Vesica Institute for Holistic Studies

CURRENT RADIATION FALLOUT SITUATION IN NORTH AMERICA

SPECIFIC FOODS AND GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF CONCERN

INFORMATION ON RADIATION PROTECTIVE FOODS AND MATERIALS

by Robert J. Gilbert, Ph.D.

This article contains the following sections:

1. General Update (including Sites with Radiation Monitoring Info for North America)
2. Recommended News Sources:  Websites, Television, and Radio
3. The Truth about “Low-Level” and “Safe Doses” of Radiation
4. Most Mainstream Media follow the Nuclear Industry’s “Script” and are not conducting Independent Reporting
5. Fukushima may be a Portent of Things to Come in North America (with a list of the Top Ten ‘At Risk’ Nuclear Plants in the U.S.)

1. GENERAL UPDATE

On March 30 2011, the BBC World News reported that radioactive iodine fallout from the Fukushima Japan nuclear disaster had now been definitely identified across the entire globe, having spread Eastward on winds from Japan and now having made it all the way around the world again back to Asia.

The situation in Fukushima continues to deteriorate.  The most recent revelation being that extensive Plutonium spread has occurred, and that there may be a possible meltdown in one reactor.  The Japanese government and the utility company running the Fukushima nuclear plant (TEPCO) continue to stonewall on providing information to the public, often issuing contradictory statements or simply appearing to be baffled themselves by the situation.

The official story is that Fukushima is a Level 5 nuclear disaster, which puts it on a scale with Three Mile Island.  However with the revelation of plutonium discovered spread throughout the site, many independent nuclear analysts are now saying the accident is either a Level 6.5 or a Level 7 nuclear disaster (by way of comparison the world’s worst nuclear accident to date, Chernobyl, was a Level 7.)

The Fallout concentration is very low in most areas outside of Japan (but extremely dangerous in Japan.)  Extreme measures are not needed currently in North America.  However be aware that official statements that there is “no risk” from low level nuclear fallout is not true.  There is no “safe dose” of highly radioactive particles breathed into the lungs or ingested with food.

by Robert J. Gilbert, Ph.D.

As many of you may know, my background includes having been a U.S. Marine Corps instructor in Nuclear - Biological - Chemical Warfare Defense and Survival (abbreviated as NBCD.)  I received a Meritorious Field Promotion by Major General Robert Haebel in Okinawa for excellence in NBCD training, and helped create the first pocket guide for troops dealing with NBCD threats in the early 1980's.  I have been studying nuclear, biological and chemical toxins for 30 years, both from the standard scientific model and from the perspectives of energetic therapies & alternative medicine.

At the moment there is a lot of concern about the nuclear fallout effects from the Japan Nuclear Reactors disaster in Fukushima.  You have probably seen information circulating on the internet of very variable quality, and often in a fragmentary form, about radiation and what to do about it; many people are using this partial information to go buy specific products which they are told will protect them from nuclear radiation effects.  One of the most commonly suggested panaceas is Potassium Iodide tablets, which are now being taken by many people on the U.S. West Coast (they are now sold out in many West Coast health food stores.)

Why a Conventional "Apple a Day" is a Very Bad Idea by Elizabeth Gilbert

(with additional notes from Dr. Robert Gilbert on chemicals in conventional grown foods)

Balancing our family’s budget and our family’s health is not an easy challenge.  I know that we are better off eating as much organic and local foods as we can, but often it is just too expensive to buy everything organic, especially in the winter months.  But often I just can’t bring myself to buy foods that I know have been grown using toxic substances.

In my struggle to feed my family well, I have come across some helpful resources that I thought I’d pass along to our readers.  The first is the “dirty dozen list”,  a collection of the top produce items that are the most toxic in chemicals.