I will start off with my "Conclusion" and then you can read the post to learn the "Why."
Fluoride in our drinking water is detrimental to our bodies! It is toxic. It is absolutely unnecessary and is a way for big industries to make a profit off of a fertilizer by-product.
Fluoride can help prevent cavities when applied topically to teeth, but ingested fluoride does not increase this benefit.
Once kids are old enough to not swallow their toothpaste, fluoride toothpastes can be beneficial.
Filter your tap water before you drink it so you are not consuming the fluoride that is added to it!
Here are the facts about fluoride:
> It has been used for hundreds of years as an insecticide and rat poison. (there are TONS of patents on record of it's use as such and I listed a few of them at the bottom of this post... check it out, its pretty interesting.)
> It is NOT a nutrient and our bodies DO NOT NEED it. There is no such thing as a "fluoride deficiency."
> Fluoride is a powerful poison of enzymes. This is why it is so effective at killing things... it disrupts the processes of cells by killing critical enzymes. It kills enzymes of bacteria in our mouth which results in a less acidic mouth and less decay of our teeth. It also kills good enzymes in our bodies and can wreak havoc to our systems.
> Fluoride IS in your tap water. We ingest lots of fluoride when we drink and cook with our city's water. We (well mostly kids) also ingest fluoride when we use most toothpastes.
> Ingesting fluoride between the ages of 3 months and 8 years old, when the teeth are in development, is the cause of dental fluorosis. This is what dental fluorosis looks like...
...pretty!
> Unlike the fluoride that is added to your toothpaste, fluoride added to our drinking water is not pharmaceutical grade. Until just recently, ALL fluoride added into the water system was a by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry. The process of creating this fertilizer releases two very toxic fluoride gases: hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetra-fluoride. The release of these gases into the atmosphere was causing severe environmental damage to communities downwind of the plants. So.... they found a way to trap the gases, and collect them as a liquid. They then used the toxic, environmentally hazardous by-product as a source of profit... fluoride for the country's water supply! Woohoo!
(Here is an actual letter from the EPA explaining how it is an "ideal solution" to use these pollutants as a source of fluoride for our consumption. link to the letter ) Currently, many water departments are purchasing their fluoride from China. The quality control of this fluoride is very inconsistent and in many cases seems to be even more lax than the United States.
...More lax than allowing toxic pollutants to be added to our water as a "benefit?!" Is anyone else alarmed here!?!?
> On the back of your fluoride toothpaste you will notice that it says to contact Poison Control if ingested.
Um...........
> Fluoride advocates argue that tooth decay has dramatically decreased since water fluoridation was widely introduced in the 1950's. Here is a graph that they use to prove these results.
What they don't mention is that in many other countries where they do not add fluoride to their water, the same decrease in tooth decay is happening. Here is another graph.
So water fluoridation has nothing to do with the decrease in tooth decay. The decrease is due to better hygiene in general and the TOPICAL use of fluoride in toothpastes and mouth rinses.
A couple of patents on fluoride, copied and pasted exactly how they appeared!
1896
Charles Henry HIGBEE, of New York City, N.Y., Manager of Manufacturing Company: "An improved composition or material for destroying insects", British Patent GB 8236; filed April 18, 1896; pat. May 23, 1896. ("The compounds of fluorine which I employ for the purpose of destroying insects, are certain soluble ones, viz.: sodium fluoride, ferric fluoride, the silico-fluorides of the same bases, hydro-fluo-silicic acid, and the boro-fluo-silicates", which the inventor claims to be less toxic for humans then many of the compounds then in use for the same purpose, i.e. "arsenic, copper, phosphorus, and the like")
1921
Henry Edward Percy HUTCHINGS, of Barking Essex, UK: "Improvements in or relating to rat and other vermin poisons", British Patent GB 187,424; filed Sept. 15, 1921; pat. Oct. 26, 1922 (a bait for the purpose of rat and mouse extermination, with additions of either sodium fluoride, barium carbonate, squill or oxalic acid, to serve as a basic poison)
1931
Arthur H. HENNINGER, assignor to General Chemical Company, New York: "Process of making potassium aluminum fluoride", US Patent 1,937,956; filed June 18, 1931; pat. Dec. 5, 1933 ("... for use as an insecticide. It has heretofore been proposed to use potassium aluminum fluoride as an insecticide for the control of various insect pests. This material is considered to possess advantages over lead arsenate as an insecticide for the reason that, although poisonous, the fluoride compound is less toxic to human beings and animals than is lead arsenate.")
source for patent information: (http://www.fluoride-history.de/p-insecticides.htm)
Other sources for this post:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/issues/caries/topical_systemic/
http://www.safbaby.com/is-fluoride-needed-to-prevent-tooth-decay
http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/_files_nhmrc/file/publications/synopses/Eh41_Flouridation_PART_A.pdf
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/chemicals/fluoride.pdf
http://www.healthychild.com/the-real-fluoridation-facts/
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