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Yet another reason to get PO'd!

Received this from HSI:

"Dear Reader,

It was right there in front of me and I still couldn't believe
it.

Watching TV last weekend I saw an advertisement for a new
product from Dannon: bottled water for kids called "Fluoride to
Go."

The pitch? "Why give your child soda full of sugar? Instead
offer them Dannon Fluoride to Go - a convenient, satisfying way
to help your child build strong teeth."

So now Dannon offers you a choice: you can give the kids sodas
with all the added sugar, or you can give them water with all
the added toxins.

What?

Well, in case you didn't know it, fluoride is highly toxic. In
fact, before fluoride was deemed a "cavity fighter," it was used
as insecticide and rat poison. It's true.

Even more surprising is that when it comes to dental hygiene,
fluoride actually does more harm than good.

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Everything you always DIDN'T want to know about fluoride
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For decades the message that fluoride safely prevents tooth
decay has been considered sacrosanct. This idea came from the
same "chemicals for better living" era that also told us that
smoking cigarettes soothed the throat.

Now for a brief history lesson: please switch off the lights and
turn on the projector...

Fluoride is a pollutant - a by-product of copper, iron and
aluminum manufacturing. The problem of how to legally dispose of
fluoride was solved in the 1930's when a study (funded by one of
the country's largest aluminum companies) concluded that
fluoride prevented tooth decay. A successful public relations
effort, helped along with some cooperative government cronies,
resulted in the good news going out: this miracle chemical, when
added to water supplies, will give everyone healthy teeth and
brighter smiles.

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Got fluoride?
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But does fluoride actually prevent tooth decay? Not according to
the largest study ever conducted on fluoridation and oral
health. 39,000 school children in 84 areas around the U.S. were
studied in the mid-80's, and the results showed no statistical
difference in tooth decay rates between fluoridated and
non-fluoridated cities.

Meanwhile, tooth decay trends tracked by the World Health
Organization from 1970 to the present show that the incidence of
decayed, missing or filled teeth has been steadily in decline
with each passing year in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan,
Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands,
Northern Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Iceland and
Greece. And why are the numbers of decayed teeth on the decline?
Better oral hygiene and improved dental practice is the most
obvious answer. It's certainly not the fluoride. Because of all
of those countries, only one adds fluoride to the public water
supply: the United States.

A few of the countries listed above used to put fluoride in some
of their water, but they eventually wised up to the dangers of
this aluminum by-product. And here's some truly radical thinking
for you: many of those countries simply refuse to run fluoride
through every citizen's faucets based on the idea that health
treatments should be a personal choice and not mandated by the
government. What a concept!

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Downside takes a down turn
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So how is fluoride bad for you? To start with, the irony is that
when you consume too much fluoride, your teeth can become
discolored and crumble. But that's nothing compared to the other
ways that fluoride attacks your mind and body.

In tests on laboratory animals, fluoride has been shown to
enhance the brain's absorption of aluminum - the substance
that's found in the brains of most Alzheimer's patients. Three
different osteoporosis studies have associated hip fractures
with fluoridation. And excessive fluoride has been shown to
damage the musculoskeletal and nervous systems, leading to
limited joint mobility, ligament calcification, muscular
degeneration and neurological deficits.

And finally (I saved the worst till last), a number of different
studies have linked fluoride to as many as 10,000 cancer deaths
per year, with a high incidence of bone cancer among men exposed
to fluoridated water.

In the meantime, local, state and federal government agencies
across the U.S. do their best to simply dismiss all this bad
news. Unlike their European counterparts, they're sticking to
their outdated and baseless claims that the stuff is good for
you. Why? If I had to guess, I'd say it's because they're
terrified that if they admit that fluoride is poison, the deluge
of resulting civil law suits just might wash them away.

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Consumer misreports
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So back to Dannon - what do you think? Are kids getting so
little fluoride that they need to have it added to their bottled
spring water? Consumer Reports magazine says YES!

As you may recall Consumer Reports has been a target in previous
e-Alerts for offering superficial and wrong-headed advice on
health and nutrition issues. My beef with CR is that they are no
more qualified to give me nutrition advice than my internist is
qualified to tell me which air conditioners have the best ratio
of energy efficiency to BTUs. And yet, they continue to get
involved in issues they just have no place in.

Last February, Dr. Marvin Lipman, a spokesman for Consumer
Reports, stated that not everyone is getting enough fluoride.
The problem, says Dr. Lipman, is twofold: some communities don't
fluoridate their water systems, and a lot of people these days
are drinking bottled water which contains no fluoride. Ah, but
don't you worry - in addition to Dannon, as many as 20 other
bottled water pushers, are answering the "need" for more
fluoride. And if you still think you're not getting sufficient
fluoridation, an article in Consumer Reports suggests that you
sign up to have 5 gallon jugs of fluoride-laced water delivered
to your door.

But let's be perfectly clear: Fluoride is not something your
body needs. No one has a fluoride deficiency. Fluoride is a
false magic bullet solution from a bygone era. Now, 60 years
after water fluoridation began, the word is getting out: this
stuff is just plain bad. But thanks to Dannon and others, it
appears that fluoride is about to take its toll on at least one
more generation of American kids before someone overcomes the
government marketing mindset and reveals this poison for what it
really is."

Namaste`

Joanie

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