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Fluoride - 8/3/2009 4:55:58 PM
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Fluoride is a dangerous toxic chemical that you should be aware of. It is a danger to you and your family. If you think this is not a serious issue, please research the following information and confirm for yourself the veracity of these claims.
In 2006 the National research Council of the National Academies published a 500-page review of fluoride’s toxicology. The panel reviewed a large body of literature in which fluoride has a statistically significant association with a wide range of adverse effects. Dental fluorisis was the most obvious problem, but there was found to be, surprisingly, an increased risk of decreased thyroid function, lowered IQ, bone fractures and arthritic-like conditions and, possibly, osteosarcoma.
The Scientific American study "Concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid -- the gland that produces hormones regulating growth and metabolism."
So not only has it been linked with a lowered IQ, fluorosis, arthritis and bone fractures, but it is also causing obesity. Small children, people who drink a lot of water(obviously), diabetics and people with kidney problems are very high-risk for these problems.
One of the biggest problems is it is impossible to determine a margin of safety for fluoridation, since so many people drink different amounts of water - not to mention that we also get fluoride from many other sources as well as the fact that it accumulates in the bone and other calcifying tissues. What might be a safe margin for one will be a dangerous margin for someone else, since they may be more susceptible to fluoride's effects or may drink a lot more water.
Still think it's nothing to worry about? Keep reading.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2005 released details that 32% of American children have dental fluorosis. This is a hair under 1 in 3 children who now have an irreversible and sometimes disfiguring condition, caused by fluoride.
Scientific American's Dan Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of an Iowa Fluoride Study which tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old "Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than [nine-year-old] children living in nonfluoridated areas of the state," writes Fagin.
In 2005, a study conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health found that fluoride in tap water directly contributes to causing bone cancer in young boys.
"New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma - bone cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19,"
An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages children's liver and kidney functions.
In 1999 and 2001 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the predominant benefit of fluoride in reducing tooth decay is topical and not systemic. What this means is that fluoride's ability to reduce tooth decay is from applying it to the teeth - not by ingesting it! There is absolutely no reason to contaminate drinking water with a substance that is not meant to be ingested and of which there is no safe margin!
In November 2006 the American Dental Association, recommendedthat during the first 12 months of life, baby formula should be prepared using only water that has been "purified, distilled, deionized, demineralized, or produced through reverse osmosis." This new policy was implemented to prevent the ingestion of too much fluoride by babies and to lower the risk of dental fluorosis.
Considering the fact that fluoride is dangerous and unnecessary to begin with, that there are many poor or low-income families in America, and babies are already a great expense, is it right that parents should have to spend even more money to purchase water that won't poison their child?
"Today, many people living in fluoridated communities are ingesting doses of fluoride (1.6-6.6 mg/day) that fall within the range of doses (2 to 10 mg/day) once used by doctors to reduce thyroid activity in hyperthyroid patients. This is of particular concern considering the widespread problem of hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) in the United States. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include obesity, lethargy, depression, and heart disease."
Paul Connett, PhD
A Congressional subcommittee from 1999-2000 questioned federal agencies about fluoride; it was admitted that the industrial grade waste products used to fluoridate over 90% of America's drinking water supplies have never been subjected to toxicological testing nor received FDA approval for human ingestion (Fox, 1999; Hazan, 2000; Plaisier, 2000; Thurnau, 2000).
You read that correctly; the fluoride used in your family's drimking water is an industrial-grade waste product and over 90% of it has never even been tested for toxicity, nor received FDA approval for human ingestion!
In fact, Fluoride is a waste by-product of the fertilizer and aluminum industry and it's also a Part II Poison under the UK Poisons Act 1972.
Did you know that sodium fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in:
PROZAC(as well as other anesthetic, hypnotic, and psychiatric drugs)
Sarin Nerve Gas(as well as other military nerve gases)
Rat and cockroach poisons
Now that we've (briefly!) reviewed the risks of fluoride, what about the benefits?
The following studies, since the 80s alone, have indicated little difference in tooth decay between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities:
Leverett, 1982; Colquhoun, 1984; 1985 and 1987; Diesendorf, 1986; Gray, 1987; Brunelle and Carlos, 1990; Spencer,1996; deLiefde, 1998; Locker, 1999; Armfield and Spencer, 2004; Pizzo 2007
If you don't feel like looking these studies up, there is plenty more information readily available:
According to the World Health Organization, dental health in 12-year olds in non-fluoridated industrialized countries is as good, if not better, than those in fluoridated countries (Neurath, 2005).
In 2000, the publication of the UK government sponsored “York Review,” the first systematic scientific review of fluoridation, found that NONE of the studies purporting to demonstrate the effectiveness of fluoridation to reduce tooth decay were of grade A status, i.e. “high quality, bias unlikely” (McDonagh et al., 2000).
The dangers of fluoride are not a recent discovery. A research chemist by the name of Charles Perkins wrote on October 2nd, 1954:
"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him."
In fact, fluoridated water was given to both prisoners in concentration camps in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Dr. E.H. Bronner, nephew of Albert Einstein, wrote in January 1952:
"Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration. As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. DON'T DO IT!!"
I encourage you to do your own research; not only will you confirm the statements here, you will find out much more that will shock you.
Please do not allow your families to drink fluoridated water, and tell those responsible that you will not stand for their poisoning of yourself, your family, your friends, your community, and your nation.
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