Do You Really Want Fluoride Added to Your Tap Water?

The current Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced plans to add fluoride to
the UK Water Supply in a bid to improve dental health in the UK.
Stuart Jeffery, health spokesperson for The Green Party pointed out that “Besides
the reality of negative health effects, this is an issue of medical ethics.
Fluoridating water is essentially medicating people without their permission, and
the European Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine distinctly states that
individuals have the right not to be medicated without their consent."
In regards to the cause of poor dental health he said, "Poor dental health is a
complex public health issue. The root causes are poor diet and inadequate dental
hygiene. Typically, the government seems more concerned with dangerous knee-jerk
action and to be seen 'doing something', rather than confronting the real causes of
the problem," adding that "While we continue to feed refined sugar to our children
in schools, efforts to reduce tooth decay will be in vain."
"Fluoride is a known poison if ingested over a long period of time, even in small
daily doses. Its consumption has been linked to a range of medical afflictions
including severe skeletal problems, fluorosis (discoloration of the teeth),
osteosarcoma (a rare form of bone cancer) in boys, and problems affecting the
central nervous system," said Stuart Jeffery.
The Green Party concluded, "We want to see a programme of education for children
and adults regarding proper dental hygiene and a healthy diet, a health warning on
all sources of fluoride intended for human consumption, and a ban on the
fluoridation of drinking water."
Yet again, it seems the government are in danger of simply sticking on a (dangerous)
band-aid to solve a problem, rather than dealing with the root cause.

Does flouride cause cancer?

"Of all the conditions caused by Fluoride, Cancer is the most life threatening. Adding Fluoride to the water will, according to extremely conservative projections, increase cancer deaths in the UK by at least six people per day. To put it another way, every four hours of every day someone will die from cancer caused by Fluoride. This means that, of the people living in the UK today, at least 100,000 will die of cancer caused by adding Fluoride to the water. Studies show Thyroid cancers increase by up to 400%, bone cancer in young men is increased and there is an overall increase in cancer of 5% in water Fluoridated areas compared to non-Fluoridated areas. Dr Dean Burke, former chief scientist with the National Cancer Institute in the USA, testified before Congress that "Fluoride causes more human cancer deaths and causes it faster than any other chemical I have ever come across". Even if Fluoride was effective, this alone is too high a price to pay. The fact that Fluoride does not work and causes so much other damage to people turns tragedy into obscenity."

from Dr Munro-Hall (dentist)
http://www.positivehealth.com/article-view.php?articleid=1439

Fluoridation does more harm then good, say 500 Dentists

>
> Dear Friends,
>
> Unfortunately dentist today still are brainwashed during their studies that
> fluoridation is preventing tooth decay. Give a print out of this to your
> dentist. Avoid any tooth-paste that contains fluoride like Colgate! I
> surprised that USA still has fluoridated water, they have stopped that in
> Switzerland for example long ago. This facts are known since over 15 years!
> Similar it is known that Chlorination is bad for health and creates more
> harm than good. There are alternate ways to purify public water, but it is
> more expensive. For that reasons in almost all places the authorities keep
> their eyes closed and continue chlorination of drinking water. DON'T DRINK
> IT. DON'T DRINK FOR EXAMPLE WATER OF DELHI, IT IS HIGHLY CHLORINATED! (I'm
> not sure whether they add fluoride as well in Delhi water.) You can get rid
> of it by cooking it long enough and/or most filter are removing the
> chloride. Even to swim in chlorinated swimming-pools is not advisable. (The
> skin is anything else then a closed shell, it takes more in then we commonly
> assume!) Also there are alternate systems with peroxide for pool water, but
> it is more costly then per-chlorides.
> Now read on, I pasted also the health risks at the end.

End Fluoridation, Say 500 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists And
> Environmentalists
>
> 10 Aug 2007
>
> In a statement released recently, over 600 professionals are urging
> Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are
> conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long
> promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks.
> (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)
>
> Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006
> National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride's
> toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA
> headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the
> Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and
> environmental professionals, worldwide.
>
> Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine,
> says, "Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's
> really obsolete."
>
> Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN),
> announced that an Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the
> Professionals' Statement will soon be available at FAN's web site,
> http://www.fluorideaction.org.
>
> "The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride's
> health risks," says Connett. "Government officials who continue to promote
> fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the
> powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report," he added.
>
> An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report "the most
> up-to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure."
>
> The Professionals' Statement also references:
>
> -- The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula
> NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.
>
> -- The CDC's concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical
> not systemic.
>
> -- CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride
> over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children.
>
> -- Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between
> fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
>
> -- A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone
> cancer.
>
> -- The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated
> industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.
>
> The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a
> Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for
> three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, "It is time for the US to
> recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor
> benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it's as easy to end as
> turning off a valve at the water plant."
>
>
> Fluoride Action Network
>