Attaining Medical Self SufficiencyDuncan Long
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| Consequently the greatest positive effects of fluoridation are seen in children. (However there are indications that the elderly may be helped as well I— though by having stronger bones rather than less cavities in their teeth; this can bej important as this age group starts having problems with osteoporosis.)
In addition to seeing benefits from ingesting fluoride, it is also possible to achieve good results by applying fluoride directly to the surface of teeth (which is the thinking of adding fluoride to toothpaste). |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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 Tooth decay has decreased 50 to 60 percent over the last thirty years, and this improvement has largely been attributed to fluoridation of public water supplies. However, serious challenges to this assumption have shown comparable reduction of tooth decay in fluoridated and nonfluoridated areas alike.48 It is well accepted in the scientific community that excessive fluoride can cause dental fluorosis, a condition that has symptoms ranging from mild discoloration or mottling to darkened, pitted, brittle teeth that are very sensitive to fracture. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 Presently, both these sources are becoming more and more polluted as toxic chemicals, acid rain, raw sewage, agricultural herbicides, pesticide runoff, chlorination, fluoridation, sewage landfills, and radioactive wastes are either dumped into or seep into these two types of water sources. One of the best-known examples of toxic water pollution to date is the infamous Love Canal, where according to The New York Times in 1984, thousands of tons of toxic chemicals were dumped, including 60 pounds of the deadly poison dioxin.
How Did This All Begin? |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
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 Burk (co-author of the Burk-Yiamouyiannis studies on fluoridation and cancer) never worked for the U.S. National Cancer Institute. According to Mason's letter, "Dr. Dean Burk worked for the National Cancer Institute of Canada, not the United States."
Demanding an apology from Dr. Mason, Dr. Burk pointed out, "I have never worked for the National Cancer Institute of Canada, but I worked in the U.S. National Cancer Institute for 35 years, from May 1939 to March 1974, ... |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
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| Although some possible toxic effects from fluoridation have not been well proven, they have certainly not been disproven, and there is adequate reason to question its safety. It is clear that many individuals are allergic or hypersensitive to fluoride. And yet, whether or not to fluoridate has become more a political question than a medical one. I generally recommend avoiding water and vitamins that have been fluoridated. |
Dr. John Heinerman
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 Vance detested tap water, declaring that the chlorination and fluoridation poisoned rather than helped animals in the recovery stages. I was to use only well or distilled water. Freshly made tomato juice was his favorite base to work from. We had an old Osterizer in the kitchen, which I used for this purpose. I usually started with a couple of medium-sized and ripe tomatoes, adding a tiny bit of water to thin things down if the mixture became too thick. Then I would add a little parsley or spinach leaves or turnip leaves or Romaine lettuce. |
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis
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| Judge Flaherty pointed out that he was "compellingly convinced" of the adverse effects of fluoridation and ordered a halt to it as a public health hazard.
During a court case in Scotland (1980-1982), Sir Richard Doll was asked the following question regarding absolute increases in age-sex-race adjusted cancer deaths in fluoridated vs. nonfluoridated areas.
Q. "Well, the figures [7.1, 6.0, and 4. |
David Brownstein
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 John Yiamouyiannis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the effects of fluoridation, states that fluoride, in the amount added to drinking water, "inhibits over 100 different enzymes in the cells of people living in fluoridated areas." His research (with the chief chemist at the National Cancer Institute) estimated that the fluoride added to the nation's water supply was responsible for 10,000 additional deaths from cancer per year.4 A recent study in the journal Brain Research showed that low doses of fluoride caused neurological damage in rats. |
Gary Null
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 More shockingly, we will find that many say the fluoridation of water, a public health practice established in most major cities, is not only dangerous to our bodies but has no positive benefits for teeth at all.
Healthy Diet. Healthy Teeth_
The first thing to think about when it comes to healthy teeth is whether we are following an appropriate diet, which will be reflected in the condition of the gums and teeth.
Think of the general practitioner of yesteryear. One imagines this doctor making a house call on an ailing patient. |
Elson M. Haas, M.D.
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 There is some controversy as to whether fluoridation has some subtle poisoning effect or whether it is nontoxic and beneficial. In my opinion, fluoridated water is another example of technology's treating the effect instead of correcting the cause, which is primarily poor diet.
Fluoride is probably not essential to humans, though it is helpful in strengthening the bones and teeth. It is found only in trace amounts, about 2-3 grams, in the body, and most of that is in bones and teeth. The blood level of fluoride is about 0.3 mg. per 100 ml. |
| Copper pipes may add excess copper to our bodies, and often have lead solder lines, which adds to lead contamination. fluoridation of water is also of concern to many people. Although no definite short-term dangers have been found to be associated with it, other than toxicity from excessive intake levels, the long-range effects of drinking fluoridated water are not yet known.
Most inorganic pollutants are safe at low concentrations, although lead and mercury can be neurotoxic, and nitrosamines are carcinogenic. |
Ralph W. Moss, Ph.D.
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 It also stated that "scientists within and outside the National Cancer Program have found again that fluoridation of drinking water does not contribute to a cancer burden for people''—a claim sharply contested by unorthodox scientists such as Dean Burk, Ph.D., and John Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. (Congressional Record, December 16, 1975).
What the report didn't say was what millions of people had been led to expect: that the National Cancer Program had found a cure for even one major type of human cancer.
Not long after this, Dr. Rauscher stepped down as head of the cancer program. |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 Green Pharmacy for Tooth Decay
Tooth decay was an even bigger problem before the fluoridation of water in this century. From ancient times until the nineteenth century, herbalists put a great deal of effort into studying plants that helped preserve teeth. They discovered quite a few that were very effective.
W\ Tea (Camellia sinensis). In addition to a generous endowment of several compounds that work together to prevent tooth decay, tea also contains a considerable amount of tooth-preserving fluoride.
Green tea may contain more fluoride than black tea. |
Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch
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 Reimann discover that one-third to one-half of the sediments in the mid-Atlantic Ocean consist of dust blown from Africa and Europe
Clomiphene is introduced to increase fertility; it also results in an increase in multiple births
A 20-year study of fluoridation in Evanston, IL, shows that dental cavities have been reduced by 58 percent as a result of adding fluorides to the water supply
Surgeon Christiaan Neelthing Barnard (b Beaufort, South
Hans A. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler and David Rorvik
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 ADVERSE REACTIONS
At the amounts recommended for fluoridation of drinking water and at the recommended doses used for caries prophylaxis, fluoride (sodium fluoride) is generally well tolerated and has not been found to have significant adverse reactions.
Recommended adequate intake for adult males is 4 milligrams daily and for adult females, 3 milligrams daily.
Adverse reactions are occasionally reported at doses of 5 to 10 milligrams daily and are more frequently reported at doses of 10 to 20 milligrams daily and higher. |
Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D.
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 When introduced in the mid-1940s in the United States, fluoridation was attacked by some groups as a Communist plot.
Despite a substantial history of successful, nontoxic use of fluoridated water in former Communist countries and elsewhere, biological dentists and some other groups persist in believing that fluoridated water is toxic. Global evidence does not support this notion. tion of saline water, weakened local anesthetics, or homeopathic remedies into acupoints (acupuncture points) in the mouth (see Chapter 1). |
James A. Duke, Ph.D.
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 But tea is nature's own fluoridation, helping to strengthen teeth against decay and calcium loss. Both green and black teas have fluorine, though the green variety may have more.
Few Americans realize that South Carolina has a number of tea plantations. That's where I get the tea plants for my Garden of Youth. I have to pot them and move them into the greenhouse over winter. It gets colder here in Maryland than in South Carolina.
You don't have to grow your own tea. You can buy both the black and green varieties in tea bag form in supermarkets and health food stores. |
G. Edward Griffin
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 And the highest court of the Netherlands declared fluoridation illegal on June 22, 1973. As the National Health Federation asked pointedly: "Do these countries know something we don't or refuse to accept?"3
1. "Industry's Fluoride Problem," by Lee Hardy, National Health Federation Bulletin, Oct. 1973, p. 20.
2. See K. Roholm, "The Fog Disaster in the Meuse Valley, 1930," Journal of Industrial Hygiene Toxicology, 1937, 19:126-136. Also Philip Stadtler, "Fluorine Gases in Atmosphere Blamed for Death," Chemical and Engineering News, 1948, 26:3962.
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| Studies in Antigo, Wisconsin, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Newburgh, New York, all showed that within months of adopting fluoridation of the water supply the death rate from heart disease in these cities nearly doubled and leveled out at about twice the national average. Likewise, in the Philadelphia Zoo there was a sharp increase in animal and bird deaths that coincided with the introduction of fluoridated water.
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Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 Dean himself has twice been forced to admit in court that his original statistics favoring fluoridation were invalid.26
Christa Danielson, M.D., found an increased risk of hip fracture in men and women over age 65 who had been exposed to fluoride in their drinking water for 20 years. At least 10% of fluoride in adults is deposited in bones and studies have shown a positive correlation between higher fluoride intake and decreased bone mass and strength.27 In 1975, John Yiamouyiannis, M.D., and Dean Burk, M.D., compared ten large U.S. |
| Recently, Canada's foremost promoter of fluoridation, Dr. Hardy Limeback, head of Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto, and President of the Canadian Association of Dental Research, told his colleagues and students that he had unintentionally misled them. "For the past 15 years," he stated, "I had refused to study the toxicology information readily available to anyone. Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from my mind."
Among the findings that finally opened Dr. |
| Safe Water Coalition 5615 West Lyons Court Spokane, Washington 99208 (509) 328-6704
The purpose of this organization is to educate legislators and the public on the hazards of fluoridation.
Recommended Reading
The Complete Guide to Mercury Toxicity from Dental Fillings. Joyal Taylor. San Diego, CA: Scripps Publishing, 1988.
Dental Mercury Detox. Sam and Michael Ziff. Orlando, FL: Bio-Probe, 1993.
Dentistry Without Mercury. Sam and Michael Ziff. Orlando, FL: Bio-Probe, 1993.
Fluoride, The Aging Factor. John Yiamouyiannis, Ph.D. Delaware, OH: Health Action Press, 1986. |
| Public Health Service. Dr. Dean was trying to determine the reason some people had higher than normal levels of staining of their teeth. He cited fluoride as the cause of the staining, but also credited fluoride as the reason these same people had fewer cavities.25 In 1950, the Public Health Service recommended using artificial fluoridation in the public water systems to fight tooth decay. Since the time fluoride entered the water system, there have been many health-related problems linked to its use but no statistically significant reduction in tooth decay. Dr. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
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 Sir Richard Doll's role in the debate on the fluoridation of water supplies was equally predictable. It has been known for a long time that fluoride is a poison. In October 1944 the Journal of the American Medical Association published an editorial stating "that the use of drinking water containing as little as 1.2 to 3 parts per million of fluoride will cause such developmental disturbances in bones as osteosclerosis, spondylosis, and osteopetrosis, as well as goitre. |
Sheldon Saul Hendler
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 Later on, a couple of researchers claimed that fluoridation of water causes cancer. There is absolutely no evidence that this is true.
Fluorides not only significantly decrease the frequency of dental caries, they may also prevent and treat osteoporosis and protect against degenerative disease of the cardiovascular system. Other health benefits for fluoride are expected to be discovered as we move away from thinking about the element as foe and toward embracing it more as friend. |
Gary Null
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| 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). It increases the tendency to hip fracture by poisoning the bones.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Why did this dangerous substance, with no real protective qualities, become so widely adopted? |
Walter Last
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 For further information on the health dangers of fluoride and a good bibliography of the scientific literature on fluoride, see: www.fluoridealert.org.)
Aluminum: Another mineral harmful to our health that is added to our drinking water to precipitate impurities is aluminum. This is not a so-called heavy metal, but it causes health problems nevertheless. We can also ingest it with some brands of bakine oowder. free-flowine salt. or aluminum hydroxide antacids, but most commonly we absorb it through using aluminum cookware and utensils. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 Most authoritative scientific overviews of fluoridation have omitted negative information about it, even when the oversight is pointed out." C&EN cites as an example of this a professor of environmental medicine in Denmark, Phillipe Grandjean, writing about a WHO study on fluorides stating, "Information which could cast any doubt on the advantage of fluoride supplements was left out by the Task Group. Unless I had been present myself, I would have found it hard to believe." (Page 36.)
"In 1982, John A. |
| Enzymatic and mutagenic effects: Produced "a transient decrease in human serum enzyme activity associated with the advent of water fluoridation." (Page 40.) "Tests . . . show sodium fluoride mutagenic for cultured lymphoma cells." (Page 41.)
Birth defects and cancer: There was "a higher rate of Down's syndrome births among mothers in fluoridated areas." (Page 41.) "After correcting for age, race, and sex, the death rate from cancer of the digestive system was 9% higher with fluoridated water." (Page 42. |
| 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. |
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