Flouride

Stop the poisioning of our water!

Toxic Chemicals In Your Water

Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum, is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anaesthetics, hypnotics, psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas. It's historically been quite expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminum industries with an overabundance of the stuff sold the public on the terrifically insane but highly profitable idea of buying it at a 20,000% mark-up, injecting it into our water supplies, and then DRINKING it.

Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package. There are reports of aluminum in the brain possibly being a causative factor in Alzheimer's Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride's strong affinity for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access to brain tissue.

That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity. "No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin's Last Will and Hitler's Mein Kampf:
'America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within.'" ... ~ Einstein's nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952.

"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century, if not of all time." - Robert Carton, PhD, scientist, formerly of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

"The plain fact that fluorine is an insidious poison, harmful, toxic and cumulative in its effects, even when ingested in minimal amounts, will remain unchanged no matter how many times it will be repeated in print that fluoridation of the water supply is 'safe'." - Ludwig Gross, M.D., former Chief of Veterans Administration Cancer Research, Bronx, NY.

"Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity--treason!" -Dr. E.H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles. Toxic Chemicals In Your Water

Neurotoxic and Lowers IQ

In 1995, neurotoxicologist and former Director of toxicology at Forsyth Dental Center in Boston, Dr. Phyllis Mullenix published research showing that fluoride built up in the brains of animals when exposed to moderate levels. Damage to the brain occurred and the behaviour patterns of the animals was adversely effected. Offspring of pregnant animals receiving relatively low doses of fluoride showed permanent effects to the brain which were seen as hyperactivity (ADD-like symptoms). Young animals and adult animals given fluoride experienced the opposite effect -- hypoactivity or sluggishness. The toxic effects of fluoride on the central nervous system was subsequently confirmed by previously-classified government research. Two new epidemiological studies which tend to confirm fluoride's neurotoxic effects on the brain have shown that children exposed to higher levels of fluoride had lower IQs.

Causes Cancer

The Department of Health in New Jersey found that bone cancer in male children was between two and seven times greater in areas where water was fluoridated. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) researchers confirmed the bone cancer-causing effects of fluoride at low levels in an animal model. A new study has shown that fluoridation of water is linked to uterine cancer deaths.
The Association Of Drinking Water Fluoridation And The Incidence of Osteosarcoma...

Changes Bone Structure and Strength Fluoride gradually builds up in the bones and causes adverse changes to the bone structure. Quite a few studies have shown that fluoridation leads to increases in hip fractures. The tensile strength of the hip is destroyed over time by fluoride ingestion.

Banned in Many Countries

Fluoridation is not legal or not used in the overwhelming number of countries including industrialized countries. China BANNED: "not allowed"
Austria REJECTED: "toxic fluorides" NOT added Belgium REJECTED: encourages self-determination - those who want fluoride should get it themselves.
Finland STOPPED: "...do not favor or recommend fluoridation of drinking water. There are better ways of providing the fluoride our teeth need." A recent study found ..."no indication of an increasing trend of caries...." Germany STOPPED: A recent study found no evidence of an increasing trend of caries
Denmark REJECTED: "...toxic fluorides have never been added to the public water supplies in Denmark."
Norway REJECTED: "...drinking water should not be fluoridated" Sweden BANNED: "not allowed". No safety data available!
The Netherlands Inevitably, whenever there is a court decision against fluoridation, the dental lobby pushes to have the judgement overturned on a technicality or they try to get the laws changed to legalize it. Their tactics didn't work in the vast majority of Europe.
Hungary STOPPED: for technical reasons in the '60s. However, despite technological advances, Hungary remains unfluoridated.
Japan REJECTED: "...may cause health problems...." The 0.8 -1.5 mg regulated level is for calcium-fluoride, not the hazardous waste by-product which is added with artificial fluoridation.

ISIS Press Release 07/01/05 No to Fluoridation

The "mass medication" of UK's drinking water with a listed poison will cost London's health authorities alone more than £21 million. Sam Burcher reports

Sources for this article are posted on ISIS members' website. Details here.

Fluoridation for all of England and Wales

Fluoridation was introduced into the UK in the 1960s when areas in and around Birmingham and Newcastle were fluoridated, along with the Republic of Northern Ireland, making up 11% of the UK population. The Government has now decided to put fluoride into all public water supplies in England and Wales, with the aim of reducing tooth decay among children in "deprived" areas.

Under the Water Bill 2003, water providers will be obliged to add fluoride to their supplies. According to a letter from health minister Hazel Blears and environment minister Elliott Morley to the Deputy PM John Prescott, "those who remain adamantly opposed would be able to use water filters that remove fluoride or buy bottled drinking water".

Campaigners opposed to fluoride include the National Pure Water Association (NPWA), Green Network and The Green Party. Green Party spokesperson Martin Skrewsbury says, "The general trend in the world is against fluoridation." He pointed out that the risks of tooth decay in fluoridated Gateshead and non-fluoridated Liverpool are the same.

Dental disease increases six-fold by fluoridation

The American Journal of Diseases of Children states: "With few exceptions the biochemistry of fluorine (fluoride) emphasis its toxic features. The production of endemic dental fluorosis in human beings by drinking water is an outstanding example of the toxic effect of the excessive intake of the element." Dental fluorosis is fluoride poisoning that causes hypomineralisation (irregular calcification) and a disorder of ameloblasts (enamel forming cells) that mottle, weaken and discolour children's teeth. In 2000, the Newcastle NHS Trust reported dental fluorosis in 54% of children aged 8-9 years compared to 24% of 8-9 year olds in non-fluoridated Northumberland.
In 1999, Baroness Hayman responded in a Written Answer for the Government, "We accept that dental fluorosis is a manifestation of systemic toxicity." Despite this sanction, the Government have backtracked on the safety of fluoride, supported by the British Dental Association, which states that fluoride is a positive step to narrowing the health inequalities that currently exist.

Fluoride is poison

Hydrofluosilic acid and other fluorosilicates are not naturally occurring. They are waste products derived from the industrial manufacture of aluminium, zinc, uranium, aerosols, insecticides, fertilizers, plastics, lubricants and pharmaceuticals.
Professor Kaj Roholm, the author of the first and most comprehensive monograph on fluorosilicates classifies hydrofluorisilic acid and hexafluorisilic acid as "extremely toxic." One chemical company selling fluoride to water suppliers describes it as "a colourless to straw yellow, transparent, fuming, corrosive liquid with a pungent odour and irritating action on the skin."

Hydrofluorsilic acid is listed as Part II poison under the Poisons Act 1972. As such its use as a commercially ingestible product in water contravenes the UK and EU pharmaceutical legislations governing the regulation of medicinal substances as well as the Poisons Act.

Natural fluoride occurs in mineral salts such as calcium fluoride and magnesium fluoride.

Worldwide rejection

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway Switzerland, West Germany, Netherlands and Italy have all banned the addition of hydrofluorosilic acid to drinking water. So have Japan and India, where fluoride occurs naturally and skeletal fluorosis (thickening of bones) is prevalent. In 1942, the Lancet reported severe dental fluorosis in areas where natural calcium fluoride concentrations of one ppm (part per million) - the Governments "safe" limit - caused skeletal defects in children with poor nutrition.
Dr John Colquhoun, former Principal Dental Officer for Auckland, New Zealand changed his mind about fluoride when his worldwide study revealed that dental decay was "slightly better in children in non-flouridated areas" and fluoride caused more harm than good to children's teeth.

Professor Hardy Limeback, a consultant to the Canadian Dental Association also studied the health effects of fluoride on children in fluoridated Toronto. He found an increasing trend in Torontonians having double the level of fluoride in hipbones compared to children in unfluoridated Montreal. Prof Limeback warned that children under three years should never drink fluoridated water or use fluoride toothpaste or products and fluoridated water must never be used for making baby formula. He rebuts the safety of fluoride and is concerned that no tests have been undertaken by the international pro-fluoride lobby to assess the effects of fluoride accumulation.

The WHO is aware of over-exposure to fluorides and concludes in its 1994 monograph Fluoride and Dental Health, "Dental and public health administrators should be aware of the total fluoride exposure in the population before introducing any additional fluoride programme for caries (tooth cavities) prevention."

Bad for bones

Since 1990, 54 US and Canadian cities have rejected hydrofloursilic acid, but some 60% of the US remains fluoridated. In these areas there has been a dramatic increase of osteosarcoma (bone cancer) in young males aged between 9-19. A National Cancer Institute Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program recorded an increase of 79% of osteosarcomas in young men living in fluoridated areas of Iowa and Seattle. But in the unfluoridated areas the incidence of bone cancer decreased by 4%.
In New Jersey, rates of osteosarcoma was three to seven times higher among males aged between 10-19 than in unfluoridated regions. This evidence is supported by the US National Toxicology Program, which recorded a statically significant dose-related increase of osteosarcoma in young male rats ingesting fluoride. A paper published in Science in the 1980's stated that fluoride directly affects bone cells by increasing proliferation and alkaline phosphatase activity. It also enhances growth and mineralisation of embryonic bone.

Five major epidemiological studies from France, the UK and the US show higher rates of hip fractures in fluoridated regions. The US has the highest number of hip and other bone fractures and the longest history of fluoride use. In 1997, the EPA scientists went on record against the practice of adding fluoride to drinking water.

Links to obesity and hypothyroid

Water in the West Midlands has been fluoridated for forty years. In 2003, the region topped the UK's "fat list" with 22% of the population classed as clinically obese. Doctors are concerned that pregnant mothers ingesting fluoride from drinking water are pre-disposing their offspring to obesity. Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, a thyroid specialist, believes that fluoride is partially to blame for the high incidence of under active thyroid problems in Birmingham. He says, "There is no doubt that fluoride is enzyme disruptive and one thing it affects is thyroid hormones." This is because fluoride interferes with the uptake of iodine crucial for the regulation of hormones. Dr Peatfield was suspended by the GMC (General Medical Council) because he made natural thyroid treatments available to his patients. He was subsequently reinstated.

Up until the 1950s, European doctors used fluoride to reduce the symptoms of an overactive thyroid gland. However, the maximum daily intake of 6.6mg per day of fluoride by populations overexposed to fluoride exceeds the maximum dose of 4.6mg used to depress the thyroid gland. In the US, an estimated 13 million women have been diagnosed with an underactive thyroid, and drugs used to treat hypothyroid were the second most prescribed medication in 1999.

Campaign against fluoride

A recent study of five primary schools around Birmingham indicated that 34% of young children had dental fluorosis. Peter Mansfield of The National Pure Water Association (NPWA) tested 200 volunteers in the West Midlands and found that 60% had four times the "safe" level of fluoride in their urine. The NPWA has campaigned against fluoridation for 4 decades. These are some of the their concerns:
The susceptibility of children to toxic substances in water and the environment.
The toxicity of fluoride in water.
The prevalence of dental fluorosis.
Failure to apply the Precautionary Principle.
Violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union 2000.

The junior health minister for England and Wales estimates that 15% more children will have less dental decay because of mass fluoridation. But how many more will have dental fluorosis, and accumulative health problems caused by fluoride? And the chief target group for fluoridation, the less well off, are being deprived of choice, for it is precisely they who will not be able to afford bottled water and filters, to protect their children from a poison more toxic than lead.

The York Review (2000) on the safety and effectiveness of water fluoridation, presented by England's Department of Health Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (NHS CRD) at York University, states that "48% of children in optimum fluoridated areas worldwide have dental fluorosis and that 12.5% have symptoms of "aesthetic concern." They conclude there is "surprisingly little research" into the harmful effects from fluoride and recommend "high quality research" into fluoride's possible links with infant mortality, IQ and congenital defects.

Scotland's devolved parliament pulled the plug on plans to add fluoride to Scotland's drinking water in November 2004. The first minister said, "We will not be changing the current legislation on fluoridation of the water supply in this parliament. We will however bring forward a range of other measures to improve the dental health of children, especially in their early years."

To participate in a letter writing campaign to stop water companies adding fluoride to tap water contact the National Pure Water Association (NPWA) or Greens

You are not supposed to know this, because then you will stop buying toothpaste etc. containing fluoride and stop drinking and bathing in municipal water supplies.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Finland, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, West Germany, Netherlands and Italy have all banned the addition of hydrofluorosilic acid to drinking water. In Italy they even remove natural fluorides from the water.

Isn't it time the people in the States wake up to this?