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Toxicity Of Aluminum 5/16/01-

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US Government Agencies Say Fluoride in Drinking Water Increases Toxicity of

Aluminum

In 1994, the New York Times reported a scientific study which revealed that

aluminum and fluoride in water could be responsible for the alarming

increase in Alzheimer's Disease and percentile dementia.

This confirmed the long-held suspicion of environmental writer George

Glasser that fluoride has the ability to act synergistically with other

toxic minerals in drinking water. Glasser, currently on speaking engagements

in England, said:

" For years I badgered various US government agencies to investigate this

specific activity between fluoride and other substances, which is commonly

seen in medicines. Aluminum sulfate (alum) is used to clarify drinking water

and I could see the possible relationship with Alzheimer's-like dementia. "

Said Glasser,

" In 1999, the US Environmental Protection Agency finally reviewed three

studies carried out by scientists at Binghamton University. The scientists

reported 80% death rates, kidney damage and brain damage in rats exposed to

half of one milligram of aluminum fluoride complexes in a litre of drinking

water. This is less than half of the amount of fluoride which is added in

fluoridation schemes.

Finally, the National Toxicology Program was asked to commission studies to

determine the extent of neurotoxic damage from aluminum in drinking water,

particularly stressing the fluoride interaction. "

Last October, a Report by the National Institutes of Environmental Heath

Sciences (NIEHS) acknowledged that fluoride has been observed to have

synergistic effects on the toxicity of aluminum

" I was particularly pleased when the US Environmental Protection Agency

report by Urbansky and Schock on the toxicity of lead and fluoride in

drinking water confirmed that fluoride complexes with other substances in

the water.

They also acknowledged that most drinking water contains a substantial

amount of fluoro-aluminium complexes. This should be a warning to dentists

who hold with the simplistic notion that fluoride only affects teeth and is

perfectly safe in drinking water. "

According to the NIEHS Report, most water treatment processes result in

increased levels of aluminum in the finished drinking water.

It stated that fluoridation will result in aluminum fluoride complexes which

will enhance neurotoxicity, or that fluoride itself will enhance uptake and

synergise the toxicity of the aluminum

Other studies have shown that in the presence of fluoride, aluminum leaches

out of cookware. Boiling fluoridated tap water in an aluminum pan leached

almost 200 parts per million (ppm) of aluminum into the water in 10 minutes.

Leaching of up to 600 PPM occurred with prolonged boiling. Different

releases of aluminum depend upon the composition of the pan and the type of

food being cooked. Using non-fluoridated water showed almost no leaching

from aluminum pans.

Glasser is frustrated that the Report recommended further studies.

" There are more than 40,000 studies on fluoride in the scientific

literature. How many more do they need? The recent York review examined less

than 300 - and they never bothered to review the Binghamton University

studies.

The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's-like dementia is

hitting people at much younger ages. The average age used to be 65 - now, it

affects people in their forties in ever-increasing numbers.

With these revelations, health authorities have a moral obligation to employ

the precautionary principle and cease the practice of artificial

fluoridation forthwith. In the meantime, six million people in England and

about 160 million in the United States drink artificially fluoridated water.

"

US Government References:

http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Aluminum.pdf

http://fluoride.oralhealth.org/papers/urbansky.pdf

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/pdf/Alumin.pdf

http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Aluminumalt.

pdf

George Glasser articles:

http://home.att.net/~gtigerclaw/dead_rats.html

http://home.att.net/~gtigerclaw/newsletter/Increasing_Alzheimer.htm

 

 

 

For more information, contact:

George Glasser (currently in UK):

email: g_tigerclaw

Website: www.gtigerclaw.bigstep.com

 

Jane Jones, Campaign Director, National Pure Water Association

email: jane

Website: www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk

 

 

 

COMMENT:

Aluminum and fluoride are both toxins and should be avoided as much as

possible. Now, not only do we need to worry about the dangers of each

individually, but also the synergistic negative effects between them.

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