Letter - Fluoride is a poison

Fluoride is a poison
Times-Standard
Article Launched: 07/15/2007 04:13:27 AM PDT
Letters to the editor
In Dr. Ann Lindsay's (My Word column, “Let all benefit from fluoridation,” July 8), she seems to have forgotten the information from her chemistry classes or chosen to ignore the fact that fluoride is a poison. To think and say that adding more poison to your citizens' water is a good thing overlooks the fact that tooth decay isn't caused by a lack of poison, i.e. fluoride.
Poison plus more poison does not improve the health of any organism -- including humans. Because fluoride is a poison, the human body uses its calcium stores (if there are any) to bind and remove fluoride from the body. Calcium deficiency is a bad thing.
All health professionals should work together to improve the dental health of our children by adding ionizable calcium to their bodies.
I don't have the time and the Times-Standard doesn't have space for me to counter the many errors in Dr. Lindsay's (opinion column). The truth of fluoride dangers is available. We owe it to our children and ourselves to know those truths and obey them.
L. S. Clark
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