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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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Good post GW. Fluoride should never be ingested.
You'll pardon me if I chalk this one up to government incompetence/cronyism...again? ;-)
I used to live in St.Pete. In the City Charter it stipulated that on matters of public safety, major capital outlays etc...it would be put to the vote.
In one of the most blatant acts of overreach I had ever witnessed (up to that time) the Council voted to suspend the Charter...then voted to fluoridate the water (because an overwhelming majority of the population was against it)...then gave the citizens their Charter back...and the point of the original Charter waaasss???...LOL.
Lawsuits followed...puffery...bribes...voter's turned out the scallawags...but in the end...fluoride stayed.
But I didn't.
Another good one is the company running about the countryside selling traffic camera systems to municipalities for "public safety". Of course the wink and the nod is revenue stream for city's for red light runners, not coming to a complete stop etc.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to statist nirvana...people started slamming on their brakes to avoid the tickets...then getting creamed from the rear...public safety?...LOL.
Take care.
I think this story was to inform people who bought: the 'lone gunman-magic bullet' theory, the 9/11 commission report and the San Francisco bridge...
GW - you da man!
If I were an American, I would immediately stop paying taxes until I have a financial reparation. Just like Big Pharma is sued for untold effects, you should do the same with your government. This story is sick and depressing.
"...Well, what does all this have to do with the pineal gland? A lot. It is considered a portal to the inner or higher self by yogi masters, including Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi. Psychics consider it to be the link for inter dimensional experiences. It is associated with what many call the third eye or sixth chakra, which is a doorway to higher consciousness and bliss.
And it is vital for supporting intuition, an ability that will be needed during hard times. So it is necessary to evolve spiritually in order to help create better understanding, acceptance of our fellow humans, and easier group cooperation. Meditation is a part of this evolving. That and a little sunshine, good rest and food, can cause a calcified pineal gland to loosen up and allow that portal to open.
An unusual psychiatrist, professor of medicine at University of New Mexico, and practicing Buddhist, Dr. Rick Strassman, MD, has written a book based on actual human studies of people under the psychedelic drug, DMT, titled DMT, The Spirit Molecule. He has discovered, among other things, that the pineal gland is a source of DMT production during birth and at death, and during near death or mystical experiences. This chemical approach corroborates the idea of the pineal gland as a portal, where the spirit passes through to other dimensions, either entering this physical realm or leaving it."
http://www.naturalnews.com/026364_fluoride_pineal_gland_sodium.html
I would like to know if I ad 1/4 tsp of borax to 1 L regular tap water, than it will neutralize the fluoride and other heavy metals and other impurities found in the water?
How long can I take the combination of 1/4 tsp. of borax 1 L water? can I take it for the rest of my life, everyday?
What is exactly the protocol to clean the body from fluoride and other heavy metals? Thank you"
Replies
04/28/2010: Bill from San Fernando, Luzon, Philippines replies: "Hi Roland...You can certainly leech out the fluoride from your body using borax. Borax also acts as one of the best fungal killers and also kills bacteria as well as balances the hormones and is also good for bone.
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/fluoride.html
some claim enhanced libido from borax intake ( i do too) but dont overdo it, it can be toxic. $4 buys a lifetime supply:
http://www.brandlandusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/p9140027.JPG
I have tried it - be sure to use BORAX and not BORIC ACID, which will hurt your kidneys. The protocol is to sip it during the course of the day, not chug it all at once.
I also recommend cilantro, which is supposed to be good for removing heavy metals from your body.
just like to *caution* here - when using cilantro to remove aluminium from the body, always use chlorella to bind the metals & remove them - cilantro alone can leave the toxins free-floating, and there's a chance they'll just settle in somewhere else in the body. . . a good mix is cilantro & lemon, with chlorella. . . and don't go all heroic & try to cleanse years of accumulation in a week - you'll end up hella sick, and most likely just shift the poison around. . .
http://www.natural-cure-remedy.com/heavy-metal-detox.html
Ok, so that's a good first step, now how do we go about reducing Kool-Aid levels?
Great article GW. The stories just get sicker by the day.
It gets worse. Turns out chemicals are coming at us from the sky also. Google chemtrails or Morgellons. And there is no where to run.
My question would be to the pilots. dont they breathe too?
aluminum in the chemtrails binds with fluoride in the water and presto!, everyone is stupid and happy as long as american idol is on.
ya know, "Fluoride Morgellon" would make a bad ass porn star name.....
All courtesy of the Invisible Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard85.html
[snip]
The mobilization, the national clamor for fluoridation, and the stamping of opponents with the right-wing kook image, was all generated by the public relations man hired by Oscar Ewing to direct the drive. For Ewing hired none other than Edward L. Bernays, the man with the dubious honor of being called the "father of public relations." Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud, was called "The Original Spin Doctor" in an admiring article in the Washington Post on the occasion of the old manipulator's 100th birthday in late 1991. The fact that right-wing groups such as the John Birch Society correctly called fluoridation "creeping socialism" and blamed Soviet Communism as the source of the fluoridation campaign (no, not Bolsheviks, guys: but a Menshevik-State Capitalist alliance, see below) was used by the Bernaysians to discredit all the opposition.
As a retrospective scientific article pointed out about the fluoridation movement, one of its widely distributed dossiers listed opponents of fluoridation "in alphabetical order reputable scientists, convicted felons, food faddists, scientific organizations, and the Ku Klux Klan." (Bette Hileman, "Fluoridation of Water," Chemical and Engineering News 66 [August 1, 1988], p. 37; quoted in Griffiths, p. 63) In his 1928 book Propaganda, Bernays laid bare the devices he would use: Speaking of the "mechanism which controls the public mind," which people like himself could manipulate, Bernays added that "Those who manipulate the unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country...our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of..." And the process of manipulating leaders of groups, "either with or without their conscious cooperation," will "automatically influence" the members of such groups.
I actually just received my copy of Propaganda this week. Like 9 bucks on Amazon.
pods
I've found it as a free PDF on the web (not via bitorrent) in the past. Good book to have to understand the 'game' and the PDF a handy electronic back up to the hard cover.
I'm glad I'm French, where fluoride is strictly forbidden in water for the reasons explained above.
Poor Americans! Really screwed by your politicians.
In France it's not better, but at least they do not place poison in our water.
In France it's not better, but at least they do not place poison in our water
True. What is it that they put in your water that makes you drop your guns and run away, though?
How quickly they forget...
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/10/us/perrier-recalls-its-water-in-us-after-benzene-is-found-in-bottles.html
CB:
At least they have balls enough to get out into the streets when their Gov't shits on the people. 'mericans don't rise from the couch.
Du sublime au ridicule, il n'y a qu'un pas. - Napoléon Bonaparte
C'mon Cheesy lose that fucking douchy attitude - If we went through the same degree of mittraieuse slaughter of the trench warfare of WWI I daresay our attitude would not be much different. Maybe you should vent on the cowardly scumbag bankers such as the Warburg Brothers and their cartel allies who financed both sides of that holocaust and the next one also...btw their scumbag descendants the faux monnaieur allies are still at it. 'Ecrasez L'Infame'.
France lost 340,000 troops in WW2. The U.S. lost 295,000.
There were also 470,000 French civilians killed, compared to none in the U.S.
So please stop the French coward jokes. Their troops were dying while the Yanks were still deciding whether to join the Nazis or the Allies.
The French surrendered when they ran out of troops, but they still kept fighting as the underground.
Baloney. The French could have ended Hitler in the Ruhr in 1936 and refused to commit troops. And the French mostly cooperated with the Nazis, even sending Jewish children to the death camps. And the US lost 407,000 dead in WWII.
And they had just come out of WWI in which they had a greater percentage of their population killed than Germany and a greater amount of wounded.
Yeah, I just love it when some knuckle-dragger starts dishin' out the 'cheese-eating surrender monkey' bullshit.
Inferiority complexes generate the most infantile behavior in some people. The dipshits are still asking for Freedom Fries at MickeyD's, no doubt.
If France hadn't surrendered to Hitler, Paris would look like Frankfurt today (with more burned cars in the outskirts).
Frankfurt is nice-not sure of that correlation! What if Hitler did over-throw the World? A population of brainwashed proud, productive workers may be better than the brainwashed lazy, entitled bums we have today? Oh yeah, we wouldn't have an immigration problem either. Ironic?!
Well thank god they saved their cars.
No really. How amny people other than in France drive French cars?
French cars can actually be driven?
All kidding aside. Nissan is just a Renault now. The little hot hatch is a Megane.
Don't be troubling the "freedom fries" crowd with facts like that now.
Yous made a gramatification error, fissing it for ya.
"Don't be troublin them "freedom fries" crowd with fas like dat na"
Does Perrier water really come from a underground spring in France or is that total bullshit?
idk about "Peru"....but what is Evian spelled backwards?
Most bottled waters indeed come from France and Switzerland. Water with Co2 typically comes from mountains and underground springs in the east (Alpes), so it is not bullshit.
That may be true in Europe, but in the US, most of the "Bottled Spring Water" you purchase at your grocer, is simply RO filtered water. Most brands add minerals and other stuff back into it after processing to produce a particular taste or flavor (aka Dasani), but most is just filtered municipal....
Kinda funny story - I used to work at a package and label printer, many national accounts... We had just landed a new account, and the salesman went down to the bottling plant to visit. They were giving him a tour, and he asked to see the 'spring source' (this was several years ago, FDA labelling requirements were less stringent), and they directed him to a sign hanging from the ceilng that pointed to something in the corner. After winding his way through the entire plant through all the bottling lines, he finally got to see the spring-source. It was a 4" water main coming into the side of the building....
Today the labelling requirements are different, but you will likely not find a 'spring' water for sale in the US, anywhere.
http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/appa.asp#notecg
government.
working as intended.
TheGreat,
Your day is coming as soon as Portugal & Italy goes kapoof, which should be in about 30 days. Astalavista!
Halle_Fucking_Lujah!!!
New Pardigm Awakening: 1
Carbon Based Droid Replicants: 0
Has no one bothered to read their toothpaste box?
Matter of fact how many people read the boxs for any product other than food?
Lot's of chemical goodness floating around in say hair care products.
k, while we're here, and reading labels, might want to stop rubbing aluminium into your armpits. . .
lymph nodes, Alzheimer's, etc.
and we all remember about Teflon, right?
http://www.tuberose.com/Teflon.html
<raises hand>
I read every friggin label. I don't buy commercial toothpaste, shampoo, or "manufactured" food. I want to know, why is there anything more than effing peanuts in a jar of peanut butter. If I cannot pronounce it, or recognize the ingredients, I do not buy it.
./rant -off
Thats why I quit using hair!
Sound science is killing us...(stolen from Salatin)
Tom's of Maine Flouride-Free.
I'm beginning to think I should use my dog's toothpaste (also no fluoride).
And I thought I was only imagining that he sometimes seemed to outsmart me.
just a heads-up - Tom's of Maine is owned by Clorox now, sold out to Colgate in 2006 I think, then traded around like corporations do - and yes they still do have some "flouride-free" flavours left - but be careful, most of their paste has flouride added now. . .
some more corporate-owned "healthy" food sell-outs:
http://www.keenforgreen.com/b/organic-brands-who-owns-what
Yep, Tom's is great.
Reverse Osmosis filters remove it from water....
Baking soda and salt, mixed 50/50. You can use peroxide as well.
Yeah, but the soda plays hell with your enamel.
Grind it up really fine; you can add sorbitol to the mixture and mint oil. Basically that what toothpaste is: Grit, a 'soap,' and flavoring... sorbitol is a plant substance used as a cleansers(Biore skin care), laxative ( I worked in Nursing) and sweetner in sugar fee candy... I majored in Chemical Engineering.