Some of these effects have been observed even at low lev­els of expo­sure, such as 1 part per mil­lion (ppm) of flu­o­ride in water. This is below the U.S. Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency’s (EPA) ‘safe’ drink­ing water level for flu­o­ride, which is 4 ppm, and right around the lev­els used in water flu­o­ri­da­tion pro­grams, which may range from 0.7–1.2 ppm.

The Flu­o­ride in Your Drink­ing Water is an Indus­trial Waste Product

Did you know that the United States is one of only eight coun­tries in the entire devel­oped world that flu­o­ri­dates more than 50 per­cent of its water sup­ply? Even China does NOT allow water flu­o­ri­da­tion because it’s too toxic and causes dam­age, accord­ing to their stud­ies. Instead, the waste prod­uct from their phos­phate fer­til­izer indus­try is shipped to the United States, where we add it to our water supply!

This is a very impor­tant point: the flu­o­ride added to your water is NOT even phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal grade.

It’s a toxic indus­trial waste prod­uct, which is also con­t­a­m­i­nated with lead, arsenic, radionu­cleotides, alu­minum and other indus­trial con­t­a­m­i­nants. The story gets even more con­vo­luted, as now declas­si­fied files of the Man­hat­tan Project and the Atomic Energy Com­mis­sion show that the orig­i­nal moti­va­tion for pro­mot­ing flu­o­ride and water flu­o­ri­da­tion in the United States was to pro­tect the bomb-, aluminum-, and other fluoride-polluting indus­tries from lia­bil­ity. In the early days some of the sodium flu­o­ride used to flu­o­ri­date water sup­plies in the U.S. came from Alcoa.

A cou­ple of years later, they switched to the even more haz­ardous waste prod­uct hydro­flu­o­rosili­cic acid from the phos­phate fer­til­izer industry.

While the U.S. Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion (CDC) offi­cially claims that “For more than 65 years, water flu­o­ri­da­tion has under­gone exten­sive sci­en­tific stud­ies and reviews to assess its pub­lic health ben­e­fits and risks. For many years, pan­els of experts from dif­fer­ent health and sci­en­tific fields have pro­vided strong evi­dence that water flu­o­ri­da­tion is safe and effec­tive,” this claim appears to have the flim­si­est of foundations.

Accord­ing to a 2006 report from the National Research Coun­cil, exten­sive amounts of research are incon­clu­sive, or still miss­ing and need to be con­ducted to eval­u­ate the whole-body impact of fluoride …

Not only that, but their sci­en­tific review also iden­ti­fied research sug­gest­ing a vari­ety of harm­ful effects, from skele­tal flu­o­ro­sis, bone frac­tures, and, poten­tially, even can­cer. With that in mind, how can the CDC claim that “exten­sive research” has con­cluded water flu­o­ri­da­tion is safe for ALL com­mu­nity res­i­dents, with­out dif­fer­en­ti­a­tion between infants and adults, the sick or the healthy?

How can the CDC pos­si­bly claim, as they often do, that water flu­o­ri­da­tion is one of the top pub­lic health achieve­ments of the last cen­tury? Flu­o­ride is a toxic agent that is bio­log­i­cally active in the human body where it accu­mu­lates in sen­si­tive tis­sues over time, wreaks havoc with enzymes and pro­duces a num­ber of seri­ous adverse health effects—including neu­ro­log­i­cal and endocrine dys­func­tions. So why is it still being added to so much of the U.S. water supply?

Healthy Food – Not Flu­o­ride – Essen­tial for Healthy Teeth

Fluoride’s pre­dom­i­nant action is on the sur­face of your tooth (although even this is now ques­tion­able) and not from inside the body – so the idea that many Amer­i­cans are still being forced to swal­low it for their teeth defies all com­mon rea­son. Good oral health and strong, healthy teeth are NOT the result of drink­ing flu­o­ri­dated water and brush­ing your teeth with flu­o­ri­dated tooth­paste. Rather it’s vir­tu­ally all about your diet.

Dr. Weston A. Price, who was one of the major nutri­tional pio­neers of all time, com­pleted some of the most exten­sive research on this topic back in the early 1900s and doc­found native tribes who were eat­ing their tra­di­tional diet had nearly per­fect teeth, and were almost 100 per­cent free of tooth decay — and they did not have tooth­brushes, floss, tooth­paste, or root canals and fillings.avoiding sug­ars and processed foods,umented his find­ings in his clas­sic book Nutri­tion and Phys­i­cal Degen­er­a­tion. He  you pre­vent the pro­lif­er­a­tion of the bac­te­ria that cause decay in the first place.

But when these tribal pop­u­la­tions were intro­duced to sugar and white flour, guess what hap­pened … their health, and their per­fect teeth, rapidly dete­ri­o­rated, just like the kids in El Salvador.

Most peo­ple whose diet includes very lit­tle sugar and few processed foods have very low rates of tooth decay. So the sim­ple act of lim­it­ing, or elim­i­nat­ing sugar, and avoid­ing processed foods — along with reg­u­lar clean­ings with your nat­ural mercury-free den­tist — will ensure that your teeth and gums stay healthy and cavity-free naturally. 

Infants and Chil­dren Among Those Most at Risk

Breast milk con­tains very lit­tle, almost no, flu­o­ride, and this is by design. Remem­ber, flu­o­ride is a neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal toxin that can dam­age a baby’s brain. As Dr. Paul Con­nett, co-author of the book, The Case Against Flu­o­ride, explained:
“In the view of many crit­ics of flu­o­ri­da­tion, includ­ing Arvid Carls­son, Nobel lau­re­ate in medicine/physiology, it is reck­less to expose infants to lev­els of flu­o­ride orders of mag­ni­tude higher than that found in breast milk.

In the U.S., infants who are fed for­mula recon­sti­tuted with flu­o­ri­dated tap water receive the high­est lev­els of flu­o­ride (per kilo­gram body­weight) in the human pop­u­la­tion. Specif­i­cally, infants who are fed for­mula made with flu­o­ri­dated water at the cur­rent level of 1 part-per-million (1 ppm = 1 mg/liter) flu­o­ride will receive a dose up to 250 times more than the breast­fed infant.

Even with the pro­posal by the U.S. Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices to lower flu­o­ride to 0.7 ppm in flu­o­ri­da­tion schemes, bottle-fed infants will still receive up to 175 times more flu­o­ride than the breast­fed infant.

… Even though health agen­cies in the U.S. and other flu­o­ri­dat­ing coun­tries have rec­og­nized that chil­dren are being grossly over-exposed to flu­o­ride (41 per­cent of Amer­i­can chil­dren aged 12–15 now have some form of den­tal flu­o­ro­sis), they are unwill­ing to con­cede that flu­o­ride may be impact­ing the brain. Their approach has been either to ignore these stud­ies com­pletely or to chal­lenge the rel­e­vance and the method­ol­ogy of the fluoride-brain stud­ies. They have thus far failed to con­duct any IQ stud­ies of their own.”

What You Can Do TODAY!

The Flu­o­ride Action Net­work has a game plan to END water flu­o­ri­da­tion in both Canada and the United States. Our flu­o­ride ini­tia­tive will pri­mar­ily focus on Canada since 60 per­cent of Canada is already non-fluoridated. If we can get Cal­gary and the rest of Canada to stop flu­o­ri­dat­ing their water, we believe the U.S. will be forced to follow.

Please, join the anti-fluoride move­ment in Canada and United States by con­tact­ing the rep­re­sen­ta­tive for your area .

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