Re: Re Doses of sunshine, vit A, Zn, and ionizing radiation (WAG?)

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

Why increase ioizing radiation for most Americans from " background

radiation exposure -

0.35 rem effective"?



Health impovements with more rem, suggested by Cameron (NSWS, British

radiologists), from ecologic observations, and the general hormesis

observations for foods, medicines, and other wavelengths (sunshine) are 1.

lower cancer rates, 2. better longevity, 3. faster wound healing, 4. etc.



Howard Long



----- Original Message -----

From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>

To: "Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>; "John Jacobus"

<crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; <rad-sci-1@wpi.edu>

Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:24 AM

Subject: Re: Re Doses of sunshine, vit A, Zn, and ionizing radiation (WAG?)





> You say 0.1 rem is insufficient.  Since the average

> background radiation exposure is 0.350 rem effective

> dose per year, why should people need more than they

> are getting now?

>

> --- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> > John,

> > Not a WAG, but an order of magnitude estimate:

> >  10x 25 mg Zn/day would make anybody sick and 1/10

> > not supply trace mineral

> > needs of anybody,

> > 100,000 U vit A /day give anybody liver damage and

> > only 1,000 U/day give

> > night blindness, low resistance to infection, etc,

> >

> > Similar findings for ionizing radiation:

> > 1000 rad/year likely bad (my health physicist

> > patient with arm melanoma

> > calculated 4500 rem to arm over 2 years from holding

> > films for combat area

> > x-rays in WW2)

> > 0.1 rad/year likely insufficient (populations show

> > more cancer, less

> > longevity).See Muckerheide rad-sci-1@wpi.edu

> . . .

>

> =====

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

>

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