Your Weekly "Simple Health Secrets" by Asia Moore For Wednesday, August 6, 2003 Compliments of SolvingTheHealthPuzzle.com

What do pesticides, fertilizers, air pollution, prozac, nerve gas, toothpaste, mouth wash, table salt, and tap water have in common? That's right - fluoride.

What Is Flouride?

Fluoride is any combination of elements containing the fluoride ion. In its elemental form, fluorine is a pale yellow, highly toxic and corrosive gas.

In nature, fluorine is found combined with minerals as fluorides. It is the most chemically active nonmetallic element of all the elements and also has the most reactive electro-negative ion.

Because of this extreme reactivity, fluorine is never found in nature as an uncombined element.

There was no US commercial production of fluorine before World War II. A requirement for fluorine in the processing of uranium ores, needed for the atomic bomb, prompted its manufacture.

Did you know that it was the aluminum cartel ALCOA (founded in 1978) which introduced the policy of putting fluoride into drinking water to make money from a by-product of the aluminum industry, which at the time they were struggling to dispose of? 

Did you know that fluoride was actually used as a rat poison for 40 years. 

Did you know that fluoride is an intellect suppressant that has been (and still is being) used to modify the behavior and mood of human beings.

For instance, it is a little known fact that fluoride compounds were added to the drinking water of prisoners to keep them docile and inhibit questioning of authority, both in Nazi prison camps in World War II and in the Soviet gulags in Siberia. 

Now, we are all drinking water and eating foods laced with fluoride, as well as freshening our breath with mouth washes containing fluoride and brushing our teeth with toothpaste containing fluoride.

Some scientific facts on the biological effects of fluorides:

- Fluoride exposure disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to the breakdown of collagen in bone, tendon, muscle, skin, cartilage, lungs, kidney and trachea.

- Fluoride stimulates granule formation and oxygen consumption in white blood cells, but inhibits these processes when the white blood cell is challenged by a foreign agent in the blood.

- Fluoride depletes the energy reserves and the ability of white blood cells to properly destroy foreign agents by the process of phagocytosis. As little as 0.2 ppm fluoride stimulates superoxide production in resting white blood cells, virtually abolishing phagocytosis. Even micro-molar amounts of fluoride, below 1 ppm, may seriously depress the ability of white blood cells to destroy pathogenic agents.

- Fluoride confuses the immune system and causes it to attack the body's own tissues, and increases the tumor growth rate in cancer prone individuals.

- Fluoride inhibits antibody formation in the blood.

- Fluoride depresses thyroid activity.

- Fluorides have a disruptive effect on various tissues in the body.

- Fluoride promotes development of bone cancer.

- Fluorides cause premature aging of the human body.

- Fluoride ingestion from mouth rinses and dentifrices in children is extremely hazardous to biological development, life span and general health.

- The contents of a family size tube of fluoridated toothpaste is enough to kill a 25 pound child. In 1991, the Akron (Ohio) Regional Poison Center reported that "death has been reported following ingestion of 16mg/kg of fluoride. Only 1/10 of an ounce of fluoride could kill a 100 pound adult. According to the Center, "fluoride toothpaste contains up to 1mg/gram of fluoride." Even Proctor and Gamble, the makers of Crest, acknowledge that a family-sized tube "theoretically contains enough fluoride to kill a small child."

- Fluorides are medically categorized as protoplasmic poisons, which is why they are used to kill rodents. The September 18, 1943 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, states, "fluorides are general protoplasmic poisons, changing the permeability of the cell membrane by inhibiting certain enzymes. The exact mechanisms of such actions are obscure."

- Fluoride consumption by human beings increases the general cancer death rate.

- Fluorides have little or no effect on decay prevention in humans.

- There is no scientific data that shows that fluoride mouth rinses and tablets are safe for human use.

- The fact that fluoride toothpastes are packaged in aluminum accentuates the effect on the body.

"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of this century"
[Source: www.all-natural.com]

As a consumer concerned about your health, the only way to avoid ingesting the potentially harmful substances contained in many personal care products is to educate yourself.

Read the labels!

There are now many healthy alternatives, but you need to know which ones to choose. You likely brush your teeth at least twice a day or more and therefore it is important to use a toothpaste (mouth wash) that is not increasing your risk of cancer.

Some Safe Toothpaste / Mouthwash Alternatives

• Auromere Toothpaste

• Desert Essence Tea Tree Oil Toothpaste (also mouthwash)

• Logona Children's Toothpaste (also Herbal Mouthwash Concentrate)

• Nature's Gate Crème de Anise/Peppermint/Mint Gel/Wintergreen Gel Toothpaste

• Tom's of Maine/Propolis and Myrrh/Fennel/Spearmint (also Cinnamint/Spearmint mouthwash)

• Merfluan Mouthwash Concentrate

• Vicco Pure Herbal Toothpaste

• Weleda Plant Toothpaste (also Weleda mouthwash)

• Zylifresh Cinnamon/Peppermint/Spearmint Toothpaste (also Xylifresh mouthwash)

When choosing a healthy toothpaste/mouthwash, choose one without Fluoride, saccharin and FD&C Blue 1, FD&C Green 3 and FD&C Yellow 5. Also avoid products with a high alcohol content and polysorbate 60 and 80.

Where To Find Safe Toothpaste Alternatives

First look in the "organic" section of your local grocery store. Many stores are now beginning to carry an ever- increasing section of healthy alternatives, including shampoos.

The more you buy these products, the more their presence in your local stores will increase. Next, check your local health food store.

Generally these safer products will be a bit more expensive here than in your local grocery store, but well worth the price as they will make your life less toxic.

I hope you have enjoyed this simple health "secret", compliments of SolvingTheHealthPuzzle.com where you will learn simple "secrets" for a healthier life.

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Sincerely,

Asia Moore,
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