Victory for Quebec-End of fluoride + Canada-Taking the fluoride out + FLUORIDATA

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Victory for Quebec -End of fluoride

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March 27, 2008

 

 

After the council of Quebec City issued its intention lat year to end

fluoridation on April 1, 2008, promoters of fluoridation in government went

into

action and lobbied to get them to change their mind. Despite these efforts, and

those by a newly elected mayor and a lot of misinformation distributed by

the media, on Tuesday, March 25, the Council confirmed by a vote of 16 to 13

its intention to end fluoridation on April 1. When this occurs it will leave

only about 5% of the population of Quebec drinking fluoridated water. This is a

huge victory for Quebec, for the whole of Canada, and the rest of the world.

 

A letter below from Jimmy Siles gives more details on this and I hope our

readers - as he requests - will take the time to send a letter to the leader of

the opposition in the council congratulating him on upholding this decision.

 

Paul Connett

 

 

 

Jimmy Siles' email on the Quebec City decision

 

Hello Dr Connett,

 

Good news! Last Tuesday, Quebec city officially voted to enforce the

termination of water fluoridation as of April 1st 2008!

 

Our elected representatives voted 16 to 13 to uphold their 2007 vote,

despite intense pressure from the part of the Quebec Health Branch (Direction

de la

santé publique) during the last week.

 

Not only that, but the Media have flooded newspapers with 'fluoridation

information' the Easter weekend just before the vote took place (coincidence?).

Not surprisingly, media action has limited itself to repeating like parrots

what the 'fluoride experts' have told them to write and say: fluoride is

wonderful, it is 100% safe, and there is not one single credible scientific

study

indicating any harm from fluoridation...

 

Quebec's pro-fluoride Mayor, Mr Labeaume, has even made a fool of himself

when he publicly stated that those not in favor of water fluoridation (the

majority of elected representatives) are victims of ''the environmental lobby''

and that there is some type of ''underlying eco-terrorism involved! "

 

What is even more hilarious is that Mayor Labeaume has suddenly turned

himself into a knight of democracy, now asking for public consultation when he

came to realize that his proposal to continue fluoridation was rejected. This

despite the fact that Quebec city voted one year ago to end fluoridation unless

the Quebec provincial government made water fluoridation mandatory across

the province. Which it has not done so. Strangely enough, no one was consulted

when water fluoridation was enforced on every soul in our city many years

ago! Now he wants consultation in order to think about ending this ridiculous

and controversial measure!

 

Dr. Connett, would you please to ask FAN supporters to write a short letter

congratulating the leader of Quebec city's opposition representatives (Mr

Jean-Marie Matte) to thank the representatives who were courageous enough to

inform themselves and then say no to water fluoridation even under intense

pressure?

 

To do so, please visit this page and go almost to the end (this is the only

way to reach them):

 

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Quebec City Ends Water Fluoridation Program (April 18, 2007)

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" On April 16, 2007, the City Council of Quebec voted not to extend

fluoridation to surrounding cities, and to terminate fluoridation in Quebec

City on

January 1, 2008. "

 

The serious risks associated with ingesting fluoride are beginning to take

hold in cities across North America. The above quote was an email alert from

the Fluoride Action Network. Paul Connett joined Joe Broadhurst of CKUT Radion

in Montreal to discuss this breaking news.

_Canada - Taking the fluoride out _

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Taking the fluoride out

Do we need it

Posted By BY LYNDA HILLMAN-RAPLEY

Updated 14 hours ago

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If fluoride is a toxic chemical and our government warnings regarding

toothpaste and mouthwash are harsh, it may be a red flag to stop adding

fluoride to

our water.

 

Although there is no fluoride in the north end of Lambton Shores (Lake Huron

Water) system, Forest is part of the LAWSS system out of Sarnia and they do

have fluoride in their system.

 

In a 1966 referenda, the citizens of London voted in favour of fluoridating

the municipal public water supply coinciding with the transition from well

water to Lake Huron water via the 'new' Lake Huron Water Supply System.

Fluoridation equipment was incorporated into thedesign of the new Arva Pumping

Station and fluoridation commenced on September 1, 1967.

 

The question as to getting the fluoride out has come to Lambton county

council and Sarnia mayor Mike Bradley thinks this issue should go to the voters

and suggests it be on the 2010 ballots as a referenda.

 

Each of the six member municipalities in the system must let their residents

make the call under provincial regulations, he said.

 

" Because it was decided by the electorate, I don't think we have the moral

right to decide, " he said.

 

Fluoride was introduced to the Sarnia area water system in 1970 after more

than a decade of acrimonious debate. A majority voted for it's inclusion in

the water system in a plebiscite. Under the Fluoridation Act of 1990, the

removal of fluoride must go to a referendum vote and the province even

specifies

how to word the question, Bradley said.

 

" The fact that there is actually a prescribed way to do this, and a

prescribed question you must ask, tells you that there's been a lot of thought

put

into this, " he said. " This is the only fair way to do it. "

 

Toothpaste and mouthwash warnings are:

 

“Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age.â€

 

“If you swallow more than used for brushing, get medical help or contact a

PoisonControlCenter right away.â€

 

" If more than used for brushing is accidentally swallowed, get medical help

or contact a Poison Control Centre right away. "

 

“Never give fluoridated mouthwash or mouth rinses to children under six

years of age, as they may swallow it.â€

 

“Use non-fluoridated toothpaste or no toothpaste for young children.â€

 

Lambton Shores Mayor Gord Minielly said he wants fluoride pulled from the

system. He thinks the science that supports the use of fluoride is outdated and

children are overexposed. He says even Dr. Chris Greensmith, the medical

officer of health, doesn't have the facts.

 

" It's such a complicated issue, " he said. " People are being fed a whole

bunch of crap from guys like Dr. Greensmith who are using 40, 50 or 60-year-old

information and studies. "

 

But Greensmith said the data he's reading accumulated over the past six

decades, not from that time. He said the American Public Health Association has

called the addition of fluoride into water systems one of the 10 most

successful public health measures ever.

 

" My position is not based on rhetoric, it's based on science, " Greensmith

said. " I don't want to get in a mudslinging match here. It's not very seemly or

very productive. "

 

The Town of Dryden, Ontario voted against fluoridation of their water on

April 22nd, ending a debate that has gone on for more than one year. Council

will decide what to do with the $300,000 they set aside for the intended

fluoridation. Both Kitchener and Cambridge have natural fluoride in their water.

(0.1-0.3ppm) Ninety-eight percent (98 per cent) of Europe has said no to

fluoride.

 

Increasing the entire populations’ exposure to fluoride must increase the

rates of fluorosis – is the government also setting aside a public-funded

trust

to compensate all those who suffer from what will be yet another iatrogenic

illness?

 

Ninety-eight per cent of Europe does not use water fluoridation. Many

countries have banned it outright. Quebec City discontinued water fluoridation

on

April 1, 2008; Niagara Region passed a by-law in February 2008 prohibiting

water fluoridation. Thunder Bay recently said no thanks to water fluoridation.

The number of citizens drinking fluoridated water in British Columbia and the

province of Quebec has dropped to about four per cent.

 

Health Canada, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the US Environmental

Protection Agency, have not been able to find any chronic toxicology studies

to demonstrate safety of the actual products used in water fluoridation

systems after 60years of use.

 

With files from Sarnia Observer.

 

FLUORIDATION

by: _McLellan, Helen _ (helen)

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THE ADDITION OF FLUORIDE, A POTENTIALLY TOXIC SUBSTANCE, TO THE PUBLIC WATER

SUPPLY IS COMPULSORY MASS MEDICATION. IT VIOLATES ALL ETHICAL PRINCIPLES.

Many of the speakers at the Total Health 81 conference referred to the

problem we have with our fluoridated drinking water:

DR. JAN DE VRIES, Dr. H.Med., Ph.D., D.Ac., D.O., N.D. " I was very shocked

that you poor people in Toronto have to drink this water. We have had a

tremendous fight in Holland, which we won. This fluoride water is a chemical

soft-working tranquilizer. Hitler put fluoride in the water to keep his

prisoners

quiet, and the same thing happens in other parts of the world. If I put a

homeopathic remedy in this water, the remedy is destroyed. If you can work at

getting this out of your water in any way at all, I would be very happy. "

DR. WILLIAM ELLIS, D.O. " The environmental protective agency in the United

States has shown that the water in the 90 largest cities in the United States'

all cause cancer. It's been proven in U.S. federal court that fluoridation

of the inorganic form, which is the end product of aluminum manufacturing, is

a cancer causative agent. "

DR. WILLIAM MORRIS, D.C., N.D. " Fluoride hardens the arteries and it does a

lot more damage. It's toxic, but it happens to be a waste product of a very

influential type of industry. We don't need the fluoride in our water. It's an

infringement on our freedom. That's what Consumer Health is all about. We

must make our rights known, and we must fight for it. Air and water are our

first two needs, and they are being politically polluted. I think you should

get

behind Consumer Health and let's put some pressure and lobby to get better

air and water. "

DISEASES CONNECTED WITH FLUORIDE Diseases connected with fluoride ingestion

are cancer (of the mouth, esophagus, stomach, large intestine, rectum,

kidney, bladder, urinary organs, breast, ovary), goiter, mongolism, kidney

disease

& osteoporosis. Additional problems are caused by fluoride in anaesthetics,

gases and aerosol propellants.

Symptoms can appear as long as 20 to 30 years later, as fluoride is so very

prone to accumulate, not only in the bones and teeth, but also in the soft

tissues of the body. Physiologically, the fluoride ion is an avid bone seeker

and a potent enzyme inhibitor according to Dr. Albert Burgstahler, University

of Kansas. He states that fluoride depresses growth rate of human cells,

causes dermatitis, affects thyroid and heart function, circulation and

reproduction, is more potent than cyanide as an inhibitor of respiration,

disturbs

hormonal balance, and increases the incidence of mongolism by 15%. Upon its

accumulation in tissues, fluoride may incorporate itself into naturally

occurring

compounds to form, for example, fluorouracil, capable of producing cancer or

giving rise to deformed babies.

Symptoms associated with low-grade fluoride poisoning include excessive

thirst, headaches, blurred vision, arthritis, gastrointestinal disturbances and

excess urination. These will usually disappear if fluoridated water is

replaced by distilled or spring water with a low fluoride level.

CANCER AND FLUORIDATION

In 1971, Dr. Dean Burke, Ph.D., began a study of the effects of fluoridation

in drinking water in the United States. Dr. Burke was for 35 years, head of

the cytochemistry section, and was co-founder of the National Cancer

Institute, U.S.A. He has received many awards for cancer research and

biochemistry,

including the Domagh Prize, 1965, for cancer research. He has been involved in

cancer research for 50 years.

Results of his studies show that a large increase in human cancer mortality

in the U.S. is associated with public water fluoridation. " One-tenth of the

350,000 cancer deaths per year in the U.S. are linked with artificial public

water fluoridation. " (See graph on last page)

" We took the ten largest cities that had been fluoridated and compared them

with the ten largest cities that had not been fluoridated. The fluoridation

didn't start until 1952 to 1956, and has been continued ever since in the

fluoridated group. Between 1940 and 1952 these two groups were identical, could

not be distinguished on this curve. But from 1952 on, the curves have been

continually widening to the point that there's now a difference of

approximately

35,000 a year. There's no question about the data or our particular

arrangement of it. The data is from government sources, which any high school

student

can look up and confirm. Nearly all of the fluoridation-linked cancer deaths

are found to begin at the age of about 45 and then steadily increase with

age. This situation is sharply different from the increased cancer deaths

resulting from cigarette smoking, asbestos or hormones given to expectant

mothers.

Here a lag of 15 to 30 years is common. Increased death rates due to

fluoridated water commence within a few years after initiation of fluoridation

with

marked continued increase thereafter. "

HISTORY

In October, 1944, the Journal of the American Medical Association published

an editorial: " We do know that the use of drinking water containing as little

as 1.2 to 3 ppm (parts per million) of fluorine will cause such

developmental disturbances in bones as osteosclerosis, spondylosis and

osteopetrosis, as

well as goiter, and we cannot afford the risk of producing such serious

systemic disturbances in applying what is at present a doubtful procedure

intended

to prevent development of dental disfigurements. "

Nevertheless, in 1945, two experiments were started, one in Grand Rapids,

Michigan, one in Newburgh, New York, where 40,000 people were subjected to

sodium fluoride, one of the most toxic substances known to man (even in minute

quantities) without ever having done an animal experiment to prove its safety.

Simultaneously, fluoride was introduced into Canada in the city of Brantford,

Ontario in 1945. Subsequent to this, artificial fluoridation of public water

supplies was initiated on a large scale in the U.S. by the Public Health

Service. It spread to some other countries, including Canada, but was banned,

or

not tolerated in even more. At present 49% of the population of the United

States drinks artificially fluoridated water, 37% in Canada, about 7% in

England and 2% in Europe. Most European countries have rejected it altogether.

Many cities in Canada have opposed it. Strong opposition has developed in

Quebec due to a recent adverse report on fluoridation presented to the Minister

of

the Environment (Environmental Fluoride, 1977 by Rose and Marier) and has

been given much publicity.

WHAT IS FLUORIDE?

The fluoride which is added to our water supply is common rat poison, a

byproduct of the aluminum, steel, ceramic, phosphate fertilizer, and other

chemical industries. It is added to usually soft city water in the forms sodium

fluoride, sodium silica fluoride or hydrofluoric acid. However, the fluorides

occurring in nature, usually calcium fluoride, are found in hard water

containing high levels of calcium and magnesium. Physiologically, the body

copes

better with the effects of fluoride if calcium and magnesium are present, and

in

cases of chronic and acute fluoride poisoning, the antidote is calcium.

Sodium fluoride is highly soluble in water, whereas calcium fluoride is only

slightly soluble.

In the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 1959 and 1960, Dr. William

Costain reported every one of his patients given 3 mg. of sodium fluoride a day

suffered ill effects ranging from bladder irritation to mental disturbances,

while no one given 25 mg. of calcium fluoride suffered.

Because fluorine is so highly reactive, even when dissolved in water as the

fluoride ion, it is still highly corrosive, and most water engineers are

opposed to it as it has damaged many city water systems.

DOSAGE

Presently each liter of fluoridated drinking water contains I mg. (or 1

ppm.) of fluoride. The State of California Department of Public Health has

stated: " Increases in fluoride concentration in excess of 1 ppm do not further

decrease the occurrence of dental caries but do increase the risk of

objectionable fluorosis (mottling of teeth) "

In addition to fluoride ingested in water, fluoride is also contained in

many foods, such as black and green teas, some wines, meat and fish, gelatin,

some processed foods, insecticides on fruits and vegetables, and fluoridated

toothpaste (200 mg. in a 50 g. tube). Tea drinking alone can cause low level

fluoride poisoning and possibly arthritis if done to excess.

It is usually accepted by medical authorities that children should have no

more than 1 mg./day, and adults, 1.5 to 2 mg./day. However according to Dr.

Albert Burgstahler, University of Kansas, the average adult daily intake today

is 2 to 3 mg. Two liters of water alone used in drinking and cooking will

contain the " safe " dose.

While chlorine is evaporated in the process of boiling water, this does not

happen with fluoride, and the concentration can become dangerously high in

long periods of cooking.

According to the Canadian Public Health Association, the acute lethal dose

of fluoride for the average person is 2.2 grams.

THE EFFECT OF FLUORIDATED WATER ON TEETH

At first there will be an initial hardening of the enamel and resistance to

decay, a delay in the occurrence of cavities and a delay in the eruption of

teeth of about one year. The shape and size of the teeth may also be effected.

" The difference in decay between fluoridated and unfluoridated teeth is

about one tooth decay less in a mouth at the age of puberty. " (Dr. Dean Burke).

According to Smith and Smith, two researchers at the University of Arizona,

fluoridation causes the enamel of teeth to become brittle. Although the onset

of decay is delayed, the tooth structure is weak. If excessive fluoride

consumption is continued, mottling (dental fluorosis) will occur and in time

the

teeth may become stained. When decay does set in, the result is often

disastrous. Tooth mottling is the earliest sign of what could become crippling

skeletal fluorosis which is well documented in hot climate. Fluorosis actually

means " chronic fluoride toxicity " .

Adelle Davis stated: " In 1962 our Public Health Department reported that the

children in Newburgh, New York...had slightly more decay after fluoridation

than before. In Baltimore, Maryland, where water has been fluoridated since

1952, rampant decay has steadily increased. In Puerto Rico (where water has

been fluoridated for 17 years) not only has tooth decay increased, but 64% of

adolescent boys have permanently stained teeth from fluoride excess " . Dr.

Monte lone observed the younger Puerto Ricans seem to have rampant dental

caries,

mottling gingivitis and malocclusions. But he noticed the older and

pre-fluoridated Puerto Ricans all seemed to have strong, healthy teeth. In

Sweden at

the time they decided to ban fluoridation, there was much talk of 'black

teeth' and press reports in Billesholm, which has a high natural fluoride

content, reported young people of 16 to 17 had all had their teeth capped

because of

yellow discoloured teeth.

In conclusion:

ON APRIL 14, 1981, DR. DEAN BURKE, STATED ON A CANADIAN RADIO STATION, CFTR:

" We estimate that since fluoridation was introduced into the U.S., there

have been almost as many excess deaths associated with fluoridation as the sum

total of all American military deaths since the founding of U.S.A. 1776. Now

that's an awful burden for pro-fluoridationists to bear if they can come to

see that they have been responsible for this. The underlying clandestine force

behind water fluoridation is a need by various industries to get rid of

various toxic fluoride byproducts, about as tough to get rid of as radioactive

wastes. The dentists are by and large pawns. "

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FLUORIDATION AND YOUR HEALTH:

Dr. Pierre Morin, Ph.D. and Jack Graham, LL.B., co-authors of a report which

resulted in suspension of the Quebec fluoride law, appeared in Toronto for

media interviews and public lectures both in Toronto and Waterloo, May 29 and

30, 1981.

According to Dr. Morin, " This report, by a large multidisciplinary committee

was prepared at the request of the Ministry of the Environment and the

Ministry for Social Affairs. From the data studied, it quickly became evident

to

the members of the committee that the great toxicity of fluorides has been

played down by promoters of water fluoridation. Toxic effects ranged from

increase of cancer death rates to increase in the frequency of Down's syndrome

and

genetic mutation. "

The Waterloo Safe Water Society lost their plebiscite on June 8th by

approximately 300 votes. They are presently examining the costs and legal

procedure

for a recount of the vote. They have already approached the Regional

government to determine the most effective way of making untreated city water

available to the public. One or more centrally located unfluoridated water

sources

that would be accessible all year round would be one method, although it must

be stressed that this would be a strictly temporary solution. From time to

time the Waterloo Safe Water Society will announce its plans for opposing the

fluoridation of the public water supply.

Anyone wishing to join a citizen's group to promote pure water and pure

environment, please contact us at Consumer Health.

For more information on fighting fluoridation, go to _www.fluoridealert.org_

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Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is founded and directed by Dr. Paul Connett,

Ph.D. (checked May.04)