Show Helpful Hints By Mary C. Boender Home Agent DRINKING MILK HELPS PROTECT AGAINST FALLOUT your own don't step drinking milk says Home Agent Mary Boender with the Utah State University Extension One good reason When calcium balance of the human body is radioactive strontium 90 will be absorbed to replace needed About 70 to 80 percent of the calcium in the average diet in country comes from milk and The other 20 to 30 percent comes from all other practically all foods can be a source of a small amount of strontium the home agent up In the atmosphere and will continue to fall out for a long time to even if we stop exploding bombs We might as well learn how to live with some strontium 90 in our food And seriously contaminated food will be immediately removed from the market and all foods are being monitored the dairy cow removes all the strontium 90 from her except about 1 Boender when we have sufficient calcium in our our bodies absorb only Vi of the 1 percent left in the milk by the This leaves us with an safe source of calcium The Agricultural Research Service of the USDA should continue to be outstanding source of calcium in the diet because the calcium it supplies has had much of the strontium present in vegetation screened out by the biological system of the Results of research on animals indicate that a body well nourished with respect to calcium does not retain much strontium as a body that is deficient in Boender seems the old cow will continue to be the Mother of the Human even in the atomic NEIGHBORHOOD SEWING The home of Harold Anderson was the setting for the weekly meeting of the Neighborhood Sewing Anderson served a salad luncheon to the fifteen in |