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What about the fluoride?
Letters to the Editor
Posted: 08/04/2009 01:15:46 AM PDT
I groaned when I read the “Arcata, water district team up for 'drink local' campaign” article. Certainly Arcata has great water ... right up to the point where chlorine and fluoride are added to it.
Fortunately, I can filter out the chlorine with a relatively inexpensive charcoal filter. Unfortunately, the toxic fluoride cannot be removed except by a very expensive reverse osmosis filter, and that is only the drinking water. There is no feasible way to remove this poison from the water we bathe in and water our garden with, nor can we prevent it from entering our streams and bay.
”Local water is also healthy ...” is an outright lie. The industrial waste that is used for fluoridation is not pharmaceutical grade, and the toxic wastes that would cost $7,000 per tanker to dispose of are sold instead to cities at $265 to at least $722 per ton.
Oh, the irony. The latest peer-reviewed scientific research shows that fluoride is a factor in many of this nation's health problems: obesity due to thyroid malfunction, osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, and perhaps Alzheimer's and ADD. Studies show it decreases the ability of children to learn.
Over 50 percent of children today have some degree of fluorosis, which leads to more dental problems as they get older. This includes children whose water is not fluoridated, showing that there is just way too much fluoride in their diets. There is no need to add more fluoride to their diet by water
fluoridation.
The ADA warns that infants under two should not be given fluoridated water. There is no health benefit of water fluoridation to anyone over 18, and the ability of ingested fluoride to reduce cavities in children (which is the rationale for fluoridation) is now disputed by the latest research. Fluoride applied topically by a dentist does have some small benefit, although again, the latest research shows the health risks outweigh any benefits.
There is hope, however, that this Draconian practice may soon end, although not by intervention by our own government and health officials. The European Court Of Justice recently ruled that fluoridated water must be treated as a medicine, and cannot be used to prepare foods, effectively banning the import and export of any food prepared with fluoridated water (www.infowars.com/european-court-ruling-spells-an-end-to-water-fluoridation/print/).
Hopefully that will put the final nail in the coffin of this outrageous, unethical and illegal practice. Until that happens, I will not be drinking the local water in “progressive” Arcata.
Ryan Lee
Arcata
Letters to the Editor
Posted: 08/04/2009 01:15:46 AM PDT
I groaned when I read the “Arcata, water district team up for 'drink local' campaign” article. Certainly Arcata has great water ... right up to the point where chlorine and fluoride are added to it.
Fortunately, I can filter out the chlorine with a relatively inexpensive charcoal filter. Unfortunately, the toxic fluoride cannot be removed except by a very expensive reverse osmosis filter, and that is only the drinking water. There is no feasible way to remove this poison from the water we bathe in and water our garden with, nor can we prevent it from entering our streams and bay.
”Local water is also healthy ...” is an outright lie. The industrial waste that is used for fluoridation is not pharmaceutical grade, and the toxic wastes that would cost $7,000 per tanker to dispose of are sold instead to cities at $265 to at least $722 per ton.
Oh, the irony. The latest peer-reviewed scientific research shows that fluoride is a factor in many of this nation's health problems: obesity due to thyroid malfunction, osteoporosis, cancer, heart disease, and perhaps Alzheimer's and ADD. Studies show it decreases the ability of children to learn.
Over 50 percent of children today have some degree of fluorosis, which leads to more dental problems as they get older. This includes children whose water is not fluoridated, showing that there is just way too much fluoride in their diets. There is no need to add more fluoride to their diet by water
fluoridation.
The ADA warns that infants under two should not be given fluoridated water. There is no health benefit of water fluoridation to anyone over 18, and the ability of ingested fluoride to reduce cavities in children (which is the rationale for fluoridation) is now disputed by the latest research. Fluoride applied topically by a dentist does have some small benefit, although again, the latest research shows the health risks outweigh any benefits.
There is hope, however, that this Draconian practice may soon end, although not by intervention by our own government and health officials. The European Court Of Justice recently ruled that fluoridated water must be treated as a medicine, and cannot be used to prepare foods, effectively banning the import and export of any food prepared with fluoridated water (www.infowars.com/european-court-ruling-spells-an-end-to-water-fluoridation/print/).
Hopefully that will put the final nail in the coffin of this outrageous, unethical and illegal practice. Until that happens, I will not be drinking the local water in “progressive” Arcata.
Ryan Lee
Arcata
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