Letter to the Editor

Flouride is neurotoxin

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Dear Editor,

Legislation is being passed to force fluoridation upon us!

Lets get started! I am a man of the fewest words spoken for the most effect. I promise not to bombard you with a cannonade of words:

1. Flouride -survey by National Institute of Dental Research (36,000 children from 84 communities) showed little difference in tooth decay in fluoridated and nonflouridated areas.

2. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- has never approved fluoride for ingestion.

3. Dental flourosis-discoloration or mottled teeth in children - this is a sign of fluoride overdosing in children in fluoridated areas ranges from 30 to 80 percent.

4. The level of fluoride put into the water is 1 part per million-enough to hurt rats and other pets. In the words of one veterinarian - "I am not going to put that in my animals"!

5. Flouride is cumulative: only 50 percent is excreted-the rest accumulates in our bones, pineal gland and other tissues

6 Flouride is active on low concentrations-interfering with numerous body functions as enzymes, hormones in the body.

7. Flouride is mutagenic-causes chromosome damage and DNA damage.

8. Flouride helps the uptake of aluminum and lead into the body. This cumulative uptake of lead and aluminum goes into tissues where these metals wouldn't otherwise go.

9. Rats fed 1 ppm (parts per million) for one year had serious affects on their kidneys and brains with a large uptake of aluminum in the brain which mimics Alzheimers disease. Imagine putting fluoride water in birdfeeders?

10. Fluoride in animals studies accumulates in the brain and can alter or cause damage to any animal.

11. Five studies showed that fluorine lowers the IQ of children.

12. Flouride slows the thyroid causing hypo (underactive) -thyroidism.

13. Flouride replaces the stronger calcium in our bones and may lead to hip fractures in the elderly.

14. Once fluoride is in the water you can't control the dose each individual gets. Some people drink more water than others. We also receive fluoride from food and beverages processed with fluoride water.

15. Flouridation is unethical because individuals are not being asked for their informed consent prior to medication.

16. Certain people may be particularly vulnerable to fluorides toxic effect including the elderly, diabetics, and people with kidney dysfunction.

17. Chemicals used to fluoridate water in the US are not pharmaceutical grade! They come from the superphosphate fertilizer industry. Test on animals are from pharmaceutical grade-they haven't tested the industrial waste product on animals yet!

18. There is a 200 to 700 percent increase in osteo-sarcoma bone cancers in boys in fluoridated water areas.

The original document with its attending scientific back-ups can be seen at http://www.flouridealert.rog/50-reasons.htm

Please call our representative Mark Christensen at 1-(402) 471-2805 or mchristensen @leg.ne.gov and tell him that you want nothing to do with fluoride.

Thank you.

Gary Nielsen, D.C.

McCook

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  • Over 1600 professionals signed a statement urging Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)

    Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.

    Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete."

    An Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals' Statement is available on FAN's web site, http://congress.fluorideaction.net and over 11,000 individuals have signed so far.

    "The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's health risks," says Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director, Fluoride Action Network. "Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report," he added.

    The Professionals' Statement also references:

    -- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.

    -- The CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic.

    -- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children.

    -- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.

    -- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer.

    -- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.

    The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, "It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant."

    Further, researchers reporting in the Oct 6 2007 British Medical Journal indicate that fluoridation, touted as a safe cavity preventive, never was proven safe or effective and may be unethical. (1)

    Many communities rejected or stopped fluoridation over the years. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/communities.htm

    SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net

    References:

    (1) "Adding fluoride to water supplies," British Medical Journal, KK Cheng, Iain Chalmers, Trevor A. Sheldon, October 6, 2007

    -- Posted by nyscof on Thu, Apr 10, 2008, at 1:19 PM
  • Well said, Gary Nelson, and 'nyscof.' I have heard, from others, what you say. Everyone needs to tell our government: NO!

    -- Posted by Navyblue on Thu, Apr 10, 2008, at 5:40 PM
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