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Fluoride -

The Battle of Darkness & Light

by Mary Sparrowdancer

2003

12-14-3

http://www.sparrowdancer.com/

It was due to my growing concerns about our country's growing health

problems as well as the erosion of our civil liberties that, in

November of 2002, I published a paper focusing upon both of these

issues and spoke about them on several radio programs. The paper

quietly made its way through Washington, D.C., and then around the

world.

 

The paper detailed the " revolving door " in Washington, D.C., an

apparent turnstile between private industries and the United States

government. Through this invisible door, industry managers pass

directly into the very agencies that govern industry - the

government's food, drug, agricultural and chemical regulatory

departments - in order to influence regulations or speed the

approval of their company's products. The paper, " Let Them Eat

Anything, " showed this unholy alliance, the conflict of interest

that has contributed to a mounting epidemic of health problems in

the United States. (1)

 

I expected the paper to provoke comments, but I did not expect it to

result in my being contacted by a nutrition expert who had worked in

the USDA. She called to thank me for writing the paper. Incredibly,

because light was the topic of my previous book detailing a personal

Near Death Experience and ongoing, unexplained encounters with light

phenomena, in an example of incomparable synchronicity, the name of

the former USDA expert who contacted me was Luise Light.

 

I read the first email I received from Luise Light with a sense of

astonishment. Luise had been the former team leader and Special

Nutrition Assistant to USDA's Carol Tucker Foreman - who is

described as " a prominent food safety advocate " by Eric Schlosser in

his best-selling book, Fast Food Nation.

 

From her personal experience, Dr. Light confirmed not only the

revolving door I had described in my paper, but in addition, the

corruption within the " government " taking place just on the other

side of that door. Here, from an eyewitness, came the truth that

individuals representing corporations are not only holding key

government positions, they have also been determining which studies

are done, who receives grants, and they have been " adjusting " the

reports in order to create a false sense of security about their

favored products and services.

 

With the promise of corporate gain and personal profit, the

industry " representatives " have been making important decisions

affecting all of us profoundly. For the most part, the general

public has been unaware of this partnership between private business

and our publicly funded federal government.

 

Of special interest to Luise was what I had presented as the " absurd

American food pyramid " - a dietary guide that first came out in the

1980s, and in which our " government " recommended starch as the

foundation of our diet. This was of particular interest to Luise

because, as I read in awe, it was she and her team of nutrition

experts who had created the concept of the food pyramid - but with a

very major twist. The real food pyramid, Luise wrote, was completely

different from the " adjusted " pyramid that was distributed to an

unsuspecting American public.

 

The true pyramid that Luise and her team developed was not absurd,

at all. It did not have starch as the foundation. Instead, it called

for a base of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, with 5 to 9

servings daily. Whole grain cereals and grains were recommended in

amounts of 2 to 4 servings daily - with the smaller amount for

females and those with less active lifestyles. The real pyramid that

Luise and her team created placed baked goods, crackers, sweets and

other low-nutrient foods up with the sugars and fats at the top of

the pyramid, where they were recommended only as occasional treats.

 

" But what happened? " Luise wrote, stating that there had been a

deliberate, unexplained switch made at the political level that

completely distorted the pyramid - which is the subject of her

forthcoming book, Ketchup is Not a Vegetable; Sane Eating in a Toxic

Food World.

 

" Instead of fruits and vegetables making up the base of the diet, "

she wrote, " the cereals and wheat products were made the base of the

pyramid, and the recommendation [for starchy foods] was no longer 2

to 4 as we had determined but switched 6 to 11 servings! We couldn't

believe it! What possible rationale could there be for such an

unprecedented and unjustified switch? In fact the health

consequences of encouraging the public to eat so much refined grain,

which the body processes like sugar, was frightening! But our

exhortations to the political heads of the agency fell on deaf ears.

The new food guide, replacing the 'Basic Four,' would be a

promotional tool to get the public to buy and consume more calories,

sugar and starch. " Ultimately, this would result in a poorer quality

diet.

 

What was given to the public in the 1980s was a pyramid with a

foundation based (in more ways than one) on dough. And the American

people - with full and innocent trust in the health advice given to

them by the government - then attempted to follow the new health-

based plan. The result would be profit and gain for some, and the

torments of ill health and weight gain for countless others.

 

As Americans complied with the new dietary suggestions, within a few

years the results of this unsuspecting compliance began to surface.

 

According to studies and charts provided by the Centers for Disease

Control (CDC), during the years 1988 to 2000 the percentage of

children and teens suffering from obesity more than doubled. During

those same years, the CDC reported that the prevalence of adults

suffering from overweight and obesity rose steadily to 64%. In 2001,

the second most frequently prescribed drug sold in America was a

synthetic hormone drug, indicating a vast number of individuals were

now suffering from thyroid malfunction. Tied in with the overweight

and obesity problems resulting from thyroid malfunction are a host

of additional, potentially deadly afflictions suggesting

that " overweight " might be only a symptom rather than a diagnosis -

it is actually only one of the more visible clues that something is

not right, that something is out of kilter. (2, 3, 4)

 

According to the CDC, between the years 1980 and 1994 the overall

incidence of asthma increased 75%. Since 1991, the number of US

adults with diagnosed diabetes has increased 61%, and the number is

projected to more than double by the year 2050. (5, 6)

 

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine stated that the

incidence of gastric/esophageal cancer (adenocarcinoma) has

inexplicably risen more rapidly than any other cancer incidence in

the United States. Yale New Haven Hospital and the National Cancer

Institute list that rate of increase at 350%. Also noted was the

observation that the majority of the unfortunates suffering from

gastric cancer in this particular study were white males, and the

majority of those white males first presented with Gastroesophageal

Reflux Disease (GERD). Adult white males were not the only ones

suffering from GERD, however. By the CDC's own definition

of " epidemic, " GERD appears to be an epidemic of staggering

proportions in the United States, today. (7)

 

The motto of The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

is " Safer, Healthier People. " The CDC mission statement is, " To

promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling

disease, injury, and disability. " Yet, when I contacted the CDC

because I was having difficulty in locating their statistical

reports on the increasing prevalence of GERD, the response I

received was, " CDC does not have activities related to GERD. "

 

With CDC unable to supply statistics on this epidemic, it was

necessary to look elsewhere. A reasonable idea of prevalence and

trends could be obtained by " following the money " and looking at

pharmaceutical marketing data.

 

What was found was stunning, and it suggested that medicine focused

on the treatment of chronic symptoms results in a dependency on

chronic treatment. People struggling for relief and a chance to live

normal lives become dependent on the pharmaceutical industry for

relief. If they can pay the price, they will be served.

 

Americans are apparently now paying the price because the marketing

information indicates this country is now considered " the world

leader " in the overall consumption of pharmaceutical products.

 

By following records of drug sales, one can follow the trend of

GERD, and America once again has somehow become a " world leader, "

this time in the prevalence of caustic heartburn in its citizenry.

 

Beginning in 1997, the top-selling prescription drug being purchased

by Americans was a pharmaceutical preparation that promised relief

from ulcers, GERD and other conditions related to excessive,

corrosive acid in the stomach and esophagus. In 1998, 1999 and 2000,

that acid-relief drug remained the number one prescribed drug in the

country.

 

An editorial that appeared in the March 18, 1999 issue of the New

England Journal of Medicine, (Volume 340:878-879, Number 11), by

Sidney Cohen, M.D. and Henry P. Parkman, M.D. noted, " It is ironic

that the incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus has increased

dramatically in the very period in which highly effective therapies

have provided symptomatic relief and mucosal healing. "

 

Indeed.

 

In treating the symptoms of GERD, are we silencing true " gut

instinct? " Are we silencing a divinely designed warning system that

is trying to tell us we are ingesting something toxic, corrosive and

dangerous? Are we silencing with drugs a signal that is warning us

we must stop ingesting a toxic substance before it kills us?

 

It was not until 2001, that the most popularly prescribed drug was

overtaken by drugs being purchased by Americans seeking relief from

something else tormenting them within. In 2001, Americans were

spending their money in an attempt to seek relief from personal and

profound depression - another symptom that, along with weight

problems, is known to occur as a result of thyroid malfunction. It

was another signal telling us that something was affecting not only

our bodies, but our minds and emotions.

 

While this surge in both corrosive gastric disorders and mental

anguish was easily dismissed as the price to pay for " the daily

stress of life, " the same theory cannot be used to explain away the

surge in rates of mental torment and GERD now afflicting infants and

children.

 

During the five-year period ending in 2001, the sale of drugs

prescribed to treat reflux, heartburn and other gastrointestinal

disorders in children soared 660 percent. In a report looking at

four of those same years, the cost of treating behavioral problems

presently referred to as ADHD in children also increased 120

percent. (8, 9)

 

According to an annual report of the US Department of Education to

Congress, the number of " children aged 0 to 21 " being treated for

autism and traumatic brain injury rose from the first 5,000 reported

cases in 1992/93 (at the start of mandatory reporting), to 94,000

cases in 2000/01. In looking at individual states, a troubling

mosaic forms. States showing the highest increase (a two thousand

percent increase or greater) in the number of children being treated

for autism include Alaska, Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, Maryland

and Oregon. This is not to say that the other states were faring

well - in California from 1987 through 2002, the number of people

being treated for autism by the Department of Developmental Services

increased by 634%. In Indiana the percentage of children suffering

from autism rose by 860%. In Michigan, the increase was over 1000%.

The 1999 Journal of Pediatrics indicated that the majority of

autistic children who were followed in one study were also suffering

from reflux and other digestive problems. (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

 

Unfortunately, it appears that little boys are far more likely than

little girls to suffer from autism as well as from a variety of

childhood behavioral disorders. Typically, even as infants these

boys also appear to be suffering from reflux and sleep disturbances.

It is while noting the surge in ADHD that another disturbing fact

emerges: Some of the states with the worst surges in behavioral

problems - including Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alaska and

Oregon - are also states in which still-unexplained behavior in

juvenile males has manifested in horrific school shootings.

 

While the brain and its workings are still not fully understood, it

is within the frontal lobes of the brain that the capacities for

moral judgment, attention and memory are now thought to be situated.

PET scans and functional MRIs of the boys afflicted with autistic

disorders have revealed what appears to be " decreased glucose

metabolic rate in the medial frontal region, " and " hypometabolism

[lowered metabolism] demonstrated in the temporal and parietal

regions. " (16)

 

Tests have also indicated that, in the brains of the afflicted boys

there is a " decreased activity and reduced anatomical size,

particularly in the right brain . . . " Other brain disturbances,

including disturbances in the brain's processing of tryptophan,

serotonin and melatonin are becoming known, as is damage to the

hippocampus area, thought to be associated with memory problems and

obsessive thoughts. (17)

 

Pharmaceuticals such as methylphenidate, now in popular use,

stimulate the frontal lobes in order to heighten the brain's ability

to filter out noncritical parts of the daily barrage of stimuli.

This pharmaceutical appears to at least temporarily improve the

behavioral symptoms of agitation, hyperactivity and inattention in

children whose brains are otherwise unable to filter stimuli on

their own.

 

While stimulants might improve outward symptoms, though, research

now indicates that within the right brain, most notably within the

right temporal lobe and hippocampus regions, there exists an

extremely unusual area of neuroreceptors and transmitters. It is

this area of the brain that is believed to be the connection between

the human individual and the still unexplained realm of the mystical

and the divine - the realm of divinely perceived Light. For this

reason, this area of the brain is now being referred to by some

researchers as the " God Spot " - what might be our most important

connection of all.

 

Despite the fact that this extraordinary realm of Light is largely

bypassed as noncritical by the majority of researchers, many

individuals have now described numerous, similar experiences with

the Light, indicating such experience is not as uncommon as orthodox

science has assumed. In examining some of the oldest texts in human

history, it is apparent that interactions with Beings of Light have,

since the earliest of times, been the most cherished and desired of

all human experiences. Writings from ancient Egypt describe journeys

into the Light and contact with beings and messengers. " Manna, " was

the expression voiced by startled Egyptians on seeing the living

entities emerging from the light. " Manna, " meant, " what is this? "

 

We can judge from the unprecedented volume of prescriptions for

psychiatric drugs that something is having a profoundly depressing

influence upon the human mind at this time. Something is happening

within our brains that is manifesting as anxiety, depression and

impaired cognitive abilities - this much we know. Because adequate

research of the God-Spot is not an " approved " field of study,

however, we have no scientific reports warning us if the God

connection in the brain is also being damaged at this time. Again,

we have only outward signs to observe - signals indicating something

is blocking our access to the most important light of our lives, and

symptoms that speak to a growing angst, darkness and the loneliness

of godlessness.

 

Researchers who dare to study this area of human experience, do so

facing professional humiliation from peers, although such research

may actually be critical to the well-being of humanity. Those who

guard the borders of acceptable research are often quite skeptical

or disapproving of what they contend is mere " paranormal "

speculation, and for this reason, that area of study has been

largely avoided by professionals and researchers.

 

Melvin Morse, M.D., pediatrician and author of Closer to the Light,

is one of very few professionals who has dared to explore this

uncharted territory. In summing up this unfortunate situation of

acceptable study versus study that is dismissed as paranormal, he

writes, " This lack of a theoretical scientific model to allow

interaction with an interconnected universe has led to a 100

year 'skeptic' versus 'believer' debate which has not advanced our

understanding of human consciousness. " (18, 19, 20)

 

Although our increasing inability to perceive the divine and

understand the full extent of our human capabilities remains largely

ignored by those discrediting or rejecting " paranormal " research,

the growing epidemic of anxiety, depression and overwhelming despair

in this country's children deserves the attention of all of us. It

should be considered a national emergency, and a national tragedy.

 

In Colorado, the rate of suicide among teenagers, children and young

adults has been consistently above the national average since 1980.

Suicide is, sadly, the second-leading cause of death in children

between the ages of 10 through 19 in Colorado. In Kentucky, suicide

is also the second leading cause of death in children, teens and

young adults. In Mississippi, the number of teen and young-adult

suicides has increased 126% since 1969, with more than 90% of the

victims being males. In Alaska, the suicide rate among teenagers is

nearly twice that of the national average - twice. (21, 22, 23, 24)

 

Other strange surges in human suffering have been noted, as well. In

Colorado, from 1990 through 1999, the percentage of children with

orthopedic impairments rose 484%. In Alaska, during 1990-98, the

incidence of diabetes increased by 152%, (much greater than the

national rate), and now Alaska is among the top three states with

the highest incidence of squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.

(25, 26)

 

In the midst of all this growing and tragic suffering, in the year

2000 the Surgeon General issued a " first ever " call to action in

response to what was noted as a " silent epidemic " of dental problems

in the United States. Something strange is happening in the mouths

of Americans. (27)

 

According to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial

Research, an estimated 80% of American adults currently have some

form of periodontal (gum) disease. In parts of Kentucky, nearly half

of the toddlers have cavities in their teeth, which is approximately

twice the national average. In addition to Kentucky, the top five

states cited in a 1997 table used in the Surgeon General's report on

toothlessness included West Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas and Maine.

(28, 29, 30)

 

Perhaps it is at this point that one might begin to reasonably

suspect that whatever lies at the cause of this epidemic of

epidemics - whatever is disabling Americans in body, mind and

spirit - just might be something we are putting into our mouths or

otherwise absorbing into our bodies. This is not an unreasonable

suspicion.

 

Given the avalanche of starch that is now figuratively suffocating

us and literally fattening us, given the strange new bioengineered

oddities now secretly passing as food in America, given the

relatively new insertion of soy compounds in seemingly infinite

forms and aliases into nearly every packaged, jarred and canned food

on the grocery shelves - given the chemicals, the mandatory

cocktails of highly questionable and extremely toxic vaccines all

being inserted into the American population - it does not appear at

all unreasonable to think that what is wrong with our health and

well-being might have something to do with what we are taking in

with mouths, skin and lungs.

 

It does not appear to be at all unreasonable to suspect that our new

status as world leader in pursuit of relief-seeking drugs has a

cause, and that cause just might be something unnatural that is

entering our bodies en masse.

 

The list of possible suspected toxins, though lengthy, can be

shortened by a deductive process. Not all of us consume soy - some

avoid it by preference, others because of allergies, and still

others avoid it who have been alerted to questions raised by

research about its safety. Not all parents permit their children to

take the vaccines mandated by government. A significant number of

Americans avoid bioengineered food by purchasing organic, GE-free

products, and still others have cut large amounts of starch from

their diets in order to maintain proper weight and health. Not all

of us have similar lifestyles that might be blamed as the cause for

physical distress, mental despair, stress, cognitive malfunctions

and uncompassionate apathy now upon us.

 

The toxic suspect is unlikely to be an elective, avoidable

substance. More likely the toxin is in something that we all consume

because we need it, like flowers need the rain. It might be

something undetectable at first - something that we willingly ingest

without knowing it. It would be a toxin that could be added into

virtually every food and beverage, with no mention of it required on

the labels.

 

The substance would also be now causing problems in a bizarre

geographical manner. As though it were seemingly able to sense

invisible county boundary lines, it would be a toxin that is leaving

a trail which jumps from county to county, state to state, missing

some counties and entire states while hitting other counties and

states particularly hard.

 

The search is for a substance that can be absorbed through the skin

and lungs as well as by swallowing it. Undetectable to us except by

scientific measuring, it is a substance that does its work quietly

and in extremely low doses. Working at a molecular level, it would

cause a gradual onset of disease and disability observable only

after the slow passage of years. It is then, after that slow, slow

passage of years, that an epidemic of epidemics would be noticed

while its cause long forgotten in the mists of time.

 

After a process of elimination, the substance that meets all of the

criteria and stands alone in the crosshairs of our search is a

substance that does not appear to be suspect. In fact, it raises no

suspicions in most of us, whatsoever, because most of us are unaware

of the research pertaining to this substance.

 

It is a substance that, according to government reports, has been

known since 1930 to have such a powerful effect upon thyroid

function, it has been used in prescription medications to treat

hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid). It can, therefore, along with

our pyramid of dough, be reasonably marked as a suspicious agent

contributing to the current epidemic of obesity and thyroid

problems. (31, 32, 33, 34)

 

It is a substance that has also long been known to cause or

exacerbate the exact periodontal disease resulting in the tooth loss

that has caught the attention of the Surgeon General. In addition to

being a causative agent in periodontal disease, it is a substance

that is known to accumulate in the teeth and bones creating

brittleness, and for this reason it has also been associated with

osteoporosis and other bone diseases and disorders that are also now

being seen in America.

 

The mysterious substance is so corrosive, when added to water it

will eat its way through a titanium container. Since it will eat its

way through titanium, perhaps it should not come as a great surprise

to learn that it is also known to act as a severe corrosive agent on

human gastric and mucosal tissues. (35, 36, 37, 38)

 

As Americans' afflictions continue to unfold unlike anything else

that humanity has known and brought upon itself, we also learn that

the material, once thought unable to cross the blood-brain barrier,

crosses it rather well. It also concentrates in the pineal gland

that is located within the brain. (39, 40, 41, 42)

 

Any agent that passes through the brain can be expected to affect

behavior, mood and cognitive function, and this substance has been

repeatedly shown to create a depressing, numbing effect.

 

As early as 1954 this substance was reported by George L. Waldbott,

M.D., to cause his patients to become " incoherent, drowsy, lethargic

and forgetful. " His reports are not isolated. Government reports

indicate similar findings of " impaired cognition and memory. " So

well-known is the impact of this chemical on the human brain and

mental function, it continues to be incorporated in and sold in a

variety of popular, well-known psychiatric drugs. (43, 44, 45)

 

Given the existing reports of this substance's presence within the

brain - including its effects on the right temporal lobe,

hippocampus and the pineal gland - perhaps it should come as no

wonder that a growing number of people, children in particular, are

now behaving strangely, unpredictably, and sometimes very badly

while also noting gross memory impairment after ingesting or

absorbing this substance.

 

Reports also indicate that the substance is not as effectively

eliminated from the body in young males as it is in others. Thus

retained in the body, its effect upon juvenile males appears to be

quite different from its effect on females or even adult males. (46)

 

Because of its known toxic side effects, this substance requires a

prescription when administered by medical professionals, but in a

bizarre and quite deadly paradox enabled by industry masterminds

working within the government, it can be administered en masse to

the general public by dealers who have no medical training

whatsoever, no license to dispense medications whatsoever, and who,

in fact, have no idea to whom they are administering this corrosive,

toxic, mind-altering substance.

 

Those who avoid non-prescribed pharmaceutical substances might feel

safe as a result of personal choices to refrain from unapproved

drugs and substances. We have dutifully repeated the " just say no to

drugs " mantra, and we have instructed our children to repeat the

same after us. We would not think of taking mind-altering drugs from

a dealer, and would never consider giving such a substance in

unregulated doses to our infants and children.

 

However, we have been innocently doing just that. In a growing

number of geographical areas that begin and end with invisible

county lines, the substance is almost impossible to avoid. Some of

the hardest hit counties are located in Alaska, Colorado, Kentucky,

Michigan and Mississippi.

 

As the old saying goes, when no other agent can be located as the

cause for our problems, blame it on the water. " It must be something

in the water, " the saying has been said for ages, usually with a

shrug and chuckle.

 

Perhaps it's time for us as individuals and as a nation to repeat

this phrase again - this time as though our lives depended upon it,

this time without a shrug and chuckle - and while we are at it, take

a closer look at our water.

 

Maybe there is something in the water, after all.

 

* * * * * * * * *

 

The strange, corrosive, toxic but still controversial agent in the

water is fluoride.

 

The atomic symbol for the negatively charged halogen known as

fluorine is, simply, " F " or " F-. " When the negatively charged ions -

or anions - of fluorine gas combine with another element, a fluoride

compound is formed. If the F combines with sodium (Na), for

instance, the compound would then be known as sodium fluoride, or

NaF. If it combines with calcium (Ca), the compound formed is

calcium fluoride, or CaF. If it combines with arsenic, it becomes

AsF. And so on.

 

Fluoride is a trace element in nature, but manmade fluoride

compounds became grossly abundant as a result of the invention of

weapons of mass destruction in World War II. Fluoride and uranium

are key components in the atomic bomb, and fluoride is also a key

ingredient in fluorinated organophosphate nerve agents, such as

Sarin.

 

Radioactive uranium is naturally present in phosphate ore, but it

must be " enriched " if it is to become a nuclear weapon or a reactor

fuel. After the phosphate is mined, the uranium " yellow cake " is

removed and sent to an enrichment facility such as the plant owned

by the Department of Energy in Paducah, Kentucky. There, the uranium

is fluorinated and uranium hexafluoride (UF6) is produced. Paducah's

enrichment plant stopped making UF6 for weapons in the 1960s, and

began creating it, instead, for commercial purposes as a reactor

fuel.

 

Uranium fission was first discovered in the late 1930s by German

scientists. In 1939, there was a reported fear that the Nazis were

about to develop a bomb using uranium fission. In 1942, Americans

began similar research, facilitated by the knowledge of scientists

who had fled their own countries and moved to the United States.

Thus, America was the first to achieve both creation - and use - of

atomic weaponry in 1945.

 

That year, 1945, was one of many changes. With World War II over,

1945 marked the year in which the Nuremberg Trials began - trials

that presumably reaffirmed the sanctity of life, and human rights -

trials which would eventually address the atrocities of Nazi human

experimentation.

 

As the world breathed a sigh a relief in knowing that the Nazi

health officials' experimentation on human beings had been halted in

Germany, 1945 marked the year that " public health officials " in

America began their experimentation on human beings with water

fluoridation.

 

In what would turn out to be the biggest human experimentation in

history, sodium fluoride - NaF - was added into American's drinking

water in selected communities under the medical claim that the F

would prevent dental caries (cavities) in children. Those receiving

this experimental, medicinal treatment in their drinking water,

received it then as they do now: They are forced to ingest it,

inhale it, bathe and shower in it, whether or not they want or even

need this toxic chemical in their bodies.

 

As with all medicinal compounds - indeed, as with virtually

everything on Earth - some individuals can be expected to have

extreme side effects and allergic reactions. Individuals having

severe allergic reactions to penicillin, poison ivy or peanuts are

very likely to use common sense and avoid those substances. Unlike

the penicillin, poison ivy or peanuts, however - in fact, unlike any

other medicinal compound in history - over 60% of Americans at this

time are now unable to electively avoid the F product unless they

also can find a way to avoid their water. While the list of side

effects from fluoride has been falsely minimized or completely

concealed by fluoride promoters, the side effects are well

documented. Side effects have been so severe that previously

approved medications containing high-grade F compounds have been

removed from the market by the FDA. (47, 48, 49, 50, 51)

 

In a recent paper authored by Myron Coplan, PE, and Roger Masters,

PhD, a professor at Dartmouth, the authors discovered that a subtle

but potentially lethal change in F additives took place shortly

after the fluoride experimentation on Americans began. In 1947

instead of higher-grade NaF or sodium fluoride - silicofluorides, or

SiFs, were substituted as the fluorinating compound in drinking

water. This switch was carried out under the gross misconception

that all F compounds are the same. As outlined in some largely

ignored research, however, one part of SiF is substantially more

potent than six parts of NaF. Despite this evidence, and despite the

fact that it is now SiF rather than NaF primarily being used in

American water fluoridation, Masters and Coplan found

that " virtually all the extensive laboratory research on the

biological properties and effects of fluoride in water has been

performed using NaF rather than SiFs... " (52)

 

Merck gives the definition of silicofluoride as, " fluorosilicate is

a compound of silicon and some other base with fluorine, such as

sodium silicofluoride; fluorosilicates are sometimes used as

insecticides, and are very toxic when ingested. Called also

silicofluoride. " (53)

 

While many are still assuming that the SiF compounds being added to

drinking water are high-grade pharmaceuticals, the CDC's National

Fluoridation Engineer has publicly stated that all fluoride

compounds currently used for water fluorination are " byproducts of

the phosphate fertilizer industry. " (54)

 

Because of the toxic nature of this compound, the SiF being added to

drinking water is an industrial waste that would otherwise have to

be disposed of by the industry that created it, and it would have to

be disposed of according to the Hazardous Materials Regulations

(HAZMAT). Disposal of toxic substances under hazmat regulations,

however, results in an expense for the industries.

 

This costly disposal dilemma - and its clever marketing remedy - was

expertly summed up in a 1983 letter written by EPA's Rebecca Hanmer,

(formerly the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Water), who stated

that by putting the SiF waste into drinking water rather than

disposing of it, an important financial savings is made for the

industry. Miss Hanmer wrote that this industrial plan is " ...an

ideal solution to a long standing problem. By recovering by-product

fluosilicic acid (sic) from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air

pollution are minimized, and water authorities have a low-cost

source of fluoride... " (55)

 

Ongoing research by Dr. Roger Masters' team revealed that the effect

of SiF in young, growing boys differs from its effects on adult

males. In juvenile males, ingested fluoride is not excreted from the

body as efficiently as it is excreted from the body of adult males.

It is this finding that perhaps explains why this substance might be

creating an extreme reaction in boys. In addition, after comparing

blood lead levels of over 400,000 children in communities using SiF-

treated water, it was found that SiF water was also significantly

associated with increased levels of lead in the children tested.

This should be cause for alarm because the findings of other recent

studies show a distinct correlation between blood concentrations of

lead and unusual, aggressive behavior. (56)

 

Information published in 2003 detailed the findings of a controlled

study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Researchers found

in this study that elevated amounts of lead in the blood " may cause

aggressive and even violent behavior. " Dr. John D. Bogden, Professor

of Preventive Medicine and Community Health participated in this

study at the New Jersey Medical School. He stated, " The data of this

study demonstrate that lead exposure enhances predatory aggression

in animals, and provide support for lead exposure as a cause of

aggressive behavior in humans. " Among other researchers also

participating in this study was Dr. Donald B. Louria, Chairman

Emeritus of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community

Health. Dr. Louria stated, " The results support other recent

investigations that have found associations between lead in blood or

bones and delinquent and aggressive behavior in teenagers. " (57)

 

In seeking further documented evidence regarding aggressive behavior

and its association with SiF water, Dr. Masters contacted personnel

in the EPA in 2000 and asked them if they had empirical, scientific

data on the effects of SiFs on health and behavior. Robert Thurnau,

Chief, Water Supply and Water Resources Division of the EPA

responded. " . . . our answer is no. " (58)

 

In spite of the increasing evidence pointing directly to a potential

calamity stemming from massive fluoride poisoning, there remain

outspoken groups that continue to advocate the blanket dosing of

entire communities with still-untested, unapproved fluoridation.

Among them is a group known as " Quackwatch. "

 

Quackwatch is chaired by retired psychiatrist, Stephen Barrett, M.D.

He and the Quackwatch associates have gathered together for the

purpose of acting as both watchdog and instructor for the gullible,

unlettered public. The group has apparently done some substantial

instructing, because it claims to be one of the three most popular

medical websites on the entire internet. Dr. also serves as a Fellow

of the " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the

Paranormal. "

 

Quackwatch uses an FDA quotation to describe what, exactly, quackery

or health fraud is, and it also provides the public with guidelines

to help us more easily identify the " quacks " among us. According to

Quackwatch, " The FDA defines health fraud as 'the promotion, for

profit, of a medical remedy known to be false or unproven.' "

 

In reading through the reports published on Quackwatch, one will

read claims that opponents to fluoridation have no supporting

evidence to back their opposition to fluoridation. In fact, the only

suspicions regarding F that seem to be embraced by Quackwatch are

suspicions raised about individuals who oppose or question

fluoridation. In one report that appears on Quackwatch, " Community

Water Fluoridation in America: The Unprincipled Opposition, " Michael

Easley, DDS, another outspoken promoter of fluoride, refers to

fluoridation opponents as " health quacks, " and quotes from a 1983

paper which likens fluoride opponents to " parasites " who " steal

undeserved credibility just by sharing the stage with respected

scientists, " all of whom (we are apparently to believe) are pro-

fluoridation. (59, 60)

 

Quackwatch warns that one of the tactics of an " anti " (an opponent

to the mass fluoridation of drinking water), is to use tactics based

upon " those of Hitler, " and to state that fluoride is the cause of

an entire laundry list of problems. Quackwatch is correct about the

laundry list. This is not a " tactic, " however. It is a mere

statement of facts.

 

Those who have dared to ask a few questions in spite of the

potential risk of public humiliation by Quackwatch and other

fluoridation promoters, have discovered information that flatly

contradicts the information being generated by the promoters.

 

In a journal found in the National Library of Medicine, studies have

shown that in doses as low as 3 mg per day, fluoride has produced

toxic effects on male reproductive hormones. Despite what Americans

are being told by fluoridation promoters, the negative effects of F

upon both body and mind have not only been discovered, but they have

also been duly reported, albeit in areas and texts that most

Americans - including professionals - do not regularly access,

to or read. (61, 62, 63, 64)

 

Perhaps the most amazing fact of all discovered by those daring to

ask questions, is the fact that the F compound being added into our

drinking water under a promised, medicinal claim, has not ever been

approved by the FDA.

 

Representative Glenn Donnelson of Utah summed this fact up during

the winter, 2003, National Conference of State Legislatures. When

asked about fluoride he stated, " A major concern is that the Food

and Drug Administration has never approved fluoride for safety or

effectiveness . . . When a product, substance or chemical is added

to the public water supply for the purposes of treating or

preventing a disease, that chemical must have an approved health

claim by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. To say

that 'fluoridated water will decrease tooth decay' is an illegal

health claim. " (65)

 

Amid the Quackwatch reports, is a report reprinted from the 2002 FDA

Consumer magazine focusing on the Surgeon General's " silent

epidemic " of oral/dental problems, previously mentioned above. The

article is named, " Fighting Gum Disease: How to Keep Your Teeth. "

The paper focuses on " Americans' bad oral health, " and on the high

incidence of gum disease in the US. A portion of this scientific

paper, however, reads suspiciously like a product promotion and

endorsement. It is in that particular area of this paper on " how to

keep your teeth, " that the inevitable endorsement of a fluoride

product is made. (66)

 

A more realistic paper focusing on " Fighting Gum Disease: How to

Keep Your Teeth, " might have actually contained a warning about

fluoride.

 

According to a patent application that can be located through the US

Patent and Trademark Office, the following statement was given as

supporting evidence by researchers applying for patent #636150,

filed on April 22, 1996: " We have found that fluoride, in the

concentration range in which it is employed for the prevention of

dental caries, stimulates the production of prostaglandins and

thereby exacerbates the inflammatory response in gingivitis and

periodontitis. " The claim for which these researchers were seeking a

patent was, " A method for preventing dental caries and at the same

time controlling periodontal bone loss precipitated by the

fluoride... "

 

Could it possibly be that fluoride does not belong on the list of

the " Ten Great Public Health Achievements in the Twentieth Century, "

as is claimed by the CDC and seconded by popular fluoride promoters

such as Quackwatch?

 

Is it possible that along with the " adjusted " reports that have been

given to the public from the USDA as well as from the EPA (as has

recently been charged by angered EPA scientists), that individuals

in the CDC, the FDA and those crying foul and quack in the private

sector might be giving us - albeit with great authoritarian bluster -

more inaccurate information in order to promote and market this

product?

 

Most of the dental problems in the Surgeon General's report are

broken down according to race, income and educational levels in the

government's apparent attempt to find a reason behind the appalling

increase in gum disease. It is in the midst of this data that the

following lament is made: " . . . about 40 percent of the public does

not receive the benefits of community water fluoridation. " Because

the mention of " fluoride-deficient " communities is listed in this

report, one might reasonably draw a conclusion that fluoridated

drinking water must be working wonders for those more fortunate

folks in the fluoridated counties. Certainly, the five states

mentioned on the Surgeon General's list as having the worst

toothlessness problems - Kentucky, West Virginia, Arkansas,

Louisiana and Maine - must be five of the most

embarrassingly " fluoride-deficient " states in the entire United

States. (67)

 

A brief review of a state-by-state CDC score card of " optimally

fluoridated " communities reveals just the opposite.

 

Predictably, and in keeping with research that reveals fluoride

causes gum disease, the two states with the worst edentulous

problems in the country - Kentucky and West Virginia - were 96% and

87% " optimally fluoridated " in 2000. In fact, Kentucky, which was

mentioned earlier above as also having twice the rate of cavities in

toddlers as the national average, was actually 100% fluoridated in

1992.

 

Among the other top five states of now-toothless-Americans, Maine

was 75% fluoridated, Arkansas was about 60% fluoridated and over 53%

of Louisiana's residents were being " optimally fluoridated " via

hazmat waste in their drinking water. (68)

 

Adding to the overall contradictory statistics is yet another

report, this one a 2001-02 " report card " issued by a fluoride-

promoting group calling itself " Oral Health America " (OHA). They

gave the United States an oral health grade of only " C, " a grade

that was in part lowered because each state not " optimally

fluoridated " automatically received one " F " to be figured into their

grade. According to OHA's data, there were only four states that

actually received a better grade than the national average of C. Two

of those four states that received the highest grades in America for

overall oral health were Utah and Hawaii. Both Utah and Hawaii

received a B minus.

 

Utah and Hawaii, however, are the two " hold-out " states in America.

Both states have been roundly rejecting water fluoridation for some

time. (69)

 

Once again, the list of areas being " optimally fluoridated "

or " fluoride deficient " pertains only to fluoridation of drinking

water. There is no mention of the other sources of fluoride

pollution in America. Among the other sources are ongoing fluoride

contamination of the air and environment by Superfund sites,

fluoride contamination in animal feeds, pesticides, cigarette smoke,

coal combustion, in fertilizers being incorporated into soils, the

fluoride that is contained in plastics and in nonstick cookware, the

fluoride contamination of human foods as well as canned/bottled

juices, soft drinks and other beverages, and the fluoride that is

added to an overwhelming number of pharmaceutical products,

including antibiotics, steroids, molecular imaging tracking agents,

anesthetics, vitamins and antidepressants.

 

As though even more fluoride were somehow needed by a nation that is

clearly already overdosed, the list also does not include one of the

most highly concentrated sources of fluoride that is purchased by

most Americans and used daily: Conventional toothpastes. Most

toothpastes have a fluoride content that is so potentially lethal, a

poison warning must be displayed on their labels. In what must be

the most bizarre examples of conflicting and confusing in formation,

while " public health officials " in many states are using words such

as " enforcement " when it comes to keeping fluoride in people's

drinking water, the notice on the toothpaste tubes warns

specifically against the ingestion of the fluoride product. The

government's Medline encyclopedia gives the following prognosis

following an ingested toothpaste overdose: " For fluoridated

toothpastes -- If the patient survives for 48 hours, recovery is

usually likely. " (70)

 

Amid the confusion, one might wonder why topical fluoride dental

products would even be necessary when the fluoridation of drinking

water is now being enforced in so many communities. The answer to

this question can be found in statements from the CDC and other

fluoride promoters: Ingested fluoride only affects teeth prior to

tooth eruption. According to the CDC, after the tooth has erupted

from the gums in toddlers and children, ingested fluoride no longer

affects the tooth. (71, 72)

 

There are only preliminary estimates available regarding how much F

is absorbed through the skin and lungs even though over half of all

Americans now have no choice but to stand naked in their showers and

be completely contaminated by F water - and then pay for it in their

utility bill. Estimates suggest that dermal and pulmonary absorption

of F are far more efficient routes than ingestion by mouth, as was

demonstrated over a half century ago by the Nazis during their

experimentation with lethal, fluorinated nerve gases.

 

It is perhaps of interest to note that while Quackwatch includes the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its list of " Reliable

Agencies and Organizations, " several important pieces of literature

pertaining to F and published by EPA Headquarters Union of

Scientists have either escaped the Quackwatch notice or have simply

been ignored.

 

It appears that a number of scientists in the EPA have also been

able to uncover existing information that documents the dangers of

F. In fact, some of the scientists of the EPA have been issuing

warnings about the dangers of fluoride in our drinking water for

over ten years, but - again - reports that do not further the sale

of this product have been seriously " adjusted " by overseers

occupying jobs within the government. Only after being adjusted are

the reports then given to the unsuspecting public. In other cases,

the scientists' warnings appear to be completely ignored by major

news media, as well as by some of the more popular medical sites

that profess to keep Americans informed.

 

One statement prepared by J. William Hirzy, Ph.D. of the EPA

Headquarters Union of scientists, summarizes the stand of

approximately 1500 scientists and professionals in Washington,

D.C. " ... our opposition to drinking water fluoridation has grown,

based on the scientific literature documenting the increasingly out-

of-control exposures to fluoride, the lack of benefit to dental

health from ingestion of fluoride and the hazards to human health

from such ingestion. These hazards include acute toxic hazard, such

as to people with impaired kidney function, as well as chronic toxic

hazards of gene mutations, cancer, reproductive effects,

neurotoxicity, bone pathology and dental fluorosis. " In another

statement issued before the Subcommittee on Drinking Water in D.C.,

Dr. Hirzy urged an immediate moratorium on water fluoridation,

citing among other possible links, the growing psychological

problems children are now suffering. (73, 74)

 

While research on the destructive role that F is playing in the

human body continues to unfold, a much earlier clue regarding the

toxic effects of cellular message disruption was given years ago in

an old book written by Adelle Davis, Let's Get Well. (Ms. Davis, who

was suspicious of fluoride, was posthumously inducted into the

lengthy Quackwatch list of Quacks for misinforming the public.)

 

Although she was not writing about fluoride when she mentioned the

words " xanthurenic acid " in that old book - she was writing about

diabetes - both xanthurenic acid and diabetes fit well into any

study of fluoride and America's health problems.

 

Referencing research done in the 1950s, on page 94 Ms. Davis

wrote: " When too little vitamin B6 (pyridoxin) is obtained, an

essential amino acid from complete proteins, tryptophane, is not

used normally; instead it is changed into a substance known as

xanthurenic acid. If animals are deficient in B6, xanthurenic acid

in the blood becomes so high that it damages the pancreas within 48

hours and diabetes is produced. "

 

On the next page, she stated that magnesium plays an important

partnership role with B6 by decreasing the need for B6. A more

recent study shows that a magnesium deficiency impairs B6 status by

inhibiting the uptake of B6 in the tissues. On page 342, Adelle

Davis stated that many foods grown in America today using chemical

fertilizers are deficient in magnesium content. (75)

 

These are important statements in that old book, as they clearly

demonstrate that the need for appropriate nutrition as well as the

devastating effects of an improper diet were well-known by

researchers in the 1950s - long before adjusters gave us our pyramid

of dough. Information available through the CDC also states that a

poor diet - something that is now quite easy to come-by in the

United States - can lead to a depletion of B6. (76)

 

In order to better understand what, exactly, xanthurenic acid is,

and how important each small piece of the puzzle is, one must look

at the symphonic workings of the nerves, chemicals, proteins and

hormones that are receiving and transmitting messages in the brain

and throughout the body each moment of every day of our lives. It is

the very ability of the receptors and transmitters to give and

receive their accurate messages that creates the symphony that is

the song of life.

 

Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that must be obtained through

a proper, balanced diet. The tryptophan is then further dependent

upon - and influenced by - other nutrients and messages for its

destined work in the body.

 

If the tryptophan is not able to metabolize in the brain because of

missing nutrients or due to incorrect messaging, the tryptophan

degrades into xanthurenic acid, a toxin that causes cells to self-

destruct in a cellular suicidal action called " apoptosis. " All of

the B complex vitamins are essential for proper cellular messaging,

but in studying the specific roles of each of the B vitamins, a

deficiency of vitamin B6 has, indeed, been shown to lead to

tryptophan degradation. What little B6 that is gained from a poor

diet can be further depleted by something else as easy to come by in

the US as a poor diet - stress. (77, 78, 79, 80)

 

On the other hand, if all goes well and all nutrients are present,

instead of metabolizing into xanthurenic acid the tryptophan will

interact and then form serotonin, which is a powerful

neurotransmitter. Serotonin's molecular messaging role is so vast

and important in the body, it is sometimes referred to as

the " serotonin system. " It is a key player in the regulation of mood

and behavior. It also directly affects the gastrointestinal tract,

and low levels are being found in the development of heart disease.

Serotonin is also thought to play a regulatory role in insulin

production, and a disruption of serotonin levels has also been found

to worsen the behavior in some autism cases. (81, 82, 83, 84, 85)

 

In a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, the point is made

that, " Evidence is mounting that abnormalities of serotonin

metabolism play an important role in individuals with autism

spectrum disorders. Whole-blood serotonin often is elevated in

children with autistic disorder and normal intelligence. Also, in

boys with autistic disorder, serotonin synthesis typically is

decreased in the frontal region and thalamus on one side of the

brain and increased in the dentate nucleus of the opposite

cerebellum. " (86)

 

Once the tryptophan is transformed into serotonin, the serotonin

acts as the precursor to melatonin which is formed in the pineal

gland. Melatonin is the hormone that regulates daily cycles, and it

induces sound sleep which is necessary for our bodies to heal and

repair themselves each night. It is also an extremely important

regulator of apoptosis and it also plays a role in the regulation of

insulin. Because of its role in the regulation of apoptosis, when

the melatonin is able to send and receive its messages properly, its

messages tell cancer cells to self-destruct, while keeping other

cells on task. It also helps to govern mood and behavior, and plays

a role in the triggering of puberty. (87, 88)

 

As science has leapt forward in various areas, researchers are now

better able to understand some of the smaller, lesser-known details

of the great symphony within us. They are now aware, for instance,

of the critical role played by something that was discovered not

long ago by a gentleman of science named Martin Rodbell. He

discovered one of the most critical messengers in our bodies -

messengers that are now referred to as the " G-proteins. "

 

According to " The Martin Rodbell Papers - Signal Transduction and

the Discovery of G-Proteins, 1969-1980, " which can be viewed in the

National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of

Health, " 'Signal transduction' describes how individual cells

receive, process, and ultimately transmit information derived from

external 'signals,' such as hormones, drugs, or even light . . . The

G-proteins proved to be the essential components of the hormone

signaling process. " This was a discovery that was so profound, it

resulted in a shared Nobel Prize for Dr. Rodbell and Alfred Gilman,

M.D., PhD. (89)

 

But, Dr. Rodbell had also seen something else. At a press conference

in 1994 he took a moment to express concern for something troubling

him. He was concerned about the increasing profit-oriented arenas

into which the field of science was moving. " The tenor is changed, "

he stated, " the world ain't the same, everything is targeted,

everything is bottom line, how to make a buck. " He added that there

is a crucial need to " capture knowledge for its own sake and for

humanity. " In one of his last public speaking engagements, the man

who represented pure science rather than industry - a scientist who

was also a poet and unafraid to speak of Amazing Grace - Dr. Rodbell

said, " We should be able to together bring about a better world, a

world that we, as humans, can be proud of. " (90, 91)

 

Eerily, strangely - very strangely - as though he had looked at the

smallest of the small details and in those details found divine

consciousness, at his Nobel banquet celebrating the discovery of the

G-proteins, Martin Rodbell the scientist and poet told us that when

we think of G, to remember all that it stands for - " lucky seven in

the alphabet, the starting point for everything surely profound,

remember God... " (92)

 

Since the great, internal symphony is so dependent upon the

abilities of the G-proteins to send and receive their messages, it

would appear reasonable to assume that life, itself, depends upon

the safe and unblocked passage of these messengers.

 

Fluoride can now be suspected in a host of illnesses including GERD,

gum disease, bone problems, diabetes, thyroid malfunction and mental

impairment. As stated earlier, a significant number of the health

and mental problems in the US are more pronounced in boys. Because

tryptophan, serotonin and the melatonin formed in the pineal gland

are specifically associated with behavior (both aggressive and

nonaggressive), with mood, sleep, appetite control, mucosal function

of the gastrointestinal tract, regulation of cells and a host of

other functions of the body, it appears that something is disturbing

the proper functioning of the messengers, thus resulting in outward

signs of disease and behavioral problems. (93, 94, 95)

 

Additionally, fluoride has now been found to accumulate in extremely

high concentrations within the pineal gland where melatonin is

formed. This observation was made during postmortem examinations by

researcher Jennifer Luke, DDS, PhD. A known neurotoxin, fluoride has

also been shown to cause nerve cell degeneration, resulting in an

outright disruption of motor coordination. It has also been shown to

inhibit and interfere with the production of insulin, interfere with

thyroid function and to directly affect thought process. (96, 97,

98, 99, 100)

 

The outward signs, however, are but the symptoms, the end results -

the effects. Having found the effect, one must look at the smallest

of the small details to find the cause. There in the small details,

in the nucleus of the symphony where the divine is meant to sing,

something else is, instead, lying: Fluoride has now also been

identified as interfering with G-protein messages. A messenger of

utter falsehood, fluoride both activates and inhibits cellular

activity. (101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106)

 

This means that fluoride, along with those promoting it, is sending

out some rather confusing messages. (107)

 

* * * * * * * * *

 

It was while studying the raging debate over whether " we " should or

should not pay the uranium mining industries to use our drinking

water as a cheap way to dispose of their fluoride wastes, that

another fact appeared.

 

It appeared rather quietly and without fanfare, almost as background

noise that was unnoticeable against the din of debate on municipal

fluoridation. It might have been missed entirely if it weren't for

the fact that I was focusing on the growing list of behavioral

problems in children, and wondering each step of the way if the

children's problems might possibly be tied into an epidemic of

epidemics caused by fluoride.

 

While adults were sometimes being given an opportunity to express

opinions prior to the fluoridation of their water supplies, another

fluoridation program was quietly begun. In the 1960s and 1970s,

fluoridation was begun in children's schools which had their own

water supplies. The fluoridation plan for the schools' drinking

water, however, differed slightly from the municipal fluoridation

plans. The CDC guidelines suggested that school children's drinking

water should be fluoridated at approximately 4.5 times the amount

suggested for municipal fluoridation. (108, 109)

 

This deliberate overdose, which translates into ranges reaching 6.5

mg per liter of water, is not a dose that was based upon any child's

size, weight, age or body mass. It is not a dose that was based upon

any particular child's individual dental needs - nor was there even

consideration of whether the children's teeth had already erupted

and were therefore no longer affected by ingested fluoride. The dose

was certainly not based upon any parent's desire to have his or her

children exposed to fluoride in amounts that the parents would not

want to receive. It is a dose that does not even take into

consideration the amount of fluoride the children might already be

exposed via topical dental products.

 

In fact, it is a dose that callously - and quite coldly - takes

nothing whatsoever into consideration other than the mean outdoor

temperature. In schools where the average daily temperature is 79.3

to 90.5 degrees Fahrenheit, the suggested dose is 3.2 milligrams per

liter, with the upper range being 3.8 mg/L. But, heaven help the

schools in colder areas where the average air temperature is 50 to

53.7 degrees Fahrenheit. In those schools, the suggested dose is 5.4

mg/L, with upper limits at 6.5 mg/L. (110)

 

With the dose of fluoride experimentation at such extreme levels,

one would think that at least caution and close monitoring would be

in order.

 

Once again, such a thought is apparently considered unreasonable in

the minds of those promoting fluoride. In a report dated August 17,

2001, the CDC states that while schools in thirteen states had

initiated school water fluoridation at some point during the course

of this experiment, as of 2001, " school water fluoridation has been

phased out in several states; the current extent of this practice is

not known. " (111)

 

In addition to school fluoridation now being " not known, " in the

same National Conference of State Legislatures in which

Representative Donnelson registered his opposition to fluoridation,

another 2001 study was reviewed. The study examined the knowledge

level of operators controlling both small and large water plants.

Specifically, this study focused on the knowledge level of

individuals responsible for adding the fluoride into the drinking

water. The two-year study found that only " approximately 64 percent

of plant operators knew the correct optimal fluoride concentration

for their plant . . . " (112)

 

Medical experimentation is always undertaken for a purpose. The

purpose in most cases is to achieve or study end results. It is not

unreasonable to suspect that the massive medical experiment

involving one of the most powerful of the greenhouse gases -

fluoride - might finally be revealing its long-term, end results.

With children being subjected to more than a full measure of this

experiment, it is not unreasonable to suspect that the children

might reach their breaking point before the larger, older, heavier

adult population.

 

It is not unreasonable to assume that children might now be showing

signs not only of dental fluorosis - which has been visible for

years in the United States - but also signs of systemic fluorosis

manifesting in ways that have nothing to do with their teeth.

 

With a manmade, toxic substance now effectively sending false

messages throughout the minds and bodies of most Americans, it is

not unreasonable to suggest that previously unheard-of behavioral

and mood problems might be directly related to that manmade

substance which is sending out those false messages. Along with the

new, bizarre fascination with darkness that appears to be growing in

this country's juveniles, there seems to be a new aloofness and a

growing lack of compassion.

 

In some children there appears to be a growing inability to think

clearly beyond the moment at hand, and an inability to avoid bizarre

and impulsive behavior. In some boys, there appears to be a growing

inability to feel, and therefore an inability to behave in a manner

that considers the feelings of others. School bullying, once a rare

and punishable offense, is simply seen now as " life in the real

world, " as the principal of a notably violent middle school in

Tallahassee told me. Along with an inability to feel, there is a

growing inability to even perceive a concept of the divine. Instead,

there appears to be a growing willingness to follow dark,

provocative and charismatic leaders who are now easily leading their

young disciples directly into hell.

 

There is also a growing reverence for Nazi philosophy reported among

some school children, nationwide.

 

Xanthurenic acid is the toxic element needed before a number of

illnesses - including malaria - are set into motion. Following this

example of cause and effect, one might reasonably wonder at this

point if it is fluoride, itself, that set into motion the numbing,

light-blocking, emotionless disease of godlessness that is Nazi

philosophy. Was it, perhaps, the fluoride that created the Nazis?

 

With children's minds now being ruled by a false messenger, it is

within reason to wonder if this messenger of lies is the toxic agent

behind the growing, horrific cases of murder, suicide and

inexplicable behavior now being carried out by children - irrational

acts carried out by children who are unable to think clearly enough

to " just say no " to anything.

 

Christopher Pittman - was twelve years old when he shot his

grandparents to death as they slept in 2001. In the weeks leading up

to this horrifying event, Christopher had briefly lived in South

Carolina with his grandparents. While the drinking water of South

Carolina is over 90% " optimally fluoridated, " this does not take

into consideration all of the other sources of fluoridation

mentioned earlier. According to news reports, Christopher had also

been placed on prescription antidepressants just weeks prior to

tragedy. Both of his prescribed drugs are classified as selective

serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and in addition, one of

them is a fluorinated compound.

 

While it is possible that the two prescribed serotonin-altering

agents might take the stand with Christopher, fluoride will

undoubtedly continue to be ignored because the masterminds behind

its marketing are still claiming after over a half a century of

unproven experimentation that it is good for us.

 

A reflection of the accelerating lack of reason and compassion

governing this country, and in spite of the fact that there is no

child in the United States safe from fluoride, Christopher - like a

growing number of boys and teenagers now being charged with life-

shattering crimes - is being charged as an adult. He faces life in

prison because, as a twelve-year-old, he was unable to control

strange and terrible impulses that occurred following his ingestion

of mind-altering compounds, including fluoride. (113, 114, 115, 116)

 

One might pray that reason and compassion will once again flow

through this country and govern the behavior of our leaders. Reason

and compassion, however, are now as rare as pure, sweet water.

 

For those in whom there remains the last of this nation's reason and

compassion, let those people come forward now and speak in a clear

voice on behalf of all who have no voice - let us speak first on

behalf of the children in this country. Let the voice of reason and

compassion take the stand with Christopher as he is charged as an

adult, and let us speak on behalf of him and of all other children

in this country who have been charged as adults and are serving life

sentences or facing life sentences in the United States. Let our

voice speak of the clear evidence that no child in this country

can " just say no to drugs " when they are being drugged through their

drinking water, their food and the air they breathe.

 

Let us next come forward on behalf of all those on whom the

fluoridation of drinking water is being enforced.

 

Let us come forward with reason and compassion as though all of our

lives and the future of America depend upon it, and let us tell

industry that it must control its fluoride waste instead of placing

it in our drinking water. This is not an unreasonable request.

 

Let us come together with a unified voice and remind those working

in government that one cannot serve two masters. The government of

this country was meant to work on behalf of the people of this

country - on behalf of all people, including the children who have

no voice.

 

Let those who are professionals be daring enough to take the

research presented here and add to it. Further research cannot harm

us. It can only lead to an increase in our knowledge. Like the

symphonic workings of tryptophan, serotonin, melatonin and the G-

proteins, knowledge that is tempered with reason and compassion

unfolds into wisdom.

 

It is time for us to awaken and move beyond America's dark age of

fluoride and time to strive for that wisdom which is so long

overdue. It is wisdom that unfolds into enlightenment, and it is

enlightenment that belongs to each of us. Enlightenment, along with

our connection to the divine, belong to us. They are ours, by divine

birthright.

 

It is time for us to remove the darkness of the false messenger

known as F, the 6th letter of the alphabet, and to go forward so

that we may reconnect with all that the next letter, G, represents.

 

Something wonderful is waiting for us there in the smallest details.

We have been told so by a poet and scholar who was among the first

to learn of it, and then to realize that he had encountered a

symphony of universal proportions.

 

It is there, in the smallest of the small, that evidence of the

largest of the large can be found.

 

It is time for us to try to remember God.

 

 

Copyright December 2003 by Mary Sparrowdancer

 

+ + + + + + + + +

 

Mary is the author of The Love Song of the Universe, (2001, Hampton

Roads), documenting her fifteen-year, ongoing encounter with the

light. The above work represents excerpts from Mary's forthcoming

book, Fluoride: The Battle of Darkness and Light, to be published in

2004. The information has been provided here freely because of its

critical nature. Mary can be reached through her website at

www.sparrowdancer.com or at PO Box 535, Tallahassee, FL 32302.

 

Mary wishes to thank Valerie Guernsey, DO, specialist in adolescent

psychiatry, Luise Light, MS, EdD, nutrition expert, editor and

author, and J. William Hirzy, Ph.D. of the EPA Headquarters Union of

scientists for their valuable help in preparing this paper.

 

Look for Ketchup is Not a Vegetable; Sane Eating in a Toxic Food

World by Luise Light in the fall of 2005.

 

+ + + + + + + + +

 

 

 

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