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Red Wine Fights Radiation Better than Iodine
Standard News ^ | 15 Mar 2011 | Rayna Tosheva

Posted on 03/15/2011 6:55:57 PM PDT by smokingfrog

Have red wine instead of iodine solutions to curb the effects of radiation. This is the advice of Bulgarian scholars as a response to the panic stirred after the explosions in the Japanese nuclear plant of Fukushima. Although the explosions in Japan happened at quite a distance from Bulgaria, thousands of Bulgarians stormed into drug stores to buy iodine supplements. This is dangerous as it could damage the thyroid gland, the Bulgarian Ministry of Health alarmed. Red wine consumption is by far a more potent barrier to radiation because of its high tannin concentration, Prof Donka Baykova, deputy chair of the Bulgarian Nutrition Association told the Standart. Red wine is a strong antioxidant and protects against foreign agents, the professor explained. Research carried out by British scientists, evidences that Bulgarian wines are especially beneficial in such cases, according to Prof Baykova. People in Vratsa, northwestern Bulgaria, are masters in banishing the radiation effects by means of red-wine-drinking and consumption of chili peppers. The recipe has been brought from Russian and Ukrainian natives who came to the town after the accident in Chernobyl, 1986.

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KEYWORDS: iodine; radiation; redwine
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To: smokingfrog
OK So red wine goes with beef and Nuclear Meltdown. And white goes with chicken and bird flu. And gin and tonic is for blood pathogens. Now we just need to find something cured by beer and I'll be all stocked up for the Armageddon party.
22 posted on 03/15/2011 7:23:52 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: smokingfrog

Look for in the next few days, John (Heinz) Kerry producing a report that swigging bottles of ketchup will negate the effects of radiation poisoning.


23 posted on 03/15/2011 7:24:19 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: smokingfrog

I’m glad I can’t take iodine. (per doctor) Gives me a good excuse to drink. :-)


24 posted on 03/15/2011 7:26:01 PM PDT by imskylark
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To: smokingfrog

Nobody’s posted yet so here goes:

I’ll drink to that


25 posted on 03/15/2011 7:28:22 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Fido969
Once again...Fred G. Sanford is ahead of his time...


26 posted on 03/15/2011 7:28:49 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito Ergo Conservitus.)
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To: acapesket
"Kelp works too, filled with natural iodine. FWIW. "

You can have the kelp, I'll go with the Cabernet Sauvignon.

27 posted on 03/15/2011 7:31:58 PM PDT by matthew fuller (God bless and protect Michelle Bachmann!)
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To: smokingfrog

Now if the subject was Bulgars, I could probably trust their scholarly pronouncement. As it is radioactivity poisoning, I will have to trust scientists schooled in the experience and literature regarding the prevention of radiation sickness.


28 posted on 03/15/2011 7:33:06 PM PDT by righttackle44 (I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
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To: smokingfrog

Guess I picked the wrong year to give up wine for Lent.


29 posted on 03/15/2011 7:34:15 PM PDT by Betis70 (First the House, then the Senate)
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To: smokingfrog

Thank you my dear friend Smoking Frog. We are radiation immune as we consume a lot of red wine. Just as a back up we went to the health food store and got some Kelp capsules but the wine is a lot more enjoyable.


30 posted on 03/15/2011 7:34:22 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: smokingfrog

Down in New Orlean, where everything is fine
All them cats is drinkin’ that wine
Drinking that mess to their delight
When they gets drunk, start singing all night

Drinkin’ wine spo-dee-o-dee, drinkin’ wine, bop ba
Wine spo-dee-o-dee, drinkin’ wine, bop ba
Wine spo-dee-o-dee, drinkin’ wine, bop ba
Pass that bottle to me


31 posted on 03/15/2011 7:37:20 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: Fido969

Ted Kennedy is back?


32 posted on 03/15/2011 7:37:44 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: BluH2o
I hope good scotch will be just as effective.
33 posted on 03/15/2011 7:37:59 PM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Hey Obama! All you have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled us with a terrible resolve!!)
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To: smokingfrog

I’m convinced. No further evidence needed. Another reason to stock up on plenty of red wines.


34 posted on 03/15/2011 7:40:12 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: 95B30

Some folks, they like whiskey, they say its mighty fine
Some folks, they like moonshine, they drink it up all the time
But my Daddy well he told me “Son, keep your head in line”
Drinkin’ that wine, wine, stay drunk all the time.

Look at them luscious little bottles, sittin’ up on the shelf
Red and yellow, green and blue they are something else
Something else they mesmorize me, the way they sparkle and shine
Drinkin’ that wine, wine, stay drunk all the time.


35 posted on 03/15/2011 7:43:58 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: GonzoGOP
Now we just need to find something cured by beer

Beer cures (and causes) marriage.

/johnny

36 posted on 03/15/2011 7:44:16 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: smokingfrog

I am drinking red wine now, but this gives me a better excuse.


37 posted on 03/15/2011 7:48:08 PM PDT by sickoflibs ("It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=tax delayed")
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To: GonzoGOP
Now we just need to find something cured by beer and I'll be all stocked up for the Armageddon party.

Its good for kidney problems, it is a blood builder (so a doctor said but I don't know why) and it is high calorie if you need that.

38 posted on 03/15/2011 7:48:44 PM PDT by YellowRoseofTx
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To: smokingfrog

I drink at least one ltr per day, every day ;)


39 posted on 03/15/2011 7:50:29 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: smokingfrog

I predict that the SF bay area will have a severe shortage of red wine in the next couple of days. All the iodide pills were probably bought by the Mormons, the jet stream will head straight to SF with another to Baja that will then curve up into Chicago.

I expect that many many liquor stores will be hit by looters.

That is if the word gets out what red wine can prevent.


40 posted on 03/15/2011 7:55:50 PM PDT by Eye of Unk ("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
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