The radiation from Japan was a bust. The alarmists like that 9/11 Truther Alex Jones may choose to poison himself and his family by taking too much potassium iodide, but you should not. Firstly because the radiation levels are less than you got when you passed through the naked body scanner at the airport, and less than the amount than you got just by flying on an airline, and less than you would get by living in Denver Colorado.
On second thought, not even the family of Alex Jones deserves to develop skin lesions because they took too many chemicals. Maybe his family can just pretend to take the pills long enough to get Alex Jones to shut up and leave them alone…
Now if you do want to get some iodine in your body to protect yourself from poor health or radiation or whatever, eat more fish. Eat kelp or sea vegetables. Eat any deep salt water sea food. Not too much because of that mercury thing but a little extra sea food would keep you iodized in a healthy way so stick with that.
There are moral reasons why you should not stock up on pills you don’t need. There are people, such as the people within 50 miles of that leaking nuclear power plant in Japan who may actually need that medicine. Let’s save it for those who need it.
If you must panic over something consider this: When Obama had an excuse to shut down new oil wells and new deep sea drilling he did it. Now that he has an excuse to shut down nuclear power he may well do that. Before Obama became president he promised to make energy costs skyrocket. It looks like he has an excuse to do it now.
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