Stop drinking Diet Coke!
All of US
Many people still brush their teeth with Crest with city water & drink Diet Coke! Please read this & you will change your mind & your health.
Drink bottled filtered water. Aspartame, fluorides, chlorines, lead, MTBE's are not good for you & the govt. can no longer be trusted.
For further info check http://www.dorway.com/ & www.bruha.com/fluoride/
We can brush our teeth with baking soda! What can we use for deordorant & hair shampoo? We are what we eat & drink!
The Joker in Batman was not wrong , we are being poisoned by absorption of heavy metalsour cosmetics, drinking water, & the foods we eat in.
I'm not laughing, the joke is on US.
The air we breathe is another problem which we can discuss later.
I am what I am!
Katman
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THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENT STORAGE TEMPERATURES ON THE TASTE AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF DIET COKE
BY JENNIFER COHENJennifer Cohen is an eleven-year old student in Mrs. Simmons' sixth grade Oradell, New Jersey class. The principal of Oradell Public School is Scott Ryan. He may be reached at 201 261-1181. Jennifer conducted an experiment proving aspartame, the artificial sweetener in diet soda, breaks down into two deadly neurotoxins when stored at room temperature and under refrigeration.
ABSTRACT: The level of aspartame in a can of Diet Coke was found to be 0.06% by a food testing laboratory. The remaining cans from one case of Diet coke were stored under three different heat conditions for 10 weeks.
Seven cans were stored in an incubator (104 degrees Fahrenheit), seven cans were stored at room temperature (68-70 degrees Fahrenheit). At the end of 70 days samples were tested for levels of aspartame, formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine). The refrigerated sample contained 0.058 percent aspartame, 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The room temperature sample contained 0.051 percent aspartame, 0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The incubator sample contained 0.026 percent aspartame, 0.010 percent DKP and 76.2 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In addition 10 human subjects tasted each soda sample plus a new can of Diet Coke and rated each sample for taste on a 1-4 scale with 1 being the best and 4 being the worst. The new can of Diet Coke received an average rating of 2.0. The sample stored in the refrigerator received an average rating of 2.6. The sample stored at room temperature received an average rating of 2.5. The sample stored in the incubator received an average rating of 3.8. The effects of heat on Diet coke produced the worst taste and the highest amount of loss of aspartame as well as the greatest increase in levels of DKP. The most pleasing taste was for the new can of Diet Coke. The room temperature sample and the refrigerated sample scored almost the same in the taste test. All samples revealed a presence of formaldehyde. However, the highest level of formaldehyde occurred in the room temperature can. There was also formaldehyde present in the refrigerated sample.
BACKGROUND: Aspartame was discovered in l965 by Searle chemist, Jim Schlatter. He was developing this drug for another use and after accidentally licking his finger found that aspartame was sweet. Today aspartame is consumed by more than 100 million people in the United States. This chemical (aspartame) has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who said that an individual can safely consume 97 packets of aspartame every day. Aspartame is in many products including some that children use such as diet soda, light yogurt, Flintstone Vitamins, baked goods, puddings, and Winterfresh gum. It has been known to cause headaches, nausea, vision problems, seizures and cancer in its users.
The ingredients in aspartame are aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and methyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol is a chemical that breaks down in high temperatures and turns into formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine), two chemicals known to cause problems in the nervous system. Aspartame's life is 262 days at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius. The FDA gets more complaints about aspartame than any other food or drink. The symptoms of aspartame are a lot like the symptoms of multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Ever since aspartame was approved in l985, there has been an increase in brain tumors. There is no direct proof that aspartame caused the brain tumors, but there is enough reason to suspect that, and the television show, "60 Minutes" recently did a report linking the increase in brain cancer to aspartame use.
The FDA reviewed Searle's studies of this artificial sweetener in which rats were fed aspartame daily with their meals for one year. There were 12 brain tumors in the 320 rats that were fed aspartame and no brain tumors in the 120 rats that were not fed aspartame.
There was also a study done at the University of Wisconsin on rhesus monkeys. they were fed aspartame daily. After day 200 of a one year study the monkeys developed epileptic seizures. After the study ended, the aspartame was discontinued and the monkeys were fully watched for 60 days. The monkeys had no more seizures.
METHOD: I did my own experiment on aspartame. On January 21, l997, I bought a new case of Diet Coke from the supermarket. I put 7 cans in the refrigerator, 7 cans in my room at room temperature (about 69 degrees) and I put 7 cans in a BOEKEL incubator (80 Watts, 120 AC volts, 0.75 Amps, catalog # 131500) and set the temperature at 40 degrees Celsius which is 104 degrees Fahrenheit. I left them in there for 10 weeks (70 days). I had a thermometer next to each group of cans and I checked the temperatures daily. I took the remaining three cans and brought them to Winston Laboratories in Ridgefield, New jersey to test for a beginning level of aspartame. When I got the test results back, they revealed that there was normally 0.06 per cent of aspartame in the can of diet soda.
I chose that temperature because in l985 the National Soft Drink Association reported a similar experiment in which diet soda stored at that temperature turned into formaldehyde. In that experiment they explained that 104 degrees Fahrenheit was equal to a daytime temperature in Phoenix, Arizona over the summer. The National Soft Drink Association recommended that aspartame not be approved for use by people in soda. They published this experiment and their recommendation in the Congressional Record.
On April 1, I took the cans of aspartame out of the refrigerator, out of my room and out of the incubator. That day I brought the samples to Winston Laboratory for analysis.
I was going to do a taste in my sister's fourth grade class, but the school nurse said that I couldn't because of all the bad things people say about aspartame, so instead I tested the samples on a group of adults.
I performed a double blind experiment. My mother helped to label each sample with a number. I conducted the experiment but I did not know which sample each person was drinking. I put all of the cans in a cooler and covered them with ice sos that they would be served at the same temperature. I gave each person a small cup of the soda from the refrigerator, from the incubator, from my room, and from a new can of soda fresh from the supermarket. I asked them to rate the taste on a scale of one to four, four being the worst and one being the best. The actual results are to be found in table#1.
Table 1
#517
#502
#540
#563
ROOM TEMP SAMPLE
COLD STORAGE SAMPLE
WARM STORAGE SAMPLE
NEW.CAN SAMPLE
SUBJECT #1
4
4
4
3
SUBJECT #2
3
2
4
1
SUBJECT #3
2
3
3
2
SUBJECT #4
1
2
4
2
SUBJECT #5
2
2
4
1
SUBJECT #6
2
3
4
1
SUBJECT #7
2
3
3
4
SUBJECT #8
3
2
4
3
SUBJECT #9
3
2
4
1
SUBJECT #10
3
3
4
2
AVERAGE
2.5
2.6
3.8
2.0
Table #2 contains the results of the testing conducted on the samples analyzed by Winston Laboratories. In the sample that was in the refrigerator all that was left of the 0.06 per cent of the aspartame was 0.058 percent. That extra aspartame had turned into 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of formaldehyde In the sample from my room, all that was left of the 0.06 percent aspartame was 0.051 per cent. The extra aspartame had turned into 0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In the sample that was in the incubator all that was left of the 0.06 percent aspartame was 0.026 percent. The extra aspartame had turned into 0.010 percent DkP and 76.2 parts per billion in the formaldehyde.
Table 2
ASPARTAME %
DKP
FORMALDEHYDE
Parts per billionBASELINE CAN
0.060%
*
*
SAMPLE # 502
(refrigerated)0.058%
0.001%
53.5
SAMPLE # 517
(room temperature)0.051%
0.002%
231.0
SAMPLE #540
(incubator)0.026%
0.010%
76.2
SAMPLE # 563
(new can)*
*
*
* Sample #563 (new can of Diet Coke was not tested by the lab. It was used for the taste test only. The baseline can was not tested for formaldehyde or DKP because it was assumed that FDA would ban any new product containing poison. The total cost of testing was $1250. This may not be a lot of money to a drug company but it is to me. As it is, I will be baby-sitting for the summer of 1997 to pay for this study. -JC
DISCUSSION: There was an obvious preference for the newly purchased sample of Diet Coke. The scores for the sample in the refrigerator and room temperature were similar but were not as high as the new soda. The score for the incubator sample were very low. Nearly everybody hated the taste.
There are taste differences. Ten people preferred the new soda to the other three samples. With 1 being the best and 4 being the worst, their average score for the new soda was 2.0.
The aspartame contained in diet soda stored over time can break down into formaldehyde and DKP, two very dangerous poisons. Taste tests revealed a noticeable difference among tasters. The higher the heat of storage, the worse the taste.
Diet soda stored for ten weeks loses flavor. Aspartame in that soda breaks down into two products, formaldehyde and DKP. The warmer the temperature, the greater the loss of aspartame and the greater the increase in DKP.
Temperature creates two effects. First, the higher the temperature of storage, the higher the level of DKP in the soda. Second, room temperature seems to create the highest levels of formaldehyde in soda. At very high temperatures, the formaldehyde breaks down. However, even stored in a refrigerator at cold temperature, the aspartame breaks down into formaldehyde.
After diet soda containing aspartame is purchased it should not be stored in the heat or under any condition for a long period of time. Further research should be performed with more samples at different temperatures for different time periods so that safety levels can be determined.
Concerning aspartame, the FDA says, "we believe that based on all the information that we received to date that this is a safe product." I say, "Decide for yourself."
Jennifer Cohen
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"Most frequently asked questions relating to fluoride" (1997)
Definitions: Caries: Cavities Dentifrice: Toothpaste Fluoride: any combination of elements which contain the fluorine (F-) ion. Dental fluorosis: a condition caused by an excessive intake of fluorides - while the teeth develop - characterized mainly by mottling of the enamel, although the skeletal system is also affected.
1) I heard fluoride is a poison. Is this true?
Yes. Fluoride is an acute toxin with a rating slightly higher than that of lead. According to "Clinical Toxicology of Commercial products," 5th Edition, 1984, lead is given a toxicity rating of 3 to 4, and Fluoride is rated at 4 (3 = moderately toxic, 4 = very toxic). On December 7, 1992, the new EPA Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for lead was set at 0.015 ppm, with a goal of 0.0ppm. The MCL for fluoride is currently set for 4.0ppm - that's over 250 times the permissable level of lead. Fluoride is also considered toxic waste. It is one of the most bone seeking elements known to mankind. The US Public Health Service has stated that fluoride makes the bones more brittle and the dental enamel more porous.
2) How much fluoride am I taking in?
Current intake is estimated to be between 5 and 7 mg/day in "optimally fluoridated" areas. Current fluoride intake is equally divided between drinking water (in fluoridated areas), food, other beverages, and dental products, meaning that even if you don't live in a fluoridated area, fluoride is endangering your health. Average fluoride content in juices is 0.02 to 2.80 parts per million, in part because of variations in fluoride concentrations of water used in production. Children's ingestion of fluoride from juices and juice-flavored beverages can be quite substantial and a crucial factor in developing fluorosis. Grape juice has been found to contain up to 6.8 mg/L of fluoride, a can of chicken soup up to 4 mg of fluoride. Fluoride can be found in water, toothpaste, mouthwash, Dentist's treatment, fluoride pills, juice, soft drinks, canned food, commercial fruit and vegetables, Teflon and Tefal coated items (such as frying pans), etc. (Note: No "optimal" fluoride intake has ever been scientifically documented.)
3) How much is too much?
As little as 0.04 mg/kg/day has been proven to cause adverse health effects. Retention of 2mg a day will produce crippling skeletal fluorosis in one's lifetime.
4) Does fluoride accumulate in the body?
Yes. Approximately half of each day's fluoride intake will be retained. This is what makes it so dangerous. "The dose makes the poison". All sides agree to the fact that healthy kidneys can eliminate only about 50% of daily fluoride intake. The rest gets absorbed in calcified tissues, like bones and teeth. The National Academy Of Sciences (NAS) stated in 1977 that, for the average individual, a retention of 2mg/day would result in crippling skeletal fluorosis after 40 years. Considering the above mentioned intake level, it is likely that skeletal fluorosis already affects a significant portion of the population. Children,the elderly and any person with impaired kidney function (which includes many AIDS patients), are in the high risk group for fluoride poisoning and must be warned to monitor their fluoride intake. Also at high risk are people with immunodeficiencies, diabetes and heart ailments, as well as anyone with calcium, magnesium and Vitamin C deficiencies. (At the level of 0.4 ppm renal (kidney) impairment has been shown.)
(Junco, L.I. et al, "Renal Failure and Fluorosis", Fluorine & Dental Health, JAMA 222:783 - 785, 1972)
5) How does fluoride get into the water?
Most often as a byproduct from the fertilizer, aluminum and other industries, who manage to sell this toxic waste to municipalities nationwide for human consumption -- incredible, but a fact.
6) What about my toothpaste?
Studies show that adults can absorb up to 0.5 mg per "TV ribbon" brushing. Small children, even if pea-size amount is used, will still absorb the same, more if the child is younger and has less swallowing control skills. Half a tube of toothpaste can kill a child. Current content of sodium fluoride in toothpaste in Canada and the US is up to 0.4% = 4000 ppm (parts per million). Bubblegum-flavored dentifrice obviously is especially inviting for children. Since April 1997 all toothpaste in the US must carry a warning label, advising parents what to do if their child swallows more than the pea-size brushing amount. Wholesale containers carry the poison symbol of skull and crossbones.
7) What about the fluoride treatment at the dental office?
Fluoride treatments can contain between 10,000 to 20,000 ppm. There is no regulated dose requirement. There are cases known of children dying in the dentist's chair. (New York Times, Jan.20, 1979: "$750,000 Given in Child's Death in Fluoride Case" about a three year old child killed by fluoride treatment in the Dentist's office.)
8) How can my dentist say that it's good for my teeth?
By receiving limited training on the subject and being misinformed on purpose by the ADA and CDA. Figures in ADA pamphlets contain an incredible amount of untruths, and outright fraudulent claims. If you check the references cited and numbers listed in your local libraries, you will undoubtedly come to the same conclusion. Some fluoridation endorsements are listed which prove fraudulent when checked. Most dentists never bother to take the time to study both sides of the fluoride issue. Consider this statement by the ADA in 1979: "Individual dentists must be convinced that they need not be familiar with scientific reports and field investigations on fluoridation to be effective participants and that non-participation is overt neglect of personal responsibility." There are NO reliable studies, conducted under ethical research guidelines, which prove the benefits of fluoride supplementation. The FDA admits to this! There are more than 500 peer-reviewed studies documenting the adverse effects. Furthermore, dentists make higher profits in fluoridated areas and through fluoride use. As a result of mottled enamel, many more restorative measures are necessary, such as braces, bridges, etc. For the ADA/CDA, this condition is a real money-maker, because cosmetic dentistry is far more lucrative than cavity repair. In addition, there is an abundance of evidence in the scientific literature indicating that fluoride causes a delay in the normal shedding of the "baby" teeth, and their replacement by permanent teeth. This delay has been shown to increase the number of children with malpositioned teeth. Again, braces are far more expensive than fillings.
(Note: In a 1972 report by the American Dental Association, it is stated that dentists make 17% more profit in fluoridated areas as opposed to non-fluoridated areas. This was again demonstrated in a 1994/1995 survey by the California Department of Health Services, Medical Statistics, who found a 5% increase.
(Douglas et al., "Impact of water fluoridation on dental practices and dental manpower", Journal of the American Dental Association;84:355-67, 1972)
In 1993 the National Academy of Sciences warned, "dental fluorosis...might be more than a cosmetic defect if enough fluorotic enamel is fractured and lost to cause pain, adversely affect food choices, compromise chewing efficiency, and require complex dental treatment."
The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology has classified fluoride as an unapproved dental medicament due to its high toxicity.
The FDA considers fluoride an unapproved new drug for which there is no proof of safety or effectiveness. The FDA does not consider fluoride an essential nutrient.
Four major studies involving 480,000 children (US, 39,000; Japan, 22,000; India, 400,000; Tucson, 29,000) comparing fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas showed no significant difference in decay rates. Proven is that a higher intake of fluoride will actually cause MORE cavities, especially for children with low dietary calcium intake.
9) Is it true that fluoride can cause cancer?
Yes. In 1981, Dean Burk, for many decades Chief Chemist at the US National Cancer Institute, testified at congressional hearings, reporting that at least 40,000 cancer deaths in 1981 were attributable to fluoride. 40,000 cases that could have been prevented simply by NOT putting industry waste into the public water supply. Burk stated that fluoride causes more cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
In 1992 further studies by the New Jersey Department of Health confirmed a 6.9 fold increase in bone cancer in young males.
(Cohn, Perry D. Ph.D. "An Epidemiological Report on Drinking Water" Fluoridation and Osteosarcoma in Young Males, New Jersey Department of Health, Environmental Health Service, Trenton NJ November 8, 1992)
1n 1996 yet another cancer related study was published showing significant positive correlation between fluoride concentration in drinking water and uterine cancer mortality. Fluorides can transform normal cells into cancerous ones, as has been shown in countless studies since Tsutui first published his data in 1984. In 1997 there were more than 80 references available, linking fluoride to cancer.
10) Is it true that fluoride can increase hip fractures?
Yes. According to Dr. J. William Hirzy (vice-president of the NFFE LOCAL 2050, the union representing all scientists at the EPA, Washington, D.C.) there have been 5 epidemiological studies done since 1990, in three different countries, all showing a higher increase in hip fractures in fluoridated communities.
Some studies have indicated a 87% higher risk of hip fractures to the elderly in areas where water fluoridation was even below 1.5 ppm.
11) Is this also true for Osteoporosis and Arthritis?
Yes, most definitely. Scientists at EPA in Washington have declared that there is every reason to believe that the increasing numbers of people with carpal-tunnel syndrome and arthritis-like pains are due to the mass fluoridation of drinking water. On July 9, 1998 the Manchester Guardian reported news of fluoride poisoned water in Central India, from untested wells drilled in the 1980s, causing severe arthritic damage to tens of millions of people -- a national disaster. Fluoride is the most bone seeking element known to mankind. The US Public Health Service has stated that fluoride makes the bones more brittle and dental enamel more porous.
There are also studies proving that fluoride toxicity affects fertility.
12) Does it cause brain damage?
Yes. Fluorides lower the intelligence capacity of humans, with children, again, especially susceptible to early fluoride toxicity. IQ levels were significantly lower than children not exposed to fluorides in all age groups listed.
(Li,X.S.,Zhi,J.L.,Gao,R.O.,"Effects of Fluoride Exposure on the Intelligence of Children", Fluoride;28:182-189, 1995)
Further studies proving the neurotoxicity of fluoride in rats have also been conducted by Dr. Phyllis Mullinex. In 1995 Mullenix and co-workers showed that rats given fluoride in drinking water at levels that give rise to plasma levels fluoride concentrations in humans, suffer neurotoxic effects that vary according to when the rats were given the fluoiride - as adult animals, as young animals, or thorugh the placenta before birth. Those exposed before birth were born hyperactive and remained so throughout their lives. Thoses exposed as young animals displayed depressed activity. In 1998 Guan et al. gave similar doses as used by the Mullenix group and found that several key chemicals in the brain - those that form the membrane of brain cells, were substantially depleted in rats given fluoride, as compared to those who did not receive fluoride. Partly based on these findings, the union representing all EPA scientists in Washington have now filed a grievance demanding fluoride-free bottled water for their offices.
(Note: this also explains a recent University of South Florida study relating fluoride intake during pregnancy to the yearly 1% increase in learning disabilities found in children...) Studies proving that fluorides transfer through the placenta are well known. (Meanwhile, Dr.Weil, Internet's Health Guru, advocates fluoride supplements for pregnant woman in his book "8 Weeks To Optimum Health"...)
There are also several studies linking aluminum with fluoride, showing that the bioavailability of aluminum is increased in the presence of fluorides, causing aluminum in the brain to double in treated animals. According to an October 28, 1992 Wall Street Journal Article about a study conducted by Varnier JA, et al.: "Rats fed the highest doses developed irregular mincing steps characteristic of senile animals.... Post mortem examination of the rat brains disclosed 'substantial cell loss in structures associated with dementia -- the neo-cortex and hippocampus'." Similar data was published by Varner, Jansen and others in Brain Research in 1998. (Note: Alzheimer's Desease, first diagnosed by Dr. Alois Alzheimer in 1907, is now the #4 killer for every person over 60 in the US. Every 2nd person over 70 will develop Alzheimer's.)
13) How wide-spread is this problem?
The US Public Health Service estimates that 1 in 5 children have dental fluorosis. (By the way, all native reservations in the US have mandatory fluoridation, resulting in very high incidents of dental fluorosis in those areas.) Realistic figures are as high as 80% in some areas in the US and up to 71% in Canada. Studies have been conducted directly linking bone tissue damage to children with dental fluorosis. Fluorosis is the first visible sign that destructive effects of fluoride are also occurring in bone, connective tissue, immune and enzyme functions.
14) If all this is true, how can all this be possible, sanctioned by government?
In 1939 a dentist named H. Trendley Dean, DDS, examined water from 345 communities in Texas. Dr. Dean worked for the U.S Public Health Service (PHS). He determined that high concentrations of fluoride in the water corresponded to a high incidence in mottled teeth. To many dentists this provided an answer to the problem of mottled teeth they saw in some of their patients. Dr. Dean also unexpectedly found a lower incidence of dental cavities in communities having about 1 ppm fluoride in the water supply. Among the native residents of these areas about ten percent developed the very mildest forms of mottled enamel, usually described as "beautiful white teeth". However, Dean used a technique known as "selective use of data", using data from 21 cities while completely disregarding data from 272 other locations which show an almost complete lack of correlation when plotted.
(J.Colquhoun;International Symposium on Fluoridation, Porte Alegre, Brazil, September 1988)
Meanwhile, a number of court cases were being launched due to fluoride contamination, mainly by the aluminum industry. In addition the Manhattan Project, the secret atomic bomb project, was in a big race to build the world's first A-bomb. A pollution incident of great magnitude occurred at a factory in New Jersey (DuPont) producing millions of tons of fluoride for the project. A major "negative PR" problem was emerging, threatening the Manhattan Project and the secrecy around it. In 1945, supposedly as a result of Dr. Dean's discovery, the PHS planned to conduct a 10-year study of fluoridation in two cities. Grand Rapids, Michigan was chosen as the city for artificial fluoridation and Muskegon, Michigan was the non-fluoridated city for comparison and cavity rates were to be compared. In 1950, after only five years into the project, due again to pressure exerted from the atomic bomb program, public health officials started to campaign for fluoridation - hand in hand with industry looking for a solution to threatening law suits, and an American Dental Association desperate for ``respect" and recognition. The campaign was based on the fact that fluoridated Grand Rapids had shown some decrease in cavity rate. Meanwhile there was also a decrease in cavity rate shown in non-fluoridated Muskegon. However, Muskegon was dropped from the study for unknown reasons. After the project was completed, only the Grand Rapids result was released and a major PR campaign promoting fluoride use started.
15) How about the effects on the environment?
Many studies have been conducted examining the adverse effects of fluoride on the eco-system. In 1995, the CEPA identified the now closed Brunswick Mining and Smelting Fertilizer Plant in Belledune, NB as having the largest discharge of fluoride to the aquatic environment in Canada. Toxicity to marine bacteria and impaired reproduction effects were demonstrated... Agriculture Canada (1976) found that 25 out of 36 cattle located on several Cornwall Island farms in the Saint Regis Quebec region displayed real or potential symptoms of chronic fluorosis. A subsequent study of livestock in this region reported stiffness and inflamed leg joints, dental fluorosis, osteosclerosis, osteonecrosis and bone deformations. Many serious toxic and detrimental effects to plants and animal species have been documented, salmon populations in particluar being in the high risk category.
IT'S A TOXIC WASTE! Think about it - day after day, millions of tons of fluoride are "legally" released into the environment, especially in fluoridated areas. Showers, toilet flushes, lawn sprinkling...As a result of the original Manhattan Project logic, industries, now mainly the fertilzer and aluminum industries, have a perfect way to release their hazardous and toxic waste. It would cost up to $US 8,000 per truckload to dispose of this hazardous waste. At a rate of emissions into the air of 155,000 tons/year, in addition to an estimated 500,000 tons of emissions into lakes, ocean, rivers (not counting fluoridation) - it's obvious that industry saves billions and billions of dollars.
16) What do I need to do? How can I protect myself?
If you live in an area with fluoridated water, drink distilled water. You can have it delivered or buy it at Supermarkets. You can also buy distilling or reverse osmosis systems for home use which is the only way for taking fluoride out of the water. Also, eliminate any Teflon of Tefal coated cookingware, for scratches in the surface will release PTFE, another toxic fluoride compound. Avoid fruit juices coming from fluoridated areas. All non-organic grape products are especially high in fluoride content due to the number of fertilizer and pesticide applications. Wine can contain up to 3 ppm fluoride. Avoid using any toothpaste or mouthrinse containing fluoride. There are many alternatives on the market. A recent store survey in Vancouver showed over 20 different brands. In addition, lobbying is required to demand fluoride content labeling on commercial products. Steps to educate the public about this proven health risk and fluoride's toxic properties must be taken immediately and health advisories issued. Water fluoridation should cease immediately and steps should be taken to reduce fluoride in food, drink, and dental products. If you live in a fluoridated area, take action to stop the addition of fluoride into the water supply. Individuals ARE successful in educating legislators about the issue and have helped pass laws to stop the addition of fluoride into the water supply. (Notably Darlene Sherrell, who not only discovered that the original Roholm/Hodge safety figures had been mis-calculated and then persisted with the help of Dr. Bob Carton and Senator Bob Graham in her efforts to get the National Research Council (NAS/NRC) to adopt the new figures - which had even been corrected by Hodge himself in 1979 - but also managed to change the law in Michigan, giving people the right to vote on fluoridation. Michigan was the first state in the US to repeal their mandatory fluoridation law. Darlene's contact info is below.)
Web pages have been set up documenting all the above information, enabling you to conduct your own research into this matter. All information is verifiable. For more info with study/research links to studies, abstracts, charts and fraud papers, please go to either web site listed below.
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brouhaha records group ltd. Andreas Schuld 78 Malta Place Vancouver, B.C. V5M-4C4 CANADA (604) 435-9859 brou@istar.ca www.bruha.com/fluoride
Dental Fluorosis Prevention Program Darlene Sherrell 793 South Lacey Road Charlotte, Michigan 48813 USA (517) 541-9624 sherrell@inter-view.net http://www.ia4u.net/~sherrell/
Find out who your Congressional representatives are and e-mail them. Demand federal intervention to stop fluoridation. If you know your Zip code, you can find them at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/ziptoit.html
or you can search by state at http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html
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The Thyroid Gland & Truth Decay
by Andreas SchuldOn February 17, 1999 an article titled "Fear of Fluoride" appeared in Salon Magazine documenting the ongoing controversy on the use of fluorides
(1). The subtitle read: "Questions About The Safety Of This Cavity-Fighting Chemical Aren't Just For Right-Wing Conspiracists Anymore". The article mentioned a grievance filed by the union representing all scientists at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., asking for fluoride-free bottled water for their offices, a request which is partly based on their recent findings that fluorides can seriously impair neurological functions and reduce IQ in children
(2). The scientists at EPA are required by law to set a Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for fluoride in water, specifically to avoid a condition known as crippling skeletal fluorosis (CSF).
It was also the same day I was unsubscribed from the thyca list (a thyroid cancer support group) by Arturo Rolla, MD at Harvard, and owner of the list, apparently with support from Kenneth B. Ain, M.D, Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and the Director of the Thyroid Cancer Research Laboratory at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. I had joined the thyca list in December 1998 in order to offer support to my sister who had just been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Reason for my "dismissal": I had posted info on fluorides, after Dr. Rolla discouraged discussion on the issue for the second time in a few weeks, proclaiming that "thyca has nothing to do with fluoride". Responding to a post by D.W., who originally had requested info on the subject, he stated:
"This is a suppport(sic) list, yes, and because of that we have to make sure the data posted here is serious and scientific.
There are many other places in the Internet where you can fin (sic) unvalidated, wild, unconfirmed, hypothetical ideas. In this list we deal with scientific data and evidence based medicine.
I hope you undertand (sic) my point. You have a right to express your opinion, you can do it in many other areas of the Internet. This list has rules and regulations and we demand validation and seriousness in the data you want to present."
Strange, for in an earlier post I had supplied Dr. Rolla and everyone else on the list with a phone number to Dr. William Hirzy (mentioned in above Salon article) at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C. to verify the cancer information given, as well as supplied references to literature. The EPA scientists have declared that the MCL of 4 ppm in water was set fraudulently in 1985 and that 90% of the scientific literature showing that fluoride is mutagenic were omitted.(2)
D.W, a thyca listmember had requested info on fluoride and quoted a reference URL (3), which happened to be an article written by Darlene Sherrell, who discovered a calculation error in dosage figures and, with the help of Dr. Robert Carton and U.S. Senator Bob Graham, forced the NAS/NRC to correct their figures. The figures had been corrected in 1979 by Harold Hodge himself, the man who incorrectly set them.(4) It also happens that one of Sherrell's daughters had developed thyroid cancer at the age of 17, after her thyroid had enlarged and returned to normal several times around puberty, as well as having experienced other symptoms of fluoride poisoning and skeletal fluorosis.
Dr. Ain was quick to proclaim my references and the one given by D.W. as "EXAMPLES OF POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS PSEUDOSCIENCE" (emphasis Ain). Also, he wrote: "... Additionally, there is no way that direct causative relationships can be drawn from selected ANTIQUATED (see dates above) isolated and unverified published studies."
My "dated" references stated the research done by Dr. Takeki Tsutui and co-workers, of the Nippon Dental College in 1984 (5), documenting the mutagenic characteristics of fluoride. It was demonstrated that fluorides can transfer normal cells into cancerous ones. Also quoted was a reference from 1988, the year that the Argonne National Laboratories and others verified Dr.Tsutui's research (6A), as did scientists at the Institute for Scientific Research on Cancer, France and the Department of Occupational Health, Shanghai Medical University, China (6B). As far as the statement "...a few isolated and unverified studies" is concerned, it deserves to be noted that the fluoride-cancer connection has been proven and been documented in congressional hearings and court rooms, as well as in countless peer-reviewed journals and publications. (5,6,7,8,9,10,18)
In 1996 yet another cancer-fluoride related study was published linking fluorides to an increase in uterine cancer (10). The Okinawa Islands were under U.S. administration from 1945 to 1972. During that time, fluoride was added to the drinking water supplies in most regions. A significant positive correlation was found between fluoride concentration in drinking water and uterine cancer mortality in 20 municipalities.
In 1981, Dean Burk, for many decades head chemist at the National Cancer Institute, testified at congressional hearings, reporting that at least 40,000 cancer deaths in 1981 were attributable to fluoridation.(7) 40,000 cases that could have been prevented simply by NOT putting industry waste into the public water supply. (18)
Dr. John Yiamouyiannis, who with Burk had collected the statistical data, also found precancerous changes in oral squamous cells, an increase in squamous cell tumors and cancers, and thyroid follicular cell tumors as a result of increasing levels of fluoride in drinking water.(33)
Dr. Ain's statement regarding the antiquity of my sources seems even more ridiculous especially when one considers that the effects of fluorine have been studied since the 1800's, and the classic study done by Kaj Roholm on Danish cryolite workers in 1935 (translated into English in 1937) is still the standard used in industrial regulations set to protect workers exposed to fluorides in various industries. (11)
In another post Dr. Ain related the info given to the claims by Neo-Nazis trying to prove that the holocaust never happened. Similar techniques were used by the ADA, as published in the JADA in 1962 and 1965 (update), when they listed reputable scientists alongside organizations such as the KKK and right wing organizations in attempting to discredit these scientists who were opposed to fluoridation (12).
Further, Dr. Ain stated :"...It is a reality that the published literature contains at least several studies supporting nearly every conceivable alternative viewpoint on nearly every topic. Thus the need for critical, educated and sensible evaluation of such studies."
Exactly. It is true that the literature on the effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland appears contradictory, especially as it relates to goitre. However, upon closer examination you will find that a large number of studies and reviews seem to have been done specifically to demonstrate that the effects of fluoride have no harmful effect "at doses recommended for caries prevention" (0.7 ppm - 1.2ppm => 0.7 mg/l - 1.2 mg/l) (13). This dosage already renders such studies completely invalid, for current total intake from all sources is approaching the 8 mg/day mark in "optimally" fluoridated areas, based on the latest available data from official government sources such as the U.S. Public Health Service(14). Other studies were done for only a few days, which seems ridiculous considering that fluoride is a cumulative poison(15). Again, the accumulation of fluorides in the body and the very real skeletal fluorosis are the reasons why an MCL for fluoride in water has to be set by the EPA!
Perhaps more important is the fact that a 1 ppm fluoride dose in rats is not the same as a 1 ppm (1mg/l) dose in humans. Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, former head of the Forsyth Research Institute associated with Harvard, states:
"When rats consumed 75-125 ppm (!) and humans 5-10 ppm fluoride in their respective drinking waters, the result was equivalent ranges of plasma fluoride levels."(16)
It is therefore even more astounding that adverse effects on thyroid action have been documented in studies where doses of 0.9 mg/day or 1.0 mg/day were given. (13,17,19)
In order to understand this properly, one needs to realize that the level of fluoride at 1 ppm = 1 mg/l was set in the 40's when TOTAL intake was considered to be only about 1 mg/day in areas with fluoridated water. It was thought that fluoridation of water supplies at 1 ppm (1 mg/l) would duplicate this intake, assuming that people would drink 4 glasses of water a day.
However, current intake is approachig 8 mg/day - not just from tap water, but toothpaste and other dental products, beverages, processed foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, Pharmaceuticals, Teflon coated cookware, vitamins and mineral supplements, teas, air, etc. etc.
It is well known that pesticides can also be a cause for thyroid cancer. Several thyroid cancer survivors on the thyca list had grown up in orchards, as became apparent in a small survey that was conducted on the list.
Cryolite is found on apples, raisins, lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes, peaches, as well as most berries. Cryolite is 54.30% fluorine.(21) On February 19, 1999 the Washington Post published a story on the recent findings of a study by Consumers Union which stated that as little as a single serving of some popular fruits and vegetables may contain enough harmful chemicals to exceed government health standards. The analysis found consistently high rates of pesticide contamination for seven common types of produce and processed food, and it concluded that children are most at risk - in part because their bodies are more sensitive, but also because they typically consume more fresh fruit per pound than adults.(34) A recent University of Minnesota study, published in the March 1999 issue of Environmental Health Perspectives(58), has found that men in eleven northwestern Minnesota counties have higher than normal death rates from some types of cancers. The study found men in the Red River valley are three times more likely to die from thyroid cancer than men in urban areas. The men in those agricultural areas were also twice as likely to die from bone cancer. In this context it must be noted that 1992 studies by the New Jersey Department of Health confirmed a 6.9 increase in bone cancer in young males due to fluoride intake. Dr. William Marcus, Senior Science Advisor with the EPA's Office of Science and Technology, has said that the level of fluoride in rodents who had osteosarcoma was lower than levels found in humans exposed to allowable levels of fluoride, and that NO other compounds (including radioactive compounds) have been able to produce osteosarcomas in rodents.(59)
Already in 1940 authors Robert H. Wilson and Floyd DeEds from the United States Department of Agriculture, wrote:
"Should a spray residue tolerance limit for fluorine be set to protect the normal, the hyperthyroid, or the hypothyroid individual? ... should the tolerance limit take into consideration that in certain areas the public is already exposed to a fluorine intake in the drinking water?"
Explaining the importance of total intake of fluorides, they wrote:
"Largely because of the interest in the relationship of mottled enamel to the fluorine content of drinking water, and the potentialities for producing the same tooth defect by spray residue containing fluorine, it has become customary to refer to toxic amounts of fluorine in terms of parts per million. Fluorine spray residue tolerance limits are expressed in this manner. However, it seems apparent that the absolute amount of fluorine ingested might be of more importance than the concentration of fluorine present in one or more constituents of the diet. If rats could be made to eat more food than the normal daily intake, then a diet which contained slightly too little fluorine to cause bleaching of the incisors under ordinary conditions might result in the production of bleached teeth. The concentration of fluorine in the diet would remain the same, but the absolute amount of fluorine ingested would be increased."
Besides the direct application of fluorine-containing pesticides such as cryolite and Norflurazon, as well as fertilizers, fluorides also enter as a result of air contamination by many industries(18). Jerard and Patrick reported in a 1973 article in the International Journal of Environmental Studies that in some regions of Florida 25,000 acres of citrus trees had been destroyed within 50 miles of phosphate processing plants and seemingly "normal" samples of orange juice were found to contain 3-12ppm (mg/l) of fluoride.(49) Fluoride contaminated phosphate is also used as fertilizer, as a supplement in pet food, and as ingredient or additive in foods and vitamins(21). Donald Hilleman of the Michigan State University discovered that many cattle illnesses which had been attributed to feed pollution by PBBs (polybrominated biphenyls) were actually caused by high fluoride contents in the feeds. He found the high levels of fluoride in these animals along with the reduced thyroid activity and disrupted immune function characteristic of fluoride poisoning (46,21).
In 1939, before fluoridation of public water supplies began in the U.S., soft-tissue levels (kidney, spleen, thyroid, etc) already contained about 0.5 ppm fluoride(20). Between 1960 and 1965, soft-tissue fluoride levels were taken from the bodies of people who had lived in the greater Salt Lake City Area, which wasn't even fluoridated. The fluoride came only from foods and beverages supplied by other fluoridated areas, and from whatever industrial pollution of water and air was in the area.(21) Thyroid glands contained 4 ppm fluoride.(22)
Drs. Rolla and Ain are not alone in their attempts to drown discussion on this subject. From a Health Guide, published by the Thyroid Foundation Of Canada, written by Robert Volpé, Director of the Endocrine Research Laboratory at Wellesley Central Hospital, Toronto:
"QUESTION 25: Do you have any information on the connection between fluoride and hypothyroidism? In a publication entitled "Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements" by H. Winter Griffith, M.D., it states not to take fluoride if you have underactive thyroid function. I have not heard of this before and am wondering what the implications are.
ANSWER: Fluoride is a halogen like iodine and is therefore briefly picked up by the thyroid gland, but, unlike iodine, fluoride is not incorporated into thyroid hormone. It does NOT interfere with thyroid function in any way and there is NOT concern about using fluoride even if a person is indeed hypothyroid. This is, of course, particularly true if that patient is taking thyroxine, which is certainly not interfered with by fluoride or any other substance."
I don't know if I should laugh or cry at such nonsense. How can any "expert" make such statements, especially if fluorides have been given specifically in the past to reduce thyroid action in hyperthyroid patients? In the 30's authors in Germany reported having successfully treated 1,158 hyperythyroid patients within 6 years with either sodium fluoride or fluorothyrosine (25). Similar results were reached by Gorlitzer von Mundy with baths containing HF(26). The product later released on the market was Pardinon, another was Tyrosin(48,52). Research in the late 50's conducted by Galetti and Joyet apparently indicated that fluoride was not reliable enough to be recommended as an alternative thyroid drug (13,50). Checking an older Merck Index will also verify this info.(24)
The antagonistic relationship between fluoride and iodine, being at opposite ends in the halogen group, has been described in many studies, almost ever since Wagner von Jauregg began a mass iodine- supplementation program in Austrian areas endemic with goitre(53).
It is also known that the effects of fluorides on the thyroid can be different from country to country, reasons for this not being known. Gordonoff wrote already in 1964 that the effects are as such, citing research by Goldemberg and Eugster. He said that in certain areas no skeletal fluorosis can be seen while there are effects on the thyroid, but in other areas there are no thyroid effects, but there is skeletal fluorosis(54).
Truth:
1) Fluoride is not just "briefly" picked up by the thyroid gland. Fluoride is also STORED in the thyorid gland.
2) Fluoride DOES interfere with thyroid function.
To quote Harold Hodge again:
"Among the many effects of fluoride (real or purported) are a few that have been so well studied that quantitative dose-effect relations can be estimated albeit with variable numerical certainty... Five other chronic fluoride effects have been well studied in experimental animals: kidney injury, anemia, interference with reproduction, changes in thyroid structure or function, and body weight loss."(4)
There are hundreds of studies documenting the interference of fluoride with thyroid function. One study done by the Polish team of Bobek and Kahl documented rats on 1.0 mg (!) fluoride daily in the drinking water had significantly lowered thyroxine, triiodothyronine (T3) and free thyroxine index in plasma. It was concluded that fluoride given continously to the rats may influence the thyroid gland rather indirectly by changing hormone transporation in the blood. (19). What would happen if these rats drank 75-125 ppm (mg/l), which, to bring up this point again, would result in similar plasma fluoride levels as the 5-10 ppm human beings are taking in now? (12)
Countless studies exist in the field of veterinary medicine on the effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland. Hillman, et.al. documented in a study from 1979 on cattle how thyroxine and triiodothyronine in serum were decreased with increasing urinary fluoride, eosinophils increased, and cholesterol tended to decrease, at urinary fluoride levels comparable now to ones in "optimally fluoridated" areas. Cattle afflicted with fluorosis developed hypothyroidism, anemia, and eosinophilia of leukocytes(46). This really is nothing new. Already in 1934 studies done by Chang, Phillips, Hart and Bostedt on the effects of mixing fluorine-containing phosphate in cowfeed showed comparable data.(47) Many more studies can be found within the last 80 years.
I personally know of hundreds of international studies documenting the effects of fluoride on the thyroid gland and have posted more than a hundred of them in the Virtual Library (27), so that interested parties may obtain such studies through inter-library loan for closer examination.
There are also numerous studies documenting that fluorides in the body increase the uptake and bioavailability of radioactive elements in the environment. A study done by Hein, Smith, Hodge, and others documented that radioactive fluorine (18 F-) was accumulated in the thyroid gland (31A), and that "the thyroid selectively concentrates fluoride from dilute solutions more than any other soft tissue studied".(31B) 18 F-, incidentally, is also one of the major tracers found in nuclear medicine. There are still other connections with thyroid cancer, radiation and fluorine.
In 1986, the nuclear industry once again became part of the list of fluoride polluting industries. One person died and others were hospitalized when a nuclear fuels processing plant near Webber Falls exploded, releasing 14 tons of radioactive Uranium Hexafluoride. The compound reacted with the moisture in the air to produce fluoride and a uranium residue. At the time, Richard Cunningham, safety-division director at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said that the workers may have inhaled "a small amount of uranium" but that their burns and respiratory distress were caused by the non-radioactive chemical [fluoride]. (60,21) It is also no co-incidence that thyroid cancer rates are higher near plants producing rocketfuel, which also use fluorides and have high fluoride emissions.
A recent statement by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights reported that 800 tons of depleted uranium were dropped on Iraq during the military war. Depleted Uranium (DU) is the radioactive by-product of the uranium enrichment process - it can be considered a form of nuclear warfare. Essentially all of the DU inventory is in the form of Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6)(45). When a DU shell explodes, up to 70% of it turns into aerosol. These highly toxic particles travel in the wind, and are inhaled and ingested. Depleted uranium vaporizes when deployed in armour-piercing bullets. Scientific studies indicate if as much as one small particle (<5 microns in diameter) enters the lungs, the lungs and surrounding tissue will be exposed to 270 times the radiation permitted for workers in the radiation industry.(44) Around battle fields in Kuwaitt and Iraq there is now a high increase in breast cancer for women under 30 (highest in the world), as well as thyroid cancer and Hodgin's disease in children, and many other cancers.(40)
DU are sufficiently soluble to contaminate soil, groundwater, and surface water. There are approximately 650,000 tons of DU hexafluoride (UF6) remaining from the cold war. This radioactive material is contained in more than 40,000 steel storage cylinders that are located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Paducah, Kentucky; and Portsmouth, Ohio. Some of the cylinders are more than 40 years old, and approximately 17,500 are considered "problem cylinders" because their physical integrity is questionable. (41) Should this co-product material be declared surplus and be converted to a stable oxide form, and disposed, the costs are estimated to be several billion dollars. Interestingly, the U.S. of Department of Energy has now begun the "Beneficial Uses of DU" project to indentify large sale uses of DU and encourage its reuse for the primary purpose of potentially reducing the cost and expediting the disposition of the DU inventory.(45) Anyone who is familiar with the effects of fluoride poisoning will be able to tell that the symptoms associated with the Gulf War Syndrome (GWI) are all too similar with those effects. While it is often thought that this is a result from bombing installations which were used to produce such nerve gases as Sarin (fluorine-based nerve gas), in conjunction with the many vaccines administered, it is this author's opinion that the DU barrage is a main contributor.
Traces of of radioactive contaminants can also be found in hydrofluosilicic acid, which according to last US census statistics (35) is the ingredient added in approximately 50% of areas fluoridated. It contains radionuclides, e.g. polonium 210. As little as 0.03 microcuries (6.8 trillionth of a gram) can be carcinogenic to humans. (36) Out of thousands of clinical studies about fluoride, not ONE has been done with the pollution concentrates found in tab water.
It is also known that fluorides can increase the uptake of radioactive iodine (I131) especially when accompanied by iodine deficiency. In one study on 26 men in the former German Democratic Republic suffering from chronic fluorosis, the mean thyroidal uptake was significantly higher than in the controls, who already had a higher uptake due to a known prevailing iodine deficiency (28). In a study from 1985 in Russia it was established that prolonged consumption of drinking water with a raised fluorine content (122 +/- 5 mumol/l with the normal value of 52+/- 5 mumol/l) by healthy persons caused tension of function of the pituitary-thyroid system that was expressed in TSH elevated production, a decrease in the T3 concentration and more intense absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid as compared to healthy persons who consumed drinking water with the normal fluorine concentration. The results led to a conclusion that excess of fluorine in drinking water was a risk factor of more rapid development of thyroid pathology(29).
Again, one must remember that current total fluoride intake is much more than the 1ppm recommended dose in drinking water.
Another study looked at the thyroid and immune status in workers continuously exposed to fluorine. The examinees with euthyroid condition had immune disorders with an allergic tendency (increased number of B-lymphocytes, immunoglobulins A). In workers with subclinical hypothyrosis (T3 reduced in 51%), the immune alterations were more evident, T-lymphocytes count rose, but their functional activity declined, indicating impaired cooperation of immunocytes as a result of imperfect control under low concentrations of tri-iodothyronine.(29)
Other studies clearly show that sodium fluoride mimicks the activation by thyrotropin (TSH) of iodide binding to proteins and of glucose C-1 oxidation, while at the same time inhibiting other thyrotropin effects and blocking the endocytosis of colloid droplets by follicular cells and the consequent thyroid secretion. (55)
According to the 1994 edition of the Physician's Desk Reference: " The mechanisms by which thyroid hormones exert their physiologic action are not well understood. These hormones enhance oxygen consumption by most tissues on the body and increase the baal metabolic rate and the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. Thus they exert a profound influence on every organ system in the body and are of particular importance in the development of the central nervous system." (61)
This brings us back to the EPA scientists and their concern about the neurological damage caused by fluorides.
"Unvalidated, wild, unconfirmed, hypothetical ideas?" (Rolla)
"Pseudoscience?" (Ain)
Not. Common science, maybe. Also known as common sense.
The struggle by the EPA scientists is not the only example of recent problems concerning ethics and science in health. During the last few months here in Canada, 6 scientists at Health Canada testified on the issue of the bovine growth hormone only after receiving written assurances (!) by Health Minister Rock that they would not be disciplined for testifying.(38) After they testified, bgh was declared illegal in Canada. Managers had shredded key documents and issued threats. The allegations made by EPA scientists concerning the setting of the MCL for fluoride are similar.(2) Health Canada, the people who are supposed to watch out for us, are now the subject of three criminal investigations by the RCMP. As a result of cutbacks, costs have been transferred to the pharmaceutical industry, which now pays for about 70 per cent of its own product reviews at Health Canada.(38) The NIH estimates that in 1994 industry money accounted for 52 percent of $33 billion spent on U.S. medical research. (56). So much for the state of ethics and science in healthcare.
So, who is watching out for our children here?
Professional associations like the ADA or consumer "protection" groups like Quackwatch claim to be. Clear evidence shows that they are not. While the ADA "Fluoridation Facts" are false and fraudulent (so much so, that one must wonder why no-one has ever sued them for misrepresentation of facts) - Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch proclaims that there are libraries full of safety studies, but can't produce a single one, even when offered US $100,000.(43) Barrett is also on the Scientific and Policy Advisors Board of the American Council on Science and Health, another like-minded organization, with funding supplied by Monsanto Agricultural Co, duPont, Dow Chemical, Coca Cola, Alcoa, National Soft Drink Association, etc.(42)
Whose interests are we representing here?
One can only hope that someday soon truth will prevail and that the recently initiated defamation law suit brought by Stephen Barrett against Darlene Sherrell will backfire and help to expose this situation for exactly what Dr. Robert Carton has described it as: "...the greatest scientific fraud in this century, if not of all time." (51)
In the U.S. there are 15,600 new cases of thyroid cancer every year (52). Surely one must be able to ask questions pertaining to the role of fluorides, especially when an overwhelming amount of information implicating fluorides exists. How can "experts" such as Dr. Rolla or Dr. Ain, with NO apparent proper knowledge on this matter be in such a influental position and be advising sufferers and survivors of thyroid cancer?
"Everything causes cancer? Perhaps. Conceivably even a single electron at the other side of the universe. The real question is, how likely is any one particular cause? In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster,than any other chemical."
- Dean Burk, Chief Chemist Emeritus, U.S. National Cancer Institute
References:
(1)Salon Magazine, February 17, 1999 http://www.salonmagazine.com/news/1999/02/17news.html
(2)Carton, Robert J, Ph.D; Hirzy J. William, Ph.D - "Applying the NAEP Code of Ethics to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Fluoride in Drinking Water Standard". Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the National Association of Environmental Professionals 20-24 June 1998, San Diego, California, U.S.A. http://rvi.net/~fluoride/naep.htm
(3)"Dare To Think" - Darlene Sherrell http://www.all-natural.com/think.html
(4)Harold C. Hodge, Ph.D. - The Safety of Fluoride Tablets or Drops, Continuing Evaluation of the Use of Fluorides, AAAS Symposium, Boulder, CO, Westview Press, p 253. (1979)
(5)Takeki Tsutui, et al. - Sodium Fluoride-induced Morphological and Neoplastic Transformation, Chromosome Aberrations, Sister Chromatid Exchanges, and Unscheduled DNA Synthesis in Cultured Syrian Hamster Embryo Cells", Cancer Research, Volume 44, pp.938-941 (1984)
(6)C.A. Jones, et al. - Sodium Fluoride Promotes Morphological Transformation of Syrian Hamster Embryo Cells, Carcinogenesis, Volume 9, pp.2279-2284 (1988)
(6B)Lasne,C. et al. - Transforming Activities of Sodium Fluoride in Cultured Syrian Hamster Embryo and BALB/3T3 Cells, Cell Biol. Toxicol. 4:311-324 (1988)
(7)Burk, D.: Statement Regarding Fluoridation Facts. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 97th Congress, 1st session, Part 8, Washington, D.C. (1981)
(8)Yiamouyiannis, J; Burk, D.: Public Water Fluoridation Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 1st session, Washington, D.C. (1976)
(9)Pennsylvania Judge Rules: Fluoride Is Carcinogenic. National Health Federation Bulletin 25 (1979)
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(11)Roholm, K.; Fluorine Intoxication - A Clinical Hygiene Study, With A Review Of the Literature And Some Experimental Investigations. H.K. Lewis & Co., London (1937)
(12)JADA: Comments on the opponents of fluoridation. JADA November 1962, vol 65, p 694 and November 1965, vol 71, p 1155
(13)Bürgi, H.; Siebenhüner, L; Miloni, E. - Fluorine and Thyroid Gland Function: A Review of the Literature (1984)
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(16)Mullenix, P.J.;Denbesten, P.K.;Schunior, A; Kernan, W.J. - Neurotoxicity of Sodium Fluoride In Rats. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 17(2):169-177 (1995) also see Letter by Dr. Phyllis Mullenix, September 14, 1998 http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/mull.htm
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(18)Meiers, P. - Zur Toxizität von Fluorverbindungen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Onkogenese, Verlag für Medizin Dr. Ewald Fischer, Heidelberg, p.80 (1984)
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(21)Yiamouyiannis, J - "Fluoride - The Aging Factor", 3rd. edition, Health Action Press, 6439 Taggart Road, Delaware, Ohio (1993)
(22)Call, R.A., et al. - Histological And Chemical Studies In Man On Effects Of Fluoride", Public Health Reports, Vol.80, No.6, pp 529-538 (1965)
(23)Health Guide: Thyroid Foundation Of Canada - Common Concerns of Thyroid Patients by Robert Volpé, MD, FRCP(C), FACP Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto. Director, Endocrine Research Laboratory, Wellesley Central Hospital, Toronto. (1996) http://home.ican.net/~thyroid/Guides/HG13.html
(24)1968 Merck Index, pg.959 (1968)
(25)Henning, K; Fritz, H. - Fluor und Schilddrüse. Schweiz Med Wochenschr 91:79-81 (1961)
(26)Gorlitzer von Mundy - Einfluss von Fluor und Jod auf den Stoffwechsel, insbesondere auf die Schilddrüse. Münch Med Wochenschrift 105:234-247 (1963)
(27)Fluoride Virtual Library http://www.bruha.com/fluoride/html/virtual_library.htm
(28)Korrodi, H.; Wegmann, T.; Galletti, P.;Held, HR - Sind bei der Cariesprophylaxe mit Fluor Rückwirkungen auf die Schilddrüse zuerwarten? Schweiz Med Wochenschr 85:1016-1019 (1955)
(29)Bachinskii, PP; Gutsalenko, OA; Naryzhniuk, ND; Sidora,VD; Shliakhta, AI - Action of the body fluorine of healthy persons and thyroidopathy patients on the function of hypophyseal-thyroid the system. Probl Endokrinol (Mosk) 31(6):25-9 (1985) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?uid=4088985
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(31)Hein, J.W.; Bonner, J.F.; Brudevold, F.; Smith, F.A.; Hodge, H.C. - Distribution In The Soft Tissue Of The Rat Of Radiactive Fluoride Administered As Sodium Fluoride. Nature 175:1295-1296 (1956)
(31B)Hein, J.W.; Smith, F.A.; Brudevold, F. - Distribution of 1ppm Fluoride As Radioactively Tagged NaF in Soft Tissues of Adult Female Albino Rats. J Dent. Res. 33:709-710 (Oct. 1954)
(32)Brown, Colette; Croff, Allen G.; Haire M.J. - "Beneficial Uses of Depleted Uranium", DTIC - AD337428 (1997)
(33)Center for Health Action, 6439 Taggart Road, Delaware, Ohio
(34)Washington Post (Feb. 17, 1999) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/pesticides.htm
(35)Wilson, RH; DeEds, F - The Synergistic Action Of Thyroid On Fluorine Toxicity. Endocrinology 26:851 (1940)
(36)CDC Status of Water Fluoridation In The U.S. http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/oh/flfact.htm Source of Fluoride by state/1992 http://www.trufax.org/fluoride/states.html
(37)Glasser, G. - Fluoride And The Phosphate Connection, Earth Island Journal Special Report "Fluorides And The Environment", (1998)
(38)"Safety's Tarnished Stamp Of Approval" - Globe & Mail, Nov. 18, 1998 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/docs/news/19981118/ColumnOne/UCO LUN.html or http://www.bruha.com/fluoride/html/globe___mail_health_canada.htm
(39)Information on the American Council on Health Fraud (ACHF) http://wyl.ewg.org/FoxProCGI.acgi$run_module?data_code=CLEAR&extr a_code=group_code=ORG176&the_type=GROUP&
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(41)Balick, L.K.; Bounds, J.H.;Bowman, D.R.; Christel, L.M.;Dibenedetto, J.A. - Results Of The Remote Sensing Feasability Study For The Uranium Hexafluoride Storage Cylinder Yard Program, Report:DOE/NV/11718-049, AD A341468 (1997)
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