, 163 patients were hospitalized, all for exacerbation of heart failure, and 111 died. For analysis, the cohort was stratified according to median lymphocyte count (above or below 1,600 per milliliter), heart association class (I and II versus III or IV), and median ejection fraction (above or below 40%). The researchers found:
Patients in heart association class I and II, but with a lymphocyte count below the median, had a poorer survival rate than those with more severe disease but a lymphocyte count of 1,600 or higher, a Cox regression analysis showed. There was no significant association between heart association class and left ventricular ejection fraction and the risk of morbidity, regardless of lymphocyte count, the researchers reported. The researchers said the study's strengths included the large number of patients and the long follow-up, but cautioned that the effect of hormone levels (adrenaline, cortisol, and parathyroid hormone) could not be evaluated because they were not measured. The authors did not report external support for the study or any conflicts. |
| Primary source: American Journal of Cardiology Source reference: Charach G, et al "Usefulness of total lymphocyte count as predictor of outcome in patients with chronic heart failure" Am J Cardiol 2011; DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.12.049. |
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Japan radiation risk FAQs from the World Health Organization
Posted by thomenda7xx on Sunday, March 20, 2011
What is the current risk of radiation-related health problems in Japan to those near the reactor at the time, and those in other parts of Japan?
* The actions proposed by the Government of Japan are in line with the existing recommendations based on public health expertise. The government is asking people living within 20 km of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to evacuate and those between 20 km and 30 km away from the plant are asked to stay indoors in unventilated rooms. People living farther away are at lower risk than those who live nearby.
* This assessment can change if there are further incidents at these plants and WHO is following the situation closely. However, radiation-related health consequences will depend on exposure. Exposure in turn is dependent on the amount of radiation released from the reactor, weather conditions such as wind and rain at the time of the exposure, the distance someone is from the plant, and the amount of time someone is in irradiated areas.
What is ionizing radiation?
* When certain atoms disintegrate, either naturally or in man-made situations, they release a type of energy called ionizing radiation (IR). This energy can travel as either electromagnetic waves (gamma or X-rays) or as particles (neutrons, beta or alpha).
* The atoms that emit radiation are called radionuclides.
* The time required for the energy released by a radionuclide to decrease by half (i.e., the half-life) range from tiny fractions of a second to millions of years depending on the type of atoms.
Are people normally exposed to ionizing radiation?
* Human beings are exposed to natural radiation on a daily basis. The radiation comes from space (cosmic rays) as well as natural radioactive materials found in the soil, water and air. Radon gas is a naturally formed gas that is the main natural source of radiation.
* People can also be exposed to radiation from human-made sources. Today, the most common man-made source of ionizing radiation are certain medical devices such as X-ray machines.
* The radiation dose can be expressed in units of Sievert (Sv). On average, a person is exposed to approximately 3.0 mSv/year of which, 80% (2.4 mSv) is due to naturally-occurring sources (i.e., background radiation), 19.6 % (almost 0.6 mSv) is due to the medical use of radiation and the remaining 0.4% (around 0.01 mSv) is due to other sources of human-made radiation.
* In some parts of the world, levels of exposure to natural radiation differ due to differences in the local geology. People in some areas can be exposed to more than 200 times the global average.
How are people exposed to ionizing radiation?
* Ionizing radiation may result from sources outside or inside of the body (i.e. external irradiation or internal contamination).
* Internal contamination may result from breathing in or swallowing radioactive material or through contamination of wounds.
* External irradiation is produced when a person is exposed to external sources such as X-rays or when radioactive material (e.g. dust, liquid, aerosols) becomes attached to skin or clothes, resulting in external contamination.
* External contamination can often be washed off the body.
What type of radiation exposure could occur in a nuclear power plant accident?
* If a nuclear power plant does not function properly, radioactivity may be released into the surrounding area by a mixture of products generated inside the reactor (“nuclear fission products”). The main radionuclides representing health risk are radioactive caesium and radioactive iodine. Members of the public may be exposed directly to such radionuclides in the suspended air or if food and drink are contaminated by such materials.
* Rescuers, first responders and nuclear power plant (NPP) workers may be exposed to higher radiation doses due to their professional activities and direct exposure to radioactive materials inside the power plant.
What is the WHO travel advice for Japan?
At this time, WHO is not advising general restrictions on travel to Japan.
However, travellers should avoid travel to the areas most affected by the earthquake and tsunami because of disruptions to essential services, such as transport and electric power, and the ongoing disaster relief activities, including the nuclear power plant emergency response and control activities, will make travel difficult and could consume resources needed by relief worker and residents. Moreover, as indicated by the Japanese authorities, travel within the evacuation and exclusion zones surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is prohibited.
In general, travellers who do not have essential reasons to travel should give careful consideration to deferring travel to any areas where there has been considerable disruption to the normal infrastructure and where authorities are responding to urgent humanitarian needs.
What are the precautions when travelling in Japan?
Travellers should also be aware of the risk of further earthquakes across Japan. Moreover, there may be areas of power, fuel, food and water shortages.
Travellers in Japan should monitor local media, follow the advice and instructions issued by local authorities and register their travel and location details with their respective embassy or consulate. Information on the status of the nuclear facilities in Fukushima can be found on Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) website and on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) website. Additional information can be found on the WHO web site.
* Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)
* International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Do travellers returning from Japan represent a health risk for others?
At this time, only those involved in the emergency response near the plant remain in the area where there are higher levels of radioactivity. For their own safety, all personnel in these areas should undergo decontamination procedures when they leave the site. Travellers returning from Japan who have come from the 20 km evacuation zone surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant and who have undergone proper screening and decontamination procedures, and travellers from all other areas, do not pose a radioactive health risk to others.
What are the acute health effects of radiation exposure?
* If the dose of radiation exceeds a certain threshold level, then it can produce acute effects, such as skin redness, hair loss, radiation burns, and acute radiation syndrome (ARS1).
* In a nuclear power plant accident, the general population is not likely to be exposed to doses high enough to cause such effects.
* Rescuers, first responders and nuclear power plant workers are more likely to be exposed to doses of radiation high enough to cause acute effects.
What long-term effects can be expected from radiation exposure?
* Exposure to radiation can increase the risk of cancer. Among the Japanese atomic bomb survivors, the risk of leukaemia increased a few years after radiation exposure, whereas the risks of other cancers increased more than 10 years after the exposure.
* Radioactive iodine can be released during nuclear emergencies. If breathed in or swallowed, it will concentrate in the thyroid gland and increase the risk of thyroid cancer. Among persons exposed to radioactive iodine, the risk of thyroid cancer can be lowered by taking potassium iodide pills, which helps prevent the uptake of the radioactive iodine.
* The risk of thyroid cancer following radiation exposure is higher in children and young adults.
Source for and more of Japan radiation risk FAQs from the World Health Organization
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Potassium Iodide USP (KI) - Now Available!
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| Potassium Iodide USP (KI) Pharmaceutical Pure - Manufacture Date: March 16th, 2011 Potassium Iodide (KI) may be used when it is desirable to maintain a high level of beneficial iodides in the thyroid gland. Iodide is a form of iodine that is preferentially taken up by the thyroid gland. This product also supports the body's normal detoxification of environmental, metabolic, gastrointestinal and respiratory acids, including the removal of heavy metals. Potassium Iodide helps shield (or block) the absorption of harmful radioactive iodine by the thyroid following a nuclear emergency. Potassium iodide is a salt, similar to table salt. Its chemical symbol is KI. It is routinely added to table salt to make it iodized. Potassium iodide, if taken in time and at the appropriate dosage, blocks the thyroid gland's uptake of radioactive iodine and thus could reduce the risk of thyroid cancers and other diseases that might otherwise be caused by exposure to radioactive iodine that could be dispersed in a severe nuclear accident. • Potassium iodide is a blocker of thyroid radio-iodine uptake. In stock & shipped within 2-3 business days. This item contains 150 tablets. This is NOT old or expired product, it was manufactured March 16th, 2011. Because of the volume of orders for KI, we cannot change or cancel your order once placed so please make sure that your order and address are correct. | | |||||||||||||
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| What is potassium iodide? What is the role of potassium iodide in radiological emergency preparedness? Does this rule imply that America's nuclear reactors are less safe? Why does the rule require States to consider the use of potassium iodide instead of mandating its use? Can individual members of the public obtain potassium iodide? The United States Government provides Potassium Iodide to the population within 10-mile EPZ around nuclear power plants? Frequently asked questions about Potassium Iodide. Federal Policy on the Use of Potassium Iodide (10 CFR Part 50 RIN 3150–AG11) | ||||||||||||||
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Chernobyl Study Says Health Risks Linger!
Posted by thomenda7xx on Thursday, March 17, 2011
Nearly 25 years after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, children and teenagers who drank contaminated milk or ate affected cheese in the days and weeks after the explosion still suffer from an increased risk of thyroid cancer, according to a study released Thursday by the National Cancer Institute.
The study confirms earlier research about the risks of radioactive iodine, which can accumulate in the thyroid gland and lead to cancer later. Potassium iodide is often given as a supplement to prevent the accumulation of the radioactive type in thyroid glands, but Russian authorities failed to provide the supplement to all those at risk.
The study confirms earlier research about the risks of radioactive iodine, which can accumulate in the thyroid gland and lead to cancer later. Potassium iodide is often given as a supplement to prevent the accumulation of the radioactive type in thyroid glands, but Russian authorities failed to provide the supplement to all those at risk.
Radioactive iodine has a half-life of just eight days, and it was not thought to be present outside the power plant in concentrations high enough to cause immediate health problems. But the isotope was concentrated by cows in milk, and children who drank contaminated milk or ate affected dairy products are particularly at risk.
An international team of researchers led by the National Cancer Institute, a federal agency based in Bethesda, Md., has been monitoring the health effects of the Chernobyl accident for years. In the study released Thursday, the team screened 12,500 people who were under 18-years-old at the time of the 1986 accident and lived in one of three provinces near the accident site. The subjects’ thyroid glands were measured for radioactivity within two months of the accident.
Those with the greatest exposures were at highest risk for developing thyroid cancer in later years, the researchers found. Sixty-five of the study’s subjects developed thyroid cancer during the study’s 10 years of screening.
Indeed, the increased risks associated with exposures to radioactive iodine have yet to show any sign of declining. Studies done in Japan after World War II suggested that the increased risks of thyroid cancer began to decline 30 years after the atomic explosions but remained above normal even 40 years later.
Some of the participants in the Chernobyl study lived as far as 90 miles from the accident site, demonstrating the risks of eating or drinking contaminated foods among people who were exposed to little or no radioactive iodine from the immediate fallout.
“This study confirms the risk of thyroid cancer from radioactive iodine,” Dr. Alina V. Brenner, a radiation epidemiologist at the cancer institute and a co-author of the study, said in an interview. “But thyroid cancer is largely a nonlethal cancer. If detected and treated in a timely manner, they have a good prognosis.”
That this study was released in the midst of the crisis at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan was a coincidence. Indeed, government officials scheduled the release for Thursday because they feared weeks ago that the government might shut down on Friday as a result of a budget impasse on Capitol Hill.
Comments:
This study confirms earlier research about the risks of "ionizing radiation," which can accumulate in the thyroid gland cancer and lead to cancer other cancers later.
Potassium iodide is the main supplement given to prevent the accumulation of "ionizing radiation" in the thyroid gland. The Russian authorities failed to provide this supplement to all those at risk or exposed to "ionizing radiation."
I have suggested for adequate protection an adult should be taking 130 mg a day of Potassium iodide and a child should take 65 mg per day with an infant taking 5 to 10 mg per day. If you check your health food stores you will find that there is NO Potassium iodide to be found. It has been sold out across the country.
Your best protection against "environmental acid," or "ionizing radiation," or "acid rain," is to keep your alkaline buffers high with our pH Miracle pHour salts which contains, sodium, magnesium, potassium and calcium bicarbonate salts.
I would suggest getting some pH ion paper to test your urine. I recommend you keep your urine pH over 7.2 for protection against dietary, environmental or metabolic ionizing acids. Idealy you would like your urine pH to be over 8.0 for ultimate protection. Take 1 to 2 scoops 3 times a day.
In addition, I would recommend daily supplementation of Potassium iodide. We have a shipment of 3000 bottles of Potassium Iodide coming in the first part of next week. Each bottle contains 150 capsules at 65mg per capsule. The cost per bottle is $19.95. I expect this supply to be gone by tomorrow. You cannot purchase this product on line. You have to call our office at 760-751-8321 to order the Potassium Iodide product. We are taking pre-orders to be shipped out the middle of next week.
To purchase the pHour salts go to: www.phmiracle.com
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