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DETOX DIETS
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Lemon Detox Diet
The lemon detox diet is one of the best and most simple detox diets. Here's a guide and one-gallon recipe.
Liquid Diets
Fasting with fruit and vegetable juices is a safe and thorough detox method when done properly.
Detox & Weight Loss
Yes, a detox diet will help you lose weight. Before you start any detox diet, read this.
Easy Detox Diet
This weekend detox diet is a safe and gentle detox method, perfect for the detox newbie and the ultra busy.
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DETOX YOUR BODY
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Lymph Cleanse
Learn how to detox the lymph system. Plus, foods that naturally detox the lymph.
Lung Detox
How to support lung health this winter with a detox cleanse.
Colon Detox
Colon cleansing is essential to any detox program. Learn how to detox the colon safely.
Liver Detox
The liver is the primary organ of detoxification in the body. Learn how to detox the liver safely with this liver detox gude.
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Nuclear Radiation Dangers
The events in Japan have brought renewed interest in how to detox from radiation exposure. This series of articles will explore completely the dangers of radiation, ways to avoid radioactive contamination and what to do if you are exposed.
Radiation is electromagnetic energy that occurs naturally from the sun and radioactive minerals like uranium. Without radiation there would be no life on Earth and no evolution of plants and animals from mutation. Unfortunately, too much radiation can cause sickness and death. Both Pierre and Marie Curie died of cancer from repeated exposure to radium, the first element found to decay and emit electrons. Cancer is caused by the mutation of cells by radiation.
The most obvious and common example is skin cancer from over-exposure to the sun. From a detox and nutritional perspective, it is curious that too much sun can cause cancer while too little sun creates a significant vitamin D deficiency. Women who wear burkas have the greatest bone fragility because of their bodies are completely covered from the sun at all times and have grave vitamin D deficiencies. It is also true that large amounts of vitamin D prevents many kinds of cancer, so radiation is not always bad. Your chances of dying from a cancer from too much sun is trillions of times greater than dying from radiation caused by a nuclear accident.
Nuclear Accidents and Nuclear Radiation Detox
Why is this so?
This is so because nuclear accidents are so rare. Despite the ghastly images of Hiroshima & Nagasaki and the concomitant fears thereof of the Japanese people, nuclear accidents harm people far less than oil, coal, or hydroelectric. The only safer energy sources are some renewables like photo-voltaic, solar thermal, and wind.
Radiation Detox: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Naturally, the best way to do a radiation detox is to not get exposed in the first place. What is required here is the discernment to know what your threat level is. Is it safe to go outside? Is it safe to drink the water and eat the food? The only models we have for this kind of serious event is the Chernobyl disaster in which an old-fashioned graphite reactor caught on fire, burned for days, and finally melted down. Because it did not have an outside containment vessel, the radioactive core had direct contact with the outside environment. Because the reactor exploded it dispersed these contaminants over a wide area of Russia and Eastern Europe. Plants were contaminated and in turn milk from cows that ate these plants produced radioactive milk which was a threat to children and adults. Many Chernobyl nuclear workers died from extreme radiation exposure so that the nuclear pile could be covered in concrete and the lives of hundreds of thousands in Western Europe could be saved.
A large cloud of radioactivity moves with prevailing winds and is precipitated out of the atmosphere in the form of dust and rain. So, should our planet suffer a major nuclear meltdown, immediate weather conditions will determine the severity of your contamination. During such times, careful monitoring of weather conditions will lessen your exposure and increase your chances of survival.
Nuclear Radiation Detection and Prevention
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Radiation detox starts with understanding the immediate risks and taking appropriate action. Staying indoors during a predicted fall of radiation from the atmosphere is an excellent short term solution. Because radiation is invisible and silent, the only way to know for sure whether the area where you live is contaminated or not is with a Geiger Counter. These can be purchased from scientific supply houses. But there are downsides.
- They are expensive. A decent Geiger counter will cost over a thousand dollars.
- You need to know how to use the instrument. Most things, from your cell phone to the earth on which your house is built may register on the counter to be harmlessly radioactive.
After you purchase the instrument, you will need to establish a baseline of radioactivity, which should be on or below safe levels. There is the phenomenon of radon gas which can accumulate in houses. If you’re worried about contamination from Japan and discover with your instruments that your house is radioactive from radon rather than fall out, then you may have saved the lives of your family from a different radioactive threat. Establishing a baseline will allow you to know when additional fall out has increased levels. We also know what levels are considered safe, and in a separate article, we will discuss what the generally accepted safe radioactive exposure levels are.
In the case of serious radioactive threat, the government may pass out dosimeter badges which will turn various color shades as radioactive exposure increases. For example, should you need to spend some time outdoors and your badge tells you that you have received the maximum safe radiation dose, it is now time to stay indoors until authorities have established that it is safe. If you don’t believe authorities, you will need an accurate and carefully calibrated Geiger Counter to monitor outside radiation levels.
Prevention is the best radiation detox as once you have become contaminated, your options and recourse are more limited. Vigilance and awareness of a rapidly changing nuclear accident is one of your best defenses. If you hear about contaminated water or food sources, verify that this threat comes from a credible source and then take the appropriate actions. You may be reduced to eating canned foods for an extended time should fresh foods be covered in fall out. Remember, it only takes the ingestion or breathing in of a tiny minute amount microscopic, invisible fallout on fruits, vegetables, water, or other liquids to deliver a fatal dose in the form of radioactive particles trapped in your lungs or digestive tract.
Tomorrow in our next mailing: It has been confirmed that your are contaminated. What are the steps for a comprehensive radiation detox?
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