DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 4, No. 24 for November 20,

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DOCTOR YOURSELF Newsletter (Vol. 4, No. 24 for November 20, 2004)

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" You can fix your brain. You can fix your brain with nutrition. "

 

(Margot Kidder, actress and orthomolecular medicine spokesperson)

 

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The DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWSLETTER (Vol. 4, No. 24 for November 20, 2004)

 

" Free of charge, free of advertising, and free of the A.M.A. "

 

Written and copyright 2004 by Andrew W. Saul of

http://www.doctoryourself.com , which welcomes 1.5 million visitors

annually. Commercial use of the website or the contents of this

Newsletter is strictly prohibited.

 

" FIVE-MINUTE UNIVERSITY " is among my favorite 1970's comedy routines.

Donald Novello, aka Father Guido Sarducci, said that his Five-Minute

University " teaches you in five minutes what the average college

student remembers five years after he or she's out of school. "

 

He's got a point there.

 

As an MBA might be summed up with " Buy low; sell high, " I likewise

submit

that the most essential medical knowledge can be expressed just as

simply:

 

" Eat a near-vegetarian diet, drink juiced vegetables, take vitamin

supplements, exercise, avoid junk food, and practice stress reduction. "

 

Too simple to work? Not at all; because you can see for yourself that

it

works. I defy even the most pharmaphilic skeptic to go and try such a

lifestyle change for a month and not see measurable health improvement.

 

Too hard to do? That would probably be closer to the real basis for

objection.

 

I say, Be a health nut! After all, if you're not, then what kind of a

nut

are you?

 

READERS ASK:

 

A. B. writes:

" It has been like a breath of fresh air to see at your website many of

the

issues I have discussed (sometimes in not so friendly a manner) with

doctors. I have found it very difficult to find any doctor willing to

meet

me even half way on natural protocols. What can the public do to combat

doctor and political ignorance regarding natural remedies? If I

understand

correctly, if I personally suggest remedies to others not in my

immediate

family I'm breaking the law. However, the word must get out. This

effort

must be grass roots - and we must not wait. How can we get this going? "

 

 

To answer your question, here are some thoughts for you and for all

Newsletter readers directly from Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. I'd like to

add

that November 11, 2004, is Dr. Hoffer's 87th birthday.

 

 

" In 1957 Dr. Humphry Osmond, Margaret Jean Callbeck and Irwin Kahan and

I

published the first fruits of our research using vitamin B-3 as a

treatment

for the schizophrenias (Treatment of schizophrenia with nicotinic acid

and

nicotinamide. J Clin Exp Psychopathol. 1957 Apr-Jun;18(2):131-58). This

included the results from our double-blind prospective controlled

randomized

trials we started in 1952 (the first in the history of psychiatry) and

the

results of many additional clinical studies. We reported that adding

the

optimum dose of this vitamin (niacin and/or niacinamide) to any

treatment

doubled the recovery rate for early schizophrenic patients.

 

" We were using niacin and niacinamide before the new psychiatric drugs

entered the North American market. Our results were better and safer

but we

had no one to support us. While drug results were more often more

dramatic,

they were also much more dangerous. Eventually, it turned out that

drugs,

while helping in the short run and used in small doses, in the long run

stopped the process of recovery long before the patients became well,

and

froze them into a chronic semi-invalid state from which they can not

recover

as long as they remain on the medication.

 

" Today, 47 years later, orthomolecular vitamin treatment is still

relatively

unknown. The use of drugs is world wide and sanctioned by powerful drug

interests, the professional associations and governments. It seems not

to

matter that huge numbers of patients are being denied their chance for

full

recovery.

 

" Sluggish acceptance of new treatments is nothing new. Over three

hundred

years ago, Dr. Thomas Sydenham

(http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1989.html and

http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_sydenham.html

)

discovered that the standard treatment for small pox actually increased

the

death rate of this dread disease. The treatment of the time increased

temperature by heaping many covers over the unfortunate patients, by

giving

them strong English whisky (at least they died happy) and keeping the

windows closed. Sydenham did just the opposite. He let patients sleep

on top

of the blankets, prohibited any strong drink, and allowed fresh air to

ventilate. In 17th century England, without central heating, it was

hard to

increase fever in the cold winters and very easy in the warm summers.

According to old medicine's theories, the death rate should have been

very

high in he winter and low in the summer. But it was just the opposite.

Under

his care, the death rate equalized at a very low level over the whole

year.

 

 

" Dr. Sydenham had to face 1,500 years of dogma. The doctor was

threatened

with loss of his license. He was challenged to a duel. He sought help

from a

member of the English nobility, saying in a letter that a medical

discovery

is like a sapling in the middle of the King's highway: if you do not

fence

it in it will be trampled down by the galloping hordes.

 

 

" Dr. Sydenham was supported and later knighted. He is considered the

father

of bedside clinical medicine. There is a bronze plaque in his honor

near the

Parliament buildings in London. If the regulatory medical bodies over

the

past 300 years had the same authority and ultraconservative attitude

they

have consolidated today, we would still be treating small pox by

increasing

the fever.

 

 

" Unlike Dr. Sydenham's sapling, niacin has not been fenced in and the

treatment has indeed been trampled on for the past 40 years by the

galloping

hordes of professional establishments, the American Psychiatric

Association,

governments, the FDA , the National Institutes of Mental Health, and by

nearly every health-professional organization. It is a wonder that

there are

any orthomolecular doctors at all. But it is even more wonderful that

orthomolecular medicine is not merely alive, it is beginning to

flourish.

Groups of doctors from seventeen countries have joined the

International

Society of Orthomolecular Medicine

(http://www.orthomed.org/isom/isom.htm).

This week I enjoyed the visit of two psychiatrists from Japan who are

introducing niacin treatment into Japan.

 

" We no longer need a protective fence but rather armies of patients,

their

families and their friends who will help us move this very important

information into the general field of medicine and psychiatry. The

sapling

must flourish into a forest.

 

" On the occasion of my 87th birthday I urge you to join the common

cause

which I have called simply bringing sanity into modern medicine. Here

are

some thoughts on how each of us can activate the process:

 

1) Personal development: this means reading and studying nutrition and

nutritional medicine, and searching for a physician who is sympathetic

if

not actually involved (http://www.doctoryourself.com/naturedoc.html) .

This

can and will lead to better health. One can then live life as an

example of

what can be done.

 

2) Relationship to family and friends: You can use your own health as a

model without having to give direct treatment advice. One simply talks

about

what has helped them and has helped others. This would not be

considered

giving medical advice, but will encourage anyone seriously interested

in

improving their life.

 

 

3) Community: Organized activities, such as a neighborhood wellness

club

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n20.txt) can help people get

together

to discuss what they have read. Also, write letters to the editor of

your

local newspaper, and to Senators, Congressman, Members of Parliament,

and

other elected officials (http://www.doctoryourself.com/write_now.html

).

This can be very effective.

 

" Since all these activities take time, one must be patient and not

hurry it

along too much. In the end, you will, as Linus Pauling said, live

longer and

feel better.

 

" Thank you, Andrew Saul, for allowing me this use of your excellent

newsletter.

 

" Abram Hoffer "

 

 

Thank you, Dr. Hoffer, and a very happy birthday from all of us.

 

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON NIACIN THERAPY:

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_cardio.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/review_hoffer_B3.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_psychosis.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/psychiatry.html

 

 

SALES OF SODAS AND JUNK FOOD BANNED IN SEATTLE SCHOOLS

 

(from Patti Spencer, Seattle Public Schools, Sept. 3, 2004.)

 

The Seattle School Board has unanimously approved a comprehensive and

far-reaching set of nutrition-related policies designed to provide

students

with healthy food and beverage choices during the school day.

Specifically,

the policies will ban sales of all foods containing high levels of

sugar and

fat, improve the quality and appeal of school meal programs, and

prohibit

contracts with beverage vendors for " exclusive pouring rights. "

 

The district's current exclusive contract with Coca-Cola will be phased

out

within one year. The policies also give direction to the school meal

program

and others to offer fresh, local, organic, non-genetically-modified,

non-irradiated, unprocessed food, whenever feasible.

 

Seattle Schools have posted links to all their nutrition policies and

procedures at their website:

http://www.seattleschools.org/area/news/x40903nr.xml?wrapper=0 .

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWS Comment:

 

This is bigger than you might think: there are 100 schools in the

Seattle

district. Not only that, the entire State of Washington is following

suit.

Fantastic!

 

Among those we can thank for this initiative is Alexander Schauss.

 

Alexander G. Schauss, PhD. has held a number of academic appointments,

and

has been a member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of

Alternative Medicine Advisory Council and the Developmental Planning

Committee of the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements. Dr. Schauss is a

Fellow

of the American College of Nutrition (FACN). He is author or co-author

of

more than 100 papers or works, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the

International Journal of Biosocial and Medical Research for 13 years.

 

Schauss has appeared on television shows including Phil Donohue, Maury

Povich, and Oprah Winfrey. I heard Dr. Schauss speak at the Nutritional

Medicine Today conference in Vancouver earlier this year. I think you

might

like to hear what he has to say about how your kids' school lunches

relate

to their behavior and academic performance.

 

THE DOCTOR YOURSELF INTERVIEW

 

with ALEXANDER SCHAUSS, Ph.D. (www.aibmr.com)

 

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF NEWS: Dr. Schauss, how did all this good nutrition news

come

about?

 

DR. SCHAUSS: The impetus for the effort in Seattle and the state of

Washington was laid down 20 years ago following the largest nutrition

study

ever conducted in the world. It involved 800,000 students at all grade

levels in 803 schools representing every demographic profile. The study

started the year after I published Orthomolecular Treatment of Criminal

Offenders. This work was read by the head nutritionist for the New York

City

public school system. My advice was to significantly increase the

nutritional density and fiber levels of the breakfast and lunch meals

served

to students under the national school lunch program. I placed

particular

emphasis on the need to significantly lower or eliminate " empty

nutrient "

foods, such as sugar, unfortified wheat flour, sodas, and most

desserts. To

my surprise, the NYC schools agreed with my recommendations.

 

DY NEWS: How bad were the foods in the NYC schools?

 

SCHAUSS: An article in the New York Times described NYC public school's

meals as some of the most tasteless and unappealing in the country,

combined

with well below average national academic standardized test scores;

this

despite some of the highest teacher salaries in the country, numerous

advanced degrees among its teaching staff, and a teacher to student

ratio of

1:17, in addition to students living in one of the most culturally

enriched

environments in the world.

 

 

DY NEWS: What was the science behind the better-food, better-grades

concept?

 

 

SCHAUSS: The effects of the dietary changes were evaluated by

California

State University. The university sent a team of researchers and data

monitors to NYC for four years, as sequential changes in diet were

instituted. Basically, an interrupted time series design was employed.

When

the study ended in 1983, it took the researchers nearly one and a half

years

to analyze the data. Finally, in 1986, they presented their findings in

a

featured presentation at the annual meeting of the American College of

Nutrition. According to the CSU, the diet changes instituted caused the

largest gain in academic standardized test performance in US education

history. This is particularly significant for a large school district.

 

Even the testing services began wondering how a school district of such

heterogeneity of students could in one year, for example, gain 8

percentage

points, when the expectancy was no larger than a gain of 2%. The

results

were published the following year in the International Journal of

Biosocial

and Medical Research.

 

 

DY NEWS: What was the response from government?

 

 

SCHAUSS: A hearing was held in the US Senate. Senator Jessie Helms,

originally a strong critic of NYC's efforts, ended the hearing

commending

the school system, pointing out that the USDA administered school lunch

program was originally established by Congress after WW II to insure

that

children and adolescents would not suffer the degree of malnutrition

and its

after effects experienced in the 1930's during the depression resulting

in

the loss of millions of potential soldiers for the war effort during WW

II.

Few people knew that the school lunch program was started by the

Defense

Department, not the USDA.

 

 

DY NEWS: When did the public begin to hear of the NYC study?

 

 

SCHAUSS: In 1987, Barbara Friedlander and Arnold Meyer and I

collaborated in

writing a book on the NYC study. Barbara was the Chief Nutritionist for

the

NYC public school system, and Arnold was the information officer for

the

system. The book was published by Simon & Schuster in 1991 (Schauss,

AG,

Friedlander, B and Meyer, A. Eating For A's). It received considerable

positive national press and media attention. Within just a few months

it

sold out. It was never re-published. Eventually I received back the

rights

to the book. It was re-released in 2004 as " Feed My Brain, " without any

revisions. (http://www.feedmybrain.com/book/index.html and

http://www.feedmybrain.com/html/history.html)

 

Feed My Brain describes which nutrients were responsible for the

significant

gains in academic performance, along with a discussion on the effects

of

nutrients on athletic performance. There are several chapters showing

parents how they can systematically introduce the same changes in diet

at

home, via a 12 week diet modification program.

 

DY NEWS: Certainly you must have run into objections to such sweeping

nutritional change. From whom did your opposition come?

 

SCHAUSS: Many dieticians and school food service directors claimed that

students were already receiving a " balanced diet " and there was no need

to

reduce sugar, sodas, etc. I even recall a professor of dietetics

stating on

television that there was nothing wrong with a child eating a popular

breakfast cereal that was nearly 60% refined sugar. Seeing that both

academics, often with connections to the food industry, and dieticians

in

particular, created road blocks to improving the diet, the effort was

reorganized by several parents into a determined grass roots movement.

 

I should also mention that other pioneers should be given credit for

demonstrating the benefits of a highly nutritious, nutrient dense

school

meal program. Helix High School, near San Diego, some 35 years ago

established a salad bar and offered no sodas or sugar-foods in its

cafeterias. It had the state of California's highest academic standing

and

top athletic teams for a decade while this program operated, until the

food

service director retired. Similarly, Fulton County, Georgia, under the

leadership of Sara Sloan, did the same thing 30 years ago, with similar

results. All I did was meet these pioneers, study their approach,

examine

whether the scientific literature supported their approach, and

advocate

replication of their meal programs in other school districts.

 

DY NEWS: How does it feel to have backed the right horse, nutritionally

speaking?

 

SCHAUSS: In just the first two days after the Seattle Schools'

announcement,

I have had emails of congratulations from all over the world. It took

years,

but note that not only has Seattle taken the initiative: more

importantly,

the state of Washington is doing the same in every school district in

the

state. Recently, France instituted similar efforts in the entire

country! It

will be interesting to see if what started in Washington state will be

adopted by school districts and states in the USA.

 

 

DY NEWS: Some final thoughts?

 

SCHAUSS: In my opinion, given the rising rates of diabetes (Type II),

heart

disease, obesity, etc., it is high time we begin early in assuring

ourselves

that our children get the healthiest, not most profitable, foods. They

are

our future and they deserve to have schools and parents committed to

insuring that they have a future as healthy adults.

 

 

For further reading:

 

Schauss, A.G. Recommended Optimum Nutrient Intakes (RONIs). In:

Textbook of

Natural Medicine. Second Edition. Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T.

[Eds.]

Churchill Livingstone: London, 1999, pp. 909-938. (Over 800

references.)

 

Schauss, A.G. Minerals, Trace Elements and Human Health. Life Sciences

Press, Tacoma, Washington, 1995. (Translated editions in Dutch (1995),

Chinese (Mandarin) (1996), and Indonesian (Bahasa) (1996).

 

Schauss, A.G. The myth of learning disabilities and juvenile

delinquency.

[Letter] Correctional Psychologist, 1991; 23(3).

 

Schauss, A.G., Meyer, B. F. and Meyer, A. Eating for A's. Pocket

Books/Simon

& Schuster: New York, 1991, 277 pages.

 

Schauss, A.G. The effects of nutrition on brain function, behavior, and

learning: Directions for integrative research. International Journal of

Neurology, 1989; 23: 111-115.

 

Schauss, A.G., Nutrition, academic achievement and behaviour disorders:

Applying the research to schools. Health in Schools, 1988; 3(6):

182-186.

 

Schauss, A.G. New York City public schools' nutrition study.

[Editorial]

International Journal of Biosocial Research, 1986; 8(2): 101-103.

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and Behavior. Keats Publishing: New Canaan, CT,

1985.

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and social behavior. In: 1984 Yearbook of

Nutritional Medicine, Bland, J. (ed.) Keats Publishing: New Canaan, CT,

1985, pp. 71-92.

 

Schauss, A.G., Sommars, E., Gilles, B.L. and Husmann, R.L. Nutrition in

the

schools: A survey of North American schools. International Journal of

Biosocial Research, 1984; 6(1): 78-88.

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and behavior. Journal of Applied Nutrition,

1983;

35(1):30-43.

 

PRISONS, CRIME AND NUTRITION

 

Having personally taught inside two NY State prisons (one medium, one

max),

I offer some of my own thoughts on improving inmate nutrition at

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/prison.html

 

Dr. Schauss has considerable experience on this subject:

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and antisocial behavior: current research and

review. International Clinical Nutrition Reviews, 1984; 4(4): 172-179.

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and behavior: Limitations and implications for

criminology. Proc. 112th Congress of the American Correctional

Association,

Toronto. Tucker, J.N. and Dargis, A.J. (Eds.) American Correctional

Association (College Park, Maryland), 1983, pp. 55-64.

 

Schauss, A.G. Effects of environmental and nutritional factors on

potential

and actual batterers. In: Roy, M. (ed.) The Abusive Partner: An

Analysis of

Domestic Battering. Van Nostrand Reinhold (New York), 1982, pp. 76-91.

 

Schauss, A.G. Nutrition and violence. Proceedings of the 5th National

Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect. HEW (Washington, D.C.), 1982,

pp.

244-250.

 

THANKSGIVING FOR ALL

 

Whether they were in the slammer or the gutter, I have seen good

nutrition

and vitamin supplements help the most despairing members of the human

race.

The American holiday of Thanksgiving is always a good opportunity to

reflect

on what is most important in our lives. Natural health promotion, done

right, means reaching out to everybody, even people behind bars or out

on

the street.

 

The following report tells what our charitable vitamin dispensary

program

has been up to:

 

VITAMINS AT MEALTIME

 

by Judy Thorslund

 

(The Rochester Catholic Worker, Fall 2004, p 6)

 

St. Joseph's House of Hospitality in Rochester, NY, feeds 75 to 100

folks

daily. The majority of our guests live in SRO (single room occupancy)

on low

fixed incomes or are homeless; and come to our kitchen to receive a

nutritious meal each day. Most of our food items are donations. Our

cook,

Rafael, does an incredible job of putting together healthy and

delicious

meals each day. Without the encouragement of FOODLINK, our local

foodbank,

and the generosity of many of you we would not be able to run our

nutritional program. I wish to highlight here a very special donor.

 

Andrew Saul believes in natural healing and vitamin therapy. Now an

editor

of a medical journal, he has been on the cutting edge of this

'non-traditional' approach to healing long before conventional medicine

determined the merit of such alternatives. (See his website at

www.doctoryourself.com .) Due to Andy's passion for sharing preventive

health measures with others, he began making daily doses of vitamins

available to our guests back in 1983.

(http://www.motherearthnews.com/menarch/archive/issues/085/085-016-01.htm

The book and information packet prices mentioned at this 1984 article

are,

of course, 20 years out of date; the costs are now $24 and $36,

respectively. http://www.doctoryourself.com/order.html)

 

Now, each day at lunch, a St. Joseph's volunteer goes table to table

and

offers a multi-vitamin tablet to each guest. That is generally about 50

to

60 vitamin tablets per day that are given out, and each vitamin is a

gift of

love to those persons who might never be able to afford this important

health measure.

 

I have watched as a suspicious guest will initially turn down an offer

to

partake of the vitamins but slowly, over time and watching others,

tentatively will reach out their hand for this small dose of

prevention.

Once this occurs, and the trust has been established, the volunteer

better

not forget those vitamins! They have now become a symbol of health and

well

being and are expected each day. And as we have learned, when we are

participating in our own " health therapy " we feel better about

ourselves on

an emotional level and this in turn helps our physical self. I have

been

privy to personal testimonies from our guests as to how much better

they

feel since taking their vitamins daily.

 

Over the years, this effort continued off and on as funding allowed.

Recently, there has been a new resurgence of interest in the project,

as

medical research continues to demonstrate the value of supplemental

nutrients, particularly for those with borderline or subsistence diets.

 

Here's some more great news: earlier this year, thanks to Dr. Saul, St.

Joseph's House received over 500 bottles of multivitamins donated by

the

people of Our Health Co-Op of West Palm Beach, Florida

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v4n12.txt). The Co-Op focuses on

healthy

aging and serving those with limited means, and particularly

fixed-income

seniors.

 

Dr. Saul's determination and footwork have led to many thousands of

dollars

worth of donated vitamins coming our way to help improve the quality of

life

for the people we serve. It is with the support of such heroes that we

continue our work.

 

(Editor's note: Thanks to the Worker for such a kind and complimentary

article. And, special thanks to all donors and volunteers who have made

this

possible!

 

If you would like to start a similar charitable vitamin program in your

community: http://www.doctoryourself.com/news/v2n22.txt

 

Through our non-profit Ashwins Health Institute, anyone can also obtain

in-person health lifestyle conferences, free of charge:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/free.html

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works

 

A review by Richard Bennett

 

Having worked in the natural health care business for many years, I've

read

many, many books on the subject. While many of the books that I've read

were

quite good, I've found that even the best of these seem to be merely

facts

tied together with words. Dr. Saul's work, Doctor Yourself, stands out

in a

market that has long been saturated with books of varying degrees of

quality. Doctor Yourself is not only the best of the best in the

marketplace, it is book with a voice. Reading Dr. Saul's book, I can

clearly

hear the unique voice of the author in its pages. Dr. Saul's vast

knowledge

of his subject is presented with clarity, logic and humor. If I were to

have

one health care book in my library, it would be Doctor Yourself.

 

" Lively, Humorous, Packed with Information "

 

A review by John I. Mosher, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus Biological

Sciences

 

DOCTOR YOURSELF is easy to read, lively, humorous and packed with

practical,

easy-to-follow suggestions for maintaining and improving ones health. I

agree with the author's comment that folks need " education, not

medication. "

 

I highly recommend this book to others because it helps people to help

themselves. In these times of rising medical costs, along with the fact

that

many lack health insurance, Dr. Saul's book gives hope and confidence,

almost like a personal consultation with the author. It sets out dozens

of

well-documented nutritional protocols for treating ailments using

supplements rather than prescription drugs, thereby avoiding drug

expense

and side effects. The book deals with with quite a few chronic and

serious

health conditions, as well as more common concerns. Doctor Yourself

provides

down to earth and well-researched information.

 

(Might it be added that DOCTOR YOURSELF books make great holiday gifts?

To

order AUTOGRAPHED copies of Doctor Yourself, please go to

http://www.doctoryourself.com/order.html )

 

FIGHTING FLUORIDATION

 

Did you know that 98% of Western Europe is unfluoridated?

 

http://www.fluoridealert.org/govt-statements.htm

 

Did you know that a number of senior scientists at the US Environmental

Protection Agency oppose fluoridation of water?

 

http://www.fluoridealert.org/testimony.htm and

 

http://www.fluoridealert.org/hp-epa.htm

 

So does Hardy Limeback, DDS, PhD, head of preventive dentistry at the

University of Toronto, Canada. Take a look at what he says:

 

" For many years, I was a vocal supporter of water fluoridation. That

was

before I had reason to carefully examine other published studies. What

I

learned, after thoroughly researching the fluoride-toxicology

literature,

which, like so many other proponents of fluoridation, I had previously

ignored, horrified me. After much soul-searching, I publicly apologized

for

having misled so many for so long. So now, it is my carefully

considered

opinion that water fluoridation should be banned. Here are my reasons:

 

" Fluoride is not essential for normal tooth development. Dental decay

is not

a disease caused by a lack of fluoride. It is caused by poor oral

hygiene

and frequent exposure to dietary sugars and starch. It is now

recognized

that swallowing fluoride does little to prevent dental decay.

 

" Fluoride does not make your teeth " stronger " or more resistant to

decay by

incorporation into the tooth structure during development. However, if

you

swallow fluoride, it increases the risk of childhood dental fluorosis,

especially when tap water is used to make infant formula. Dental

fluorosis

not only manifests in mottling of the teeth but it also makes teeth

more

brittle.

 

 

" Some studies indicate that there is an increased risk of bone

fractures in

both children and adults where there is increased dental fluorosis.

Fluoride

accumulates in the skeleton: the longer the exposure, the more brittle

your

teeth and bones. "

 

(Excerpted from Limeback H. Hazards of fluoridation outweigh its

benefits.

Standard Examiner, Sunday, Oct 24, 2004)

 

TOTAL FLUORIDE INTAKE TOO HIGH

 

by Andreas Schuld

 

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Since September 14, 2004 a most interesting article has been available

on-line at the US National Institute of Health, as published in the

journal

Environmental Health Perspectives.

http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7077/7077.pdf

 

In this paper, the authors set out to estimate the total intake of

fluoride

in children, including estimated total fluoride intake from drinking

water,

beverages, infant formula, cow's milk, food, soil, supplements and

toothpaste.

 

In fluoridated areas, children's fluoride intake is estimated up to 0.2

mg

per kilogram body weight per day. What this means is that at an age of

2

years, a child is within the range of risk of 'dental fluorosis' (a boy

toddler weighs on the average 12.3 kg)

[http://www.fnri.dost.gov.ph/irs/table1.htm] . So, at this age/weight

he

would be taking in 1.23 mg/day of fluoride from dietary sources alone,

already above the so-called " optimum range " for caries prevention.

 

In a fluoridated-water area (at 1 ppm) he would be taking in 2.46

mg/day,

way above the 'optimum range'. An adult weighing 70 kg would be taking

in 14

mg/day by this estimate.

 

(Editor's note: The authoritative Physician's Desk Reference lists

adverse

reactions to fluoride at as low as one-quarter part per million

(http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html).

 

(Full citation: Erdal S, Buchanan SN. A quantitative look at fluorosis

and

fluoride exposure of children using a Health Risk Assessment approach.

Environmental Health Perspectives (NIH), September 14, 2004.)

 

 

MORE ON DENTAL FLUOROSIS: http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk

 

MORE ON US EPA SCIENTISTS' OPPOSITION TO FLUORIDATION

 

http://www.wholly-water.com/Water.Contaminates/EPA.fluoride.htm

 

MEDLINE'S FLUORIDE BIAS

 

Dear Dr. Saul,

 

" Dr. Hans Moolenburgh, who was instrumental in Holland changing its

constitution in 1976 to ban fluoride being added to drinking water

there,

wrote to a friend of mine on Jan 8th 2003 that the journal FLUORIDE,

devoted

to fluoride research, and which is not political but purely scientific,

a

veritable encyclopaedia of everything known about fluoride, has been

banned

from MEDLINE.

 

 

" I feel that this is something that you and your readers might like to

know.

It is all part of the overall fluoride fraud which is so brilliantly

exposed

by Christopher Bryson in " The Fluoride Deception. " (reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html)

 

 

Kind regards,

Robert Pocock

VOICE of Irish Concern for the Environment.

http://voice.buz.org/fluoridation/

 

FLUORIDE CONCERNS SURFACE ONCE AGAIN ,

 

Hileman B. Chemical & Engineering News, 81(34), August 25, 2003. (This

article is not online, but is well worth your obtaining through your

local

library http://www.doctoryourself.com/libraryloan.html).

 

MORE TOOTH DECAY IN POOR CHILDREN;

 

FLUORIDATION NO HELP

 

by Paul Beeber, nyscof

 

" Caries experience may be associated with income, " reports the U.S.

Centers

for Disease Control (CDC). Low income, not fluoridation deficiency,

predicts

more cavities is revealed in newly-released statistics posted 10/25/04

on

the CDC's website (1). Those states reporting third-graders cavity

rates and

children living below the federal poverty level indicate that poor

children

have more cavities, even when water is fluoridated. And, the states

with the

highest rates of fluoridation don't have the lowest cavity rates.

 

Water engineers dispense fluoride chemicals into two-thirds of all

Americans

via their water supply, attempting to prevent tooth decay. However, in

the

United Kingdom, where only 10% drink fluoridated water, tooth decay

rates

are equal to or better than those of the U.S.(2) and have declined over

the

last ten years.(3) In contrast, U.S. cavity rates increased(4) along

with

fluoride overdose symptoms, prompting some researchers to suggest that

water

fluoridation be stopped (5a,b).

 

In both the U.S. and U.K., lack of money and dental care predicts

higher

rates of tooth decay, regardless of fluoridation status (6a,b).

 

By neglecting the poor, organized dentistry helped create an oral

health

epidemic.(7) Promoting fluoridation may deflect government regulators

from

forcing dentists to treat poor children.(8).

 

References:

 

(1) http://www2.cdc.gov/nohss/IndicatorV.asp?Indicator=2 & OrderBy=2

(2) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/aag/aag_oh.htm

(3) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=973

(4) Wall Street Journal

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/03/08/financia\

l1058EST0079.DTL

(5a) http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2004/7077/7077.pdf

(5b) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/_pgg8.php3

(6a) http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof2/_pgg6.php3

(6b) http://www.dundee.ac.uk/dhsru/cdh/supp151/#2

(7) http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/news/pressreleases/pr_oral_52000.htm

(8) http://www.oregondental.org/oda/section.cfm?wSectionID=1277 (Page

6)

 

 

50 REASONS TO OPPOSE FLUORIDATION by Paul Connett Ph.D., Professor of

Chemistry, St. Lawrence University

 

http://www.waterobservatory.org/library.cfm?refID=33705

 

FLUORIDE: WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?

 

IF THIS SMALL MASSACHUSETTS TOWN CAN STOP FLUORIDATION, YOURS CAN TOO:

 

http://www.fluoridation.com/natick.htm Be sure to scroll down to see

the

depth and detail of this thorough and successful presentation. Just

insert

your village, town or city name, give credit to the original authors,

and it

is ready for you to use in your community.

 

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