[ RadSafe ] Re: "Science" reports on background radiation and health

[John Jacobus]

And what is the paradox? What is important are results
of epidemiological studies of the populations.  The
statement that ". . . appear to be even healthier and
to live longer than those living in control  areas
that are not classified as HBRAs . . ." does not sound
like a scientific statement to me.  I remember years
ago where a study showing that people who lived in the
Caucasus Mountains lived longer because they ate
yogart.  Actually, it is glacial milk. not background
radiation.

See http://www.lifebuildingminerals.com/longevity.htm

As noted in the BEIR V, BEIR VII, UNSCEAR and other
reports, biological response from low dose, low-dose
rates differ from those of high dose rate exposures.  


--- Maury Siskel <maurysis at ev1.net> wrote:

> Many Radsafe readers would find the linked article
> in Science an 
> intriguing account. But I agree that when you come
> to the section about 
> "The Radiation Paradox", your ears will stand up --
> Dog's did when I 
> read it to him. <g>
> Cheers,
> Maury&Dog
> 
> ====================
> Muckerheide, James wrote:
> 
> > Friends,
> >
> > An essay on ‘medical geology’ in the current
> Science magazine includes 
> > the following section. The article is at:
> >
>
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5736/883
> 
> . . .
> >
> > The most interesting feature in all these cases is
> that the people 
> > living in these HBRAs do not appear to suffer any
> adverse health 
> > effects as a result of their high exposures to
> radiation. On the 
> > contrary, in some cases the individuals living in
> these HBRAs appear 
> > to be even healthier and to live longer than those
> living in control 
> > areas that are not classified as HBRAs. These
> phenomena pose many 
> > intriguing questions for medical geologists.
> >


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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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