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An often repeated fluoridation error
JOHN Beal MBE of the British Fluoridation Society (In My View, May 28) repeats a very silly error which I also heard stated repeatedly by senior members of the Strategic Health Authority and Southampton City Primary Care Trust during the public consultation.
It is blatantly wrong and I feel I must correct it here. John Beal wrote "virtually all substances are potentially harmful at the wrong concentration, including oxygen and nitrogen, which are the main constituents of the air we breathe and on which our lives depend." Other commentators have used the example of water as being poisonous "at the wrong concentration".
What such individuals always forget to point out is that fluoride (unlike, oxygen, nitrogen, water etc. etc.) is bio-accumulative. That is, it builds up in living organisms through metabolic processes, thereby increasing in concentration over time. Fifty per cent of all the fluoride you take into your body (by drinking, eating, breathing or through the skin) will stay in your body for the rest of your life. That's why, when you brush your teeth, you are supposed to spit out fluoridated toothpaste, not swallow it.
While 50 per cent will be excreted, the fluoride that stays in your body binds to calcium - in your teeth but also in your bones and your brain and other organs. Here it builds up over the years and can never be removed.
DR SARAH GOODE, Eastleigh
A vested interest?
WATCHING the letters appearing about fluoridation I can't help but notice that Dr John Beal MBE, vice chairman of The British Fluoridation Society obviously has a vested interest in promoting this toxic product.
What part of "forced medication without consent" does he not understand? Also, why has Ireland reduced the amount of added fluoride to their water?
Don't bother Dr Beal, you surely know it's because of the amount of fluorosis that their young are suffering. If I needed to take medication for any condition I would not expect everyone else to take it too. Oh, how I wish common sense would reappear.
Name & address supplied.
JOHN Beal MBE of the British Fluoridation Society (In My View, May 28) repeats a very silly error which I also heard stated repeatedly by senior members of the Strategic Health Authority and Southampton City Primary Care Trust during the public consultation.
It is blatantly wrong and I feel I must correct it here. John Beal wrote "virtually all substances are potentially harmful at the wrong concentration, including oxygen and nitrogen, which are the main constituents of the air we breathe and on which our lives depend." Other commentators have used the example of water as being poisonous "at the wrong concentration".
What such individuals always forget to point out is that fluoride (unlike, oxygen, nitrogen, water etc. etc.) is bio-accumulative. That is, it builds up in living organisms through metabolic processes, thereby increasing in concentration over time. Fifty per cent of all the fluoride you take into your body (by drinking, eating, breathing or through the skin) will stay in your body for the rest of your life. That's why, when you brush your teeth, you are supposed to spit out fluoridated toothpaste, not swallow it.
While 50 per cent will be excreted, the fluoride that stays in your body binds to calcium - in your teeth but also in your bones and your brain and other organs. Here it builds up over the years and can never be removed.
DR SARAH GOODE, Eastleigh
A vested interest?
WATCHING the letters appearing about fluoridation I can't help but notice that Dr John Beal MBE, vice chairman of The British Fluoridation Society obviously has a vested interest in promoting this toxic product.
What part of "forced medication without consent" does he not understand? Also, why has Ireland reduced the amount of added fluoride to their water?
Don't bother Dr Beal, you surely know it's because of the amount of fluorosis that their young are suffering. If I needed to take medication for any condition I would not expect everyone else to take it too. Oh, how I wish common sense would reappear.
Name & address supplied.
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