Re: Are nukes making you fat?

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

>Could radioactive iodine from nuclear tests and power plants be the reason 

>so many North Americans are overweight?



To read about the origin of this speculation - see Rosalie Bertell, "No 

immediate danger: Prognosis for a radioactive Earth" (The Women's Press, 

1985). Page 39.



The 23 pages with references are quite illuminating. Here one finds 

newspaper and magazine articles such as Buffalo Evening News, Herald 

(Melbourne), Guardian, Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star (many refs. without 

an author to it...), Prairie Messenger, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science 

Monitor, Jerusalem Post, Financial Post, Denver Post, The Advertiser, Desert 

News, The Times, Daily Mirror, Readers' Digest, Mother Jones Magazine ("You 

are what you eat", July 1981) and many more. There are references to the 

Pope, an Indian Chief (speech in the year 1854), Senate and/or Congressional 

Hearings. All references relating to the nuclear disaster in Chelyabinsk 

(Mayak) on pp. 410-411 have been taken from the book by Z.A. Medvedev - thus 

one reference would have been enough rather than 24. Ref. 10 on page 400  to 

Carl J. Johnson is the same as reference 23 on page 403 which is also the 

same as ref. 34 on page 409 and ref. 63 on p. 415.



There are more such examples of reference dilutions. In between those you 

will find Sternglass (The Death of all Children, Esquire Magazine 1969). 

Among the diluted refs. you may find refs. to RB herself which contain some 

of the more extreme claims and/or predictions.



This is how you build a solid scientific base for claiming that A (cancer, 

HIV, obesity...) is caused by B (usually radiation & nuclear). HIV/AIDS is 

quite dominating among those who were born after 1951 when the bomb testings 

began...



Suggested alternative reading:

http://www.geocities.com/mothersalert/victims.html

(1.3 billion people killed, maimed, sickened...)



My personal ideas and opinions only,



Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com



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