Re: Indian Scientists Use Radiation to Cure Flatulence

[hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]

Radiation "cooking " of some foods may be standard, soon.



As a naive medical examiner I lectured Aviation Engineer Force during the Korean war. In all previous wars, more troops died from diarrhea, typhus and other disease than from enemy action. Cooking, canning, refrigeration and freezing preserve foods generally well, but chicken salmonella and hamburger e coli can still be deadly.



All preservation degrades nutrition some. Cooking destroys about half the vit C, carrot CHO is converted from slow to rapid absorbtion, etc. However, changes seem relatively unimportant with ionizing radiation sufficient to kill insects and bacteria.

 I hope irradiation of most meat products will soon be usual..



Howard Long, (family doctor, epidemiologist and Doctors for Disaster Preparedness director and yearly student)



maury wrote:



> Is it not the case that the astronauts have been eating artificially irradiated foods throughout the existence of the US space program? Similarly, my understanding is that a wide variety of spices and seasonings are irradiated to kills insects and otherwise ensure the sterility of these foodstuffs which are commonly used in the US. I'm anxious to see the appearance of irradiated meats and other foods in the

> Dallas-Ft. Worth area.  All flatulence aside ....

> Cheers,

> Maury maury@webtexas.com

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> BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:

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> > In a message dated Fri, 29 Mar 2002  4:51:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, Norman Cohen <ncohen12@comcast.net> writes:

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> > <<I have not made up my mind about food irradiation, though I would tend to oppose it for now. I'd like long term studies looking at what might happen if one ate irrdadiated food continually over many years. >>

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> > Just FYI, we have been eating irradiated food continually over several million years.  All our food is irradiated.  Now, if you're saying, "but that's different, because that's at low doses and low dose-rates, and can't be compared to the high doses and high dose-rates in food irradiation," I

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