POISON can someone explain? is this not true? There's fluoride in the tap water here in NYC, which is a bit of a trade off. There has been correlation between fluoride and cancer, but prevention of cavities (and related diseases) not only gives you a nice pretty smile, it also directly impacts health. According to this well cited wikipedia article: "The occurrence of dental caries is globally widespread, and the disease can lead to pain, tooth loss, infection, and, in severe cases, death" Overexposure to fluoride can be toxic, but that's in huge quantities such as drinking from a bottle of ACT or eating a tube of toothpaste. Hmm - after reading more, it's hard to know what to think about this... Here's some more info from Wikipedia: Water fluoridation controversy Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, who in 1995, published a very important work on the neurotoxic effects of fluoride in rat studies found, three things. First of all, that if you put sodium fluoride in the drinking water of young animals, that with time - meaning a period of weeks in a rat's lifetime - they would develop changes in their behavioral patterns. And that pattern change was a hypoactivity pattern. They became slower, 'couch potatoes' if you like. But it was definitely a hypoactivity pattern. And it had a specific pattern to it which was very, very strikingly similar to the pattern that I had seen in substances or drugs that they used to treat acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, wh... |
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