mark wrote:gendoikari87 wrote:all it takes is one molecule of a gene and BAM cancer or BAM genetic malformity Luckily most of these are harmless mutations because there's a million things that can cause it.
Can you put this into English - without all the Emeril? I don't quite get what you are saying.
Like bananas did you know that the yellow fruit we all love, is the biggest source of background radiation?
seriously? you got a source for that info? i am not saying its not so, just that I had never heard that and I find it interesting.
um..... Basically electromagnetic radiation of any kind that is able to penetrate skin can move water molecules around, and if it can do that, it can knock around a gene or two out of place or cause a deformatiy in the gene itself by messing with the atoms. See water molecules are like little magnets, and light (both infra red radio , and ultra violet and xray) are waves of magnetism. Which means water molecules respond to these fields.
as for bananas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
The major natural source of radioactivity in biomass is potassium. In the natural mix of potassium found in food, the human body and throughout nature, 0.0117% is an unstable isotope, potassium-40 (abbreviated 40K). This isotope decays extremely slowly, it has a half-life of about a billion years (4×1016 s). Therefore, out of a gram of potassium about 30 atoms disintegrate per second, or in other words the activity of potassium is 31 Bq g-1.[5] An average banana contains about half a gram of potassium.[6] Therefore it will have an activity of roughly 15 Bq.
another thing:
Nearly all foods are naturally radioactive
If I hear "crony" capitalism one more time I'm going to be ill. Capitalism is capitalism, dog eats dog and one dog ends up on top, and he defends that place with all the power he's accumulated.
