Re: Radiation promotes better health

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

>From: Darrell Poole <dopoole@IEEE.ORG>
>Organization: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
>Subject:      Re: Radiation promotes better health
>
>It seems to me that perhaps we have a real live experiment in progress.
>After building a whole body counter in the Southern hemisphere some
>years ago, we had absolutely no difficulty at all after counting
>volunteers (military style) in determining who had been born and lived
>all their life in the southern hemisphere, those who had been born and
>raised in the Northern hemisphere and who were on extended stays in the
>south and those born and raised in the south but who had spent a few
>years in the Northern hemisphere studying, working etc. Extreme ratios
>of potassium body burdens were as high as 10,000 to 1.
>    Is some radiation good for us? Those of us in the Northern
>hemisphere should be healthier than our counterparts in the southern
>hemisphere, or are we possibly looking at this threshold dose again?
>    Just a thought
>
>--
>Darrell O. Poole
>M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando
>407.628.0991
>407.628.8463 FAX
>dopoole@ieee.org
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