From Ann Wills

 Someone asked me for more reasons against fluoridation so she could write letters.  Here are some:-

 

The government want to fluoridate England’s whole water supply at great expense when only about 1% of water is drunk.  It’s claimed young children would benefit - yet they drink little water.   Most water is used by industry & for washing, bathing, watering gardens etc.  Water treatment plants can make mistakes as in Camelford, Cornwall, when a tanker driver put 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate (added to make water sparkle) in the wrong tank on 6 July 1988.   Many residents suffered Alzheimer’s from drinking the aluminium overdose & a resident died of this, aged only in her 50s.  Fluoride can cause mottling of teeth, leaving some needing veneers to hide this.   In Hooper Bay, Alaska in 1992, people died or suffered acute fluoride poisoning when there was a water fluoridation overdose.  USA parents were warned not to make up babies’ bottle feeds with fluoridated water because babies would get a fluoride overdose.  So US then reduced fluoride level allowed in tap water to 0.7parts per million which is much lower than the 1ppm which UK still allows!

Fluoride is a cumulative poison.  Nearly half the fluoride you ingest stays in your body.  Fluoride is an enzyme poison which inhibits important enzymes. It was widely used as rat poison.  Fluoride is excreted via the kidneys but older people have decreased excretion rates.  Fluoride depresses thyroid function & in the past fluoride was given to patients to lower their thyroid function.  A Canadian study at York University, Toronto, Canada, found fluoride causes lower IQ.  Research from Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University in China looked at 26 studies of 7,258 children & found high fluoride exposure in water is strongly linked to lower intelligence.  Other studies found this in 2019.   The fluoride added to water is 20 x more toxic than calcium fluoride, which occurs naturally.  In 1994 the WHO warned “Dental & public health administrations should be aware of the total fluoride exposure in the population before introducing any additional fluoride programme to caries prevention.”   This was ignored & fluoride intakes are unknown.   People should give their “informed consent” to treatment - but there is none in fluoridation.  I have audio talks on this - one by scientist Prof. Paul Connett who has a Cambridge University degree.  The reasons against fluoridation go on & on & this is only a selection. 

Ann