Re: Are nukes making you fat?

["jjcohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

For those who believe that radioactivity is the source of all evil, why not

include obesity? I had always thought that my overweight condition was due

to overeating, lack of exercise, etc. . Now, I find that it is clearly due

to my proximity to the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. Watch out P.G.&E, I am

looking for a good lawyer......







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

From: Bjorn Cedervall <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:07 PM

Subject: Re: Are nukes making you fat?





> >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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