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Government To Reduce Fluoride Levels in Drinking Water Because Too Much Fluoride Can Cause Health Problems
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a reduction in allowable fluoride levels in U.S. drinking water:
HHS’
proposed recommendation of 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of
water replaces the current recommended range of 0.7 to 1.2 milligrams.
This updated recommendation is based on recent EPA and HHS scientific
assessments to balance the benefits of preventing tooth decay while
limiting any unwanted health effects.
As AP notes:
A
scientific report five years ago said that people who consume a
lifetime of too much fluoride — an amount over EPA's limit of 4
milligrams — can lead to crippling bone abnormalities and brittleness.
That
and other research issued Friday by the EPA about health effects of
fluoride are sure to re-energize groups that still oppose adding it to
water supplies.
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In March, 2006, the National
Academy of Sciences released a report recommending that the EPA lower
its maximum standard for fluoride in drinking water to below 4
milligrams. The report warned severe fluorosis could occur at 2
milligrams. Also, a majority of the report's authors said a lifetime of
drinking water with fluoride at 4 milligrams or higher could raise the
risk of broken bones.
Late last year, lawyers for the Fluoride
Action Network, Beyond Pesticides, and Environmental Working Group
threatened legal action if the EPA did not lower its ceiling on
fluoride.
In Europe, fluoride is rarely added to water supplies.
In Britain, only about 10 percent of the population has fluoridated
water. It's been a controversial issue there, with critics arguing
people shouldn't be forced to have "medical treatment" forced on them.
Some scientists also have found that fluoride can cause damage to children's liver and kidneys, and to other parts of the body as well.
Here is
the 2006 National Academy of Science report discussed above. The
report reviews scientific studies which find that fluoride affects intelligence.
Indeed, studies from around the world have continued to find that
exposure to fluoride - especially in the very young - lowers IQ. See this and this. The same is true for rats exposed to fluoride. See this and this. And see the studies listed here.
Dr. Vyvyan Howard - a PhD fetal pathologist, who is
a professor of developmental toxico-pathology at the University of
Liverpool and University of Ulster, president of the International
Society of Doctors for the Environment and former president of the Royal
Microscopical Society and the International Society for Stereology,
and general editor of the Journal of Microscopy - said in a 2008 Canadian television interview
(short, worthwhile video at the link) that studies done in several
countries show that children’s IQ are likely to be lower in high
natural water fluoride areas.
He said that these studies are
plausible because fluoride is known to affect the thyroid hormone which
affects intelligence and fluoride is also a known neurotoxicant. Such
studies have not been conducted in countries that artificially
fluoridate the water such as the US, UK and Canada, but should be, he
said.
And as the International Business Times noted last month on the newest Chinese study on fluoride:
Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence, says a study published in Environmental Health Perspectives,
a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences. Fluoride is added to 70 percent of U.S. public drinking water
supplies.***
About 28 percent of the children in the
low-fluoride area scored as bright, normal or higher intelligence
compared to only 8 percent in the "high" fluoride area of Wamaio.In
the high-fluoride city, 15 percent had scores indicating mental
retardation and only 6 percent in the low-fluoride city. The authors of
the study eliminated both lead exposure and iodine deficiency as
possible causes for the lowered IQs.
One scientist - Jennifer Luke - alleged in a 2001 scientific article that fluoride accumulates in the brain (specifically, in the structure of the pineal gland) more than
it accumulates in our bones. In other words, she implies that fluoride
may accumulate more in the brain than in the teeth, doing more harm than
good (here's Luke's 1997 PhD dissertation on the topic.)
The 2006 National Academy of Sciences report corroborates some of Luke's allegations:
As
with other calcifying tissues, the pineal gland can accumulate
fluoride (Luke 1997, 2001). Fluoride has been shown to be present in the
pineal glands of older people (14-875 mg of fluoride per kg of gland
in persons aged 72-100 years), with the fluoride concentrations being
positively related to the calcium concentrations in the pineal gland,
but not to the bone fluoride, suggesting that pineal fluoride is not
necessarily a function of cumulative fluoride exposure of the individual
(Luke 1997, 2001). Fluoride has not been measured in the pineal glands
of children or young adults, nor has there been any investigation of
the relationship between pineal fluoride concentrations and either
recent or cumulative fluoride intakes.
Donald Miller - cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington - alleges:
Studies show that the rates of bone cancer are substantially higher in fluoridated areas, particularly in boys. [See this.]
Other cancers, of the head and neck, GI tract, pancreas, and lungs,
have a 10 percent higher incidence. Fluoride affects the thyroid gland
and causes hypothyroidism, which is also an increasingly frequent
disorder in the US. Other studies show that high levels of fluoride in
drinking water are associated with birth defects and early infant
mortality.
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Studies
show that the rates of bone cancer are substantially higher in
fluoridated areas, particularly in boys. Other cancers, of the head and
neck, GI tract, pancreas, and lungs, have a 10 percent higher
incidence. Fluoride affects the thyroid gland and causes
hypothyroidism, which is also an increasingly frequent disorder in the
US. Other studies show that high levels of fluoride in drinking water
are associated with birth defects and early infant mortality.
Fluoride also damages the brain, both directly and indirectly. Rats given fluoridated water at a dose of 4 ppm develop symptoms resembling attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder. High concentrations of fluoride accumulate in the pineal gland,
which produces serotonin and melatonin. Young girls who drink
fluoridated water reach puberty six months earlier than those who drink
unfluoridated water, which is thought to be a result of reduced
melatonin production. People with Alzheimer's disease have high levels
of aluminum in their brains. Fluoride combines with aluminum in
drinking water and takes it through the blood-brain barrier into the
brain. Dr. Russell Blaylock, MD, a neurosurgeon, spells out in chilling
detail the danger fluoride poses to one's brain and health in general
in his book Health and Nutrition Secrets that can Save Your Life (2002).
And see PhD chemist Joel Kauffman's review of fluoride in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Indeed, the whole fluoride fad might have been started for reasons a tad different from concern about cavities. As I wrote last August:
The
government allegedly ordered Manhattan Project scientists to
whitewash the toxicity of flouride (flouride is a byproduct in the
production of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium). As Project Censored noted in 1999:Recently
declassified government documents have shed new light on the
decades-old debate over the fluoridation of drinking water, and have
added to a growing body of scientific evidence concerning the health
effects of fluoride. Much of the original evidence about fluoride, which
suggested it was safe for human consumption in low doses, was
actually generated by “Manhattan Project” scientists in the 1940s. As
it turns out, these officials were ordered by government powers to
provide information that would be “useful in litigation” and that
would obfuscate its improper handling and disposal. The once
top-secret documents, say the authors, reveal that vast quantities of
fluoride, one of the most toxic substances known, were required for
the production of weapons-grade plutonium and uranium. As a result,
fluoride soon became the leading health hazard to bomb program workers
and surrounding communities.
Studies commissioned after
chemical mishaps by the medical division of the “Manhattan Project”
document highly controversial findings. For instance, toxic accidents
in the vicinity of fluoride-producing facilities like the one near
Lower Penns Neck, New Jersey, left crops poisoned or blighted, and
humans and livestock sick. Symptoms noted in the findings included
extreme joint stiffness, uncontrollable vomiting and diarrhea, severe
headaches, and death. These and other facts from the secret documents
directly contradict the findings concurrently published in
scientific journals which praised the positive effects of fluoride.
Regional
environmental fluoride releases in the northeast United States also
resulted in several legal suits against the government by farmers
after the end of World War II, according to Griffiths and Bryson.
Military and public health officials feared legal victories would
snowball, opening the door to further suits which might have kept the
bomb program from continuing to use fluoride. With the Cold War
underway, the New Jersey lawsuits proved to be a roadblock to
America’s already full-scale production of atomic weapons. Officials
were subsequently ordered to protect the interests of the government.After the war, ... the dissemination of misinformation continued.
Note: While the U.S. is reducing
fluoride levels in water, some have proposed adding it to salt and to
milk. For example, as the International Dental Journal reported in 2005:
Alternatives to automatic fluoridation by means of water fluoridation are salt fluoridation [and] milk fluoridation
... and the WHO Oral Health Programme is currently undertaking
evaluation of demonstration projects in several countries.
(page 358).
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Actually, it can damage teeth, too. Look up "flourosis."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_fluorosis
Fluoride, just one more control mechanism in big brothers little shop of horrors. Distillation removes almost all crap from tap, well or treated water including violotile organics, and bacteria and cysts, oh and fluoride as well.
I gave up fluoridated water several years ago and I feel fine and my teeth and bones are doing well. DaVinci didn't have fluoridated water and he did allright.
Maybe we been lied to? By our own government? i'm shocked I tell you, shocked....gambling at Ricks's? This cannot be...
The odd thing is there are no published studies that show fluoridated water is either safe or effective and yet the machine rolls on poisoning our water and very very few even question what is being done or why.
As I can pick a drop point or a strike point point on a stock.
It has started. Night all.
They may reduce fluoride on drinking water, but they are adding it in yet other widely used products. One of them is SALT.
http://www.who.int/oral_health/publications/idj55_351/en/index.html
Fantastic...the World Health Organization...the same group that called the pig flu a pandemic.
We're saved!...ROTFL.
Some of their members shill for drug companies...what could possibly go wrong with the idea of a brand new, barely tested, pig flu vaccine rushed into the bloodstream of millions of unsuspecting citizens before it's shelf life expired?
Clearly this was a case (in the statists mindset) for government and media intervention...to force vaccination's.
Well the nmewn household wasn't biting...I not only wrote HELL NO! in black sharpie pen on the forms they sent home...in no uncertain terms I informed my kids that if they come at you with an inhaler, pill or needle to kick/scream/punch & run out of the school and let me deal with any of the consequences.
I recently became aware of flouride as a health issue. At age 50 I may be at my life's limit for it. Flouride is in everything made with water and is in many drugs. Anything with flu in the generic name including many*surprise*surprise*antidepressants! It is one of the heavier halogens that displaces another halogen, iodide. We have much too much chloride, flouride and bromide, and not enough iodine in our diets. Iodide was replaced by bromide as a bread dough conditioner 20 years ago, again based on more faulty science.
I am very surprised to see this on zero hedge albeit a pleasant surprise. I use Tom's of Maine toothepaste, but must look at the label since they were bought out and now produce flouridated toothepastes as well. I now drink RO water to which I add trace minerals. I also stopped drinking water from plastic bottles. All showers have a carbon filter to the shower head and baths are filled from the filtered showerhead. RO system is about $150 and easy to install. Showerhead filters run around $30.
I have read that Boron will detox flouride, among other things.
you are correct. boron will detox fluoride. otherwise, the fluoride levels continues to build.
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while i'm grateful that this information is being made public, I still don't get what the hidden agenda is behind it. It's always been in the slavemasters best interest to keep the population sick, diseased and unenlightened.
So what gives?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0he-LZNzVg0
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Dr. Strangelove Mandrake and General Ripper Bodily Fluids
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better living and profit through chemistry by
recycling waste into a consumed commodity and
slowly killing your customers. fluoride = rat poison.
why in drinking water? for the "money" !
it is a symptom of the larger stupidity.
Communist prevert plots to sap the vital bodily fluids of the American public!
We need to seed the clouds over Asia and Arabia with Flouride, STAT!
I always thought it was amazing that you need a prescription from a dentist or doctor for flouride pills for children (which is a measured dose) but can be put in the water supply with total disreguard.
I only drink beer and I'm still stupid.
Maybe I'm just an idiot??- Nope, I've got my gold and a farm.
Toms of maine(non-flouridated) and bottled h2o are family staples. problem i just thought of is as i am a big fan of bourbon i better check what their sources of h2o are.
No intelligent life left in the Flouridated USA!
Is this the reason for our stupid politics??
I fink sew.
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GW--thanks for most relevant overview of the fluoride scandal. The crims need the exposure.
General Ripper was right!
Pineal gland and fluoride. Google it. The result is what you see around you, idiocracy, 50 years of fluorization.
Also look for fluoride and dmt
Here is a link about dmt http://www.health-forums.com/alt-support-schizophrenia/dmt-god-molecul-8...
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Thank goodness for bottled water! Pass the Evion please!
Bottled water creates tons of unecessary plastic pollution. Also, most plastic bottles are cheap and may add toxins to the water.
Maybe you're right. But the same could be told about lead and steel pipes.
Steel is an honest material.
Plastic is made from Oil and every Dollar spent on Oil is wasted on supporting islamic terrorism! Therefore plastic is treachorous and evil.
I say: We starve the buggers and let allah feed the lot of them if so inclined!!
Maybe that's why lead is supposedly banned from faucets, paint, children's toys, etc.
As for plastic bottles:
“Bisphenol A has been shown to interfere with reproductive development in animals and has been tied to serious disease in humans.”
http://www.alternet.org/health/140203"From chemicals in plastic bottles to contaminants found in popular brands, it's a wonder people consider bottled water a healthier option”
http://www.alternet.org/environment/146376/bottled_water_can_hurt_you,_your_wallet_and_the_environment
If I were American, indeed, I would only drink bottled water.
I don't know if they sell Vittel in the USA, but this is my favorite.
Some bottled water is simply sourced from the same water as public drinking water, treated and sold in a bottle with a picture of snow covered mountains. If you've ever had the pleasure of living in a rural area and having a well, you get some really great water. Sometimes not, but for the most part, mmmm good clean cold water.
uhhhh like bottled water, juices, and all other liquids cant be adulterated? get a clue. sounds like reverse osmosis filtering is our only hope.
Public water is directly and publicly filled with fluoride.
Bottled water is analyzed and its composition public. In France we have very strict laws regarding this.
How do you deal with the leaching from the plastic bottles,
and the pollution from the manufacture and disposal of the plastic?
FYI
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/bisphenola/bpauses...
http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/Commentary/JPM/2009/2009-0823bpaposeur.html
Thanks for the links
We should also be asking what effect all this pollution is having on world wildlife.
FYI: see my comment further down this thread
Thanks, I saw your material...very helpful.
Animal poisoning documented here in this link from Australia
http://australianfluorideaction.com/the-dangers/animal-dangers/
Everyone needs to take action at the municpal level to remove this rat poison from our public water supply and our ecosystem.
The best argument is that in these times of fiscal restraint it will save the municpalities money not adding this additive to the supply. If that falls on deaf ears a reminder that they will be vulnerable to civil litigation after formal notice of its dangers has been provided can possibly budge them to 'err' on the side of caution and remove it.
Why do we put poison in our drinking water? Seems like a fair question.
when one changes the "we" to "they" it becomes easier to see a pattern, and also begins to answer the question. . .
it's a simple thing, to stop identifying with those who "rule" through government positions, but it's healthier to train our minds to stop believing there is any concern for "citizens" from the(ir) governments.
You also have to ask the question: Why do we spend millions treating drinking water and then shit in it?
Gotta put it somewhere, why not a place where nobody will notice it?
bone up on your protocols my dear boy.
http://www.iamthewitness.com/Protocols-of-Zion.htm
Hey Adolf, why don't you just get boned?
@ williambanzai7
Fluoride also lowers sperm count.
Population control by the usual suspects.
seems to be working remarkably well, these usual suspects keep getting re-elected by their targets.
I don't know about this one; the population of idiots seems to be exploding at an exponential rate...
Yeah, those idiots,
and besides, they probably brush their teeth with fluoridated toothpaste less often than...
... ummm
never mind.
"Mandrake, have you ever heard of fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?"
"precious bodily fluids Mandrake..."
I use the berkey water filter WITH fluoride removal attachment.
Great choice. I'm lucky enough to have a natural cold spring near my house. Nature's choice.
ditto - highly recommended, particularly in the coming months. . .