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Police officer and parent George Mathias offers sound advice on how to prevent bullying. He also provides steps parents should take in defending their child's right to self-defense.

As adults we have a right to self-defense even if that defense includes use of physical force or lethal force with a weapon. Why not our children?

While I don't encourage physical fighting and of course am not saying kids should use or bring weapons to school, this is against the law, there are times when children  are in situations that they must fight back and must defend themselves before serious harm is done. If that means using a physical means of self defense, such as punching, pushing or kicking back then make sure you stand behind them, because if they don't feel you will support them then they will not trust you when they have a problem.

What is most important is that the bullying is reported and you follow up to prevent it from happening again, take notes and go above the teacher and principal, to the school board and police if you feel that your child's situation has not improved.

Via Patriotupdate-Editor’s note: Bullying has been a hot news topic as of late. With all of the focus on  bullying itself, little has been said as to what can and should be done to prepare our children for handling bullies and   bullying. We asked self-defense expert and weapons trainer George Matheis from Modern Combative Systems to give his perspective. His response to this politically-charged subject is what follows.

When we send our children off to school, we have a reasonable expectation that the adults entrusted to teach them will also protect them. Of course, we have all seen the threats by active shooters, but the topic of this article is dealing with bullies.

As a police officer and a parent, it has been my experience that the teachers and administrators know who the bad apples are in their school in much the same way that a police officer knows the criminals on his post. The good kids, like the majority of citizens, start off each day trying to do their best. It is a small percentage of people that prey on them.

Consider the fact that every time you read or hear a story about a violent act, the person committing those acts likely has at least one child. If you are the adult victim of a crime and the criminal is arrested, you will likely be amazed by their criminal record. The same is true if your child is the victim of a bully. The vast majority of the time the incident with your child is just part of an ongoing course of conduct.

Here we are going to focus on physical bullying, ranging from blocking someone’s way, to the threat of, and actual, physical harm. If your child is a victim of bullying, it will likely go something like this: They are in school when the incident takes place. Depending on the incident, a teacher sees it, or is told about it, and the well-known bully is told “not to do it again.” Your child comes home and tells you what happened. You call or go to the school and they assure you that they have already spoken to the student and have explained to him how serious they are about their no bullying policy, just like the police are about informing a criminal of how serious they are about enforcing laws. This may or not be the last time you hear the bully’s name, but if you ask around you will find out that other parents are familiar with him.

Many schools have adopted the policy that if a student is attacked and defends himself, he will also be suspended—no questions asked. Few things could be more against our God-given rights than the right to defend ourselves.

From what I have found, most serious bullying takes place from about 4th grade and up. Children should be taught about the danger of adult strangers from birth, but from about 10 years old or so they should be taught how to defend themselves against their peers.
No matter what a school’s policy is, they cannot take away your child’s right to self-defense. The seriousness of an incident is open to interpretation. My rule of thumb is that if your child was scared or intimidated, you must pursue action. First, go to your board of education’s website and print and educate yourself on their Bullying Policy. They all have one because it has become a buzzword in public education these days. Go to the school, see the principal, and find out what type of action they plan to take. If there is a school resource officer, have them attend the meeting also. If a crime has been committed, insist for the child to be charged with the crime. This is especially important if your child is suspended or punished for defending himself. You need to be able to prove that he was, in fact, defending himself. Be sure to take notes.

If you are not happy with the outcome of the meeting with the principal, go to the board of education and ensure that they are following their own protocol. As soon as you can, use your notes and summarize the meeting in an e-mail to the people with whom you met. If they receive it and don’t contest any points, we call that an “agreed upon statement of facts.” Any correspondence of this sort should be done through certified mail.

Further, educate your children about the reasonable use of force. A few examples that call for the use of force are: multiple attackers, unequal physical size, woman vs. man, and the use of a weapon. Primarily, the reason I bring this up is because of the rate of sexual harassment and sexual assaults in schools. Grabbing a girl’s breast or slapping her butt in schools is a crime, just as it is in the street. My 14 year-old daughter has been trained and educated that it is perfectly acceptable to drive a pen into the arm of any young man who touches her sexually.

Be sure your kids know that you will support them if they defend themselves, and to let you worry about the consequences. Just as the government wishes to destroy our right to self-defense against criminals—and as they continually fail to protect us against them—our schools are trying to do the same to our kids. Show them that you are unwilling to allow this to happen and that you will not only fight for your own rights but for those of your children as well.

Written on March 24, 2011 by George Matheis

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While on twitter today I came across this controversial article the prochoice movement is in uproar about regarding a pregnant FL mother. She was 25 weeks pregnant and caring a high risk pregnancy,her doctor recommended bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy to try and prevent a miscarriage. Sadly, the mother didn't want to follow the doctor's recommendation and wanted to get a second opinion. However, the doctor and the courts found it was in her and the fetus best interest to place her on bed rest and admitted her to a hospital against her will.

While this isn't an abortion issue, it brings up the pro choice and pro life issue because while the pro choice movement fights for 'bodily autonomy' of the woman, the pro life movement fights to defend the rights of the unborn human being, the fetus.

This is a hard case to be on either side, but as a mother I don't understand why she was so unwilling to do anything possible to try and protect the life of her unborn child. She didn't have intentions to abort, so the child must have been 'wanted'. Why didn't the mother seek a support system either through family, friends or the community to help provide care for her other children while she was to remain on bed rest?? It isn't clear if she was married, but it sounds like she was a single mom of two.

According to the case, the mother also was a smoker and did not want to stop smoking, which by law, she is legally entitled to do. However, there have been cases of women who abuse alcohol or drugs while pregnant, and if their child dies or is born with fetal alcohol syndrome or some other drug addiction or abnormality caused by this abusive/negligent behavior, where the mother has been charged with child abuse or negligence and in some cases murder.

In addition, there have been cases where parents are charged with abuse or negligence when they do not provide proper medical care to their living child because of religious reasons or other beliefs that they don't believe in medical intervention.I completely understand and agree with these cases and find that the state and courts are obligated to find   against the parents when the child's welfare is concerned and at risk.There is no other way to prevent child abuse,negligence and the death of children unless the state,courts and DCYF [Department of Children, Youth and Families]intervene.

Unfortunately in the case of this mother,Samantha Burton, did not get to seek a second opinion, but it makes me wonder if she would have and if she was told by another doctor it was in her best interest and the unborn baby's best interest to go on bed rest if she would have done so. So on one side I disagree with the doctor blocking her ability to get a second opinion, but on the other side I think the doctor felt she was doing what was in the mother and baby's best interest to try and save the baby and continue the pregnancy. There is no guarantee a pregnancy will go to full-term, since miscarriage can occur spontaneously, but you would think any woman who wants a child and wants the best for her unborn child would do whatever she could in the best interest of the child.

Her refusal to trust her doctor's advice tells me she didn't trust her doctor for some reason and also that she possibly didn't want the child after finding there may be complications,so perhaps she sought an easy way out of doing what is best to carry the pregnancy full-term by her refusal for medical intervention. So if this was the case, the doctor and the courts ruling was in the best interest of the unborn child and the mother, even though the mother wanted to refuse treatment. Sadly, the baby did die in utero and the doctor's had to perform a c-section three days after she was put on bed rest only to find the baby was dead. What actually caused the miscarriage is not clear, but the stress of being ordered on bed rest could have contributed or it may have happened regardless. Since there is no way to blame the doctor or the state for the pregnancy ending in miscarriage, I wouldn't say she has legal grounds to sue for the child's death.  I feel they did what they felt was in the best interest of the mother and her unborn child.

However, because the mother refused bed rest and felt 'forced' by her doctor and the court order to be hospitalized, she appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, where they also found in favor of the unborn child and upheld the lower courts ruling. While this is great news for the unborn child to see that the court ruled in favor of attempting to save the life of the fetus, it does make one wonder where the limits of the court&  state are when it comes to a patient making medical decisions, such as seeking a second opinion.

I am fully for patients rights and having the ability to make all my own medical decisions, but I am also pro life and would have had no problem taking the advice of my doctor, someone I trust for medical advice.So again, it makes me wonder why the mother didn't trust her doctor's advice and why she didn't seek family,friends or community support to care for her other children while on bed rest?

The case didn't mention where her two other children stayed while she was admitted to the hospital on bed rest, but I suspect friends or family or the state stepped in and placed them in temporary custody. So if this assistance was available anyway, why didn't the mother just take her doctor's advice and avoid the whole situation of being 'forced' into bed rest in the best interest of her unborn child?? Did she sue after the fact to gain financially or did she sue because she truly felt her rights were violated??

 

 From Change.org:

 

With issues like the Stupak Amendment and Nevada's Personhood Initiative in the national spotlight, I am aware that a woman's right to choose whether or not to carry a fetus to full-term is under attack.

What I didn't realize, perhaps naively, is that her right to choose how to carry a fetus is also under fire. Last March, Florida resident Samantha Burton was in week 25 of her pregnancy when she paid a visit to her doctor. Burton was showing signs of potential miscarriage, so her physician ordered bed rest. Burton explained that, as a working mother of two toddlers, bed rest simply wasn't a viable option and then proceeded to ask for a second medical opinion. Seems reasonable, right?

From RHRealitycheck.org:
Yesterday in Tallahassee, the 1st District Court of Appeal heard arguments in a case involving a pregnant woman — Samantha Burton — confined to a hospital bed, against her will, after disagreeing with her doctor's recommendations for treating pregnancy complications. I joined Ms. Burton's lawyer as a "friend of the court" in arguing that the State of Florida had violated Ms. Burton's constitutional right to make decisions about medical care related to her pregnancy.
The ACLU first learned about this case after Ms. Burton's pro bono lawyer, David Abrams, called us for help as he pursued an appeal of the lower court's order confining Ms. Burton to hospital bed rest. Frankly, I wasn't surprised to hear that the State of Florida had stepped in to override the medical decision-making of a pregnant woman — unfortunately we have seen that before. What was even more stunning than in other cases was the unlimited breadth of the court order; the complete lack of any consideration of Ms. Burton's constitutional rights or health; and the fact that the hearing had gone forward with no legal or other advocate to represent Ms. Burton. After a brief telephone hearing, and no review of her medical records or consideration of a second medical opinion, the circuit court summarily ordered Ms. Burton to submit to any and all medical treatments and interventions — including eventually a C-section — that the hospital's medical staff deemed appropriate. To top it off, the court ordered her to remain confined on constant bed rest at the very hospital where the disagreement arose, and expressly prohibited her from switching to another hospital.
At yesterday's argument, Florida defended its request for these measures by insisting that it was a very narrow intervention, for a "short" time, designed to simply preserve the "status quo" until the court could determine the proper course of medical care for Ms. Burton's fetus.

Do you think the doctor and courts did the right thing or do you think they superseded Ms. Burton's constitutional rights?? Please share in the comments what you think.


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While the feminist movement has pushed women to become equal to men;it has also pushed more women away from their traditional roles of motherhood. After Roe V Wade passed in 1973, women found they could become equal to men by taking away their physical ability to give birth by terminating the pregnancy through abortion.

In result, the US has allowed over 50 million unborn babies to die from abortion in the last 38 years. Women's equality should not include shame or dislike for your womanhood ability to conceive. As a matter of fact, I had one 'pro-choice feminist' today on twitter tell me:

@JuliaMathewson: @littlebytesnews My right to self-defense means I can fight back if another person/organism attacks me - even if it's a fetus in my uterus!

As if the baby is attacking her like a rapist attacks a woman. These feminists are going to the extreme with their emotional analogies and rhetoric in order to defend the indefensible.

However, as females we are the only human gender who can conceive a child and give birth. Women should honor this gift and protect it with integrity and spare all life. Having children and becoming a mother doesn't make you less of a woman it makes you a stronger woman. As any mother can tell you having kids is a tough job, often tireless, demanding and with little appreciation. I especially commend and respect single moms who keep a job, food on the table and raise well-rounded kids.

I met one older woman recently who ended up in a divorce after having three boys. She said she was married at 18 and had her first child too young. Her marriage eventually dissolved after three children, three boys. She managed to keep her life in order, raise three successful sons on her own and did it all without the help of their father or family nearby. I was very fond and impressed with her ability to have done that. It takes a special woman to be a single mother and raise well-rounded and educated kids. Amazingly, her boys all grew up to have PhD's, with one earning a Master's in Education. He now works educating teachers, by providing the teacher curriculum and training the teachers each year for a large school district,where my oldest son attends .

Anyway, I thought this article was interesting regarding this recent survey which finds more men want children while women are still more focused on their careers,and fulfilling the woman's movement, rather than becoming mothers. As our society and economy weaken it makes me realize more and more it is because the family unit has deteriorated. More women are not getting married and having kids and if they are they are getting pregnant, they are disposing of them like garbage through abortion, or using contraceptives to prevent pregnancy.

Sadly men have little say when a woman 'chooses' abortion because the old mantra,'my body, my choice', is still dominant among today's 'feminists' as it was in the 60's. Thankfully, for society the next generation is becoming more pro-life and hopefully more pro-family,pro-marriage and pro-children. Statistics have shown that a society becomes extinct if the race doesn't maintain at least two children per average family,if not three.

Any less makes it impossible to provide the growth necessary to sustain the infrastructure, financial and other needs of Society, especially Social Security and Retirement funds, Stock & Bond prices, and the price levels of homes.

• 1950's there were 8 workers per retiree, today there are only 3 workers per retiree, too few to support Social Security and retirement funds, stock and bond prices, price levels of homes.

• 2.2 average children per family would be zero growth, so you have to have at least 3 children per family not to have negative growth.

So those lonely women and men out there, I hope you start not only finding yourselves and establishing careers, I hope you start having families to keep our species,society and economy alive for future generations.

Marketing manager Dan Gibson lists career, a house and marriage as his top life priorities. Photo / Brett Phibbs

Getting a pay rise or a compliment at work is more important to many young women than getting married or having children.
But while the ladies are busy focusing on their career, it would appear the young men they work alongside are dreaming about becoming dads.
A new Colmar Brunton survey of nearly 500 '20-somethings' has found priorities for young men and women seem to be challenging traditional stereotypes.
Females rated getting paid, getting a work compliment and getting a pay rise more highly on a scale of 1-7 than men did.
When asked to list a number of priorities for the next two to three years and for before they reach 35, they put "being recognised as a leader" or "expertise in their field" at the top of both categories.
Men listed having children as their top short-term priority while they wanted to buy a new car before they reached 35.
Colmar Brunton's youth insights director and leader of the study, Spencer Willis, said while young men were also interested in work, the statistics showed they were far more eager to get married and have children than their female counterparts.

Mr Willis said the reversing roles trend had been building for five to 10 years but the gap between the two genders was now bigger, prompting warnings that "the friction between the male desire for fatherhood and the female priorities could be challenging" in the future.
He even went as far as to question whether the reversing roles could be responsible for the "cougar syndrome".
"You've got a group of young women who are driven in their career - and have been bloody good at it and hugely successful. The next thing you know their classmates from university, these young males were pining for parenthood and settling down at 25-30 years of age, have achieved that and those guys are no longer available. Is there a correlation between that?"
Young men the Weekend Herald spoke to yesterday had differing opinions on the survey findings, with several saying there was no way they were thinking about kids yet.
But Politix marketing manager Dan Gibson, 24, said he wasn't so surprised by the findings.
"I'd love to have a kid now if I could afford it."
He said children, career recognition and buying a house in the next few years would all make his short-term list of priorities - although he added he wanted to get married before taking the step into fatherhood.
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Such a sweet looking little boy, about the same age as my oldest son. I can't imagine having to go through something like this. One day having a happy, healthy thriving six year old to waking up the next day&finding him unresponsive and having seizures. Scary the things that can happen to people without any warning.

Thankfully the high media attention to Baby Joseph may have helped play a role in the doctor's changing their opinion on Noah. At first they refused to give Noah his tracheotomy, which is considered standard procedure in cases like this. Yet when the parents went to discuss plans for a future tracheotomy a new doctor was assigned to his case and told them it would not be feasible.

Through the help of a lawyer, Noah's parents were able to finally convice the doctor to perform the surgery. The doctor and hospital were forced to go against their 'quality of life' policy and gave Noah the tracheotomy he needed. Since the surgery Noah is reported to be breathing on his own with the breathing tube in his throat. However, he is still comatose and it is not known whether he will 'awake' again, but his parents are hopeful and praying for a miracle.

I hope you will join me, his family and thousands of others and pray for Noah's full recovery soon.

Toronto hospital gives tracheotomy to child in case very similar to ‘baby Joseph’

Noah Facecchia prior to the sudden seizures that hit in early January.

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TORONTO, Ontario, March 22, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In stark contrast to the treatment of dying baby Joseph Maraachli, a Toronto hospital last week granted a family’s wish by performing a tracheotomy on their six-year-old, who is in a similar state as baby Joseph.

Noah Facecchia had been unconscious and on a ventilator at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children since January 9th. However, his father Tony said today that with the support of his doctors, he has now been breathing on his own since 9:00 a.m. Monday, except for a break last evening.

Noah, who was a healthy, active, and intelligent six-year-old, who loved soccer, swimming, and karate, had laughed and joked with his parents, Tony and Sonia, and little sister before going to sleep happily on January 8th.

However, his father was shocked the next morning when he returned to find Noah non-responsive and in the midst of a seizure.  He hasn’t woken up since.

“I had no idea that my healthy boy would wake up one day and not be healthy anymore,” says Tony Facecchia.

Since January 9th, Noah has been experiencing generalized seizures lasting five to 30 minutes, with breaks of five to 10 minutes.  He has been diagnosed with idiopathic refractory epilepticus, but doctors have failed so far to find the origin of the seizures, and say he is unlikely to survive.

The hospital had agreed to perform the tracheotomy, which is a simple procedure involving a slit in the throat to allow a breathing tube to be inserted into the airway.  The surgery is recommended in cases of prolonged ventilation because it allows for suction of fluid out of the lungs, creates a safe and stable way to use a mechanical ventilator, and is more comfortable for the child.

But the parents were shocked earlier this month when they learned that a new doctor on the case was refusing the procedure.  He said they would remove Noah’s tube instead.

“They were pretty adamant about that all of a sudden,” said Tony.  “We were going to the meeting thinking we’re going to discuss a time for this tracheotomy to happen, and all of a sudden they pull a 360 and say ‘No, we’re not going to do it anymore.’”

They had also learned earlier that the doctors put a ‘do not resuscitate’ order (DNR) into Noah’s file without consulting them.[my emphasis]

Building off the momentum created by the case of Joseph Maraachli, whose Facebook page has grown to 15,000, Tony launched his own Facebook page calling for prayer.  So far, they’ve attracted over 2,000 supporters.  The Facecchias got the help of a lawyer, and continued to advocate for their son.

Noah’s supporters breathed a sigh of relief Friday morning when Tony announced that the doctors had changed their mind and performed the tracheotomy.  “I think they’re back in the game of seizure control,” he told LifeSiteNews.

 “At the time, it felt like they had given up on him a little bit, a few weeks back.”
“[The doctor] basically said, ‘I’m not doing this for Noah.  I don’t think this is in his best interests.  I’m doing it for you, for the parents,’” said Tony.

The DNR remains, but it has now been clarified so that it only applies if Noah’s heart stops beating.  “If he’s deteriorated so much that his heart doesn’t work anymore, they won’t pump his chest,” Tony explained.  “I believe that’s reasonable, as long as they try everything they can for him not to get that way, and they assured us that they will.”

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I just hope the more modern our medicine and technology gets less people will use it for wrong. We have 3D&4D ultrasound abilities now yet the pro-choice/abort movement tries to block any ultrasound and heartbeat legislation to try and inform women they are caring a human being in them, not just a blob of cells.

However, many pro-choice advocates continue to try and block this modern technology from being used to defend the indefensible. Now we have modern ways of detecting Down's Syndrome and other illnesses,defects like spina-bifida. Yet some still choose abortion as an option even though advanced surgery is available to fix the spine or to prevent miscarriage, such as in Down's Syndrome cases. Some people are so concerned about having the 'perfect baby' they abort because they didn't want twins, triplets or a girl or boy via IVF. This is when modern medicine is used for wrong and abortion should never be a legal option.

Scientists have developed a simple blood test to check unborn children for Down's syndrome, which would save pregnant women from undergoing invasive examinations that risk losing their baby.

Researchers in Cyprus have identified the key DNA difference responsible for Down's syndrome, reports the Daily Express.

Infants with Down's syndrome, which is characterised by severe physical and mental impairments, have an extra copy of Chromosome 21.

As DNA can cross the placenta from the baby to the mother, the blood test looks for chemical differences and extra chromosomes-a telltale defect in unborn babies.

Philippos Patsalis, of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, "The method is simple and fast and easy to perform in every genetic diagnostic lab worldwide because it does not require expensive equipment, software or special infrastructure."

"Such a non-invasive approach will avoid the risk of miscarriages of normal pregnancies caused by current, more invasive pro-cedures," he added.

Their findings have been published the medical journal Nature Medicine. (ANI)

Simple blood test to detect Down's syndrome cuts miscarriage risk

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From Iowntheworld.com I learned about this insane abuse story. Unbelieveable the things people do to innocent and helpless kids. I'm thankful his sister spoke out and was letting him out of the 'cage' at night. How sick, it's too bad she didn't say something sooner. How this woman was able to adopt is beyond me, but I hope she never goes around children again. She reminds me of some 'prochoicers' on twitter who equate a fetus in the womb to a parasite or an alien.

Here’s a woman who wanted a child enough that she adopted him. Now police say she kept him in a dog cage at night for two weeks because he was acting out and soiling himself at night.
So why do liberals continue to spread the fallacy that a wanted child reduces child abuse; so therefore legalized abortion reduces child abuse?


An Old Saybrook woman is accused of making her son sleep in a locked dog crate because he was acting out and soiling his bed.
Police started investigating Kathlyn Anthony, 54, after the boy’s sister said at school that she was tired because she kept getting up at night to let her brother out of his “sleep locker.”
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"(S)he started using the dog crate as a way of - and I don't want to say punishment - but that's where he slept at night," Sgt. Kevin Roche told the Day.

According to the warrant, the boy would have to take a cold shower when he misbehaved or urinated in his room. When he was worse, Anthony would put him in the cold basement to cry so that the neighbors would not hear, according to the warrant.

Anthony was arrested on Sunday, charged with risk of injury to a minor and released on $100,000 bond after an initial court appearance on Monday.

Anthony told police she had been seeking outside help for the boy's behavior. She also used home therapy methods like Lego builidng class, a family trip to Disney, kayaking, a "feelings" chart and various breathing and restorative exercises, according to the warrant.

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This is a few years back, but it just goes to show you miracles can happen. A parent may get a possible terminal diagnosis of their unborn baby;yet with modern medicine parents can now have doctors perform surgery in the womb. In this case the mother was far enough in her pregnancy they decided to induce her and deliver the baby early after finding a tumor in his brain, which turned out to be a foot! After surgery, their child is alive and well and thriving developmentally with little concern for future problems.

So next time you get a dire diagnosis or ultrasound and think there is no hope and that the baby is better off aborted to avoid suffering, think of this case and always err on the side of life. Abortion is a permanent solution to a temporary situation!

In addition, not all ultrasounds and amnio tests are 100% accurate. I chose not to get the amnio tests with my sons, even though there was a small risk of them getting spina-bifida since my younger sister has it, but I didn't want to take the risk of having the aspiration cause an infection and threaten my son's life.



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This is an amazing story of a life after death experience. I know many who don't believe will say the boy made it up,but he is not the first to have this sort of experience, there have been others who were non-believers who became believers after near death experiences.



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I know there is a lot of hype and misinformation out right now on the nuclear threat going on in Japan right now, as many have a political/environmental agenda. However, these are things to consider in the future to protect yourself from the possibility of a nuclear disaster in the US. Experts advice having the potassium iodine tablets on hand prior to a disaster to reduce risk, to stay indoors and as far away from the site of the leak as possible. In addition, tuna and other deep water fish have been recommended as having healthy supplies of iodine. However, if it gets into our food supply in the way described below, how do we save ourselves?? What will you do??

"The explosions could expose the population to longer-term radiation, which can raise the risk of cancer. These are thyroid cancer, bone cancer and leukemia. Children and fetuses are especially vulnerable," said Lam Ching-wan, chemical pathologist at the University of Hong Kong.

"For some individuals even a small amount of radiation can raise the risk of cancer. The higher the radiation, the higher the risk of cancer," said Lam, who is also a member on the American Board of Toxicologists.

Radioactive material is carried by minute moisture droplets in the air. It can then be directly inhaled into the lungs, get washed down by rain into the sea and onto soil, and eventually contaminate crops, marine life and drinking water.

Cow milk was also especially vulnerable, experts said, if cows graze on grass exposed to radiation.

Lee Tin-lap, toxicologist and associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's School of Medical Sciences, said waters around Japan must be measured for radioactivity.

"No one is measuring the levels of radiation in the sea," Lee told Reuters.

"Steam that is released into the air will eventually get back into the water and sea life will be affected ... once there is rain, drinking water will also be contaminated."

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday Japan was taking the correct measures to protect its population from radioactivity, including evacuations and stocking up on potassium iodide, an antidote to radiation.

CHILDREN AT RISK

Radiation is dangerous because it can cause changes or mutations in DNA, which may then go on to cause cancer. While the human body can repair DNA changes or damage, a person is only safe if the repair process happens faster than the time it takes for the damaged or mutated DNA material to replicate.

Most experts agree that growing children and fetuses are most at risk because their cells divide at a faster rate than adults.

They also consume more cow milk than adults, putting them at further risk, said a Japanese scientist who treated victims of the atom bomb explosion in Hiroshima.

"Cows are like vacuum cleaners, picking up radioactive iodine that lands over a wide area of pasture, and then those particles very easily are concentrated and pass into the milk," said the expert, who declined to be identified.

"This was what happened in Chernobyl, and unfortunately, information about the risk had not been supplied to parents."

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