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The article didn't specifically mention it helped the chickens, rather
that it made them /look/ healthy
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Simon Quellen Field <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote:
> Have you measured the arsenic levels in your blood?
> If you don't have high enough levels, perhaps you are not eating enough
> chicken. If the levels are higher than optimal, there are standard methods
> for fixing that. But even heavy metals gradually leave your body over time.
> We are, as the original article said, talking about levels that are so low
> that
> they have no medical effects on humans, but apparently have beneficial
> effect on chickens. You may have to eat your weight in chickens to get the
> same benefits.
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> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Jordan Miller <jrdnmlr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> does arsenic undergo biologic accumulation like I thought mercury
>> does? if so, this tends to accumulate more in species toward the top
>> of the food chain (e.g. humans) at higher and therefore more dangerous
>> concentrations.
>>
>> jordan
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Simon Quellen Field
>> > <sfield@scitoys.com> wrote:
>> >> OK, so the levels of arsenic in the chicken were not enough to cause
>> >> any
>> >> health concerns, but were enough to reduce infections in the chickens.
>> >>
>> >> It sounds like we should all start adding small amounts of arsenic to
>> >> our
>> >> diets,
>> >> unless we get enough of it in our chicken.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Going on that:
>> >
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis#2004_Taiwan_cobalt-contaminated_steel
>> >
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