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Simple foods protection from radiation

11.03.29 - Simple foods provide protection against radiation exposure

Summary:
How crucial is to understand the protective nature of foods in order to protect yourself and your family against radiation exposure

by: T.M. Hartle

In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster it is
crucial to understand the protective nature of foods in order to
protect yourself and your family against radiation exposure. Research
on food based radiation xposure after the Chernobyl disaster can give
us insight on what foods can reduce radiation exposure from our diet.
We also have research from Hiroshima after the atomic bomb attacks
that has highlighted the protective nature of fruits and vegetables in
the diet against cancer. Research following previous nuclear disasters
gives us insight into the measures we can take to protect against the
damaging effects of radiation exposure.

The Swedish Government monitored the radiation level of foods
following the Chernobyl disaster. They found that most animal based
foods including meat, dairy, and fish had higher levels of radioactive
substances than fruits, vegetables, grains, and potatoes. Eating plant
based foods can reduce exposure to radioactive substances by avoiding
concentrations of these substances in animal fat and tissues. A plant
centered diet in the midst of radiation exposure provides lower levels
of radioactive substances as well as fiber, antioxidants, and
phytochemicals that have the potential to reduce cancer rates
associated with radiation exposure.

The Swedish Government monitored the radiation level of foods
following the Chernobyl disaster. They found that most animal based
foods including meat, dairy, and fish had higher levels of radioactive
substances than fruits, vegetables, grains, and potatoes. Eating plant
based foods can reduce exposure to radioactive substances by avoiding
concentrations of these substances in animal fat and tissues. A plant
centered diet in the midst of radiation exposure provides lower levels
of radioactive substances as well as fiber, antioxidants, and
phytochemicals that have the potential to reduce cancer rates
associated with radiation exposure.

A study published in Russia reviewed the protective nature of dietary
fiber against radiation. Researchers used concentrates of dietary
fiber from lemon peel and beet root among other plants and found that
the fiber did have radioprotective properties. The authors concluded
that concentrated dietary fiber can be used in human nutrition to
accelerate the elimination of nuclides or radioactive elements.

Whether or not the Fukushima plant meltdown materializes into a global
disaster, the simple change to a strong plant diet can provide
significant protection and health benefits for you and your family.
Consuming a broad spectrum of fruits and vegetables can provide
powerful protection against the ravaging effects of radiation
exposure.

Sources:
http://perfectformuladiet.com/plant...
http://www.juicefeasting.com/LinkCl...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/...
http://books.google.com/books?id=RY...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/2...

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Botched Plastic Surgery

Woman Can’t Close Her Eyes After Botched Plastic Surgery

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Woman Can’t Close Her Eyes After Botched Plastic Surgery

Brian Moylan

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Marilyn Leisz can't close her eyes even when she sleeps, and she was in a New Jersey court yesterday suing her plastic surgeon Paul Parker, because she claims this is the result of a cosmetic eye surgery gone bad.

Parker testified that Leisz came to him to correct bumps on her eyelids from a different plastic surgery procedure and he warned her about the dangers—that she might be stuck with her eyes open like a caricature of A Clockwork Orange—before she went under the knife. Leisz had a different doctor testify that said Parker never should have done the procedure because Leisz already had too many surgeries.

What? Plastic surgeons now get to say, "Sorry, lady, you've had too much work. Time to step away from the easel." Never in the world has that ever happened. I mean, just look at every Real Housewife in all of America, or just Goldie Hawn! Remember there is something specially about growing old gracefully (at least until everything starts to sag).

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Pay for Innocent Man’s Incarceration

Supreme Court: No One Should Pay for Innocent Man’s 18-Year Incarceration

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Supreme Court: No One Should Pay for Innocent Man’s 18-Year Incarceration

Hamilton Nolan

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John Thompson (pictured) was convicted of a 1984 armed robbery, and later of murder. He spent 18 years in prison, including 14 years on death row. Problem: the prosecutors who sent him to jail withheld some evidence—including eyewitness reports describing a perpetrator who looked nothing like Thompson, and a blood test that proved Thompson's innocence.

So, after all those years, after facing seven execution warrants, when Thompson finally managed to get himself freed from prison after new trials, Thompson sued the New Orleans district attorney for not training his prosecutors to, you know, not send innocent people away for decades. He won a $14 million judgment from a jury. That was appealed, all the way to the Supreme Court. And yesterday, voila: John Thompson gets nothing. From the NYT:

Justice Scalia, in a concurrence joined by Justice Alito, said the misconduct in the case was the work of a single "miscreant prosecutor," Gerry Deegan, who suppressed evidence "he believed to be exculpatory, in an effort to railroad Thompson." No amount of training, Justice Scalia wrote, would have countered such willful wrongdoing.

In her dissent, Justice Ginsburg wrote that "no fewer than five prosecutors" were complicit in a violation of Mr. Thompson's constitutional rights. "They kept from him, year upon year, evidence vital to his defense."

Here in America, all bad outcomes which reflect poorly on the current power structure are the result of a handful of Bad Apples. And you can't hold the people in charge accountable for the work of A Few Bad Apples. This principle applies to ill-conceived wars gone wrong, greed-induced collapse of financial systems, profit-driven corporate environmental destruction, and willful miscarriages of justice. And any future unforeseen disasters, to be determined at a later date.

Conservatism!

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Jordan vows to recover artefacts

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Jordan vows to recover artefacts 'as important as Dead Sea Scrolls'

Jordan has vowed to use all means at its disposal to recover a set of artefacts allegedly smuggled into Israel that it believes could constitute the most important Christian texts ever found.

One of the metal books - or codices - that is at the centre of a dispute between Jordan, Israel and British archaeologists

By Adrian Blomfield, Jerusalem

A British team of archaeologists last week announced the discovery of a hoard
of ancient texts that they claim could have been written by contemporaries
of Christ and whose existence is hinted at in the Bible's apocalyptic Book
of Revelation.

Cast in lead and copper, the sealed texts, known as codices, have already
become the subject of intrigue worthy of an Indiana Jones plot line.

Stories of subterfuge abound, with at least one of the British archaeologists
reportedly facing death threats as they try to rescue the artefacts for
posterity from privateers intent on breaking them up and selling them on the
Black Market.

Other experts, meanwhile have dismissed the codices as an elaborate hoax and
criticised the British team, led by David Elkington, an Egyptologist, and
his wife Jennifer.

But for the Jordanian
government, which has backed the Elkingtons' work, the codices are an
invaluable piece of world heritage at least on a par with the Dead Sea
Scrolls, the Jewish texts found in an Israeli cave in 1947.

"They will really match, and perhaps be more significant than the Dead
Sea Scrolls," Ziad al-Saad, the director of Jordan's Department of
Antiquities, told the BBC, who said they could be "the most important
discovery in the history of archaeology."

Jordan's quarrel is not with the Israeli government, but with Hassan Saeda, a
Bedouin farmer in the Galilee, who has possession of the codices and is
keeping them in hiding.

According to the Elkingtons, Mr Saeda received the artefacts from a Jordanian
Bedouin who discovered them in a cave at some stage between 2005 and 2007,
much in the same way the Dead Sea Scrolls were found 64 years ago.

Mr Saeda denies the claim, saying the codices have been in his family's
possession since they were found by his great-grandfather, an assertion
challenged by the Jordanian government, which said it would "exert all
efforts at every level" to get the artefacts repatriated.

In slightly unclear circumstances, Dr Elkington's team was allowed access to a
small portion of the artefacts where they reached their conclusion.

Containing cryptic messages in Hebrew and Ancient Greek, the codices were
etched in an indecipherable code. They were also replete with potentially
messianic symbols including what appeared to be a Roman cross before an
empty tomb, and behind the walls of a city – a clear reference, the team
believed, to Christ's crucifixion "without a city wall".

A piece of leather found with the metal books was shown by carbon dating tests
to be just under 2,000 years old, potentially placing its provenance within
Christ's ministry, while a metallurgical examination on one of the codices
found that it was also very old.

Israeli archaeological sources have been dismissive of the find, suggesting
that Mr Saeda has appeared "every few years" trying to sell the
codices. They said examinations had shown them to be forgeries.

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Jordan battles to regain Christian relic

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Jordan battles to regain 'priceless' Christian relics

By Robert Pigott

BBC News religious affairs correspondent

They could be the earliest Christian writing in existence, surviving almost 2,000 years in a Jordanian cave. They could, just possibly, change our understanding of how Jesus was crucified and resurrected, and how Christianity was born.

A group of 70 or so "books", each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007.

A flash flood had exposed two niches inside the cave, one of them marked with a menorah or candlestick, the ancient Jewish religious symbol.

A Jordanian Bedouin opened these plugs, and what he found inside might constitute extremely rare relics of early Christianity.

That is certainly the view of the Jordanian government, which claims they were smuggled into Israel by another Bedouin.

The Israeli Bedouin who currently holds the books has denied smuggling them out of Jordan, and claims they have been in his family for 100 years.

Jordan says it will "exert all efforts at every level" to get the relics repatriated.

Incredible claims

The director of the Jordan's Department of Antiquities, Ziad al-Saad, says the books might have been made by followers of Jesus in the few decades immediately following his crucifixion.

"They will really match, and perhaps be more significant than, the Dead Sea Scrolls," says Mr Saad.

"Maybe it will lead to further interpretation and authenticity checks of the material, but the initial information is very encouraging, and it seems that we are looking at a very important and significant discovery, maybe the most important discovery in the history of archaeology."

The texts might have been written in the decades following the crucifixion

They seem almost incredible claims - so what is the evidence?

The books, or "codices", were apparently cast in lead, before being bound by lead rings.

Their leaves - which are mostly about the size of a credit card - contain text in Ancient Hebrew, most of which is in code.

If the relics are of early Christian origin rather than Jewish, then they are of huge significance.

One of the few people to see the collection is David Elkington, a scholar of ancient religious archaeology who is heading a British team trying to get the lead books safely into a Jordanian museum.

He says they could be "the major discovery of Christian history", adding: "It's a breathtaking thought that we have held these objects that might have been held by the early saints of the Church."

He believes the most telling evidence for an early Christian origin lies in the images decorating the covers of the books and some of the pages of those which have so far been opened.

Mr Elkington says the relics feature signs that early Christians would have interpreted as indicating Jesus, shown side-by-side with others they would have regarded as representing the presence of God.

"It's talking about the coming of the messiah," he says.

"In the upper square [of one of the book covers] we have the seven-branch menorah, which Jews were utterly forbidden to represent because it resided in the holiest place in the Temple in the presence of God.

"So we have the coming of the messiah to approach the holy of holies, in other words to get legitimacy from God."

Location clues

Philip Davies, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies at Sheffield University, says the most powerful evidence for a Christian origin lies in plates cast into a picture map of the holy city of Jerusalem.

"As soon as I saw that, I was dumbstruck. That struck me as so obviously a Christian image," he says.

"There is a cross in the foreground, and behind it is what has to be the tomb [of Jesus], a small building with an opening, and behind that the walls of the city. There are walls depicted on other pages of these books too and they almost certainly refer to Jerusalem."

The books were bound by lead rings

It is the cross that is the most telling feature, in the shape of a capital T, as the crosses used by Romans for crucifixion were.

"It is a Christian crucifixion taking place outside the city walls," says Mr Davies.

Margaret Barker, an authority on New Testament history, points to the location of the reported discovery as evidence of Christian, rather than purely Jewish, origin.

"We do know that on two occasions groups of refugees from the troubles in Jerusalem fled east, they crossed the Jordan near Jericho and then they fled east to very approximately where these books were said to have been found," she says.

"[Another] one of the things that is most likely pointing towards a Christian provenance, is that these are not scrolls but books. The Christians were particularly associated with writing in a book form rather than scroll form, and sealed books in particular as part of the secret tradition of early Christianity."

The Book of Revelation refers to such sealed texts.

Another potential link with the Bible is contained in one of the few fragments of text from the collection to have been translated.

It appears with the image of the menorah and reads "I shall walk uprightly", a sentence that also appears in the Book of Revelation.

While it could be simply a sentiment common in Judaism, it could here be designed to refer to the resurrection.

It is by no means certain that all of the artefacts in the collection are from the same period.

But tests by metallurgists on the badly corroded lead suggest that the books were not made recently.

The archaeology of early Christianity is particularly sparse.

Little is known of the movement after Jesus' crucifixion until the letters of Paul several decades later, and they illuminate the westward spread of Christianity outside the Jewish world.

Never has there been a discovery of relics on this scale from the early Christian movement, in its homeland and so early in its history.

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Possible Da Vinci Code Prequel Unearthed

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Possible Da Vinci Code Prequel Unearthed

Max Read

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Who wants to read ancient books made of metal? Scientists, that's who! And some of them are very excited to get their hands on these particular ancient metal books, which might "be more significant than the Dead Sea Scrolls."

Emphasis on might. The codices, made of sheets of lead and bound with rings, like a Trapper-Keeper, or a very heavy Lisa Frank binder, could potentially be "the major discovery of Christian history," according to "scholar of ancient religious archaeology" David Elkington. According to Elkington, and the Jordanian government, the books were discovered in a cave by a Jordanian Bedouin sometime in the mid-2000s; the problem is that they are currently in the possession of an Israeli Bedouin named Hassan Saeda, who says his family has had them for centuries.

What is in them, exactly? According to Raiders of the Lost Ark, probably some kind face-melting ghost. But besides that, almost anything (slash fan-fiction, probably). Elkington is convinced that the books are Christian in origin because he thinks he's identified various crucifix symbols, and because the Book of Revelation mentions sealed texts like these. The only thing is, there's a good chance they're forgeries, according to The Daily Telegraph:

Israeli archaeological sources have been dismissive of the find, suggesting that Mr Saeda has appeared "every few years" trying to sell the codices. They said examinations had shown them to be forgeries.