Index
Which countries poison their citizens with Fluoride
There Are Multiple Toxins Added To NZ Tap Water
Fluoridated Toothpaste - Toxic and bad for teeth too
Fluoride Stupidity & Population Control
As Used By Nazis
Tap water - it can lower IQ and cause cancer
A few extra facts about fluoride
You're soaking in it
Submission to the Wellington City Council May 2011 - Deb Gully
Fluoride has been implicated in all of these diseases
Fluoride - Drinking Ourselves To Death - Barry Groves
The Fluoride Deception - Christopher Bryson
50 Reasons to Keep Fluoride OUT - By Paul Connett, PhD
American hydrofluorosilicic acid is radioactive as well
Resources
Quotes
The
rat poison in our water
There
are so many myths and assumptions surrounding putting fluoride in water
that in a heavily fluoridated country like New Zealand, many people go
into a state of incredulous disbelief if they are told that our water
supply is being poisoned.
While
the issue of whether fluoride reduces dental decay is often debated when
discussing this topic (it doesn't- in fact it actually increases tooth
decay - for studies see this article),
this is a just a distraction from the real issues - fluoride is put in
the water to create a profitable way to dispose of a lethal industrial
by-product, and to make the population more submissive
It's
a difficult subject for many people to look into with an open mind, because
if fluoride really is toxic, they would have to then question many of
their other assumptions about the society we live in. "It must be
good for us, otherwise 'they' wouldn't put it in the water.."
"Even
in small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective
antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it is the most
efficient rat-killer"
-
Charles Perkins - October 1954
Which countries poison their citizens with Fluoride?
It's
a bit of a surprise to many New Zealanders that there are actually very
few countries where fluoride is put into the water supply.
Admittedly
there are many countries who don't even have water supplies, but out of
the ones that do, Australia, Ireland, America, and gullible little New
Zealand are in a very small minority, along with very few other countries
- globally, only around 5% of people have a fluoridated water supply.
And
just to show that the other 95% are not all lacking water supplies, countries
that have rejected fluoridation include Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway,
Sweden, and Switzerland - wealthy countries with well educated citizens.
For
explanations of why these countries do not fluoridate, see these government
statements
This
map from the heavily pro fluoridation medical misinformation site Wikipedia,
may be getting a bit out of date - the European Court of Justice ruled
in 2009 that fluoridated water must be treated as a medicine, and cannot
be used to prepare foods, so Europe could be looking a bit whiter these
days, and foods imported from Australia, NZ, USA and Ireland could technically
be blocked from sale in Europe at any time... as they deserve to be!
There
Are Multiple Toxins Added To NZ Tap Water
Tap water in NZ is toxic because it contains fluoride, chlorine, aluminium (alum), and in some cases (where there are old water pipes) asbestos as well
It's not just drinking the tap water that's a problem - bathing and showering
in it leads to fluoride and chlorine absorption too.
A
good household carbon filter will take out chlorine, asbestos, and aluminium,
but it will not take out fluoride. This can be done, but it requires a much more expensive filtration system (around NZ$2000-4000) to sort out your water for bathing and showering.
Reverse
osmosis filters and distillers will get most of the fluoride out for drinking, but
they remove the good minerals too, and this may cause other problems.
If
you are unable to obtain water free from a good source, and have to buy
bottled water, keep in mind that some bottled water is just tap water
that's been filtered to get rid of the chlorine taste, while some bottled
spring water is good quality.
In
Wellington, clean drinking water is freely available directly from the
Petone Aquifer
image
- www.frot.co.nz
Paul Connett PhD, Fluoride Researcher and author of "The Case Against Fluoride" visiting the Petone Aquifer April 2011
Fluoridated
Toothpaste - Toxic and bad for teeth too
Most
toothpastes contain fluoride, supposedly to prevent tooth decay. Sadly,
the majority of consumers fall for this con and poison themselves even
further by applying it to their teeth.
The fluoride in toothpaste is not an organic trace mineral found in the
ground. It's an industrial waste chemical that has been deceivingly and
incorrectly called "fluoride". It is inorganic, very toxic,
and more poisonous than lead.
Any amount of fluoride in water exceeding 2 ppm (parts per million) would
be considered unsafe. But fluoridated toothpastes have been found to contain
levels of up to 7000 ppm. Even the U.S. FDA now regards fluoride in toothpaste
as a potential toxic drug.
One of the most common symptoms of excess fluoride is “dental fluorosis”.
You will see chalky white patches on the teeth making teeth “spotty”.
Enamels can also become more porous with use of fluoridated toothpaste
leading to discoloration of the teeth and pitting of the enamel.
Young
children tend to apply lots toothpaste to their toothbrush, and then swallow
plenty of it. (Swallowing half a tube of fluoride toothpaste in one go
can be fatal)
Fluoride in the mouth is absorbed through our mucous lining and accumulates
in our bodies just like fluoride that has been swallowed. The accumulated
fluoride is carcinogenic and harmful to our metabolic systems. It leads
to increased hip fractures, osteoporosis, arthritis and lowered brain
function.
Another harmful ingredient in toothpaste is sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS)
- a foam building substance known to be cancer causing.
And
in addition, virtually all toothpastes contain glycerine. Glycerine coats
the teeth, so that they can't remineralise to heal tooth decay
The
basic requirements for remineralising teeth are:
*
A nutrient dense, whole food, Weston A Price type diet, including:
o Bone broths & marrow
o Cod liver oil
o Butter oil, or lots of good butter
o Good quality animal foods
o Fermented foods
* Fluoride free water
* A fluoride free, glycerine free tooth cleaner
Fluoride Stupidity & Population Control
Sodium
fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum,
is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anesthetics, hypnotics,
psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas. It's historically been quite
expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminum industries with
an overabundance of the stuff sold the public on the insane but highly
profitable idea of sellin it at a 20,000% markup, injecting it into our
water supplies, and then forcing the public to DRINK it.
Fluoride is injected into our drinking water supply at approx. 1 part-per-million
(ppm), but since we only drink 0.5% of the total water supply, the remaining
99.5% literally goes down the drain as a free hazardous-waste disposal
for the chemical industry
Independent
scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals
that fluoride shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental
disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and
makes us stupid, docile, and subservient.
There are reports of aluminum in the brain being a causative factor in
Alzheimer's Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride's strong affinity
for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain
barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access
to brain tissue.
As
Used By Nazis
The
practice of fluoridated drinking water originated in Germany's Nazi prison
camps during WW2. The intention was to sterilize humans and force the
people in the concentration camps into calm submission.
Tap water - it can lower IQ and cause cancer
by
Paul Joseph Watson - March 2008
The establishment media will have to find a new tactic with which to ridicule
those who oppose the fluoridation of water after a major new Scientific
American report concluded that "Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation
may be starting to shift" as new evidence emerges of the poison's
link to disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland,
as well as lowering IQ.
"Today
almost 60 percent of the U.S. population drinks fluoridated water, including
residents of 46 of the nation’s 50 largest cities," reports
Scientific American's Dan Fagin.
"Outside
the U.S., fluoridation has spread to Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand
and a few other countries. In other nations, however, water fluoridation
is rare and controversial"
Serious
scientific research has uncovered proof that all the horror stories about
sodium fluoride told down the decades are essentially true.
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."
The
report also notes that "a series of epidemiological studies in China
have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ."
"Epidemiological
studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases
the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as
the elderly and diabetics," writes Fagin.
The
study adds to a growing literature of shocking scientific studies proving
fluoride's link with all manner of health defects, even as governments
in the west, including recently the UK, make plans to mass medicate the
population against their will with this deadly toxin.
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," according to a London
Observer article about the study.
An
August 2006 a Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water damages
children's liver and kidney functions.
A few extra facts about fluoride
- 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.
-
Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride)
and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).
-
USAF Major George R. Jordan testified before Un-American Activity committees
of Congress in the 1950's that in his post as U.S.-Soviet liaison officer,
the Soviets openly admitted to "Using the fluoride in the water supplies
in their concentration camps, to make the prisoners stupid, docile, and
subservient."
-
The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found
in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's
supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating
water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people
in their concentration camps into calm submission. ("The Crime and
Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)
-
97% of western Europe has rejected fluoridated water due to the known
health risks, however 10% of Britons drink it and the UK government is
trying to fast track the fluoridation of the entire country's water supply.
-
In Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg fluoridation of water was rejected
because it was classified as compulsive medication against the subject's
will and therefore violated fundamental human rights.
-
In November of 2006, the American Dental Association (ADA) advised that
parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water.
-
Other sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride
pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with fluoridated
water, and tea.
The
Weston A Price Foundation endorses Fluoride
Action Network NZ - please contact them for information on activism
in New Zealand
Just because you're not drinking it, doesn't mean you're not still soaking it in through your skin....
Many people have some level of awareness about the need to purify their drinking water. Strangely though, most people don’t hesitate to shower in the same tap water they refuse to drink. Most are surprised to learn that waterborne chemicals, including fluorides, are readily absorbed into the body from showering or bathing. In fact, these chemicals are actually more dangerous when absorbed through the skin, where they enter the bloodstream more easily, bypassing the gut where they would bind with minerals from food, thus diminishing their harmful effects.
A growing awareness about water pollution is prompting an increasing number of peoples to buy bottled water (which may be as contaminated as tap water) or invest in water filtration units. Many use activated charcoal, sediment filters, water softeners or ceramic filters. But none of these methods will remove fluoride.
www.healthcarealternatives.net/removingfluoride
Oral
Submission to the Wellington City Council
Deb
Gully - 17 May 2011
(Nutrition consultant and Chartered Natural Health practitioner)
I’m a natural Health practitioner, and most of my clients have chronic conditions that are caused directly by our modern lifestyle - stress, poor nutrition, and toxic overload. Fluoride of course isn’t solely responsible for this overload, but it is part of it, and may be the final straw for some people. I counsel my clients to make many changes in the way they eat, drink and live their lives. One of those changes is to stop drinking water with fluoride in it.
I’m also a representative of the Weston A Price Foundation. This non-profit organisation is about helping everybody improve their health by eating wholesome, nourishing foods and drinking clean water. These foods and drinks are not always easy to find, and our job as the Wellington chapter is to help people find the resources they need.
We go and get water from Petone for our own use as drinking water, and recommend that others do the same. We’re grateful that the resource is there, but it’s not always possible or convenient for people to take up that option. It also isn’t practical for people to use Petone water for showers and baths.
We want everybody in the whole of Wellington to have access to fluoride free water from their own taps.
There are several reasons why I oppose fluoride in the water supply. To summarise each of them briefly:
It doesn’t address the causes of tooth decay
Fluoride deficiency is not the cause of tooth decay. We know that eating sugar causes decay, but that’s not just because it deposits on the teeth causing plaque. It also disrupts the biochemistry. The lack of nutrients in our modern food supply results in deficiencies that also contribute to tooth decay, as well as many other modern diseases. Medicating with fluoride doesn’t address this huge problem.
Fluoridealert.org
It doesn’t work
There is some evidence that external application of fluoride hardens teeth. But the purported evidence that taking it internally helps teeth is weak. Studies that initially seem to support the hypothesis are usually flawed.
If we look at tooth decay levels in non-fluoridated vs fluoridated countries, we can see that levels of tooth decay have reduced across both groups. At the present time, there is little difference between the two groups.
It damages dental, physical and mental health
There is a lot of evidence that ingesting fluoride is actually harmful to teeth. It’s also harmful to other bone tissue, and is a causative factor in osteoporosis, especially hip fractures. It’s implicated in many other diseases including cancer, diabetes and chronic fatigue. It impacts on mental and emotional health, causing lowered IQ, depression and inability to concentrate.
Many countries have banned fluoride from their water supplies because they know it’s dangerous. As we can see from the above graph, NZ is one of only 4 western countries who fluoridate. Despite the US being one of the 4, even the American Dental Association has recommended that baby formula is made up with non fluoridated water, thus admitting the risks involved.
Despite advising my clients to avoid drinking fluoridated water as much as possible, it had been brought home to me recently that absorbing it through the skin is just as dangerous. Some people are more sensitive to toxins than others, so are affected more.
Two of my clients have been suffering from joint pain that appears to be related to having long baths in fluoridated water. One of them, who is here today and will be speaking later, has been on a therapeutic dietary regime, which included avoiding drinking fluoridated water. She started having detox baths a couple of years ago and after a while started complaining of unexplained joint pain. Since baths are generally considered to be beneficial for pain, it was a long time before we made the connection to the baths. Since she stopped the long baths, the pain has gone away.
Another client has had a habit of long baths to ease muscle and joint pain. In his youth he did a lot of exercise, and soaking in hot water was beneficial for pain and tension. So periodic soaking has been a habit for nearly 30 years. It wasn’t until one day he mentioned that he felt worse after a bath, that warning bells started ringing. We realised that he suffers from many of the symptoms of fluoride poisoning, not just the joint pains. Unfortunately, after many years of exposure, his fluoride load is taking longer to reduce and he is still in a lot of pain. Without spending nearly $4000 on a whole house water filtration system that takes out fluoride, he is unable to completely avoid further exposure.
These are just two small examples, but they are from just bathing in fluoridated water, not from drinking it. Can we afford the risk of continuing to have it in our water supply, if it’s even half as dangerous as the evidence, and these two case studies, suggests?
Even if it was effective and safe, it’s unethical to mass medicate the population
It’s a basic human right to be able to choose what we put into our bodies. This right has been taken away from us. Yes, we can go to the Petone aquifer, or buy bottled water. Or buy an expensive filter that only takes out some of the fluoride. But this disadvantages the very segment of the population that you’re professing to help – those that can only afford tap water.
The other drawback of mass medication is that the dosage can’t be controlled or individualised. A person who drinks a lot gets a far higher dosage than someone who drinks little.
It’s wasteful
Only 0.5% of the fluoridated water is ingested. The other 99.5% is used for washing or other uses, and literally goes straight down the drain. So even if fluoride was beneficial, this would be an expensive, wasteful way to use it.
On the other hand, if I’m right, and it’s actually very dangerous, a huge amount of it is going into the sewage system. If even the best water filter can’t take out all the fluoride, can the sewage treatment systems? Or are we contaminating the environment, and potentially damaging a lot of wildlife?
It's a danger to NZ exports
Some countries are also refusing to import food that’s been prepared with fluoridated water. I know that Wellington is only part of this, and the whole country has to change. Forgive me for using a cliché, but until we’re part of the solution, in this case we truly are part of the problem.
Fluoride in our water supply is damaging NZ’s clean, green image and could potentially have a very negative effect on our export markets.
I understand that the Annual Plan process is about how we spend rate payers funds, and not about changing processes. But as a rate payer, I believe I should have a say in how my rates are spent. And I don’t want them spent on putting a toxic waste product in my water. A budget is about deciding what the money is spent on, and that should include reviewing whether expenditure is worth while. If money is being spent on something that’s damaging to the population, that should be part of the budget decision making.
I’ve been forwarded an email from Cr Pannett that makes two further points on this issue.
Firstly that Greater Wellington also have a say in this decision. But they have already advised that they will take the fluoride out if any council asks them to. So the process is simple, as that obstacle has already been removed.
Secondly, that everyone in Wellington needs to be consulted on this issue. I disagree. Nobody else in Wellington has the right to say what I should put in my body. If the majority want access to fluoride, they can be supplied it in other forms, where they can control the dosage. But they have no right to force it on those who don’t want it, and neither do you.
Since whatever benefits of fluoride exist are topical, and the risks are systemic, it would be safer to apply the fluoride directly to the teeth, for those that want it.
I believe that you councillors want the best for the Wellington public. So I ask you all to look again at the evidence. To look with open hearts and open minds. It’s hard to admit we’ve been wrong. But if you examine the evidence again, please be open to that possibility. As Alan Martin always used to say “It’s the putting right that counts”.
I know you’re all busy people, so if you don’t have the time to examine the evidence, it really comes down to this – if there is even a chance that what we’re saying is right, the risks are too great to continue mass medicating the people who trust you with wise spending of their money.
If you decide to take fluoride out of the water supply, and I’m wrong, maybe there would be a small negative impact on the region’s dental health. But if I’m right, and fluoride stays in the water supply, the results are already much more severe.
Thank
you for your time and attention.
Deb
Gully - 17 May 2011
Fluoride
has been implicated in all of these diseases:
Blind Spots; Body temperature disturbances; Breast Cancer; Cachexia (wasting
away); Candidasis; Carpal Tunnel Syndrome; Cataracts; Change in blood
pressure(=/-); Chest pain; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Collagen breakdown;
Cold Shivers; Coma; Concentration Inability; Constipation; Convulsions;
Crying easily for no apparent reason; Death; Decrease in Testosterone;
Dementia; Demyelinizing Diseases; Dental Abnormalities; Dental Arch smaller;
Dental Crowding; Dental enamel more porous; Dental Fluorosis (Mottling
of teeth); Delayed Eruption of teeth; Depression; Diabetes Insipidus;
Diabetes Mellitus; Diarrhea; Dizziness; Down Syndrome; Dry Mouth; Dyspepsia;
Dystrophy; Early/Delayed Onset of Puberty; Eczema; Edema; Epilepsy; Eosinophilia;
Excessive Sleepiness; Eye, ear and nose disorders; Fatigue; Fearfulness;
Fever; Fibromyalgia; Fibrosarcoma; Fibrosis; Fingernails:Lines/Grooves;
Fingernails:Brittle; Forgetfulness; Gallstones; Gastro-disturbances; Gastric
Ulcers; Giant Cell Formation; Gingivitis; Goiter; Growth Disturbances;
Headache; Hearing Loss; Heart Disorders; Heart Failure; Heart Palpitations;
Hepatitis; Hemorrhage; Hives; Hoarseness; Hyperparathyroidism; Hypertension;
Hypoplasia; Immunosuppression; Impotence; Incoherence; Infertility; Inflammatory
Bowel Disease; Inner Ear Disorders; Irritability; Joint Pains; Kidney
Failure; Lack of Energy; Lack of Co-ordination; Loss of Appetite; Loss
of Consciousness; Loss of IQ; Loss of Spermatogenesis; Low Birth Weight;
Lung Cancer; Lupus; Magnesium Deficiency; Memory Loss; Mental Confusion;
Migraine; Mouth Sores; Multiple Sclerosis; Muscle Pain, Wasting, Cramps,
Stiffness, Weakness; Muscoskeletal Disease; Nausea; Osteoarthritis; Osteoporosis;
Osteosarcoma; Optic Neuritis; Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma; Otosclerosis;
Parkinson’s Disease; Pins & Needles; Polydipsia; Polyneuropathy;
Polyurea; Pyelocystitis; Premature Delivery; Pruritis (Itchy Skin); Pulminary
Edema; Recurring Colds; Respiratory Complications; Restlessness; Retinitis;
Rhinitis; Schizophrenia; Sceroderma; Skin Pigmentation; Secondary teeth
erupt later; Sensitive to light; Seizures; Shortness of Breath; SIDS;
Sinus Infections; Skeletal Changes; Sleep Disorders; Slipped Epiphysis;
Sluggishness; Skin Irritations; Spondylitis, ankylosing; Stillbirths;
Swallowing Difficulties; Swelling in Face; Telangiectasia; Testicular
Growth/Alteration; Thirst; Thrombosis; Thyroid Cancer; Tinnitus; Tingling
Sensations; Visual disturbances; Ulcerative Colitis; Urticaria; Uterine
Bleeding; Uterine Cancer; Vaginal Bleeding; Vas Deferens Alterations;
Vertigo; Vitiligo; Weak Pulse; Weight Disturbances; Zinc Deficiency.
Fluoride
- Drinking Ourselves To Death - Barry Groves
Fluoridation
of water has been used for the prevention of tooth decay for over fifty
years. During this time little research has been done to ascertain whether
it works. The chemicals used are classified as toxic industrial waste,
yet no study has ever been conducted into their safety for human consumption.
At
the same time, research has uncovered serious side effects including deaths,
cancer, skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis, dementia, lowered IQ, kidney
damage and even increased dental decay.
Strongly
opposed throughout the world, water fluoridation is far less widely accepted
than its proponents would have us believe. Only two percent of the people
of Western Europe have their water fluoridated - almost all of them within
Britain and Ireland. Despite all this, the dental organizations lobby
governments to compel everyone to ingest fluoride, whether they want it
or not and without regard to possible harm.
The
vast majority of dentists maintain that fluoride is not debatable. However
Barry Groves has assembled evidence to refute every single argument made
by the dental establishment in favour of fluoridation.
This
book is available from Amazon
The
Fluoride Deception - Christopher Bryson
Concerns
over fluoridated drinking water have long been derided as the obsession
of McCarthyite cranks. But this muckraking j’accuse asserts that
fluoride is indeed a dire threat to public health, one foisted upon the
nation by a vast conspiracy—not of Communist agents, but of our
very own military-industrial complex.
Investigative
reporter Bryson revisits the decades-long controversy, drawing on mountains
of scientific studies, some unearthed from secret archives of government
and corporate laboratories, to question the effects of fluoride and the
motives of its leading advocates.
The
efficacy of fluoridated drinking water in preventing tooth decay, he contends,
is dubious. Fluoride in its many forms may be one of the most toxic of
industrial pollutants, and Bryson cites scientific analyses linking fluoridated
drinking water to bone deformities, hyperactivity and a host of other
complaints.
The
post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water, he claims, was less a
public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial
users of fluoride—including the government’s nuclear weapons
program.
Legendary
spin doctors like Edward Bernays exploited the tenuous link between dental
hygiene and fluoridation to create markets to stimulate fluoride production
and to prove the innocuousness of fluoride compounds, thereby heading
off lawsuits by factory workers and others poisoned by industrial fluoride
pollution.
Bryson
marshals an impressive amount of research to demonstrate fluoride’s
harmfulness, the ties between leading fluoride researchers and the corporations
who funded and benefited from their research, and what he says is the
duplicity with which fluoridation was sold to the people.
The
result is a compelling challenge to the reigning dental orthodoxy, which
should provoke renewed scientific scrutiny and public debate.
This
book is available from Amazon
50 Reasons to Keep Fluoride OUT - By Paul Connett, PhD
“For those who would call for further studies, I say fine. Take the fluoride out of the water first and then conduct all the studies you want. This folly must end without further delay” – Paul Connett
1. Fluoride is not an essential nutrient. No disease has ever been linked to a fluoride deficiency. Humans can have perfectly good teeth without fluoride.
2. Fluoridation is not necessary. Most Western European countries are not fluoridated and have experienced the same decline in dental decay as the US.
3. Fluoridation’s role in the decline of tooth decay is in serious doubt… In a review commissioned by the Ontario government, Dr. David Locker concluded: “The magnitude of [fluoridation’s] effect is not large in absolute terms, is often not statistically significant and may not be of clinical significance”.
4. Where fluoridation has been discontinued in communities from Canada, the former East Germany, Cuba and Finland, dental decay has not increased but has actually decreased.
5. There have been numerous recent reports of dental crises in US cities (e.g. Boston, Cincinnati, New York City) which have been fluoridated for over 20 years. There appears to be a far greater (inverse) relationship between tooth decay and income level than with water fluoride levels.
6. Modern research shows that decay rates were coming down before fluoridation was introduced and have continued to decline even after its benefits would have been maximized. Many other factors influence tooth decay. Some recent studies have found that tooth decay actually increases as the fluoride concentration in the water increases
7. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has now acknowledged the findings of many leading dental researchers, that the mechanism of fluoride’s benefits are mainly TOPICAL not SYSTEMIC. Thus, you don’t have to swallow fluoride to protect teeth. As the benefits of fluoride (if any exist) are topical, and the risks are systemic, it makes more sense, for those who want to take the risks, to deliver the fluoride directly to the tooth in the form of toothpaste. Since swallowing fluoride is unnecessary, there is no reason to force people (against their will) to drink fluoride in their water supply. This position was recently shared by Dr. Douglas Carnall, the associate editor of the British Medical Journal.
8. Despite being prescribed by doctors for over 50 years, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never approved any fluoride product designed for ingestion as safe or effective.
9. The US fluoridation program has massively failed to achieve one of its key objectives, i.e. to lower dental decay rates while holding down dental fluorosis (mottled and discoloured enamel), a condition known to be caused by fluoride….
10. Dental fluorosis means that a child has been overdosed on fluoride. While the mechanism by which the enamel is damaged is not definitively known, it appears fluorosis may be a result of either inhibited enzymes in the growing teeth, or through fluoride’s interference with G-protein signaling mechanisms. In a study in Mexico, Alarcon-Herrera (2001) has shown a linear correlation between the severity of dental fluorosis and the frequency of bone fractures in children.
11. The level of fluoride put into water (1 ppm) is up to 200 times higher than normally found in mothers’ milk (0.005 – 0.01 ppm). There are no benefits, only risks, for infants ingesting this heightened level of fluoride at such an early age (this is an age where susceptibility to environmental toxins is particularly high).
12. Fluoride is a cumulative poison. On average, only 50% of the fluoride we ingest each day is excreted through the kidneys. The remainder accumulates in our bones, pineal gland, and other tissues. If the kidney is damaged, fluoride accumulation will increase, and with it, the likelihood of harm.
13. Fluoride is very biologically active even at low concentrations. It interferes with hydrogen bonding and inhibits numerous enzymes.
14. When complexed with aluminium, fluoride interferes with G-proteins. Such interactions give aluminium-fluoride complexes the potential to interfere with many hormonal and some neurochemical signals.
15. Fluoride has been shown to be mutagenic, cause chromosome damage and interfere with the enzymes involved with DNA repair in a variety of cell and tissue studies. Recent studies have also found a correlation between fluoride exposure and chromosome damage in humans.
16. Fluoride forms complexes with a large number of metal ions, which include metals which are needed in the body (like calcium and magnesium) and metals (like lead and aluminium) which are toxic to the body. This can cause a variety of problems. For example, fluoride interferes with enzymes where magnesium is an important co-factor, and it can help facilitate the uptake of aluminum and lead into tissues where these metals wouldn’t otherwise go.
17. Rats fed for one year with 1 ppm fluoride in their water, using either sodium fluoride or aluminium fluoride, had morphological changes to their kidneys and brains, an increased uptake of aluminium in the brain, and the formation of beta amyloid deposits which are characteristic of Alzheimers disease.
18. Aluminum fluoride was recently nominated by the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for testing by the National Toxicology Program. According to EPA and NIEHS, aluminum fluoride currently has a “high health research priority” due to its “known neurotoxicity”. If fluoride is added to water which contains aluminium, than aluminium fluoride complexes will form.
19. Animal experiments show that fluoride accumulates in the brain and exposure alters mental behavior in a manner consistent with a neurotoxic agent. Rats dosed prenatally demonstrated hyperactive behavior. Those dosed postnatally demonstrated hypoactivity (i.e. under activity or “couch potato” syndrome). More recent animal experiments have reported that fluoride can damage the brain and impact learning and behavior.
20. Five studies from China show a lowering of IQ in children associated with fluoride exposure. One of these studies indicates that even just moderate levels of fluoride exposure (e.g. 0.9 ppm in the water) can exacerbate the neurological defects of iodine deficiency.
21. Studies by Jennifer Luke showed that fluoride accumulates in the human pineal gland to very high levels. In her Ph.D. thesis Luke has also shown in animal studies that fluoride reduces melatonin production and leads to an earlier onset of puberty.
22. In the first half of the 20th century, fluoride was prescribed by a number of European doctors to reduce the activity of the thyroid gland for those suffering from hyperthyroidism (over active thyroid). With water fluoridation, we are forcing people to drink a thyroid-depressing medication which could, in turn, serve to promote higher levels of hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) in the population, and all the subsequent problems related to this disorder. Such problems include depression, fatigue, weight gain, muscle and joint pains, increased cholesterol levels, and heart disease. It bears noting that according to the Department of Health and Human Services (1991) fluoride exposure in fluoridated communities is estimated to range from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day, which is a range that actually overlaps the dose (2.3 - 4.5 mg/day) shown to decrease the functioning of the human thyroid. This is a remarkable fact, particularly considering the rampant and increasing problem of hypothyroidism in the United States. …In Russia, Bachinskii found a lowering of thyroid function, among otherwise healthy people, at 2.3 ppm fluoride in water.
23. Some of the early symptoms of skeletal fluorosis, a fluoride-induced bone and joint disease that impacts millions of people in India, China, and Africa , mimic the symptoms of arthritis. According to a review on fluoridation by Chemical & Engineering News, “Because some of the clinical symptoms mimic arthritis, the first two clinical phases of skeletal fluorosis could be easily misdiagnosed”. Few if any studies have been done to determine the extent of this misdiagnosis, and whether the high prevalence of arthritis in America (1 in 3 Americans have some form of arthritis…
24. In some studies, when high doses of fluoride (average 26 mg per day) were used in trials to treat patients with osteoporosis in an effort to harden their bones and reduce fracture rates, it actually led to a HIGHER number of fractures, particularly hip fractures. The cumulative doses used in these trials are exceeded by the lifetime cumulative doses being experienced by many people living in fluoridated communities.
25. Nineteen studies (three unpublished, including one abstract) since 1990 have examined the possible relationship of fluoride in water and hip fracture among the elderly. Eleven of these studies found an association, eight did not. One study found a dose-related increase in hip fracture as the concentration of fluoride rose from 1 ppm to 8 ppm. Hip fracture is a very serious issue for the elderly, as a quarter of those who have a hip fracture die within a year of the operation, while 50 percent never regain an independent existence….
26. The only government-sanctioned animal study to investigate if fluoride causes cancer, found a dose-dependent increase in cancer in the target organ (bone) of the fluoride-treated (male) rats. The initial review of this study also reported an increase in liver and oral cancers, however, all non-bone cancers were later downgraded – with a questionable rationale - by a government-review panel. In light of the importance of this study, EPA Professional Headquarters Union has requested that Congress establish an independent review to examine the study’s results.
27. A review of national cancer data in the US by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) revealed a significantly higher rate of bone cancer in young men in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas. While the NCI concluded that fluoridation was not the cause, no explanation was provided to explain the higher rates in the fluoridated areas. A smaller study from New Jersey found bone cancer rates to be up to 6 times higher in young men living in fluoridated versus unfluoridated areas. Other epidemiological studies have failed to find this relationship.
28. Fluoride administered to animals at high doses wreaks havoc on the male reproductive system - it damages sperm and increases the rate of infertility in a number of different species. While studies conducted at the FDA have failed to find reproductive effects in rats, an epidemiological study from the US has found increased rates of infertility among couples living in areas with 3 or more ppm fluoride in the water, and 2 studies have found a reduced level of circulating testosterone in males living in high fluoride areas.
29. The fluoridation program has been very poorly monitored. There has never been a comprehensive analysis of the fluoride levels in the bones, blood, or urine of the American people or the citizens of other fluoridated countries. Based on the sparse data that has become available, however, it is increasingly evident that some people in the population – particularly people with kidney disease - are accumulating fluoride levels that have been associated with harm to both animals and humans, particularly harm to bone.
30. Once fluoride is put in the water it is impossible to control the dose each individual receives. This is because 1) some people (e.g. manual labourers, athletes, diabetics, and people with kidney disease) drink more water than others, and 2) we receive fluoride from sources other than the water supply. Other sources of fluoride include food and beverages processed with fluoridated water, fluoridated dental products, mechanically deboned meat, teas, and pesticide residues on food.
31. Fluoridation is unethical because individuals are not being asked for their informed consent prior to medication….
32. While referenda are preferential to imposed policies from central government, it still leaves the problem of individual rights versus majority rule. Put another way — does a voter have the right to require that their neighbour ingest a certain medication (even if it’s against that neighbour’s will)?
33. Some individuals appear to be highly sensitive to fluoride as shown by case studies and double blind studies. In one study, which lasted 13 years, Feltman and Kosel (1961) showed that about 1% of patients given 1 mg of fluoride each day developed negative reactions. Can we as a society force these people to ingest fluoride?
34. According to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR 1993), and other researchers, certain subsets of the population may be particularly vulnerable to fluoride’s toxic effects; these include: the elderly, diabetics and people with poor kidney function. Again, can we in good conscience force these people to ingest fluoride on a daily basis for their entire lives?
35. Also vulnerable are those who suffer from malnutrition (e.g. calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin D and iodide deficiencies and protein poor diets). Those most likely to suffer from poor nutrition are the poor, who are precisely the people being targeted by new fluoridation programs. While being at heightened risk, poor families are less able to afford avoidance measures (e.g. bottled water or removal equipment).
36. Since dental decay is most concentrated in poor communities, we should be spending our efforts trying to increase the access to dental care for poor families. The real “Oral Health Crisis” that exists today in the United States, is not a lack of fluoride but poverty and lack of dental insurance. The Surgeon General has estimated that 80% of dentists in the US do not treat children on Medicaid.
37. Fluoridation has been found to be ineffective at preventing one of the most serious oral health problems facing poor children, namely, baby bottle tooth decay, otherwise known as early childhood caries.
38. The early studies conducted in 1945 -1955 in the US, which helped to launch fluoridation, have been heavily criticized for their poor methodology and poor choice of control communities. According to Dr. Hubert Arnold, a statistician from the University of California at Davis, the early fluoridation trials “are especially rich in fallacies, improper design, invalid use of statistical methods, omissions of contrary
39. The US Public Health Service first endorsed fluoridation in 1950, before one single trial had been completed!
40. Since 1950, it has been found that fluorides do little to prevent pit and fissure tooth decay, a fact that even the dental community has acknowledged. This is significant because pit and fissure tooth decay represents up to 85% of the tooth decay experienced by children today.
41. Despite the fact that we are exposed to far more fluoride today than we were in 1945 (when fluoridation began), the “optimal” fluoridation level is still 1 part per million, the same level deemed optimal in 1945!
42. The chemicals used to fluoridate water in the US are not pharmaceutical grade. Instead, they come from the wet scrubbing systems of the superphosphate fertilizer industry. These chemicals (90% of which are sodium fluorosilicate and fluorosilicic acid), are classified hazardous wastes contaminated with various impurities. Recent testing by the National Sanitation Foundation suggest that the levels of arsenic in these chemicals are relatively high (up to 1.6 ppb after dilution into public water) and of potential concern.
43. These hazardous wastes have not been tested comprehensively. The chemical usually tested in animal studies is pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride, not industrial grade fluorosilicic acid. The assumption being made is that by the time this waste product has been diluted, all the fluorosilicic acid will have been converted into free fluoride ion, and the other toxics and radioactive isotopes will be so dilute that they will not cause any harm, even with lifetime exposure. These assumptions have not been examined carefully by scientists, independent of the fluoridation program.
44. Studies by Masters and Coplan (1999, 2000) show an association between the use of fluorosilicic acid (and its sodium salt) to fluoridate water and an increased uptake of lead into children’s blood. Because of lead’s acknowledged ability to damage the child’s developing brain, this is a very serious finding yet it is being largely ignored by fluoridating countries.
45. Sodium fluoride is an extremely toxic substance — just 200 mg of fluoride ion is enough to kill a young child, and just 3-5 grams (e.g. a teaspoon) is enough to kill an adult. Both children (swallowing tablets/gels) and adults (accidents involving fluoridation equipment and filters on dialysis machines) have died from excess exposure.
46. Some of the earliest opponents of fluoridation were biochemists and at least 14 Nobel Prize winners are among numerous scientists who have expressed their reservations about the practice of fluoridation.
47. The recent Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, Dr. Arvid Carlsson (2000), was one of the leading opponents of fluoridation in Sweden, and part of the panel that recommended that the Swedish government reject the practice, which they did in 1971. According to Carlsson: “I am quite convinced that water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future, will be consigned to medical history…Water fluoridation goes against leading principles of pharmacotherapy, which is progressing from a stereotyped medication - of the type 1 tablet 3 times a day - to a much more individualized therapy as regards both dosage and selection of drugs. The addition of drugs to the drinking water means exactly the opposite of an individualized therapy”.
48. While pro-fluoridation officials continue to promote fluoridation with undiminished fervor, they cannot defend the practice in open public debate – even when challenged to do so by organizations such as the Association for Science in the Public Interest, the American College of Toxicology, or the US Environmental Protection Agency. According to Dr. Michael Easley, a prominent lobbyist for fluoridation in the US, “Debates give the illusion that a scientific controversy exists when no credible people support the fluorophobics’ view”. In light of proponents’ refusal to debate this issue, Dr. Edward Groth, a Senior Scientist at Consumers Union, observed that “the political profluoridation stance has evolved into a dogmatic, authoritarian, essentially antiscientific posture, one that discourages open debate of scientific issues”.
49. Many scientists, doctors and dentists who have spoken out publicly on this issue have been subjected to censorship and intimidation. Most recently, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix was fired from her position as Chair of Toxicology at Forsythe Dental Center for publishing her findings on fluoride and the brain; and Dr. William Marcus was fired from the EPA for questioning the government’s handling of the NTP’s fluoride-cancer study. Tactics like this would not be necessary if those promoting fluoridation were on secure scientific ground.
50. The Union representing the scientists at US EPA headquarters in Washington DC is now on record as opposing water fluoridation. According to the Union’s Senior Vice President, Dr. William Hirzy: “In summary, we hold that fluoridation is an unreasonable risk. That is, the toxicity of fluoride is so great and the purported benefits associated with it are so small - if there are any at all - that requiring every man, woman and child in America to ingest it borders on criminal behavior on the part of governments.”
To check references go to Paul Connett’s website: www.fluoridealert.org/50-reasons.htm
Conclusion
When it comes to controversies surrounding toxic chemicals, invested interests traditionally do their very best to discount animal studies and quibble with epidemiological findings. In the past, political pressures have led government agencies to drag their feet on regulating asbestos, benzene, DDT, PCBs, tetraethyl lead, tobacco and dioxins. With fluoridation we have had a fifty year delay.
Unfortunately, because government officials have put so much of their credibility on the line defending fluoridation, and because of the huge liabilities waiting in the wings if they admit that fluoridation has caused an increase in hip fracture, arthritis, bone cancer, brain disorders or thyroid problems, it will be very difficult for them to speak honestly and openly about the issue. But they must, not only to protect millions of people from unnecessary harm, but to protect the notion that, at its core, public health policy must be based on sound science not political expediency.
They have a tool with which to do this: it’s called the Precautionary Principle. Simply put, this says: if in doubt leave it out. This is what most European countries have done and their children’s teeth have not suffered, while their public’s trust has been strengthened.
It is like a question from a Kafka play. Just how much doubt is needed on just one of the health concerns identified above, to override a benefit, which when quantified in the largest survey ever conducted in the US, amounts to less than one tooth surface (out of 128) in a child’s mouth?
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In order to avoid being publicly humiliated, the pro-fluoridation lobby stick to a strict "No-Debate" policy, saying that debate lends credibility to the anti-fluoridation cause. This is why pro-fluoridation authorities refuse to publicly debate Dr. Connett.
American hydrofluorosilicic acid is radioactive as well
The Fluoride that is used in water supplies (hydrofluorosilicic acid) is not only a toxic industrial waste product, much of the American manufactured "product" is radioactive as well.
In the USA, where uranium is co-produced with phosphate production, radioactive cross-contamination of hydrofluorosilicic acid frequently occurs.
Hydrofluorosilicic acid that is contaminated with trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and radioactive materials is delivered unrefined, and in none-pharmaceutical grade, to be used as a water fluoridation 'product'.
Resources
23 published studies reporting an association of reduced IQ with high fluoride exposure
2,700+ Professionals Call for an End to Fluoridation of Drinking Water
Corbett Report #135 - Know Your Toxins: Sodium Fluoride
Fire Water Film (Aus)
Fluoridation: The Fraud of the Century
Fluoridation Free NZ (NZ)
Fluoride Action Network (USA)
Fluoride Action Network (NZ)
Fluoride and the Phosphate Connnection
Fluoride Information Australia
Fluoride: Worse than We Thought
Health Freedom New Zealand (NZ)
Preferred Network.com (USA)
NoFluoride.com (USA)
PDF Presentations on fluoride dangers
Prison Planet.com (USA)
The Case Against Fluoride
The Coalition to Ban Water Fluoridation (NZ)
Thirdworldtraveler.com/Environment/Bathtub_Toxic_Dump
Toxic Chemicals In Your Water
Waterloo Watch (Canada)
West Midlands Against Fluoride (UK)
Weston A Price Foundation (USA)
Quotes
'Fluoridation
is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all
time' - Dr Robert Carton
"Fluoridation
of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation.
It is criminal insanity - treason!" - Dr. E.H. Bronner
"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.” - Charles Perkins
"I
am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride
is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range
basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable." - Dr. Charles
Gordon Heyd
"fluoridation
... it is the greatest fraud that has ever been perpetrated and it has
been perpetrated on more people than any other fraud has." - Dr.
Professor Albert Schatz
"Fluoride
is rat poison. It may harden tooth enamel but it softens brains" - Dr Eva Hill
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