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Doctored water - water fluoridation improves dental health but may increase mortality risk

Nutrition Health Review, Summer, 2003 by Jerry Askeroth

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Fluoridation has a favorable reputation among the elite, the intellectuals, and the establishment in the U.S. The programs sound scientific, get a good press, and are supported by a large majority of dentists. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the ADA have been forceful promoters of fluoridation.

Sometimes you have to wonder. The Journal of the American Dental Association (October 1972) reported that the profits of dentists in fluoridated communities were 17% higher than those of their counterparts who were practicing in nonfluoridated areas. Think about it.

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There are critics in high places. The late Robert Atkins, M.D., an author with national prominence in nutrition, wrote: "Dentists are concerned only with teeth, but medical doctors have to consider the effects on the whole body."

Even Dr. Kit Shaddix at the CDC was quoted in The Los Angeles Times: "Dentists routinely give out fluoride supplements in fluoridated areas. There probably is excess exposure."

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued several warnings about the threat of skeletal fluorosis caused by too much fluoride, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned repeatedly that fluorides increase health risks. There is no unanimity on the matter, even in the government.

In New Zealand, the preponderance of negative evidence caused Dr. John Colquhoun, Chief Dental Officer of Auckland, to switch sides. Now he regrets founding the Fluoridation Promotion Society and admits to using bullying tactics to promote the doctoring of public water. Dr. Colquhoun is one of many who have changed from pro-fluoridation to con.

Research information from The Netherlands claims evidence of genetic damage to sperm cells of laboratory animals and the inhibition of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair. Dr. F. H. Sobels at the University of Leiden in Holland published this work in Mutation Research in 1979.

Dr. Dean Burk of the U.S. National Cancer Institute studied cancer-caused deaths in the 10 largest fluoridated cities, compared with the 10 largest nonfluoridated cities over a 25-year span. There was overwhelming statistical evidence implicating fluoride as a carcinogen. As a result, the Congress ordered tests on laboratory animals in 1977. Those tests confirmed the findings of Dr. Burk, but no further action was taken.

Dr. John Lee wrote in the Journal of American Medical Association (July 1991) that fluoridation was the cause of many cases of osteoporosis and hip fractures. Dr. C. Danielson, in the Journal of American Medical Association (August 1992), attributed many hip fractures in Utah to fluoridated drinking water.

Other research doctors have suspected fluoridation as a factor in nerve damage, enzyme inhibition, poor blood-clotting ability, liver dysfunction, and kidney damage.

"Patients with Alzheimer's disease have high levels of fluoride in their brain tissues," writes Dr. Jeffrey B. Arenswald in the Las Vegas Review Journal.

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Doctored water - water fluoridation improves dental health but may increase mortality risk

Nutrition Health Review, Summer, 2003 by Jerry Askeroth

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