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When the news media reports on radiation, it is usually prompted by a cataclysmic accident such as occurred at Chernobyl or Fukushima. The reality of the situation is however, we are exposed to low levels of radiation on a daily basis, which can have deleterious affects on population centers without residents being any the wiser. Known as stochastic health effects, the study measures the effects of low-level, chromic exposure to radiation.
Stochastic vs. Non-Stochastic Health Effects
Stochastic, which refers to likelihood of long-term health concerns from low-level, chronic exposure to radiation, differs from Non-Stochastic effects that relate to high levels of exposure by the patient. For instance, victims of high levels of radiation will invariably suffer “acute” exposure, and the symptoms will typically appear quickly. Symptoms often present as radiation burns and sickness that, when receiving a fatal dose, might prove fatal within two months.
Conversely, the primary health effect borne by exposure to low-levels of radiation normally materializes as cancer. Radiation exposure inhibits the body’s ability to control the growth rate of cells, and stops the natural processes that would typically repair the damage at the cellular and molecular level. Additionally, radiation causes changes to the DNA of individual cells, called mutations, and can lend themselves to creating genetic mutations in offspring of victims.
Lethal Low-Level Doses
As mentioned, one need not live in close proximity to a nuclear plant on the verge of cataclysmic meltdown to run the risk of radiation exposure. According the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there are a myriad of ways in which unhealthy levels of radiation present. For those who face exposure, they need to be aware of the potential, long-term harm that that proximity can have on their family’s health.
Unlike microwave ovens, which operate on non-ionizing radiation that are not believed to be nearly as harmful as exposure to ionizing radiation such as comes from such sources as high intensity power lines. The radioactive molecules, which are thought to be emitted from these lines, have been linked to cancer clusters, and have the power and potential to alter molecules, and disrupt atomic bonds that lead to the mutation of cells and causes cancer.
Cleansing the Body of Heavy Metal Toxins
Pectin, long used as an aid in digestion, and well known for its abilities of lowering lipoprotein levels in blood, is highly effective at cleansing the human body of harmful radioactive particles, particularly Cesium-137. In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, pectin-based cleansing agents have been found to dramatically reduce the levels of radioactive exposure. As they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a dose of pectin is the equivalent of a bushel of apples so you can expect to keep the whole hospital staff at bay.
http://www.vitapect.org/blogs/news/15177961-when-is-too-much-radiation-too-much
“As they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but a dose of pectin is the equivalent of a bushel of apples so you can expect to keep the whole hospital staff at bay.”
I just read the apple story (next on list) and they didn’t mention that I’d need to eat a bushel of them. It’s too bad there’s no quantity specified as a “dose of pectin.”
I have one of the cold war era radiation detectors (yellow boxes) and it came with the instruction manual that was printed in the 1960s. What they described back then as a “harmful level” of radiation, is what the thing now reads all the time as standard background radiation.
any radiation is too much radiation IMHO.
When is too much cancer is too much?