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Friday, March 27, 2009

Canada - Fluoridation rebuttal

Fluoridation rebuttal
Letters
Mar 26, 2009
Some 55 years ago I became involved in the revival of the health of a nation devastated and suffering the aftermath of war: U.K. c.1950. My business,wheat flour, bread (the staff of life for many) was by law, fortified with essential micro nutrients, micro minerals, in trace (very tiny) amounts known to be lacking within a restricted, rationed diet. Even today, here in Canada, we can buy "enriched" white bread that follows the same logical progression in a minor way.
When I see letters that purport to give sound reasons why Drinking Water Fluoridation is not necessary and they launch forth on a litany of woe on the supposed dangers of fluoride that, on examination, are false, my background comes in to play.
First mention in Ms Sprules letter, Dr. Hardy Limeback - I have checked his qualifications and background. We then leap to 2000 scientists, doctors, dentists and environmentalists and Arvid Carlson - a Nobel Prize Winner in medicine - who decry the practice of drinking water fluoridation but beyond that, no detail. Knock out the environmentalists who's qualifications are moot, and how many truly qualified people do you have left?
The next part of this paragraph leads into false waters. How can you say "Fluoride is not a nutrient and healthy teeth do not need this medication" when fluoride is a normal part of life and is the thirteenth element (the second trace element after iron) in the human body. It gets worse, "Arsenic, lead and mercury are also found in the human body, but there is no requirement for them either,” in part, that's wrong. Arsenic is an essential trace element (Metabolism of methionine), Lead is recognized as 'possibly essential' (salts toxic in excess*). Mercury is a wild card, salts used in treating infections but toxic*.
*Exploration of body composition is on-going. There are ever more sophisticated ways of determining it with the recognition that elemental body composition will vary with place and time, and in the case of several trace elements, many fold. It is only in recent times that cobalt (0.0000043% proportion of body mass) was found to be an essential trace element - Vitamin B12.
Enough of the science, although you really cannot escape it. On to the the third paragraph of Ms. Sprules letter she embarks on fluoride as an enzyme disruptor, a thyroid depressor. She claims it was used in the last century, successfully, to treat hyperthyroidism and accumulates in the bones, teeth (?) and pineal gland. A positive note for a change but I cannot find this reference (hyperthyroidism is, in part, related to graves disease) and cannot find any linkage to fluoride. Where she gets the idea that dental fluorosis and hyperthyroidism are growing health concerns is beyond me. But so it goes.
I sorta kinda give up on this foolishness, it has overtones of the 'snake oil' salesman of yore and now, unfortunately, permeates down to our children in both grade and high school. The references given, www.fluoridealert.org and www.cape.ca lead ever deeper into the false muck. May I suggest a more open and honest source of information for your readers in www.ganfyd.org while it is still available to the general public?

– Ivor Davies

I hope somebody can answer his smear against "Dr. Hardy Limeback - I have checked his qualifications and background." and further comment on the other scientists and doctors' integrity who signed the anti fluoridation petition.

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