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From ProductStat - breakfast cereals:

 

<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bran is too rough for many</strong>

There are several reasons for avoiding the use of bran (the skin, husk, or hull of the grain) as a breakfast food. One is that bran has been clearly established as too harsh a roughage material for the intestinal tract of many persons. (One writer notes that this is especially true of those who are nervous or high strung in temperament.) Second, bran is relatively very high in atomic bomb fallout, Strontium 90; it contains seven times as much of this product of nuclear testing as does white flour. The use of whole wheat flour and whole wheat breakfast foods, and of bran as a breakfast food, can thus very substantially increase the intake of the inherently dangerous radioactive strontium."

 

 
Good lord!!  Why not tell kids that spinach is radioactive, too.... LOL 

 

Maybe my ill temper is actually due to bran.  I'll stop it for a month and see what kind of a mood I'm in after that....  NOT!!
 
I've heard about how foods like spinach and bran can retain radioactive properties (and even fallout can sometimes be known for affecting our milk)... So I would like to think that that's why these foods make us super-strong and can affect us in a good way...

-- Dave
 
Dave, there is no medical evidence to suggest Strontium-90 has any nutritive value in humans. In fact studies indicate there is no such thing as a safe level of exposure to ionizing radiation.

BTW the same is true for radioactive cesium. I think we'll be hearing a lot more about that one in the coming years, as Japan's destroyed nuclear plant continues to poison our ocean. Its half-life is ~30 years and they're already picking it up in sharks, marlin and tuna off the coast of my state.
 
I have to be careful with Bran having a sensitive stomach, it will make me very sick if I eat too much of it per day.

Have you looked into who funded this research ?
John, I'd say Consumer Research's are as credible as one can get, at least for the early 1960's. Of course that doesn't mean that their findings are always correct, however, along with Consumer Reports.
 
This is interesting!

From what I understand, the Brazilian nut is also highly radioactive, and may be "sexually transmitted" (thus inducing an allergic reaction).
 
relatively very high??

If you read the recipes in the old range owner's manuals, you can see how much fat they used in cooking so they certainly did not need bran for regularity. They even said to add fat to the pan to brown ground beef. Higher fiber diets take some getting used to and fiber should be introduced gradually. If you can tolerate it, there should be no harm in eating it. Above ground testing of nuclear bombs has been discontinued although the releases from Japan after the earthquake & Tsunami might have put more activity in bran than we hope to gain from eating it. If the radioactivity is so high, I can picture the next models of TOTO toilets having a built-in Geiger counter. Then you won't have to apologize for strange noises coming from behind the bathroom door. "I'm OK. It's just static from the meter."

"Yeah. Right." (a rare double positive making a negative)
 
What's ironic imo is that, as we mature, we naturally develop tastes for things we didn't have as kids. E.g. if you would have put kale in front of me as an 8 year-old, it would have definitely wound up hidden under some other item on my plate. Today it's one of my favorite veggies and it's packed with fiber among other things (vitamins A, C and especially K). Ditto with a long list of other veggies.

The problem is that, due mainly to laziness imo, we carry our youthful diet (close to nutritionless processed foods, endless sugar salt and fat etc) into our mature years, where it's neither tolerated or even desired as much.
 
John!

I don't know how you grew up unawares of all of this. I was told at an early age not to play in the snow for very long, definitely NEVER eat it ;  and not stay out in the rain and get out of it as quickly as possible due to radioactive fallout all over the world.

 

I remember thinking at the time how the heck does Russian fallout reach me all the way over here in America ! 
Today that idea is naive , knowing how the weather really works.

 

It was a daily fact of life. 

 

This has started me on a research of living through the cold war, exploring me memories and experiences growing up on "Ground Zero". We lived in a place that was 9th on Russia's target list. We grew up with the knowledge and fear that everyone and everything we knew could be gone in the next 30 minutes. You talk about living on the edge!!!

 

 

It was a time of insanity wrapped up in sanity. Funny, the longer I live the more I see how the two seem to go hand in hand.

 

To see "Pandora's Promise" and learn the fact that 10% of our electricity now comes from purchased bomb material from those very same Russian warheads is freeing to say the least.
 
I had heard the snow don't eat snow thing when I was young, about how the radioactive particle would get wrapped in the ice crystal. I always really thought it was because the dog turned it yellow.  

 

I heard of this guy once that got bitten by a radioactive spider, and then strange things started happening to him.

 

And there was this other guy that accidently overdose himself with radiation and when he got mad he would turn green and get really mean.  

 

And recently, actually yesterday, a friend posted on her facebook that she was going to quit using her microwave because some junk science report that the radiation of a microwave would change the molecular structure of food and poison her.  She felt this was the reason she had celiac disease.  Now I can tell her it's just because her bran is radioactive.  
 
Hmmm, Odds are we might have been a little higher on the hit list back in the 50's here in S.E. Michigan.  All most all  the auto plants were basically located in a 70 mile radius.  We were all aware of the risk but it never really entered into our everyday lives.
 
I heard of this guy once that got bitten by a radioactive spider, and then strange things started happening to him.



And there was this other guy that accidently overdose himself with radiation and when he got mad he would turn green and get really mean.

Oh dear, those sound scary! I'll have to call my friend Diana at the IADC to see what she says.
 

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