Re: Indian Scientists Use Radiation to Cure Flatulence

[muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Very well said Stewart!



Norm's proposal is the same "policy" that conned the public to eliminate use

of low dose irradiation to treat infections and inflammatory diseases, etc.

- pharmaceutical companies, with FDA, got much more $$$ selling serums, and

later antibiotics, etc.  Gov't/industry anti-radiation actions started in

the mid-30s.  Like General Motors bought the Los Angeles public trans system

to destroy it (remember Roger Rabbit  :-)  Sold a lot more cars, and gas,

that way.  This anti-radiation policy con continues, with anti's being

handed the loudspeaker to keep the public in the dark, to get to pay the

piper all the way around.  :-)



Regards, Jim 

============



 From: SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM

> 

> Dear Norm:

> 

> A country like India is concerned with getting a livable amount of high

> quality, low-cost protein to its 1,000,000,000 people. Bean/Legume products

> can play a vital role in feeding starving people and preventing malnutrition

> and reducing avoidable death. However, flatulence is an issue in gaining more

> widespread consumption of these products.

> 

> A simple thing like bulk food irradiation in getting food accepted for wider

> consumption in  third world environments has a real public health benefit.

> Treating foodstuffs like legumes with irradiation before distribution makes a

> LOT more sense for a country like India, than trying to get hungry people to

> eat bean products and then getting them to consume Beano gas tablets, or

> journey to their local pharmacy or supermarket to buy an enzyme flatulence

> avoidance product like Beano. Norm, let's at least try to not let radiation

> phobia affect every judgment about sensible uses of radiation technologies in

> helping hungry people.

> 

> BTW, I don't think the "poor legumes" are too concerned as you put it about

> being "zapped" --but if legumes have some type of  higher consciousness I'm

> sure they would realize its a far far better thing they do in being zapped to

> help prevent starvation and malnutrition.

> 

> Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

> email: SAFarberMSPH@cs.com

> =====

> In a message dated 3/28/02 4:53:33 AM Pacific Standard Time,

> ncohen12@comcast.net writes:

> 

> 

>> Stew,

>> There's a product on the market now, called Beano, made by he Akpharma

>> Corp, that does the same thing without xapping [sic] the poor legumes.

>> 

>> norm

>> 

>> SAFarberMSPH@CS.COM wrote:

>> 

>>> I can recall seeing similar research touted in Nuclear News in the

>>> mid-1980s. The benefits of irradiating various types of legumes with

>>> massive doses of gamma rays to break down complex polysaccharides

>>> which leads to reduced flatulence has been well established for over

>>> 15 years. 

> 

> 

> 



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