From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 22:14:22 MDT
The radiation killed off any incipient tumors before they could be
detected. Stress results in fitness: exercising your body gives you a
fit body. Exercising your brain gives you a fit brain. Exercising your
cellular DNA with radiation gives you fit cell nuclei...
--- Reason <reason@exratio.com> wrote:
> This seems pretty counter-intuitive. Anyone care to advance some
> armchair
> theories?
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020823063221.htm
>
> Reason
> http://www.exratio.com
>
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>
> Professor Outlines Benefits Of Low-Dose Radiation
>
> MADISON -- A recent article published by University of
> Wisconsin-Madison
> emeritus professor John R. Cameron suggests that we all need more
> radiation
> for good health.
> Cameron's article in the July issue of the British Journal of
> Radiology
> outlines evidence that a moderate annual dose of radiation increases
> longevity. He also outlined his findings last week at the Armed
> Forces
> Radiobiological Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.
>
> According to Cameron, British radiologists who entered the field
> between
> 1955 and 1979 had a 29 percent lower cancer death rate compared to
> all other
> male English physicians of the same age. Radiologists also had a 36
> percent
> lower death rate from non-cancer causes and a 32 percent lower death
> rate
> from all causes.
>
> The chances of such a health improvement being accidental is less
> than one
> in a thousand, Cameron says. The lower death rate from all causes
> results in
> more than a three-year increase in longevity -- the same increase in
> longevity that would result if all cancer were curable.
>
> In addition, Cameron discussed similar news from a U.S. government
> sponsored
> study that he participated in which shows that the 28,000 nuclear
> shipyard
> workers with the greatest radiation doses, when compared to 32,500
> shipyard
> workers who had no on-the-job radiation, had significantly less
> cancer and a
> 24 percent lower death rate from all causes. That is, the nuclear
> workers
> had an almost three-year increase in longevity, Cameron says. The
> chance of
> that health improvement being accidental is less than one in 10
> million
> billion.
>
> Cameron has been recognized for his contributions in the fields of
> radiation
> and radiology by various national and international organizations. In
> 1960,
> he was the inventor of the bone densitometer to detect and accurately
> measure bone density, which indicates the presence or absence of
> osteoporosis. There are now about 50,000 such instruments in the
> world.
>
> To read the British Journal of Radiology article, visit:
> http://bjr.birjournals.org/cgi/content/full/75/895/637
>
> For another Cameron article on the subject, in Physics and Society
> (October
> 2001), visit: http://www.aps.org/units/fps/oct01/a5oct01.html
>
>
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