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wikipedia says Iodine deficiency disease has affected two billion people simultaneously; a third of earths 20th century population
Newspapers are ubiquitous trash available as new used or trash to almost all humans
printing a nutrition Item brings Iodine sufficiency to giant numbers of people
Iodine
sufficiency can be achieved with near 70 micrograms of Iodine
There is also an opportunity here to put microgram micronutrients like V Sn B12 as well as birth defect reducing folate with the material
wikipedia microgram supplements
Iodine 150 µg
B12 2.4 µg
Folate 400 µg
Molybdenum 45 µg
Se 55 µg
with soybean ink
update: I think special highly nutritive vitamin as well as DHA producing bacteria could be developed to make fermented foods dry ink cultures of these hypervitaminizing could also be printed at the paper as recipe graphics The link notes: "the vitamin content (milligrams of vitamins per 100g of product) of pulque increases from 5 to 29 for thiamine, 54 to 515 for niacin and 18 to 33 for riboflavin (Steinkraus, 1992) during fermentation" quadruple that with a little breeding or GE
NB: I have the idea that the most potent allergens known are active at ug amounts; perhaps these potent immune activators could be linked to disease dna fragments to create edible print vaccines
IMPROVABLE youtube video of this idea at link
wikipedia Iodine opportunity
http://en.wikipedia...i/Iodine_deficiency
[beanangel, Dec 17 2007]
wikipedia microgram active nutrients
http://en.wikipedia...erence_Daily_Intake
[beanangel, Dec 17 2007]
(?) The Video version
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RXKNxvz6X10
Kristi n Tiffy are cleverer than they appear, but I'm gonna make a better video [beanangel, Dec 18 2007, last modified Dec 19 2007]
use printed dried GE bacterial cultures as hypernutritive fermented food organisms
http://www.fao.org/...x0560e/x0560e06.htm
Fermented foods rather like kimchi are a meaningful source of vitamins I think genetically engineered or even just conjugation bred fermentation organisms could provide much higher levels of vitamins as well as DHA [beanangel, Jun 19 2009]
[link]
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You can also absorb iodine through your skin, so if the newsprint came off on your fingers it would be absorbed. Also, it only gets absorbed if you are iodine deficient, so it would also be a diagnostic technique. |
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This really is a good idea. I'm not so sure about eating the paper, as it may have been bleached. |
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Print a prescription on rice paper: "Don't bother with the pharmacy - just eat the prescription" |
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I'd like to pretend that if just a person per 2k cured of IDD lives rather than dies that represents a million people from 2 billion |
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Ideas about a youtube video welcome |
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How did I know that, when I scrolled down,
this would turn out to have [Treon]'s name
at the bottom? [+] |
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We presume the voices in your head told you. |
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Your "NB", though, is probably a non-
starter. DNA of disease-causing agents
is not usually a good thing to vaccinate
with. There are some reports of viral
DNA being used as a vaccine, but
presumably because it get expressed at
low levels in some way in the host, and
raises an immune response against the
viral proteins. DNA in newsprint is
unlikely to be intact enough, and in any
case will not enter the body intact.
Plus, indiscriminate use of adjuvants to
raise immune responses to DNA may
run the risk of triggering undesirable
autoimmunity (eg, lupus). Better to put
viral antigens (proteins) in the
newsprint, if
you can afford it. |
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//We presume the voices in your head told
you.// No, the voices were talking about
pasta and decapitation as usual. |
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// pasta and decapitation // |
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Come..... join us..... don't be afraid ..... |
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I would, but He would be angry. |
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I guess this is the "Reader's Digest" version? |
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[Treon], this is a first rate idea. One could boil the newspapers and make a broth. |
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I wonder, though, about the application. What circumstances prevent treatment with iodine now? As you say, tiny amounts are needed and the shelf life is long. I suspect the problem is ignorance and isolation. It does not matter if eating the newspaper would help if the person in question does not ever see a newspaper, or is not aware (or is skeptical) of how it could help. |
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Just playing devils advocate. I still think it is very slick. |
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Is this really the "Big Issue"? |
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If it cured sad syndrome (S.A.D.) could it
be called: "Eat Ink and be Merry"? |
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I can see the writing is on the wall for this idea ... |
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There is a video up at youtube [link] I'm thinking its rude n I might change it |
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I work for a newspaper. But I'm not involved in the printing process, so I have no expertise to pretend to add. |
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This is amazingly cool, bun(+), but aren't stamps also common and easier to dope? Would people lick/eat a newspaper if you told them to? |
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Iodine + sugar creates a very black inky colour. So if you printed with iodine on rice paper it should make the ink black without any special ingredients. |
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This would have the added advantage of being an reasonable antiseptic wound dressing in an emergency. |
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//Iodine + sugar creates a very black inky
colour.// I think it's iodine + starch, no? |
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Perhaps you could add iodine to the label of salt boxes. And then good health is just a lick away. |
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Iodine deficient people may not have access to clean newspapers. Suggest iodine injected into the water table as both a good way to reduce waterborne disease and to supply iodine to the population. |
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// iodine injected into the water table // |
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Iodine injected into the population, directly ? Cut out the middleman ? |
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I thought Id suggest printing flavor drink recipes with sucroic acid which is 200 or 300k times as sweet as sugar along with the nutrients; rather than just good for you the newspaper becomes a delicious drink |
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developed world: numerous people take vitamins as they are beneficial yet huge numbers seek out n share flavored drinks |
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Beanie, that is a neat idea also. Just out of
curiosity, why the hangup with sucroic
acid? Aren't there other sweeter things? |
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This is quite an interesting idea, and it might potentially have the
potential to be quite beneficial too. [+] |
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I wonder if mosquitoes could be genetically engineered to deliver
doses of iodine and those other micronutrients you listed. That
would make access to clean news unnecessary. The mosquitoes
would also have to be incapable of spreading malaria, though, and
they'd have to be distinguishable from those that spread malaria, or
nobody will let them bite. |
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Just like [MB], I knew it was going to be one of yours as soon as I saw
the title. Also, the annotations here narrow down the date of your
name change to a 6-month window exactly |
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