Fluoride - Hidden Dangers
Posted 22-09-2007 at 11:14 AM by Pal
Oh yes sir, Fluoride is extremely hazardous to your health. Despite what the majority of toothpaste commercials want you to believe - this %*$@ actually causes the teeth to decay.
This may be a sticky subject, but let’s take a look at where fluoride comes from and what it’s been used as.
This may be a sticky subject, but let’s take a look at where fluoride comes from and what it’s been used as.
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As written by: Carol S. Kopf, BS, MA
Fluoride was a teeth damaging natural water pollutant way before it was a cavity-fighting water supply additive. New research questions the safety and efficacy of fluoride and fluoridation.
Dentists wondered why, in the early 1900’s, in pockets of the Southwest USA, many residents’ teeth were permanently stained yellow, brown or black, some just had white blotches, some were crumbling. They called it “Colorado Brown Stain.” The culprit - high levels of tasteless, odorless fluoride in drinking water, from 2 - 13 parts per million (ppm), which also irrigated crops the locals ate.
These ugly, sometimes deformed, teeth were unusually cavity-free. Since fluoride stained teeth, dentists assumed fluoride also prevented decay. “Colorado Brown Stain” became known by the more scientific term, dental fluorosis. Unfortunately, dentists overlooked what’s obvious today, even to a layperson. They failed to factor in the calcium, magnesium and other teeth strengthening minerals also in the water supply.During an era when doubting government was anti-American, when public health heroes of the day were idealists who believed they were saviors of their people, fluoridation began in the late 1940’s. One part per million fluoride added to “fluoride deficient” water supplies, reduced decay by 70% without unwanted fluorosis public health officials promised. Holding the paternalist values of their time, they believed mothers couldn’t be trusted to give their children their daily fluoride dose in pill form so they prescribed it into the drinking water. Children up to nine years old would benefit, they told us. Fluoride incorporated into their developing teeth to erupt with a shield against decay as long as they consumed 1 milligram fluoride daily via approximately one quart of 1 ppm fluoridated water.
Children, who didn’t live in fluoridated communities, were (and still are) prescribed fluoride supplements - a drug marketed before safety testing was required by the Food and Drug Administration.At its inception, fluoridation, or these supplements, was virtually children’s only fluoride source. Now over 62% of US water supplies are fluoridated and so are the foods and beverages grown, bottled and manufactured with that water. There’s a glut of fluoridated dental products on the market, both over-the-counter and by prescription. Fluoridated pesticide residues remain on foods, medicines contain fluoride, and air is polluted by fluoride from industry.
Instead of bringing tooth decay rates down to that enjoyed by early Southwesterners who ate produce from their own gardens, children’s dental fluorosis rates have steeply increased. Yet, tooth decay is still a major problem for malnourished or poorly nourished Americans.
New research proves old-time dentists’ premise was wrong. Fluoride’s possible benefits, if any, are topical. So there’s no good reason to swallow fluoride or put it into the water supply.
The old dogma is beginning to unravel. British researchers report in the British Medical Journal that fluoridation studies are flawed. A Canadian Government report found fluoridation does more harm than good. A US National Institutes of Health Panel found most tooth decay studies, including hundreds on fluoride, scientifically invalid. Even UNICEF, the organization that protects children, reports, “more and more scientists are now seriously questioning the benefits of fluoride, even in small amounts.”
What’s more unbelievable is that the chemicals most used to fluoridate drinking water are silicofluorides, contaminated waste product of industry, that were never safety tested on humans or animals. Meanwhile we are conducting a massive toxicological experiment. Our children are the test subjects.
Silicofluorides are linked with children’s increased lead absorption. Studies link fluoride chemicals to bone fractures, lowered IQ, thyroid dysfunction, cancer, allergies and more.
And the American Dental Association is working on a new and improved cavity fighter, even better than fluoride - calcium and phosphate - the minerals they overlooked in the early 1900’s.
References and Suggested Reads:
Second Opinions
Toxic Chemicals
Fluoride Facts from Bragg
Danger List
Natural World Healing
Fluoride
Medical News
Skeletal Fluorosis
Thyroid Disease
Fluoride in Green Tea
Take Action
ArriveNet
Shirley’s Wellness Cafe
Wiki
Love the Truth
Alternative Solutions:
Tooth Soap
How to remove Fluoride
The Green Guide
Natural Toothpaste for Children
Fluoride was a teeth damaging natural water pollutant way before it was a cavity-fighting water supply additive. New research questions the safety and efficacy of fluoride and fluoridation.
Dentists wondered why, in the early 1900’s, in pockets of the Southwest USA, many residents’ teeth were permanently stained yellow, brown or black, some just had white blotches, some were crumbling. They called it “Colorado Brown Stain.” The culprit - high levels of tasteless, odorless fluoride in drinking water, from 2 - 13 parts per million (ppm), which also irrigated crops the locals ate.
These ugly, sometimes deformed, teeth were unusually cavity-free. Since fluoride stained teeth, dentists assumed fluoride also prevented decay. “Colorado Brown Stain” became known by the more scientific term, dental fluorosis. Unfortunately, dentists overlooked what’s obvious today, even to a layperson. They failed to factor in the calcium, magnesium and other teeth strengthening minerals also in the water supply.During an era when doubting government was anti-American, when public health heroes of the day were idealists who believed they were saviors of their people, fluoridation began in the late 1940’s. One part per million fluoride added to “fluoride deficient” water supplies, reduced decay by 70% without unwanted fluorosis public health officials promised. Holding the paternalist values of their time, they believed mothers couldn’t be trusted to give their children their daily fluoride dose in pill form so they prescribed it into the drinking water. Children up to nine years old would benefit, they told us. Fluoride incorporated into their developing teeth to erupt with a shield against decay as long as they consumed 1 milligram fluoride daily via approximately one quart of 1 ppm fluoridated water.
Children, who didn’t live in fluoridated communities, were (and still are) prescribed fluoride supplements - a drug marketed before safety testing was required by the Food and Drug Administration.At its inception, fluoridation, or these supplements, was virtually children’s only fluoride source. Now over 62% of US water supplies are fluoridated and so are the foods and beverages grown, bottled and manufactured with that water. There’s a glut of fluoridated dental products on the market, both over-the-counter and by prescription. Fluoridated pesticide residues remain on foods, medicines contain fluoride, and air is polluted by fluoride from industry.
Instead of bringing tooth decay rates down to that enjoyed by early Southwesterners who ate produce from their own gardens, children’s dental fluorosis rates have steeply increased. Yet, tooth decay is still a major problem for malnourished or poorly nourished Americans.
New research proves old-time dentists’ premise was wrong. Fluoride’s possible benefits, if any, are topical. So there’s no good reason to swallow fluoride or put it into the water supply.
The old dogma is beginning to unravel. British researchers report in the British Medical Journal that fluoridation studies are flawed. A Canadian Government report found fluoridation does more harm than good. A US National Institutes of Health Panel found most tooth decay studies, including hundreds on fluoride, scientifically invalid. Even UNICEF, the organization that protects children, reports, “more and more scientists are now seriously questioning the benefits of fluoride, even in small amounts.”
What’s more unbelievable is that the chemicals most used to fluoridate drinking water are silicofluorides, contaminated waste product of industry, that were never safety tested on humans or animals. Meanwhile we are conducting a massive toxicological experiment. Our children are the test subjects.
Silicofluorides are linked with children’s increased lead absorption. Studies link fluoride chemicals to bone fractures, lowered IQ, thyroid dysfunction, cancer, allergies and more.
And the American Dental Association is working on a new and improved cavity fighter, even better than fluoride - calcium and phosphate - the minerals they overlooked in the early 1900’s.
References and Suggested Reads:
Second Opinions
Toxic Chemicals
Fluoride Facts from Bragg
Danger List
Natural World Healing
Fluoride
Medical News
Skeletal Fluorosis
Thyroid Disease
Fluoride in Green Tea
Take Action
ArriveNet
Shirley’s Wellness Cafe
Wiki
Love the Truth
Alternative Solutions:
Tooth Soap
How to remove Fluoride
The Green Guide
Natural Toothpaste for Children
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 |  Take Action to End Fluoridation Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing http://www.actionstudio.org/public/p...in&pageid=8276 Sponsored by the Fluoride Action Network http://FluorideAction.Net End Fluoridation, say 800+ In a statement released August 9, 2007, over 600 (now 800) dentists, physicians, scientists, academics and environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statem...gust.2007.html) Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide. Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It’s really obsolete.” Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), announced that an Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals’ Statement is available at FAN’s web site, www.fluorideaction.org. “The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride’s health risks,” says Connett. “Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,” he added. An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report “the most up-to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure.” The Professionals’ Statement also references: – The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water. – The CDC’s concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic. – CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children. – Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities. – A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer. – The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it’s as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant.” Take Action to End Fluoridation. Sign the Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing http://www.actionstudio.org/public/p...in&pageid=8276 SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net |
Posted 22-09-2007 at 11:19 AM by Pal  |
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