Poisoning Ourselves Slowly,,With Common Tap Water

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Poisoning Ourselves Slowly

With Common Tap Water

 

A new study on children

provides more evidence damning fluoridated

drinking water.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/Alternative_Health/Poisoning_Ourselves_Slowly/poisoning_ourselves_slowly.html

 

 

 

 

By Tom

Valentine

 

More than two

years ago, I wrote about George Glasser a citizen researcher who blew

the

whistle on the use of fluorosilicic acid from rock fertilizer

processing as the

primary source of community water fluoridation.

Up until that time, most of us were

under the

impression that water fluoridation used sodium fluoride (rat poison) a

by-product of aluminum manufacturing. Glasser pointed out that more

than 75

percent of water fluoridated in the United States has contained the

highly

toxic fluorosilicic acid since the late 1970s.

Now, a massive study has come out of

young

children subjected to fluorosilicic acid fluoridation in communities in

New

York.

Glasser was the first to stress the

excessive

toxicity inherent in using the hydrofluorosilicic acid residue that is

removed

from the industrial pollution control “scrubbers” in the manufacture of

phosphate fertilizers. The chemists refer to this material as

silicofluorides

and have now conclusively shown that the fluoridation material is

linked to

other heavy metal toxins that are found in drinking water—lead,

arsenic,

aluminum and cadmium, for example.

In the March 2001 issue of the journal Neuro

Toxicology, a team of researchers led by Dr. Roger Masters of

Dartmouth

College reported evidence that public drinking water fluoridated with

fluorosilicic acid is linked to higher uptakes of lead in children.

After pointing out that since 1992 only

about 10

percent of America’s fluoridated communities use sodium fluoride and 90

percent

use fluorosilicic acid, the re searchers stated that about 140 million

Americans have this chemical placed in their water.

Researchers also pointed out that sodium

fluoride

was tested on animals and approved for human consumption, but

fluorosilicic

acid had not been so tested and approved. The silicofluoride material

is

referred to as SiFs by the researchers.

The research team has now studied the

blood-lead

levels in more than 400,000 children in three different samplings. In

each case

they found a significant link between fluorosilicic acid-treated water

(SiFs)

and elevated blood levels of lead.

INHIBITS BRAIN ACTIVITY

In the latest study, the blood levels of

about

150,000 children ranging in ages from infant to 6 were analyzed.

The samples were collected by the New

York State

Department of Children’s Health from 1994 through 1998. The comparisons

included non-fluoridated and fluorosilicic acid-treated communities of

similar

size, socioeconomic conditions and similar demographic risk factors.

After

adjusting for confounding factors, the researchers concluded that the

fluorosilicic acid-treated water was equal to or worse than old house

paint as

a contributor to elevated blood-lead levels.

Dr. Masters said these preliminary

findings

correlate the fluorosilicic acid water treatment and behavior problems

that are

due to known effects of lead on brain chemistry.

Additionally, a study in Germany showed

the SiFs

may inhibit the enzyme, cholinesterase, in the brain which plays a key

role in

regulating neurotransmitters, or the signals that carry messages

through the

brain.

“If SiFs are cholinesterase inhibitors,

this means

that SiFs have effects like the chemical agents linked to Gulf War

Syndrome,

chronic fatigue syndrome and other puzzling conditions that plague

millions of

Americans,” Masters said. “We need a better understanding of how SiFs

behave

chemically and physiologically.”

Last March, Dr. Masters testified before

New

Hampshire legislators in favor of The Fluoride Product Quality Control

Act. The

bill would put the SiFs to a series of tests, and perhaps further

research on

neurotoxicity and behavior.

“If further research confirms our

findings,”

Masters said, “this may well be the worst environmental poison since

leaded

gasoline.”

The EPA admits it has no data on the

health and behavioral

effects of SiFs.

“Shouldn’t we stop intentionally

exposing 140

million Americans to an untested chemical until the risks are

extensively and

objectively evaluated by independent researchers?” asked Dr. Masters.

And, the final insult: There is no

conclusive evidence

that fluoridation of drinking water significantly improves the teeth of

children at all. ™