Fluoride

It's not new...but it does seem to need some clarification. This week a PR woman said to me ' yeah, botox is really safe, I mean, it's safer than flouride'. To which I replied, ' you may want to change your comparison because fluoride is scary, bad stuff'. So here is the skinny on fluoride...

Thing is, like this picture of 'Darkie' or re-named 'Darlie' toothpaste, we once thought that was acceptable. We now look back at that with disbelief. We are just a moment away from thinking the same about toothpastes which say 'with Fluoride' as though THAT is a good thing.

It's about 60 years since they started adding fluoride into the water supply and it was in the 1930's that a whole new ad campaign made the populations of the Western World think fluoride was something we needed to make our teeth strong and white.
WHY?
It was a new time of industry and the copper, iron and aluminium smelting plants were big business (if you recall all our pans used to be made of aluminium until they connect it with alzheimers and it is now noted that alum in deoderants has all kinds of bad side effects...aluminium and human ingestion are not happy bedfellows!) but they didn't know what to do with all the by-products of the process and after using it as rat poison and insectacide, some good PR and a goverment incentive created...Fluoride - good for cavities, good for your teeth...pictures of happy smiling kids and voila!

The masses of scientific research over the years show the link between fluoride and all kinds of health problems. Once example was in 1990 when a National Toxicology Program (NTP) study determined fluoride could be a cancer-causing agent. The NTP study “supplied a detailed description of the toxicology of fluoride, not only in terms of osteosarcoma, but also lesions in the oral mucosa, thyroid gland, skin and uterus…(which) prompted us to re-test the hypothesis of an epidemiological association between water fluoridation and cancer incidences…”, they found fluoridation status positively correlated to cancers of the oral cavity, pharynx, colon, rectum, hepato-bilary & urinary organs and bone cancer.

The good news is that we have the benefit of almost 70 years of research so armed with this knowledge you can now get decent water filters and also fluoride-free toothpaste... so don't be scared, be pro-active, read the ingedients and vote with your wallet.

Say cheese....