An apple a day keeps radiation away.
Who would have thought an earthquake would have brought a renewed interest in apples in Japan? Aomori apple farmers have been pushing apples as an antidote to radiation poisoning, and have been encouraging people who tried to gain control of the meltdown in the Daiichi nuclear reactor to eat apples.
Republic of Belarus research has shown that the edible fibre pectin in apples when ingested encourages the release of cesium from the body. Here is the rough data below: In a sample of 615 children affected by the Chernobyl disaster, levels of Cesium 137 dropped dramatically in subjects who had eaten apples over a period of 20 days, while levels dropped only marginally in subjects who had not eaten apples.
The story got picked up by Professor Emeritus Tazawa Kenji from Toyama University, and the news started to flow around after a lecture in Hirosaki City at the end of May.
Interestingly, Tazawa has already been doing research on the potential benefits of apples and pectin in suppressing cancer of the large intestine.
An example of research that actually has social relevance!!
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