A foundation dedicated to spreading the view that some radiation can be good for you has declared January as “Radon Health Benefits Awareness Month.” Through a public relations release online at prweb.com, the XLNT Foundation disputes Environmental Protection Agency claims that residential radon can cause lung cancer.
“Considerable amount of evidence indicates higher residential radon levels prevent lung cancer,” says the PR release. “Though the EPA says that radon is responsible for about 21,000 lung cancer deaths every year in the USA, it is clearly wrong,” claims the release.
The issue is important in Jefferson County because several area mines operate as health mines, claiming the low dose radiation found in the mine is beneficial. Visitors are invited to sit in the mines and breathe the air as a means of addressing health issues. And some visitors travel great distances and return year after year to do just that.
