All Radiation is not the same

Defining Half lives of radioactive isotopes

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So, when officials of ANY country tell you that exposure rates are low, this is very misleading.

So, how can you protect yourselves?

If you are logical you would look in this way: First of all, what radiation could kill you and your family in the short run and then in the long run?

Some of the choices a person might make is: One: Don't live within 50 to 100 miles of any nuclear power plant or military facility that has or stores nuclear weapons, nuclear waste or that has any nuclear reactors. This protects a person and his or her family from possible problems in the future. Because almost all nuclear facilities aren't really as safe as anyone says. They might be as safe as everyone says but then how many Homer Simpsons are in any nuclear weapons crews or work at nuclear power plants in the first place? It only takes one.

Two: Though governments might say the radiation is low that is meaningful but not in the way you might think. First of all if radiation is growing at all where you live that is a keyword to say that the radiation in milk, meat, fish, poultry is going to increase your chances of cancer both now and in the future if you consume any of it. Because, you only need one particle that has a long enough half life to damage your body or the bodies of your children through their lungs or stomachs and into their systems. For example, no matter how manageable radiation levels are, if they are still increasing, one particle of radioactive iodine that you breathe in might give you cancer even though the half life is 8 days. One particle of Radioactive Cesium from a fish you ate might eventually give you cancer now or in the future. And the worst: one particle of radioactive plutonium from reactor number 3 will give whatever organisms death if it is in their bodies or lungs during the next 25,000 to 100,000 years. (the half life of plutonium 239 is 24,100 years).

Three: So, when government officials of any country say the radiation levels are low but we are finding it in our milk. That is a code word for "Stop Drinking milk and using milk products" because radiation levels might be low but one particle condensed through milk or meat might give you or your children cancer in the next 10 years more or less. So, if you are a wise logical person you will see this.

So, when they say, 'There are now higher levels of radiation in milk than normal' that is code to all intelligent people worldwide to stop or reduce milk and milk products. What this also means is that if it is in the milk, it is also in the meat as well. So, radiation is condensing in all the meats and fish and poultry that you are eating.

So, you might say, "Do I need to stop eating everything?"  If you stop eating everything you might weaken yourself and become emotionally or physically unbalanced and be unable to function at all. So my advice would be to go "Vegan" vegetarian until the Fukushima power plant is encased in Cement for 10 days to 6 weeks. And that might be 3 to 6 months or more from now. If you don't do this you will probably still live through it. Going Vegan simply increases the chance that you will not get cancer from this incident worldwide until Fukushima is completely encased in cement for about 6 weeks time.

By going "Vegan" you stay strong and reduce your exposure to radiation as much as possible. "Is it possible to get cancer from some radiation even if you go Vegan?" I would say, "Yes" it is still possible. But what we are trying to do here is to reduce exposure to harmful radiation inside your body. Unless you wear a face mask that filters your air every day you can't completely protect your lungs. But you can reduce the amount of radiation that goes into your body during these times by going vegan and organic if possible.

Note: Wearing a face mask all the time likely would be counterproductive unless you are in Japan because it reduces the flow of new oxygen into your lungs. And especially children will panic if you force them to wear a face mask. So, I don't think a face mask is very useful for long periods unless you are in Japan in certain areas or if you are notified of higher than normal radiation or if your personal Geiger counter radiation detector is showing high levels and your are outside walking around.