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...researchers studied women who reported the use of nine types of medication: antibiotics, thyroid supplements, antihistamines, pain relievers, tranquilizers, antidepressants, and asthma, seizure and hypertension medications...
Over the course of interviewing women who had used one of the studied drugs for at least six months, researchers concluded that the women who had used thyroid replacement hormone had doubled their relative risk of ovulatory dysfunction...
...component of bone miner- all protein-rich foods, (milk, als and of DNA meat, fish) Magnesium necessary for muscular contractions all unprocessed food (whole seeds, legumes) Iron essential for production of meat, liver, beans hemoglobin Zinc unknown, involved in fighting infec- animal products, especially tion meat Iodine important for thyroid gland's hor- iodized salt mone synthesis Selenium essential for enzymes catalyzing seafoods, kidney, liver hydrogen peroxide
...would happen so soon, or that many of the first victims would be children. Two reports in Nature, one by the World Health Organization and one by health officials in Belarus, the ex-Soviet republic that was immediately downwind from Chernobyl on that fateful day, indicate that childhood thyroid cancer has skyrocketed from an average of four cases a year to about 60. Most severely affected was the Gomel region, hit first by the radiation: the thyroid cancer rate there is now about 80 times the world average. "The only reasonable explanation," write the Belarus officials, "is that...
...retrospect, the phenomenon makes sense: the thyroid gland tends to concentrate iodine ingested by the body, and radioactive iodine was released in bulk during the accident. Moreover, radiation is known to cause thyroid cancer, and children are especially susceptible. But previous studies of nuclear accidents in Britain and the U.S. and studies of nuclear-weapons testing in Japan and the South Pacific have failed to prove a fallout-cancer correlation conclusively. The probable difference this time: the radiation was more highly concentrated and hit a heavily populated area...