Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  This even holds true for entire countries in Europe that have not had fluoridated water or toothpaste.
What has changed is that dental hygiene has improved, nutrition has improved, and access to dental care has improved. Studies do show a strong correlation between higher rates of tooth decay and lower economic status.
Japan and all of continental Europe either rejected the fluoride concept from the beginning or have stopped the practice. Most of Great Britain has also discontinued the practice, and Australia and New Zealand are in the process of reversing the trend. | | There is also evidence that communities with fluoridated water have a higher incidence of heart disease, and higher rates of bone cancer in young men. Some 30 percent of children in fluoridated communities have fluorosis, a malformation of tooth enamel that causes discoloration (usually chalky white patches) and brittleness. This is a permanent change in the teeth that has also been associated with abnormal bone structure.
Advocates of putting fluoride in toothpaste and mouthwash argue that it is not swallowed, and therefore not ingested. | | This substance has crept into every link in our food chain, and the evidence is that even without fluoridated water and toothpaste we're getting a higher dose than is safe or recommended in our daily diets.
Avoiding Fluoride in Your Water
You can be thankful if you live in an unfluoridated community because it's not easy to get rid of fluoride in your tap water. Distillation and reverse osmosis are the only two reliable methods for removing fluoride. |
James A. Howenstine, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  Some children drinking fluoridated water develop an unsightly staining of their teeth called dental fluorosis, which leads to psychological problems in some of these children.
One of the unfortunate problems with fluoride is that it accumulates in the body, with the body having no good mechanism for removal.
Could The Daily Drinking Of Fluoride Be Contributing To The Rising Incidence Of Cancer In The United States?
A population study in the U.S.A. compared the 10 largest cities fluoridating their water with the 10 largest cities that did not fluoridate their water. |
Richard Gerber, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Recent evidence suggests that even larger amounts of aluminum are released during cooking and stirring food in aluminum pots if fluoridated water is used.
Some recent research into Alzheimer's disease, an increasing cause of dementia in the population, has shown that a significant number of patients with this disorder have high aluminum levels in brain tissue. Although it may not necessarily be true that aluminum cookware is directly causing Alzheimer's disease, the metal may somehow be participating in the expression of the disease process. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  However, if mother drinks fluoridated water, it is now recommended NOT to give fluoridated vitamins to breastfed babies since it comes through the milk. Also, no fluoride supplements should be used at any age if the water is fluoridated.
DAILY NUTRIENT PROGRAM—INFANTS AND TODDLERS
Birtb-6 Months
Calories
115/kg.
Protein (grams)
2.2 g./kg.
Vitamin A
2,000 IUs
Vitamin D
400 IUs
Vitamin E
5 IUs
Vitamin K
15 meg.
Thiamine (T&i)
0.4 mg.
Riboflavin (B2)
0.5 mg.
Niacin (B3)
6 mg.
Pantothenic acid (B5)
3 mg.
Pyridoxine (B6)
0.4 mg.
Cobalamin (B12)
1.0 meg.
Folic acid
40 meg. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts |  All this, when the largest study ever conducted in this country on the effects of fluoridation, which looked at 39,000 school children, saw no significant differences in incidence of tooth decay between cities that had fluoridated water and cities that did not. It was found in this study that Butler, Kansas, which had the lowest evidence of dental caries, did not use fluoridation in its water supply.
It has no positive effects, but what about its down side? Fluoride is carcinogenic, and an immune suppressant that causes dental fluorosis (white or brown spots on the teeth). |
Nontoxic, Natural and EarthwiseDebra Lynn Dadd
See book keywords and concepts | | Over ten-thousand cancer deaths per year are linked to fluoridated water. Can also cause tiredness and weakness, mottling of the teeth, wrinkled skin, a prickly sensation in the muscles, kidney and bladder disorders, constipation, vomiting, itching after bathing, excessive thirst, headaches, arthritis, gum diseases, nervousness, diarrhea, hair loss, skin disorders, stomach disorders, numbness, brittle nails, sinus problems, mouth ulcers, vision problems, eczema, bronchitis, and asthma. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
See book keywords and concepts |  After correcting for age, race, and sex, the death rate from cancer of the digestive system was 9% higher with fluoridated water." (Page 42.)
Finally, and most depressing of all, come the C&EN revelations of an ongoing, decades-old organized suppression of scientific papers and research by competent scientists who cast any doubt on the questionable benefits or present possible dangers of medicating public water with artificial fluoride. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts |  Another example of the FDA's double standard is its attitude toward sodium fluoride, the substance that is added to the water supplies of over four thousand communities in the United States on the supposition that fluoridated water helps to reduce cavities. The original 1939 studies by Dr. H. Trendley Dean that led to this speculation, warned that those communities with low rates of tooth decay had in their natural drinking water, not only unusually high levels of fluoride, but also much more calcium. The report then stated that: "... |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | When added to water at 1 ppm, it can reduce dental caries by 30-50 percent. fluoridated water works best, however, when its use is begun in infancy or early childhood and continued throughout childhood. Fluoride-treated water does not decrease the gum disease that may also result from poor nutrition and poor hygiene. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | These fluoride levels are many times higher than the level of 1 part per million in fluoridated water.
These preliminary results, released in 1989, reignited the fluoridation controversy. When the National Toxicology Program's Board of Scientific Counselors' Technical Reports Review Panel evaluated the results of the study in April 1990, they found the evidence "equivocal"—too weak to attribute the bone cancers to fluoride. |
Janet Zand, LAc, OMD, Allan N. Spreed, MD, CNC, James B. LaValle, RPh, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  It is best not to count on fluoridated water as a preventive against cavities, but to take other measures, especially eating a healthy diet and praticing meticulous oral hygiene, to promote strong and healthy teeth.
Tooth-Grinding
See under temporomandibular joint syndrome.
Toxoplasmosis
See under pets and your health in Part One.
Trichomoniasis
Trichomoniasis is an infection caused by the protozoan Trichomonas vaginalis. The principal site of infection is the vagina; in fact, trichomoniasis is the second most prevalent type of vaginal infection in the United States. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts | | Likewise, in the Philadelphia Zoo there was a sharp increase in animal and bird deaths that coincided with the introduction of fluoridated water.
Dr. Paul H. Phillips, a University of Chicago biochemist who spent twenty-nine years in research on fluoride toxicity, has pointed out that sodium fluoride, even when taken in extremely minute quantities, accumulates and builds up in the skeletal parts of the body Symptoms of chronic fluoride poisoning may not appear for many years, and when they do, they can be very hard to diagnose. | | These concentrations are significant because many fluoridated water supplies are maintained at one ppm! One can only wonder how many cases of mild fluoride poisoning go unreported or are attributed to some other cause.
"We're not exactly sure what the problem is," says the doctor, "but it's probably some kind of viral infection. Take these pills four times a day for a week and, if they don't do the job, we'll try something else. Tricky things, those viruses. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Oral fluoride supplements, fluoridated water, and fluoride-containing toothpastes are used to prevent tooth decay and have not caused adverse effects at such low dosages.
Routes of Exposure: Inhalation and ingestion.
Symptoms of Exposure: Inhalation of fluorine derivatives may cause immediate irritation of the skin, eyes, nose, mouth, and lungs; coughing; choking; and chills and then after one to two days, fever, coughing, difficulty breathing, and blue skin discoloration from lack of oxygen. Between 10 and 30 days later, the symptoms may disappear. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
See book keywords and concepts | | Hypersensitivity and side-effect reactions from fluoridated water: "Dutch doctors performed double-blind experiments on patients who became ill after fluoridation began in the Netherlands
[now banned]. By using coded bottles of drinking water, some fluoridated and some not, the physicians showed that the symptoms [e.g., muscular weakness, chronic fatigue, excessive thirst, headaches, skin rashes, joint pains, digestive upsets, tingling in extremities, and loss of mental acuity] were caused by fluoride, rather than some other factor." (Pages 39-40. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Released in 1991, the report concluded that animal and epidemiologic studies fail to demonstrate a link between fluoridated water and cancer and advised that fluoridation continue because of its proven dental health benefits.
The color, taste, or odor of drinking water cannot tell you if it is safe. It must be analyzed using scientific instruments.
Federal law requires most public water companies to test their water regularly and to make the results available to their customers free of charge. Contact your local water utility and ask for the last complete analysis. |
Earl Mindell and Hester Mundis
See book keywords and concepts |  Don't boil fluoridated water more than ten minutes. (Boiling drives off chlorine and other contaminants, but it concentrates the fluorides to an unhealthy degree.)
Eating large mouthfuls of food can be particularly hazardous if you're taking tranquilizers such as Compazine and Thorazine, since these drugs tend to reduce the ability to cough. Don't eat foods that are high in purines if you are prone to gout attacks. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts | | This means that vegetables and fruits which have been irrigated by fluoridated water supplies could become potential killers.3
1. See news release dated August 1972 and "Is Fluorine Pollution Damaging Hearts," by K.A. Baird, M.D., (Citizen Action Program, 608 Gowan Rd., Antigo, Wise, 54409).
2. Garrison, op. cit., pp. 228-230.
3. K.A. Baird, M.D., op. cit., p. 4.
As a result of this toxic waste, aluminum companies have been the objects of successful damage suits. |
Arthur C. Upton, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Children in communities with fluoridated water have been shown to have between 25 and 65 percent less tooth decay than children in communities where the water supply is not fluoridated.
Some groups, such as the National Health Federation and the Safe Water Foundation, have objected to fluoridation of public water supplies, contending that fluoride is a toxic and possibly carcinogenic chemical. Congress ordered the U.S. Public Health Service and National Toxicology Program to conduct an animal study investigating such concerns in 1977. |
Marion Nestle
See book keywords and concepts |  On the one hand, the almost complete elimination of rickets, goiter, and pellagra, invariably attributed to fortification of foods with vitamin D, iodine, and niacin, respectively, is considered one of the great public health achievements of the twentieth century, as is the 40%-6o% reduction in tooth decay that followed the introduction of fluoridated water.34 In some cases, however, factors other than fortification may have been equally or more important in eliminating nutrient deficiencies. The relationship of niacin fortification to pellagra best illustrates this point. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Cooking with fluoridated water in aluminum cookware increases the aluminum in the water and the food; still, the amounts we obtain in this manner are small in comparison with those from additives. Aluminum salts used in antiperspirants are not a major contaminant either, unless these products are overused. (Aerosol sprays, however, should be avoided for environmental toxicity reasons.) Antacids containing aluminum hydroxide can be a big source if they are taken regularly or abused, as antacids sometimes are. Some children's aspirins have been found to contain aluminum as well. | | This 37 ppm is also a result of the use of fluoridated water, vitamins, and stannous fluoride toothpaste.) Though zinc is the twenty-fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust, measuring about 0.01 percent, it is water soluble both in the soil and in food.
Rains can wash zinc (as well as iodine, sulfur, and selenium) from our farming soils, as can modern agricultural techniques. When we cook food, much of the zinc may go into the water, as do other minerals and vitamins, so the cooking liquids, especially from vegetables, should be consumed as well. |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
See book keywords and concepts |  Therefore, they maintained, the levels of fluoride necessary to inhibit these important enzymes would never be found in these tissues. This claim is incorrect as can be seen in the table below.
ACCUMULATION OF FLUORIDE RESULTING FROM FLUORIDE EXPOSURE
FLUORIDE CONCENTRATIONS IN ORGANS OF PEOPLE In 1939 In 1960-65
Before Fluoridation After Fluoridation
Began In The U.S. Began In The U.S.
Brain
Heart
Kidney
Liver
Lung
Spleen
Pancreas
Thyroid
0.53 ppm 0.51 ppm 0.68 ppm 0.54 ppm 0.27 ppm 0.28 ppm not reported not reported
1.5 ppm 1.8 ppm
2.3 ppm
1.4 ppm 2.1 ppm 1.8 ppm 1.7 ppm 4. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
See book keywords and concepts |  Many experts argue that it poses a serious health risk. Fluoride is a known poison and is classified as very toxic to extremely toxic in the National Library of Medicine's computerized data service on toxic substances. Numerous studies have demonstrated that fluorides are retained in the body and can build up to poisonous concentrations.23 "An enormous body of research documenting the toxic effects of acute and prolonged fluoride ingestion can readily be found in the medical library," says Thomas E. Levy, M.D., J.D., co-author of Uninformed Consent: The Hidden Dangers of Dental Care. |
G. Edward Griffin
See book keywords and concepts | | Washingtonians have almost a third morel2
But that is not really the important point. Even if sodium fluoride did reduce cavities as its promoters claim, the fact is that this chemical is extremely toxic even in small quantities. So much so that drug companies are required to warn consumers that the
1. Dean, "Domestic Health and Dental Caries," Public Health Report, May, 1939, 54:862-888.
2. Garrison, op. cit., pp. 229, 230. presence in pills of as little as one milligram of this substance can cause illness in some persons. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | The suggested safe intake of fluoride (not necessarily the optimum, which we really do not know) is between 1.5 and 4.0 mg. per day. Amounts up to 15-20 mg. per day are probably well tolerated, though we do not know the long-range effects. And until we do, I personally would discourage overuse of fluoride. A complete review of the fluoride controversy, written from a global viewpoint, appeared in the August 1988 issue of Chemical Engineering.
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