7 things that Are Killing You!, page 4

Originally posted by earthman4
Here in the Southwest Flouride is a naturally occuring thing in the water, it is not added.

It occurs "naturally" because it's been manufactured by the millions of tons by our nuclear industry, of which it is a toxic by-product.

The nuclear energy establishment wants to cash in on South Africa's controversial chemical "tooth medicine" plan, writes TONY CARNIE

THE Pelindaba nuclear/chemical complex - set up by the apartheid government in the 1960s to produce atomic bombs and enriched uranium fuel - is set to become the major supplier of hundreds of tons of fluoride which will be added to drinking water throughout the country from next year.

In terms of health department regulations, water suppliers like Umgeni Water will be compelled to add fluoride to tap water in towns and cities nationwide, in a bid to reduce tooth decay.

In its concentrated form, fluoride is highly toxic. Yet it has been added in diluted form to the drinking water of many Americans for fifty years, to harden tooth enamel.

www2.fluoridealert.org...

Journalist Christopher Bryson claims in his new book “The Fluoride Deception” that the post-war campaign to fluoridate drinking water was less a public health innovation than a public relations ploy sponsored by industrial users of fluoride–including the government’s nuclear weapons program.

Hailed as a harmless chemical that would prevent tooth decay, new evidence shows how fluoride could be linked to serious health problems.

Fluoridation was first advanced in the US at the end of the second World War. Proponents argued that fluoride in water and toothpaste would help to protect teeth and prevent decay. Over the following decades, fluoride was added to public water supplies across the country.

While the benefits of fluoridation have been held to be unquestionable, accumulating evidence points to a frightening prospect: that fluoride may have serious adverse health effects, including infant mortality, congenital defects and IQ.

www.democracynow.org...

There is plenty of information available online as to why fluoride is "bad." Scientific studies, even. It is actually BANNED in China and many European countries (look it up). They have even shown that it is associated with a slight INCREASE in cavity rates in Germany. Only in the US where some people still make a lot of money from selling it (a waste product), do people still argue that it's good for you. This country sucks.

The incidence of rotten teeth have jumped dramatically as people switch to bottled water. They have been urged to drink tap water to save their teeth. It seems its benifits outwiegh its risks.

You are free to drink it yourself, but I try to avoid it every chance I get. Sugar is obviously what gives you cavities, not pure drinking water itself. The trouble is, fluoride is in nearly all drinks, all food that is processed with tap water, etc., so it's very hard to avoid. But it calcifies your pineal gland, leads to bone problems including osteoporosis, lowers your IQ (as a neuro-toxin), and lots of other not-so-nice things. The Nazis used it to keep people passive.

If you think it's good for you, more power to you. Just remember that doctors used to also recommend cigarettes. And asbestos is also now illegal. Etc. You are making yourself a guinea pig.

[edit on 8-6-2009 by bsbray11]