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Link between fluoride and cancer
I spent four years at Bennington College, and remained another five years teaching dance in Hoosick Falls and at the Hoosac School. There are times when I miss the rolling hills of Vermont.
A friend recently sent me letters to the editor concerning fluoridation. The one titled "No study showing fluoridation increases cancer risk" (Jan. 12) inspired me to respond.
A 2001 epidemiology study by Elise Bassin, PhD, showed that boys drinking fluoridated water between the ages of 6 and 8 have a three to seven times greater incidence of osteosarcoma during their teenage years. Although there was an attempt to refute this study, it was culled from a much smaller sampling and failed to account for age-specific parameters. The man trying to refute the study was affiliated with Colgate, a fluoride producer and polluter.
In 1995, Dr. William Marcus, former senior toxicologist at the EPA, analyzed data produced by the National Toxicology Program, and concluded: "I've been trying to produce osteosarcoma [bone cancer] in animals for almost 20 years, and the only luck I ever had was with dogs and monkeys ... [It] took nearly the lifetime of the animals, and we were using radium, which specifically produces that in bones ... And here we have a compound, sodium fluoride, commonly available, that did it in rats in two years or less." Equally frightening was the high incidence of liver cancer in these same rats.
Dr. Dean Burke, former chief of Cytochemistry at the National Cancer Institute, has this to say on the subject: "In point of fact, fluoride causes more cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical."
The Material Safety Data Sheet for sodium fluoride chemicals used for fluoridation has this warning: "Danger! Chronic inhalation and ingestion may cause chronic fluoride poisoning (fluorosis) characterized by weakness, anemia, brittle bones, and stiff joints. Effects may be delayed. Chronic exposure to fluoride may cause systemic toxicity. Skeletal effects may include bone brittleness, joint stiffness, teeth discoloration, tendon calcification, and osteosclerosis. Animal studies have reported the development of tumors."
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/letters/ci_27382122/letters-link-between-fluoride-and-cancer
Fluoride, no matter how small the concentration, will accumulate over time in the body, wreaking havoc, disrupting the endocrine system, destroying the enzymes necessary for every process of life.
Bags of fluoride used in our area come with a skull and crossbones. Fluoridation chemicals are not pharmaceutical grade, but scrubbed out of pollution control devices attached to smokestacks of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries.
U.S. taxpayers spent $3.6 million on a 1987 National Institute for Dental Research study of over 39,000 children to discover if there was any difference between fluoridated and unfluoridated areas in terms of dental decay for children. There was no difference.
I hope that Bennington will resist the "magic bullet" solution to dental decay. That bullet is full of poison, and won't do any child's teeth any good either.
Barbara Goll, Rockport, Mass.
I spent four years at Bennington College, and remained another five years teaching dance in Hoosick Falls and at the Hoosac School. There are times when I miss the rolling hills of Vermont.
A friend recently sent me letters to the editor concerning fluoridation. The one titled "No study showing fluoridation increases cancer risk" (Jan. 12) inspired me to respond.
A 2001 epidemiology study by Elise Bassin, PhD, showed that boys drinking fluoridated water between the ages of 6 and 8 have a three to seven times greater incidence of osteosarcoma during their teenage years. Although there was an attempt to refute this study, it was culled from a much smaller sampling and failed to account for age-specific parameters. The man trying to refute the study was affiliated with Colgate, a fluoride producer and polluter.
In 1995, Dr. William Marcus, former senior toxicologist at the EPA, analyzed data produced by the National Toxicology Program, and concluded: "I've been trying to produce osteosarcoma [bone cancer] in animals for almost 20 years, and the only luck I ever had was with dogs and monkeys ... [It] took nearly the lifetime of the animals, and we were using radium, which specifically produces that in bones ... And here we have a compound, sodium fluoride, commonly available, that did it in rats in two years or less." Equally frightening was the high incidence of liver cancer in these same rats.
Dr. Dean Burke, former chief of Cytochemistry at the National Cancer Institute, has this to say on the subject: "In point of fact, fluoride causes more cancer death, and causes it faster, than any other chemical."
The Material Safety Data Sheet for sodium fluoride chemicals used for fluoridation has this warning: "Danger! Chronic inhalation and ingestion may cause chronic fluoride poisoning (fluorosis) characterized by weakness, anemia, brittle bones, and stiff joints. Effects may be delayed. Chronic exposure to fluoride may cause systemic toxicity. Skeletal effects may include bone brittleness, joint stiffness, teeth discoloration, tendon calcification, and osteosclerosis. Animal studies have reported the development of tumors."
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/letters/ci_27382122/letters-link-between-fluoride-and-cancer
Fluoride, no matter how small the concentration, will accumulate over time in the body, wreaking havoc, disrupting the endocrine system, destroying the enzymes necessary for every process of life.
Bags of fluoride used in our area come with a skull and crossbones. Fluoridation chemicals are not pharmaceutical grade, but scrubbed out of pollution control devices attached to smokestacks of the aluminum and phosphate fertilizer industries.
U.S. taxpayers spent $3.6 million on a 1987 National Institute for Dental Research study of over 39,000 children to discover if there was any difference between fluoridated and unfluoridated areas in terms of dental decay for children. There was no difference.
I hope that Bennington will resist the "magic bullet" solution to dental decay. That bullet is full of poison, and won't do any child's teeth any good either.
Barbara Goll, Rockport, Mass.
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