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Fluoride, a Friend or Foe

In 1945 many cities in the United States began adding sodium fluoride into the publicwater system. The idea that fluoridated water helped strengthen tooth enamelthereby decreasing the incidence of tooth decay came about in the 1930s.

H. Trendely Dean, a dentist working for the U.S. Public Health Services, noticed thatchildren living in cities with naturally high calcium fluoride contents in the water

presented with fewer cavities. He started publishing incomplete data to show that at1ppm fluoride resulted in the reduction of tooth decay.During this time many large industries were dumping fluoride into the rivers andlakes. Warning signs were posted advising people not to cook or drink with high-fluoridated water. Communities began removing fluoride from public water supplies.By the late 1930s, lawsuits against industries that were polluting water supplies withfluoride, like ALCOA (the worlds largest aluminum producer), were increasing!Alcoa was selling its by-product of sodium fluoride as a rat poison and insecticide.But they still had more than they could sell. It was costing $8,000 a truckload todispose of the hazardous waste by product of sodium fluoride.

It was the job of Dr. Gerald Cox, a biochemist working for Alcoa to research and findways to reduce the sodium fluoride waste. He began fluoride experiments with rats.He stated that his study along with an earlier study done by Armstrong and Brekhayus

found that dental enamel of healthy teeth had higher fluoride contents than in teethwith cavities (In 1963, Armstrong recanted his original findings as incorrect). Coxpresented his findings to the Food and Nutritional board of National Research Council,which led to the Councils endorsement of fluoridation.Companies who produced the unwanted by-products of fluoride could now dispose ofthem, and at a profit!In 1943, the Journal of the American Medical Association pointed out:Fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons. The sources of fluorine intoxication aredrinking water containing 1 ppm or more of fluorine. Another source of fluorineintoxications is from the fluorides used in smelting of many metals, such as aluminum.In 1944, the issue of the Journal of the ADA warned that, (In reference to waterfluoridation):


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In the light of our present knowledge or lack of knowledge of the chemistry of thesubject, the potentialities for harm far outweigh those for the good.In 1944, Oscar Ewing, an attorney for ALCOA, was appointed Federal SecurityAdministrator. The United States Public Health Service, then a division of the FederalSecurity Administration, was under Ewings command. He vigorously began promotingfluoridation nationwide. He hired as his public relations strategist, Edward Bernays,also known as the Father of Public Relations. He pioneered the application ofSigmund Freuds theories to advertising and public propaganda.In 1944, (despite the warning issued only three months earlier by the ADA), GrandRapids became the first city in the U.S. to fluoridate its drinking water. The rates ofdecay would be compared with non-fluoridated Muskegon, Michigan, for ten years, atwhich time the effectiveness of fluoridation would be determined.But by 1950, only 6 years into the study, the propaganda was so effective andwidespread that even the USPHS and the ADA endorsed fluoridation as a safe andeffective means for reducing tooth decay.The USPHS formed an alliance with the trade unions of medicine and industry topromote the addition of a toxic waste product to the public water supply.Since 1997, The Food and Drug Administration has required a warning label on alldental care products containing fluoride:WARNING: Keep out of the reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentallyswallow more than used for brushing, seek professional help or contact a poisoncontrol center immediately.

According to the 1984 issue of Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products, fluoride ismore poisonous than lead, and just slightly less poisonous than arsenic!


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Eighty-seven cases of fluoride poisoning in children younger than 12 years old werereported to the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center in 1986. Eighty-five casesinvolved accidental ingestion of fluoride products in the home. In a more recentstudy, it was reported that sodium fluoride, the same type used in Crest, Colgate and

most all toothpaste, was the most frequent single cause of acute poisoning inchildren. How odd that we put safety locks on our cupboard doors to prevent toddlersfrom ingesting the poisons stored there, and yet we overlook the dangerous potentialsof our daily oral hygiene products!In 1993, the Food and Drug Administration was forced to admit that they have nostudies showing that fluoride tablets or drops are either safe or effective in reducingtooth decay.Water has been fluoridated in the range of .7 ppm to 1.2 ppm. Recently the EPAlowered the maximum range of fluoridation to .7 ppm. However, many countrieshave discontinued water fluoridation altogether on the grounds that it is unsafe. Dothey know something we dont?Many of us do not realize the amount of fluoride they ingest on a daily basis. Fluoridecontent can be greatly increased when you cook with Fluoridated water. As anexample, raw peas contain .012 milligrams of fluoride, but when cooked influoridated water, those same peas contain 1.5 milligrams of fluoride.The average consumption of fluoride today is approximately 7 to 10 mg. daily.Fluoride is stored in the body in specific tissues (mostly the bones and tissues) and iscumulative.Fluoride has been linked to many adverse health effects, such as:

y Cancery Chromosome damagey Skeletal Fluorosisy Damaging the Immune Systemy Neurological Impairmenty Enzyme Inhibitiony Enamel Fluorosis (white blotchy spots on enamel which are present as the tooth

erupts and stays on the tooth forever)


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I hope this information has given you a desire to seek and learn more about fluoride.Is Fluoride your friend or foe? You decide.To learn about studies which supported the foundation for recognizing Fluoride as aneffective factor in reducing tooth decay please refer to the following website:

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm l

For a comprehensive source of government conducted and privately conducted studieswhich are used as factual basis for Fluoridating drinking water, please refer to the

following website: http://fluorideinfo.org/contact.html

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