Fluoridated water and your health

"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.
[ http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=second-thoughts-on-fluoride ]

Fagin is an award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New
York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.

"Outside the U.S., fluoridation has spread to Canada, the U.K.,
Australia, New Zealand and a few other countries. Critics of the
practice have generally been dismissed as gadflies or zealots by
mainstream researchers and public health agencies in those countries
as well as the U.S. (In other nations, however, water fluoridation is
rare and controversial.)"

Indeed, the zeitgeist for scoffing at those who spoke of the dangers
of mass medicating the public against their will with fluoride was the
deranged and paranoid character of General Ripper in the hit 1964
Peter Selllers movie Dr. Strangelove.

But that stereotype is quickly fading as serious scientific research
uncovers 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.

Fagin interviewed Steven Levy, director of the Iowa Fluoride Study
which tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. Nine-year-old
"Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was
fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis... than
[nine-year-old] children living in nonfluoridated areas of the state,"
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.
[ http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1504672,00.html ]

Based on the findings of the study, the respected Environmental
Working Group lobbied to have fluoride in tap water be added to the US
government's classified list of substances known or anticipated to
cause cancer in humans.

Cancer rates in the U.S. have skyrocketed with one in three people now
contracting the disease at some stage in their life.

The link to bone cancer has also been discovered by other scientists,
but a controversy ensued after it emerged that Harvard Professor
Chester Douglass, who downplayed the connection in his final report,
was in fact editor-in-chief of The Colgate Oral Health Report, a
quarterly newsletter funded by Colgate-Palmolive Co., which makes
fluoridated toothpaste.

An August 2006 Chinese study found that fluoride in drinking water
damages children's liver and kidney functions.

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. (Ref. book: "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.

- Sources of fluoride include: fluoride dental products, fluoride
pesticides, fluoridated pharmaceuticals, processed foods made with
fluoridated water, and tea.

Click here to find out if your water supply is poisoned with deadly
fluoride: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/MWF/Index.asp "

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