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Do You Believe Them When They Say
"Drinking Poison Is Good For You?"

“Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century,

 if not all time.”

Robert Carlton, Ph. D., former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientist 

“I say this with all the earnestness of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years’ research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine - any person who drinks artificially-fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically”

An extract from a letter sent to the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2nd 1954 by Charles Perkins.

 

You were probably advised that if you want to be healthier you should drink several glasses of water each day.  It is the stuff of life, the majority of your body is composed of water and you need it to cleanse inside and out.  What they won’t tell you is that drinking too much of the wrong water could eventually leave you very sick or possibly even kill you.  Yes, there can be many benefits to drinking several glasses of pure water each day, and that shouldn’t be ignored.  

The only problem is that the authorities decided one day to add fluoride to our water supply.  In 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water supply.  This is the case in 41 of the 50 largest cities in America and many other countries around the world.  Thankfully 98% of Western European water is not fluorinated.  However five million U.K. residents live in areas where the public water supply contains this poison.  (See Appendix 1 for the list countries, U.S. cities and U.K districts that are fluorinated)  

Why is Fluoride Added To Our Water Supplies? *

It was in the year 1939 that a famous institute in the eastern part of the United States commissioned their biochemist to find a use for the sodium fluoride wastes produced by aluminium foundries.  Some 45 other industries also had fluoride disposal problems.  Many were tormented by expensive damage suits arising from the noxious effects of the poison on livestock and crops.  Oil refineries, metal smelters, tile, brick, steel, fertilizer and ceramic plants and many installations of Atomic Energy Commission were involved.  The cost to eliminate this chemical was fantastically high.  Was there no way this by-product could be put to a profitable use?

Now this biochemist was a clever and cunning man.  He came up with a big money-making idea: why not dissolve the stuff in drinking water?  He had absolutely no medical background and had not conducted any clinical research into the effects of sodium fluoride on our body’s chemistry.  His idea went over big with companies who were burdened by what to do with sodium fluoride wastes.

The next step was not so difficult….turn the idea over to the advertising companies and let them brainwash the public into believing that the greatest health measure in modern times had been discovered.  Give a “tall tale” to the gullible American public and if it sounds scientific, they will bite – hook, line and sinker!  So they used the tall tale that sodium fluoride in drinking water would prevent tooth decay in children, as they found a Texas town that had naturally occurring fluoride and it seemed fewer dental cavities.  The public was eager to hear more.  At last, a way to prevent tooth decay!  Sadly, most became convinced at first – despite that every smart thinking person knows that tooth decay comes from poor nutrition and especially the high consumption of refined sugar drinks, candy and products.

Big business and large professional organizations have a way of sticking together.  Remember, they have the power of the media behind them because of the economic control exerted by the publishers’ chief source of income – advertising!  With the aid of television, radio, newspapers and magazines, the major business, professional and social organizations promoted the ‘great merits’ of sodium fluoride – although totally false and dangerous to the American people.  

Any person who publicly questioned this poisoning of drinking water with sodium fluoride was called stupid, ignorant, uninformed and backward!  Most doctors and dentists surrendered to these powerful forces for fear of being discredited by their professional associations and communities.  However, you can always find some honest and sincere professionals who fight for truth – no matter how others might ridicule them!  Extreme pressures were put upon city and state governments to fluoridate the drinking water.  Big business and large professional organizations, which can act like the Mafia, do not take “No” for an answer!  They know how to pressure state, city and water officials to think and take action their way, often not for the good!  * Excerpt from ‘Water- The Shocking Truth’ by Patricia and Paul Bragg.

Adolf Hitler said that it was easier to get the public to believe a big lie rather than a small one.  This appears to be an excellent example.  By 1944, the aluminum cartel ALCOA was paying biochemist Oscar Ewing a $750,000 salary.  This was a staggering salary for the 1940’s.  For example, in 2001 President George W. Bush earned only $400,000.  Ewing left the aluminum cartel to head up the US Government’s Federal Security Agency, and continued his campaign to add sodium fluoride to public drinking water.  It was claimed that fluoride could help protect teeth from tooth decay in children by killing off the bad enzymes that harm teeth.  

The problem is that fluoride exposure leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs and kidney as it disturbs the synthesis of collagen.  In addition fluorides have been shown to cause premature aging of the human body.  Where was water first fluorinated?  At the Nazi concentration camps in Germany.   Do you believe that the Nazi captors cared about the teeth of the Jewish prisoners?  Although there is absolutely no hard evidence to back their claim, some political researchers strongly believe that the real reason fluoride was added to the water supply, was to dull the minds of the masses, and render them more subservient to rule. 

Here Are Some Facts They Won’t Tell You About the Fluorinated Water that 53% of Americans Are Drinking:

·   14 Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and medicine now oppose the fluoridation of our drinking   water.

·   As a poison, fluoride is in the same class as the deadly arsenic and cyanide.

·   Fluoride is used in rat poison.

·   Sweden’s Nobel Institute recommended against fluoridation and the practice has been banned.

·   The Netherlands banned fluoridation in 1976.

·   On the advice of the Pasteur Institute, France chose not to fluoridate its water.

·   Germany outlawed the process because the 1ppm (part per million) was dangerously “close to the dose at which long term damage to the human body is to be expected”.

·   The American Medical Association has not carried out any research work, either long-term or short-term, regarding the possibility of any side effects.

·   The American Medical Association is not prepared to state that “no harm will be done to any person by water fluoridation.”

·    World Health Organization (WHO) – “Public health administrators should be aware of the total fluoride exposure before introducing any additional fluoride.”

·    US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) – Fluoride is an “unapproved drug" - "no research done on fluoride safety."

·    US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - call fluoride "a drinking water contaminant."

·    Finland banned fluoridation altogether when a study in the 1980s revealed that osteoporosis sufferers had extremely high levels of fluoride in their bones.

·    State of Nevada law calls Sodium Fluoride a pesticide.

·    State of California law regulates fluorides, classifying them as "hazardous waste."

·    California Board of Dental Examiners – “Dentists cannot provide a medical opinion regarding the safety of ingested fluoride.”

·    In the 1970s, Dr. Albert Schatz, the scientist who invented the antibiotic Streptomycin, found that water fluoridation in Latin America was linked to higher rates of infant mortality and deaths resulting from congenital malformation.  His findings convinced the Chilean government to abandon fluoridation for good.

·    Newsweek Article - "fluoride may be linked to cancer."

·    Segments of the population are unusually susceptible to the toxic effects of fluoride.  They include "postmenopausal women and elderly men, pregnant woman and their fetuses, people with deficiencies of calcium, magnesium and/or vitamin C, and people with cardiovascular and kidney problems.”  (United States Public Health Service Report)

·    After the first full year of fluoridation Kansas City, Missouri's infant mortality increased 13%.  (The Kansas City Star, November 21, 1982). After the fifth year of fluoridation in Kansas City, infant mortality increased 36%. (The Kansas City Star, February 26, 1987)

·    Proctor and Gamble, the toothpaste makers, acknowledge that a family-sized tube “theoretically contains enough fluoride to kill a small child.”  Following a ruling by the US FDA, American toothpaste now comes with a warning which states that if more than a pea-sized amount is swallowed, a Poison Control Center must be contacted immediately.  Are you sure you still want to give your kids (or yourself) fluoride toothpaste?

Many of the studies claiming that fluoride offers benefits to children’s teeth are shrouded in controversy.  The American Medical Association cannot even guarantee that this substance won’t harm people and admits that no studies have been done to prove that no side effects result from its consumption.  The FDA has refused to approve it.  Even if it was effective for helping to protect children’s teeth and was proven to have absolutely no side effects, its addition to the general water supply should still be questioned.  

Why should the water supply be used for mass medication?  This process is morally questionable.  Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd is a former president of the American Medical Association: “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. William Marcus was a senior toxicologist at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a U.S. government organization that strongly supported fluoridation.  Despite the pro-fluoride position held by the EPA, Dr. Marcus issued the following recommendation: “Regarding fluoridation, the EPA should act immediately to protect the public, not just on the cancer data, but on the evidence of bone fractures, arthritis, mutagenicity and other effects.”

He was fired in May 1992.  As a result the EPA was sued and found by the court to have destroyed key documents and lied about other evidence.  There is overwhelming research to show that fluoride weakens bones.  In a study published in a September 1994 issue of The Fluoride Report, Dr. John Lee showed that: “...7 out of 10 recent studies show a clear correlation between bone fractures and water fluoridation.  One of these studies involved 560,000 women over 65.  The size of this study completely obliterates the few reports of small populations that showed no correlation.”  

Slowly but surely people are becoming aware of the dangers of water fluoridation.  In 1996 alone, these associations stopped endorsing water fluoridation:

American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, American Academy of Allergy & Immunology, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Action Network, National Institute of Law Municipal Officers, American Chiropractic Association, American Civil Liberties Union, National Kidney Foundation, American Psychiatric Association, Society of Toxicology.  

It is sometimes argued that the journals offer a biased view and only publish a certain type of article.  For example a leading cancer journal recently published an industry study, which demonstrated that fluoride added to drinking water does not increase the risk of cancer in lab animals.  The very same journal rejected a research study from the National Institute of Health Sciences that found an increase in rare bone cancers among male rats who were fed fluoride.  Their excuse was that they did not publish lab-animal studies anymore.  There is accumulating evidence that fluoride in the water system can be a health hazard but “no one wants to touch this” according to James Huff of NIEHS.

And There’s Not Just One Poison In Our Public Water

Unfortunately fluoride isn’t the only contaminant, which is normally used as part of the ‘purification’ process.  Aluminum sulphate is added to water to help separate solids.  Upsetting evidence has emerged which links the aluminum in tap water to Alzheimer’s disease.  The lead added to water can cause growth retardation and lower intelligence levels.  It has also shown to cause kidney problems, blood ailments and high blood pressure in adults.  Oestrogens have been shown to cause a drop in male fertility, genetic defects and erectile dysfunction.  Further toxins in our drinking water include chlorine, inorganic minerals and nitrates.

What About Mineral Water?

Many specialists believe that mineral water is harmful because it contains inorganic minerals that your body cannot digest.  It is argued that these minerals, which your body cannot use, become toxins and lead to hardened arteries, similar to the way mineral deposits accumulate in a kettle, or the way stalactites form in a cave with dripping mineral water.

The main proponent of this idea was Paul Bragg who drank distilled water throughout his life after using it to recover from a crippling childhood illness. He was so healthy that he was still able to water-ski at the age of 98.  Fate it seems is not without a sense of irony.  The man who wrote the book ‘Water – The Shocking Truth’, and spent his life preaching the benefits of drinking only distilled water, died following a water sports accident. On the other hand, some physicians such as Dr. Joseph Mercola believe that distilled water is good for detoxifying the body but can lead to the leaching of vitamins and minerals in the long run. 

How Can I Minimize The Risks?

Although one glass of fluorinated water is unlikely to harm you, the evidence suggests that a lifetime of ingesting this poison probably will cause damage.  Some scientists believe that consuming fluorinated water for one year will cause lasting mental and physical damage.  Rather than drinking tap water, purified and distilled water are healthier options.  Avoid fluoride toothpaste.  I sometimes have a little fun by asking a pharmacist for a ‘poison-free toothpaste.’  When they inevitably try to reassure me that fluoride is beneficial to teeth and perfectly safe, they quickly find out that they are trying to convince the wrong man.

Try to avoid anything that you know contains fluoride.  Certain foods are low in fluoride: milk, eggs, red meats (not organs), fruit with a protective rind (watermelon, lemon, banana, coconut), fruits packed in their own juices (pineapple) and those canned in non-fluoridated or low-fluoridated countries.  Take vitamin B6 and C supplements.  Taking supplements of calcium and magnesium salts can help reduce fluoride absorption from the stomach and assist in eliminating it from your system.

Avoid fluoride containing drugs: If you are taking any of the following, you should request a fluoride-free alternative from your doctor: Prozac (fluoxetine), Rohypnol (flunitrazepam), Diflucan (fluconazole, Flixonase or Flixotide (fluticasone), Stelazine (trifluoperazine, Fluanxol or Depixol (flupenthixol) or Floxapen (flucloxacillin) and asthma drugs that use propellants containg fluoride: Ventolin and Becotide.

What Can We Do?

Those in favor of fluoride usually come up with the same lines “it’s good for the children” or “the dental association approve of it.”  If they were fully aware of the facts they should quickly change their tune.  With such strong evidence against fluoridation, many feel that the issue requires no further debate.  

In a 1997 letter to Calgary Councilors, Dr. A. Schatz pointed out that; “Many individuals with impeccable credentials in science, dentistry, and medicine have published incontrovertible evidence that fluoridation is harmful and does not reduce the incidence of dental caries.”  In the Food & Water Journal, summer 1998 Dr. Robert Carlton, pointed out “The level of fluoride the government allows the public is based on scientifically fraudulent information and altered reports. People can be harmed simply by drinking water.”

Let’s imagine for just one split second that fluorination is (A) safe and (B) beneficial.  Is it appropriate to use the water system as a method of mass-medicating the public?  Added to that, should a substance with such a huge amount of evidence against it (I know this evidence is hotly disputed), be even approved not mind added to the water system?  Surely for something to be in our water it would have to have almost unanimous agreement?  

Thankfully many organizations are now waking up the reality of the fluoride nightmare and are taking a firm stance against it.  If your drinking water is fluorinated, write to your newspaper, your local politicians, health boards and dental associations.  Once again, if everybody knew about the facts, this dreadful process would have to end.


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