WATER
by Tim O'shea
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In This Chapter:
Disease
or dehydration?
Acid/alkaline
Tap water
Chlorine
Fluoridation
Filters
Some
years before he was cryogenically preserved, Walt Disney made an
educational animated movie with Bell Science Labs called Hemo the
Magnificent . It wasn't shown at movie theaters; it appeared in
schools. Hemo the Magnificent was the story of human
blood, a science film for kids. It was definitely ahead of its time and
today would probably be considered adult level, things being what they
are, dumbing us down and all.
At the beginning of the film the question is asked - What substance on
earth does human blood most resemble? We are surprised at the answer:
sea water. And then the story is told about how all life evolved
from the ocean, and then they show primitive life forms like one-celled
creatures, up to the jellyfish, who have sort of a primitive in-and-out
flushing as a precursor of a circulatory system, then gradually getting
into more complex forms who began to have a primitive heart and some
blood vessels… And all this evolves to the mammalian circulatory system.
Aeons later, our blood is still over 90% water - though not salt water,
of course. Even though it's the other 10% that makes us human and has
taken ages to evolve, we are still an H2O unit. I think it was Tom
Robbins who said
"Humans were invented by water as a means of transporting itself from
place to place"
OK…...
THE IMPORTANCE OF WATER
Without food, most humans will die in a month, if they have water.
Without water, 10 days is about it. Water makes up 75% of the body, 90%
of the blood, and 85% of the brain.
An odd little book was published in 1994 that made quite a stir: The
Body's Many Cries for Water, by an MD named Batmanghelidj. A claim
is made by this doctor that the cause of most diseases is simply
dehydration. Dr. B provides the reasoning as well as dozens of case
studies to support the cure of a variety of illnesses by simply drinking
between two and three liters of water per day.
Doubting such a theory because of its overwhelming simplicity, the
reader is shown that physiologically, it makes perfect sense. As Dr B
points out, dry mouth is a late sign of thirst. Saliva is produced even
in chronic dehydration, because it is a digestive enzyme. Thirst, or the
need for water on the cellular level is something entirely different.
Chronic dehydration brings its own symptoms, which we have been
conditioned to cover up, either with food or with drugs. Here are a few
examples of dehydration signals:
SYMPTOM ------- USUAL REMEDY
peptic ulcer....... antacids
craving sweets ....... sugar
depression....... antidepressant drugs
allergies....... antihistamines
Dr B reports his successful treatment of 3000 peptic ulcer
patients using water alone. Anecdotal? He explains how ulcer pain is
really a thirst signal. It actually makes sense: if the intestine is too
dehydrated to adequately refresh its mucus lining every time after the
acidic products of digestion have passed by, the lining will become
irritated and painful. The intestine is not protected from digestive
acid like the stomach is. Antacids will only temporarily cover up the
problem. Rehydrating the tract will enable to intestine to form adequate
mucous lining, thus reducing acid irritation. (p31)
Similarly with depression, allergies, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and
addiction to sweets, Dr. Batmanghelidj shows how balancing the
extracellular fluids and lowering the concentration of the blood to a
more normal dilution can bring consistent resolution to these and many
other illnesses.
It's almost too simple. But Dr. B takes the reader through the
physiology of each illness. His premise is hard to deny.
Obviously such an approach is not going to gain the favor of the drug
cartels; here's a guy telling people they don't need heart medication
and diuretics and insulin and Prozac and Viagra and pain drugs any more.
all they really need is two liters of water per day. What if he's right
and people find out about it? The drug business is the foundation our
$1.2 trillion medical budget. See the dangers?
So of course the good doctor ran into some formidable stone walls when
he tried to get attention and funding from the AMA and other mainstream
institutions for researching his theories. He was politely ignored. But
a lot of people are buying the book.
DIURETICS? TRY WATER!
People don't seem to know the word diuretic; but they know what a blood
thinner is.
Batmanghelidj's views on treating high blood pressure with diuretics
can't really be argued. He explains that the whole mainstream theory is
based on a false premise: doctors say Oh, you have high blood pressure?
Too much blood, too much fluid in the body. Take these drugs to make you
get rid of water, thin out the blood a little. That'll take the strain
off your heart so it won't have to work so hard.
Amazingly most people believe this distortion of physiological reality
and take their pills like good little patients. Then they have their
heart attacks on schedule and go in for bypass, like good little
lemmings, keeping heart disease as the #1 killer of Americans for the
past three decades.
Batmanghelidj points out the obvious: diuretics increase dehydration.
They make you lose more water. But the original cause of the high blood
pressure in the first place was loss of fluids. The less fluids, the
more the blood vessels close up. Obviously the blood vessels can't leave
room for gas when blood volume is decreased. So the blood vessels
naturally constrict, or close up, with less blood volume. The
constriction is what causes high blood pressure - it's harder to push
water through a thin garden hose than a thick one.
Also the less fluids, the more concentrated the blood becomes. And this
triggers the blood vessels to close down a little more, in order to
prevent what? Water loss.
By adding more water to the system, the heart won't be so desperate to
hang onto both sodium and water. Increased blood volume, and also making
the blood more dilute, will relax the vessels and open them up wider.
Such a simple method consistently lowers blood pressure, on a long-term
basis.
The amazing thing is not that this is so absurdly simple; it's that the
people we entrust our health to could possibly miss something as
fundamental as hydration. What about the complicated stuff?
Either Dr. Batmanghelidj is right or the HMO doctors selling Lopressor
and Cardizem are right. Can't be both.
EVEN GOOD CHOLESTEROL CAN BE BAD IF THE BODY'S DEHYDRATED
We know that cholesterol has many important jobs. It is necessary for making hormones, insulation for nerves, and the membranes of all our cells. But in a condition of chronic dehydration, water is constantly being pulled out of our cells, for the body's many operations. To protect the cells from losing too much water, cholesterol is poured between the cracks of the cells, as a sort of protective sealant between cell membranes. (Batmanghieldj, p 83) Many people who eat a lot of eggs can still have normal blood cholesterol, as long as they always have plenty of water. The body only feels the need to seal off the cell membranes with cholesterol if there's a reason to conserve water. Thus high cholesterol. In the hydrated body, there's no excess cholesterol production.
THIRST QUENCHERS
When we're thirsty, we don't drink water. We drink coffee and Coke and
diet Dr. Pepper and ice tea and beer and milk and anything else we've
been conditioned to buy. And we tell ourselves we don't need to drink
water because all these beverages have water in them. Right?
Wrong. It's a long story, but the punchline is this: all these drinks
are actually diuretics - they make the cells and the body lose water.
The sugar and caffeine in those drinks pull water out of the cells in
order to maintain the delicate pH and electrolyte balance in the blood.
Result: cell dehydration. Cell dehydration is the #1 cause of aging.
Also a big contributor to degenerative diseases, like arthritis,
hypertension, and diabetes.
One way to tell if you're dehydrated is to check the color of the urine.
If it's dark all the time, you're probably dehydrated. It's a good bet
that one of the above drinks is your beverage of choice.
Only one solution:
TWO LITERS A DAY
It's no picnic. Unless you already have this custom, drinking two liters
of water a day takes effort. That's a least eight large glassesful.
Every day. It takes planning and discipline. But it's cheap and
harmless, and if you have any health problem whatsoever, including
premature crowsfeet, you owe it to yourself to give this self-evident
shotgun approach a try. In the unlikely event that it 'doesn't work'
after two months, something else needs to be tweaked. Probably in the
dairy or sugar category. But read some of the testimonials in Dr B's
book, and you'll likely find people with much more serious problems than
yours who totally recovered. Many were on multiple medications.
I know – you're thinking you'll be spending your life in the bathroom if
you drink 2 liters a day, right? Funny thing is, the bladder is a
muscular organ. Like any other muscle, it weakens with inactivity and
strengthens with use. The more water you drink, the more the strength
and capacity of the bladder will increase. So very soon you won't have
to make extra trips to the bathroom, even though you'll be drinking more
water.
Think of all the people who dehydrate themselves just because they wish
to avoid the bathroom. Where are our priorities? Where is our education?
Water is cell life.
Two liters is the intake necessary to maintain normal good health. If
you want to get into anti-aging applications, intake goes up to THREE
liters. Obviously this is something you'd have to work up to. But for
maximum hydration of skin cells, three is the number.
THE pH OF BLOOD
Everyone has a general idea of pH: acidic means stuff like vinegar, and
Coke, battery acid, and citrus. Basic, or alkaline, means stuff like
soap, and milk, and bran.
Acid/base - that's a scale we call pH. The scale goes from 1 to 14. It's
a log scale: that means that pH 6 is 10x more acid than pH 7. The lower
the number, the more acid; the higher the number, the more basic:
ACIDIC BASIC
1-------2------3-----4-----5-----6-----7------8-----9------10------11------12------1
3-----14
all living substances have a pH, and also an optimum range of pH.
Any standard physiology text, like Guyton's for example, will state that
the range of blood pH is 7.3 - 7.45 for human life. More acidic
than 7.3, we die. More basic than 7.45, we die.
Here's an example to show how inventive the body is at protecting
itself. If you pour a glass of Coke into 10 gallons of water, the pH
will drop from 7.8 to 4.6 immediately. (Whang, p 22) Now, we have way
less than half that much blood: only 5 liters. So what prevents one
glass of Coke from killing us by lowering our blood pH below the 7.3
limit? A little trick the body evolved over millions of years:
buffering. Buffering is how the body changes the acidic foods we eat
in order to keep the blood pH always about the same. Two main kinds of
buffering, and you can look them up the next time you decide to get a
medical degree. (Guyton, p 387)
For now, the point here is that this constant burden we place on the
body to keep buffering all these Cokes, Johnnie Walker Black, burgers,
tacos, and white sugar treats - uses up the body's stores of minerals,
enzymes, and vitamins. Actually, it wastes them, thereby making the
person age faster. Those stores were supposed to be used for normal life
functions, not for ridding the body of manmade indigestible chemicals
mistakenly called food.
Buffering also uses up free oxygen and breaks down cells and tissues by
means of oxidation. And now we're talking about free radicals again. And
aging.
When we drink water, we're taking some of the stress off the body by
helping to make the blood more basic (higher number). The pH of tap
water is about 8.4, and of bottled water about 7.8 or so. The more we
can keep the blood closer to the higher number, the 7.45, the slower we
age. Turns out there is a big difference between blood that is pH 7.3
and blood that is pH 7.45. The higher number blood has 64% more
free oxygen than the lower number (Whang, p 21). That's a lot. Over the
years, such a difference in daily stress definitely adds up.
Reducing the amount of buffering we require the body to do is another
big reason for drinking a ton of water every day.
OK, the importance of water is pretty obvious. The next question is -
does it make any difference what kind of water we drink? Tap water,
spring water, bottled water, filtered water, distilled water, mineral
water, what?
TAP WATER
City water, municipal water, tap water - no argument that one of the
main reasons for the eradication of infectious diseases, as we saw in
the Vaccinations chapter, was a controlled water supply. After all those
centuries, it finally dawned on people that they wouldn't die quite so
fast if the water they drank could be uncontaminated with sewage.
So in the 1800s, the hallmark of the civilized city, both in Europe and
in America, was a municipal water supply and a sewage system. This one
development was the single biggest health advancement in history.
Then politics saw an angle. What if we could convince the people that
industrial wastes needed to be added to the water in order to make it
"safe"? To the tune of billions of dollars per year? The money would
change hands between the local governments and the chemical industry,
not to mention state and federal government who would need to pass laws
to keep the show on the road…
First contestant:
HOW ABOUT CHLORINE?
Chlorine as it exists in nature is an element, a raw mineral that is
actually an essential mineral in human nutrition, as we saw in the
Minerals chapter. We evolved from the salt water of the ocean, which is
natural sodium chloride.
Industrial chlorine, by contrast, is another thing altogether.
Industrial chlorine is not a natural compound. It must be manufactured,
by passing an electric current through regular salt (sodium chloride)
The result is a toxic gas which can then be complexed to form many
industrial products. Examples are medicines, plastics, solvents,
sealants, bleach, computer chips, paints, and disinfectants. (Chlorophiles)
From here on out, 'chlorine' means the industrial type.
Chlorine gas was a weapon used in WWI. This powerful neurotoxin is so
poisonous that it was outlawed by international war codes. Chlorine gas
cannot be screened out by our lungs - it goes in faster than oxygen, and
is immediately absorbed into the bloodstream when it is inhaled. If the
concentration is adequate, death is instantaneous.
Europeans remember all this - that's where WWI happened. Swimming pools
in most of Europe are not chlorinated. When European athletes come to
the U.S. to compete in swimming events, they have forfeited events
rather than swim in a chlorinated pool.
The problem is that chlorine gas is formed where chlorinated water comes
in contact with air. That's why your nose burns when your put your face
close to the surface of a chlorinated pool. Same thing happens with tap
water, although to a lesser degree.
WHY IS CHLORINE IN OUR WATER?
Chlorine has been used in the U.S. as a treatment for water purification
for most of the past century.
When added to our water supply, chlorine complexes with free
contaminants like iron, manganese, and hydrogen sulfide. Any chlorine
left over can kill most bacterials and microorganisms. Chlorine was
definitely responsible for a radical drop in cases of typhoid early in
the century. ( Water Review ) Same with cholera and amoebic
dysentery. (Rathburn)
<ICRYPTOSPORIDIUMand giardia are two biologicals resistant to chlorine
because they form protective cysts. But most other living microbes in
the water supply are killed by adding chlorine.
Now obviously we don't want microbugs in our drinking water, so it seems
chlorine has some benefit. The problem comes in with:
¨ the amounts of chlorine added
¨ carcinogenic chlorine by-products (organochlorines)
Chemicals are measured in water in units called PPM, or parts
per million. The standard amount of chlorine sufficient to kill
biologicals is 0.5 PPM , as agreed by most scientists. This is
the recommended dose for municipal water supplies. The problem arises
when scientists don't have control of the input. Usually it's the local
water guy. And this guy is all over the place as far as consistent
levels are concerned. Some cities have been found to have levels as high
as 50 PPM.
The second problem is by-products . Chlorine has an annoying
habit of reacting with hydrocarbons (organic matter) to form little
devils like trihalomethanes—THMs. Definitely carcinogenic (
Simmon), THM levels have been set by the EPA as not to exceed 80 PPB.
That's billion, son. But that figure is really just a guess. Nobody
really knows for sure how much THM is necessary to be taken in with
daily tap water in order to eventually cause a single cell to mutate.
all we know for sure is that some amount of THM can cause cancer.
Predictably, 99% of websites about chlorine present it as a safe but
necessary evil. They always say that it's an economic necessity and that
the risk of cancer is dwarfed by the importance of disinfecting the
nation's drinking water, etc.
But other people aren't so sure. When you search the word "organochlorines"
a whole different angle emerges.
ORGANOCHLORINES
For the past century, industry has benefited from the weird reaction
between chlorine and organic matter. So far about 11,000 different
organochlorines have been created by the chemical industry. Some of them
have great industrial value because they are so stable. They degrade
very slowly. One obvious example is PVC pipe, which has revolutionized
the plumbing industry in the past 15 years. Plastic pipes - easier to
work with than soldering all that old copper stuff. PVC plastic is the
single biggest application of industrial chlorine products, accounting
for about 50% of the total. (How Chlorine Chemicals Are Made). Really
stable.
But it is precisely the idea of stability that makes chlorine
by-products so dangerous. Want to learn a new word? Here it is:
bioaccumulative. When these plastics do degrade, the products of
that breakdown last even longer - for decades. That means cumulative
buildup in fatty tissues of living things that are exposed to the same
water or air. In the cells, this can mean trouble:
genetic mutation
hormone disruption
birth defects
infertility
low sperm counts
cancer
neurological damage
- Fackelman, p. 142
Bioaccumulative means that these chlorine by-products keep going
through the food chain time after time. The individual living carrier
species die, but the chemicals persist unchanged, decade after decade.
The result is that the levels of PCBs and dioxins found in meat and fish
can today be millions of times greater than the amounts found in
nature. (Chlorine Crisis)
Slow breakdown of PVC plumbing, year after year, is one big stand-alone
reason why it's bad to drink tap water, irrespective of the quality of
the water itself. At least copper was an essential trace mineral
nutrient for humans.
For extra fun, organochlorines mimic estrogen, and are therefore
included in the xenoestrogens we saw in the HRT chapter
(www.thedoctorwithin.com). Refer to it for a discussion of reproductive
and hormonal chaos caused by chemical pollution.
Bleaching paper is another big market for chlorine. America uses a lot
of paper, most of it white. Chlorine is the most popular method of
bleaching. Problem is, 300 different organochlorines are the result.
Guess how much of them gets dumped into lakes, rivers, and oceans of the
world each year. Go ahead, guess. 4 million tons!
(Pulp and Paper)
Not to mislead, you know those 300 organochlorines being released into
the water? Those are only the ones we have identified! There are
literally thousands of others whose actions are totally unknown to us.
Once in the body, organochlorines are protectively encapsulated in fat
cells - the site most conducive to long-term storage and accumulation.
ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES
Chlorine bound to carbon is really a good combination for killing pests.
Consider the tons of chlordane, DDT, dioxin, and atrazine that
have been produced over the past 50 years and dumped into our soil and
water, both intentionally and accidentally. No doubt about it: the stuff
kills bugs.
Two Israeli researchers documented a 50% drop in breast cancer
incidence after a ban on chlorine-based pesticides went into effect.
(Richter) They traced it to feed for cows, which then was carried into
the milk. The authors explained the dramatic effect in cancer incidence
by the idea of an organochlorine as a complete carcinogen.
That means a toxin that is capable of both initiating a tumor and
accelerating an established tumor.
That was in Israel. We never had such a ban.
OTHER ORGANOCHLORINES
Also pesticides, epoxy, neoprene, and many other plastics have a
chlorine base. Same reason: slow breakdown. Turns out that only about 1%
of the chlorine produced is used in drinking water treatment.(Chlorine
Crisis)
Remember the defoliant Agent Orange in Vietnam? Dioxin was the
killer in Agent Orange. (What Is Dioxin?) Dioxin is a chlorine
by-product that is so indestructible and pervasive that it is even found
in the bodies of whales and polar bears at the North Pole.
Always remember that 'economic necessity' often means a situation
favorable to big money. With a production of some 40 million tons
per year, as of 1990 chlorine is big business. Players like Dow, Bayer,
Olin, and Alezo may not be that concerned with the health effects
resulting from mass chlorination. (Chlorine Crisis)
CHLORINE AND HEART DISEASE
In 1990, a medical doctor named J.M. Price came out with a book called
Cholesterol, Coronaries, and Chlorine. The book is hard to find
today, but was promoted and disseminated by Greenpeace. This doctor
paints a noteworthy picture of the physiology and the politics of
chlorine.
Heart disease has been the number one killer of Americans for decades,
and it certainly doesn't look like that's gonna change any time soon.
Many patients have had heart problems during a great portion of their
lives, with medication and years of diminished physical capacity. But it
seems that there are more culprits besides just a high fat diet.
Heart attacks kill hundreds of thousands per year. For about 40%, their
very first symptom is death. Such a weakening of the heart didn't happen
overnight. It may have taken 20 years to evolve. As the arteries that
feed the heart get clogged with cholesterol cement, the same thing is
going on everywhere else in the body, including the brain. If a small
blood vessel in the brain breaks because it is stuffed with deposits,
the person suffers a stroke. Some are mild and hardly noticeable; others
are instantly fatal. The point here is, heart attacks and strokes are
two versions of the same thing: arterial cholesterol buildup.
What's that got to do with chlorine? Hang in there - it's coming. A
hundred years ago the term heart attack didn't even exist. The first
clinical description of a heart attack was not made until 1912. (Joseph,
p37) In the 1930s and 1940s, the incidence of heart disease increased
dramatically, until by the 1980s, it was the #1 killer of Americans. Dr.
Joseph makes the point that there is no evidence of atherosclerosis
(clogged arteries) prior to the 20th century, even though many cultures
favored high fat diets.
Not until chlorination of municipal drinking water became common did
heart disease begin to skyrocket. (p51). Actually there is a lag of
10-20 years for the progression of clogging arteries that coincides well
enough with increasing chlorination across the U.S. during that same
time period.
In both the Korean and the Vietnam Wars, many 20 year-olds undergoing
surgery on the battlefields were found to have advanced atherosclerosis
(cholesterol-clogged arteries) near the heart. (Joseph, p54) The cause
was unmistakable: the drinking water we transshipped contained 10
times the amount of chlorine that is determined a safe level by the
FDA. The reasoning behind it was characteristically military: our boys
needed protection from all those foreign germs, Vern. They deserve 10x
the protection.
The mechanism for artery breakdown from chlorine is no theory. It has
been very solidly established that chlorine nicks the inner lining in
the arteries and thereby provides a place for excess cholesterol matrix
to begin its process of stuccoing up the arteries.
Joseph ends up by positing that progressive clogging of the arteries
cannot exist unless chlorine is consumed in some excess. He describes in
detail his controlled experiment inducing atherosclerosis in birds, with
the only variable being the presence of chlorinated drinking water -
plain tap water. (p.65) The aortas of 95% of the chlorine group were all
plaqued up with cholesterol in just a few weeks! The birds were
withering and sickly.
The popular press goes round and round about cholesterol. One week it's
high fat is not so bad, the next week eggs are definitely out, the next
week butter's in….Why is everybody guessing about the #1 cause of death
in the U.S.?
CHLORINE AND DIGESTION
One thing's for sure—chlorine kills bacteria. Only problem with that is
the three pounds of friendly bacteria that are supposed to be populating
our colon. Their job: the final stages of digestion, as well as vitamin
synthesis. Chlorine is in the same category with antibiotics - knocks
out all bacteria, the good and the bad. The same killing power that
makes chlorine a good disinfectant for drinking water also makes it a
harmful additive. We need our good bacteria, called probiotics.
Many researchers refer to them as our Second Immune System. Although we
can live without probiotics, the digestive system is forced to operate
in a diminished fashion. Over time, our health suffers as a result of
chlorine's attack on probiotics.
Today about three-fourths of American cities chlorinate the drinking
water. That's big money. Very hard to rock that boat. Some cities, such
as parts of Los Angeles, have found that ozone purification is cheaper
and non-toxic. Other cities are experimenting with a combination of
titanium cylinders and UV light. (Popular Science) But decades of
payouts, and legislated chlorination - that's an entrenched set-up.
Greenpeace and the chlorine activists certainly are not widely read.
Even the introductory information in this chapter is not commonly
apprehended, though it can be discovered with a little research.
FLUORIDE
At least chlorine will evaporate from a glass of water if you let it sit
for an hour or so. No such luck with fluoride. Even cooking, food
processing, filtration, or digestion doesn't remove fluoride. Goes right
up the food chain. Accumulates in fat cells.
Fluoride is added to the water supply of most American cities for
the ostensible purpose of dental hygiene. The reader will be amazed to
find out that such a thing is not only unlikely, but actually the
reverse of the ongoing reality.
The U.S. has been fluoridating drinking water for so many decades that
we hardly think about it. Very few articles appear about fluoridation in
newspapers and magazines any more.
This is no accident.
What would you do if you suddenly found out that fluoride was not safe
at all, but was actually a carcinogenic industrial waste? What
would you think if you suddenly found out that fluoride doesn't stop
tooth decay at all, but actually causes teeth to rot and crumble, and by
the same mechanism also causes osteoporosis? And after you found out all
this, would it surprise you that all federal health agencies have known
these facts for years, but have been controlled by the political
interests of the nuclear arms, aluminum, and phosphate manufacturers to
keep it a secret? Why would they do that? So that, in the total absence
of scientific proofs, a toxic industrial waste could be passed off on
the public as a nutrient with necessary health benefits, to the tune of
$10 billion per year. Or more.
Is a deception of this magnitude possible for the sophisticated,
discerning American public? Perhaps Lance Ito could answer a question
like that.
Let's start at the beginning.
WHAT IS FLUORIDE?
Fluorine is an element. It is a gas, never occurring in its free state.
In microscopic amounts complexed with other minerals, it is often listed
as a trace mineral, a nutrient for human nutrition. Other sources
disagree, holding that "no experimental work or clinical observations
have proved that fluorine is in any manner essential for animals or
man."
(Alesen, p.5)
This has nothing to do with fluoride or fluoridation. The
fluoride added to drinking water is a compound of fluorine that is a
chemical byproduct of aluminum, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear
weapons manufacturing. Such fluoride is manmade. In this form, fluoride
has no nutrient value whatsoever. It is one of the most caustic of
industrial chemicals. Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and
cockroach powder. (Dustrude)
"Hydrofluoric acid is used to refine high octane gasoline, to make
fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons for freezers and air conditioners,
and to manufacture computer screens, fluorescent light bulbs,
semiconductors, plastics, herbicides, -- and toothpaste. It also has the
ability to burn flesh to the bone, destroy eyes, and sear lungs so that
victims drown in their own body fluid."
- Foulkes
Once in the body, fluoride is a destroyer of human enzymes. It does this
by changing their shapes. You'll remember from the Enzymes chapter (w
ww.thedoctorwithin.com) that in human biochemistry, thousands of enzymes
are necessary for various essential cell reactions that take place every
second we're alive. (Howell) Without enzymes, we'd die instantaneously.
CUTS AWAY THE VELCRO STRIPS
Enzymes trigger specific reactions in the body. One way they do this is
by having the exact shape necessary, like a key in a lock. Fluoride
changes the shape of the enzymes so that they no longer fit. Since
enzymes are proteins, once they've been changed, they're now
foreign-looking. The body now treats them as invaders, even though
they're part of that body. This is known as an autoimmune
situation - the body attacks itself.
Another way to look at it: enzymes are long-chain proteins held in
certain shapes. Hydrogen bonds are the velcro strips that hold
the enzyme in a certain shape. Fluoride comes along and hydrolyzes the
enzyme: cuts the velcro strips away. The shape collapses. No more
enzyme; now just a foreign protein.
STARTING POINT
The most thorough explanation of the origin, action, diseases, and
politics of fluoride was presented in a book called Fluoride the
Aging Factor by John Yiamouyiannis, PhD. This book is the result of
25 years of research and working behind the scenes of the fluoride
phenomenon. Big money generally means big monkey business, you may have
noticed by now, and fluoride is right up there. Dr. Yiamouyiannis was
the science director of the National health Federation. He then went on
to head the Safe Water Foundation. Dr Y can tell you all about monkey
business. No one can comment intelligently about fluoride in the U.S.
without dealing with the issues raised in his pivotal book.
It is simply a review of the literature on fluoride up to 1994. This
chapter quotes freely from Dr Y's book.
Dr. Y starts by citing hundreds of international studies of fluoridation
that have been conducted all over the world since the 1930s. After
awhile, there seem to be just two types:
· the studies that were really looking to find out about fluoride
· the studies that were trying to cover up what had already been
discovered
A few examples of the former:
Taylor Study, University of Austin: fluoride concentration of
1PPM (parts per million ) increases tumor
growth rate by 25%
Fluoride is more poisonous than lead, and just less poisonous than
arsenic
- Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products -- 1984
"A seven ounce tube of toothpaste, theoretically at least, contains
enough fluoride to kill a small child."
- Procter&Gamble, quoted in Fluoride the Aging Factor p14
Fluoride supplements should not be given to children under three
years old
- 1992 Canadian Dental Association Proposed Fluoride Guidelines, Dr.
Limeback
FLUORIDE AND AGING
Austrian researchers proved in the 1970s that as little as 1 ppm
fluoride concentration can disrupt DNA repair enzymes by 50%. When DNA
can't repair damaged cells, we get old fast. (Klein)
Fluoride prematurely ages the body, mainly by distortion of enzyme
shape. Again, when enzymes get twisted out of shape, they can't do their
jobs. This results in collagen breakdown, eczema, tissue damage, skin
wrinkling, genetic damage, and immune suppression. Practically any
disease you can name may then be caused. (Yiamouyiannis, Ch.3)
all systems of the body are dependent upon enzymes. When fluoride
changes the enzymes, this can damage:
the immune system
the digestive system
the respiratory system
blood circulation
kidney function
liver function
brain function
thyroid function
Things wear out too fast - the young body becomes old.
The distorted enzymes are proteins, but now they have become foreign
protein, which we know is the exact cause of autoimmune diseases,
such as lupus, arthritis, asthma, and arteriosclerosis.
Collagen is the body's glue. That's not just a metaphor; when collagen
breaks down, tissues simply lose their substance, their framework. As we
saw in the Collagen chapter, this is exactly how we get an enlarged
heart, osteoporosis, atrophy and drooping of muscles, joint destruction,
kidney and liver disease, falling organs, and bad teeth. Fluoride
dissolves the body's glue simply by preventing new collagen from being
formed. (Ishida)
Dr Y gives a masterful explanation of fluoride's disruption of collagen.
Not only is the collagen incorrectly formed, it is wrongly mineralized.
Some collagen, like bones and teeth, should be mineralized in order to
give it hardness. Other collagen structures, like ligaments, tendons
and, and muscles, should not be mineralized, in order to keep them
flexible and resilient. Fluoride confuses the two types. Fluoride
mineralizes the tendons, and muscles and ligaments, making them crackly
and painful and inflexible. At the same time fluoride interferes with
mineralization of bones and teeth, causing osteoporosis and mottling or
dental fluorosis.
FLUORIDE RUINS TEETH
Wait a second here! I thought that was the whole reason why we
fluoridated water in the first place - to prevent cavities and build
strong teeth, right?
Wrong again. And this is where politics and dog-wagging have eclipsed
science. Dr Y gives an exhaustive review of the scientific literature of
the past 40 years proving beyond a reasonable doubt that fluoride
interferes with tooth formation, causing permanent discoloration and
actual crumbling. The reader is referred to Chapter 5 of Fluoride The
Aging Factor. A few excerpts:
Tooth enamel is laid down by special cells called ameloblasts.
Dutch researchers found that fluoride at as little as 1 PPM
caused these ameloblasts to malfunction so that they laid down irregular
chalky enamel. (Bronkers)
The process whereby teeth are discolored and crumble from fluoridation
is know as dental fluorosis .
The U.S. Public health service has known since the research of its own
Dr. HT Dean in 1937 that as fluoride levels rose, so did the percentage
of children with dental fluorosis, in a study of 15 major
American cities. (Dean)
The same findings were evident in a University of Texas study comparing
dental fluorosis in children who lived in fluoridated and unfluoridated
areas of Texas. Dr. Segretto found a 35% higher incidence of
fluorosis in children who drank water with fluorine concentration of
1-1.4 PPM, compared with those whose water was in the .3 PPM range. This
little study was written up in the Journal of the American Dental
Association. (Segretto)
Yiamouyiannis goes on and on, citing one peer-reviewed study after
another, all coming to the same inescapable conclusion: the more
fluoride in the water, the more tooth malformation and discoloration.
It's beyond controversy, when you view these studies from all over the
world - New Zealand, India, Denmark, England, Ireland, Italy, Illinois -
same finding. Even with this consistent finding across the board, the
standard level of fluoridation recommended for dental health in the U.S.
is 1 part per million. How is this possible?
A major gain for antifluoridation happened in the past few years, which
most people haven't even noticed. The FDA required all toothpaste
manufacturers to print a warning on the label that if more than a
pea-sized amount of toothpaste is swallowed, the local Poison Control
Center should be notified. Check it out! Did we see that on CNN?
The American Dental Association and other defenders of fluoride have
testified and continue to insist that dental fluorosis is a "cosmetic
condition" and is not a health issue! You hear it all the time from
fluoridiots. Permanent malformation of the teeth is a little more
serious than cosmetic - but even if it weren't, how can a additive whose
only alleged purpose is to benefit teeth destroy teeth?? In their
current website, the ADA actually challenges this FDA warning on
toothpaste labels, saying that it is unnecessarily strict.
In the words of Canadian fluoridation expert, leading consultant to the
Canadian Dental Association, Dr. Hardy Limeback, a University of Toronto
biochemist and dentist:
"Since when is a cosmetic problem not a problem when the patient must
seek dental treatment to fix it?"
- Toronto Star 25 Apr. 99
Paul Connett, PhD explains that spots on the teeth and dental fluorosis
are just an indication of damage to other parts of the body:
"The teeth are windows to what's happening in the bones."
- Griffiths, p 39
And that brings us to
FLUORIDE AND OSTEOPOROSIS
Bone is collagen. We already saw how fluoride disrupts the formation of
enzymes necessary for collagen production. So it's no wonder then that
the thin brittle bones characteristic of osteoporosis are the result of
fluoridation. This is no false claim. Dr Y cites the 1990 study of
541,000 cases of osteoporosis that found a definite connection
between hip fractures in women over 65 and fluoride levels. The study
was written up in JAMA. (Jacobsen) Several other major studies
are cited, massive amounts of research, again all reaching the same
conclusion - the undeniable correlation of fluoridation with
osteoporosis and hip fracture in the elderly.
Bone is living tissue. It is constantly being replaced with new cells,
and having old cells removed. Bone building is a finely balanced,
complicated process. Fluoride has been known to disrupt this process
since the 1930s. Dr. Alesen, who was the president of the California
Medical Association, clearly explains what fluoride does to bone
formation. He cites dozens of international scientific studies proving
beyond a shadow of a doubt that fluoride has caused thousands of cases
of osteoporosis, skeletal thinning, fractures, "rubber bones," anemia,
and rickets. (Robotry and Water)
Fluoride also causes osteoporosis by creating a calcium deficiency
situation. Fluoride precipitates calcium out of solution, causing low
blood calcium, as well as the buildup of calcium stones and crystals in
the joints and organs. (Waldbott)
Dozens of other studies, like the Riggs study in the 1990 New England
Journal of Medicine, showed that fluoride treatment of osteoporosis
in the elderly actually increases skeletal fragility, i.e., more
fractures. (Riggs) It's the same mechanism at work: incorrect
mineralization, as we saw above. Thin old bones lose calcium; young
bones age too rapidly by over-mineralization. (Aksyuk)
Using fluoride as a treatment for diseases like osteoporosis has always
been a particularly dumb idea, because of side effects known beforehand:
general arthritis
stomach pain
nausea
vomiting
bone spurs
bone inflammation
kidney fibrosis
dental fluorosis
Other mineral contaminants like lead and strontium-90 are damaging to
human bone just by means of their occupying space where they don't
belong. They are inert. The difference with fluoride is that it is
biochemically active. With all the diseases caused by fluoride,
the common thread is
"…virtually all these ill effects can be traced to the effect of
fluoride on enzymes or proteins, as well as a possible direct effect on
the DNA molecule itself."
Fluoride the Aging Factor, p57, 99
Above we saw how fluoride changes the all-important shape of
enzymes, thereby rendering them not only useless, but actually foreign
antigens.
CANCER AND FLUORIDE
By now we all know how cancer begins with one cell whose inner blueprint
- its DNA - has been screwed with. Remember those velcro hydrogen bonds?
Guess what other shape they hold together. The double helix - DNA. This
turns out to be the exact mechanism of fluoride as a carcinogen.
Austrian and Japanese researchers both found that a concentration of 1
PPM fluoride causes disruption of the body's ability to repair its own
DNA. Without this most basic cell function, cancer is promoted, and
tumor growth is accelerated. (Klein) (Tsutsui)
That's standard fluoride level in U.S. city water: one part per million.
On p. 65 of his book, Dr. Yiamouyiannis provides an amazing chart of
some 19 major scientific studies conducted in universities all over the
world, together proving beyond a doubt that fluoride causes genetic
damage. End of story. Except that on p 68, there is another list of
world studies proving the same thing with plants and insects - genetic
alteration from fluoride.
Chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Dean Burk when
confronted with mountains of data, stated before Congress:
"In point of fact, fluoride causes more human cancer death, and
causes it faster than any other chemical."
- Congressional Record 21 July 1976
Can that be misconstrued?
Burk and Yiamouyiannis completed a monumental research project in 1977
in which they compared cancer death rates in 10 fluoridated and 10
non-fluoridated U.S. cities between 1940 and 1970. The results are on
p75 of Fluoride the Aging Factor. The unmistakable fact is that
the graph shows that for the first ten years (1940-1950), when none of
the 20 cities fluoridated, the average cancer deaths were virtually
identical. But after 1950, there is a major increase in cancer deaths in
every single one of the fluoridated cities, while the
nonfluoridated cities remain clustered together at a much lower level of
death. [SCATTER CHART]
They actually put a number on it:
"…30,000 to 50,000 deaths each year from various causes may now
be attributable to fluoridation. This total includes 10,000 to 20,000
deaths attributable to fluoride-induced cancer every year."
- Yiamouyiannis. p 90
These findings were first confirmed, then denied by the National Cancer
Institute (what a surprise). Finally the research was upheld as valid in
two separate state courts, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Ask yourself, why
are findings of a scientific study being disputed in court? The usual
pattern whenever valid research threatens big money.
Another study by the New Jersey health Dept., cited by Dr. Y, found a
50% increase in bone cancer among young men in fluoridated areas.
(Cohn)
Dr. William Hirzy, an officer in the EPA explains:
"Fluoride is a broad-spectrum mutagen. It can cause genetic damage in
both plant and animal cells."
Once again, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Hundreds of scientific
studies conducted and reported in the most credible universities and
agencies throughout the world for the past 25 years have found an
unmistakable correlation between fluoridation and cancer deaths. Even
the professional opinion makers can't just make all this data vanish.
all they can do is what they're trained to do: change the subject.
And keep repeating how safe and effective fluoride is.
BRAIN DAMAGE = LOW IQ
Penetrating observation. The earliest reference to brain disruption from fluoride exposure is found in a recently declassified secret Manhattan Project memo (1944):
"Clinical evidence suggests that C616 [uranium hydrofluoride] may have a
rather marked central nervous system effect with mental confusion,
drowsiness and lassitude…"
- Ferry, 29 Apr 44
Dozens of scientific studies from all over the world have come to the
same conclusion. Just a few examples:
Popov, L et al--"Nervous System Damage in Occupational Fluorosis" --Chemical
Abstracts vol.14, 7 Oct 74
Guan, Z et al. "Influence of Chronic Fluorosis on Membrane Lipids in Rat
Brain"
Neurotoxicology and Teratology , vol. 20 no.5 pp.537
How can all these studies be dismissed and ignored? Many of them are from the most prestigious of scientific journals. And the message has been consistent for the past 40 years - fluoride is a poison.. What kind of power can contradict such a cogent, overwhelming body of work? Only one thing –very good --$$$$$$$$! Got it on your first guess!
SO THEN WHY ARE WE FLUORIDATING, FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS?
Unrestricted research into almost any area involving health care is
really a tiresome business - it's the same boring story over and over: A
Toxin in Search of A Market. First a chemical is created, then an angle
is figured out on how to mass market it. Then a disinformation program
is put into place to create a permanent smokescreen for the actual
scientific data. As we saw with ADD, antibiotics, the history of
pharmaceuticals, HRT, heart drugs, chlorination, and now fluoridation -
the pattern is consistent. With billions of dollars in play, the
chemical industry can afford to choreograph its two most willing
marionettes: the media and the medical profession. I didn't make this
up; I wish it were otherwise. It's embarrassing to be a human when you
find out what's been going on.
But we digress. Fluoridation. A certified poison, by all the government
agencies and scientific agencies cited above. Where does the money come
in? Toxic disposal. The rise of the EPA since the 1970s. The increase in
environmental consciousness as a political tool for creating the
illusion of safety in recent decades.
Here's the short version: fluoride is a toxic byproduct in the
manufacture of nuclear arms, aluminum, cement, steel, and phosphates.
Millions of tons of this poison are produced every year. Imagine the
cost of containing and disposing of those mountains of waste every year.
It's in the billions. But what if lobbyists from these industries could
present "scientific studies" paid for by the industries, and provide for
a continual stream of media presentations about the health benefits of
fluoride, and create unimaginably lucrative positions for "research" and
"education" within the American Dental Association and the AMA, and do
all these things in a consistent and unending way, year after year? What
are the economic advantages of that? Simple: instead of paying
money to dispose of toxic waste, money could now be made by
selling fluoride to the water companies of the nation. They'll use
the public water supply as a sewer for industrial wastes. And now
with these new billions added instead of subtracted, there's plenty to
go around, for everyone involved. Out of the Red, into the Black.
Somewhere Machiavelli smiles.
DARK ALLIANCE
Up until 1931, the American Dental Association and the US Public health
Service recognized that fluoride caused dental problems, and that every
effort should be made to remove such contamination from drinking water.
( Fluoride the Aging Factor , p 140)
By 1980, the ADA's tune had changed a little:
"…there is no evidence implicating naturally occurring fluorides as a
health hazard even at eight parts per
million."
- ADA News 24 Mar 1980
Following this? In the face of all the decades of our best research,
this arrogant and groundless pronouncement, by the profession to whom we
have entrusted our teeth, is saying that our water could have 8 times as
much fluoride as it has now, and still be perfectly safe! That is power,
Sonny Jim.
The Players: ALCOA Aluminum, mega-giant producer of aluminum, was
founded by Andrew Mellon, who was also appointed Secretary of Treasury,
since he seemed to know something about money. ALCOA funded a top
research facility known as the Mellon Institute. In 1931, a
Mellon Institute report by Gerald Cox suggested that 1 PPM fluoride
added to drinking water would be good for the teeth. That was it. No
studies, no comparisons, no data. all previous research studies had
shown that fluoride was toxic.
Stay with me now. The US Public health Service (USPHS) at that
time was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Treasury - Andrew
Mellon, who also owned ALCOA. The USPHS sponsored some research
put out by their own Dr. HT Dean, manipulating data so that it "proved"
that this same figure of 1 PPM resulted in reduction of tooth decay. So
now there were two studies, one by Cox and one by Dean, both funded by
agencies controlled by ALCOA, both supporting this arbitrary figure of 1
PPM fluoride that should be added to the water to lower tooth decay.
Next problem: sell it to the American Medical Association and the
American Dental Association. This took years. Even in 1943, an
article in JAMA described fluoride as a poison which damaged enzyme
systems even at a concentration of 1 PPM. The article showed concern
about 25,000 tons of fluorine released into the atmosphere every year
from the phosphate fertilizer industry. (JAMA, Sept 18, 1943).
The following year Journal of the American Dental Association
ran another article warning that fluoridated water caused osteoporosis,
goiter, and spinal disease. They stated that "the potentialities for
harm far outweigh those for good." (JADA, 1 Oct 1944)
So how did fluoridation get started then, with all this information -
thousands of negative scientific papers and only two favorable studies?
ALCOA money, that's how. In 1944, ALCOA hired an attorney named Oscar
Ewing at a salary of $750,000 per year. That same year Ewing was
appointed to the Federal Security Adminisrration. The USPHS was a
division of the Federal Security Association. So now ALCOA's boy was in
a position to control the policies of the Public health Service.
Ewing chose his PR man for fluoridation: Edward Bernays, the nephew of
Sigmund Freud.
FREUD, FRAUD, AND FLUORIDE
Edward L. Bernays, described by the Washington Post as the 'original spin doctor", was responsible for evolving the pro-fluoridation propaganda and disinformation machine. How anxious he was to put his uncle's ideas and methods of persuasion into action. ( Dr. Y, p143)
"…those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an
invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country…our
minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men
we have never heard of…"
- Bernays, (Propaganda)
Using classical Freudian principles, Bernays maintained that a
well-oiled propaganda machine could make the public believe practically
anything, even the exact opposite of what had been already proven by all
existing scientific research. And this is exactly what Ewing needed in
the case of fluoridation.
With help from "experts" of the Manhattan Project, like Harold Hodge,
New York State politicians quickly learned which side their bread was
buttered on. In May of 1945, the city of Newburgh, NY was the first to
"try" fluoridation. The residents were supposed to be monitored by the
state health Department for ten years. That became the pattern -
fluoride is the first drug in history to be tested on the general
population with no previous research. (Griffiths) Except of course for
vaccines. ( The Sanctity of Human Blood)
One of the next cities to fall was Grand Rapids, Michigan. In July 1945,
in the face of persistent warnings from the AMA, Grand Rapids succumbed
to Bernays' propaganda machine and began a ten year "test period" of
fluoridation in which tooth decay rates would be monitored. No one asked
the question why the testing was being done on humans in an entire city.
The project was run by HT Dean, using the statistics of Cox's original
1931 paper that arbitrarily claimed that 1 PPM fluoride was a safe level
to prevent tooth decay, with no research to back it up. Dr. Dean almost
single- handedly developed the hypothesis that fluoride could prevent
cavities. He is "the father of fluoridation." Dean did no research on
his own, and in later years, twice admitted in court that Cox's original
statistics were incorrect! (Foulkes, 1992) But the entire system of
fluoridation of US city water is based on the admittedly unscientific
"findings" of Dean and Cox.
Bernays' propaganda machine now went into full swing - ads with smiling
children with beautiful teeth flooded the country's media. all
anti-fluoride studies and articles were systematically suppressed
because they weren't sanctioned by the big lobbyists for the aluminum
and fertilizer industries. Tons of new literature written not by doctors
and scientists but by PR people and psychologists portrayed those
opposing the sacred fluoridation as right- wing wackos. Just like in
Orwell's book 1984, they tried to re-write history, to go back
and change the findings of valid research, not by doing new research,
but simply by new PR. (Miller)
"I sometimes wonder if the Aluminum Co. of America…might not have a deep
interest in getting rid of its waste products from the manufacture of
aluminum because these products contain a large amount of fluoride. …it
is interesting to note that Oscar Ewing who now heads up the FSA, the
parent organization of the US Public health Service, and the firm of
attorneys he deals with…represents the Aluminum Co. of America."
- Congressman A.L. Miller
FLUORIDE AND THE ATOMIC BOMB
It gets darker. You may want to go for popcorn here. Dovetailing
contemporaneously into all the above activity is some mind-blowing
information that was recently uncovered by two reporters commissioned to
write an article for the Christian Science Monitor. Working from secret
government documents that have just become declassified in the last
three years or so, Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson have illuminated a
very scary liaison: fluoride and the Manhattan Project.
As we all remember, the Manhattan Project was the WWII secret program
which brought the atomic bomb into existence. Turns out fluoride was
a key component in the production of this bomb, in two main
applications: in the uranium complex itself, and also as a toxic waste
material. (Fluoride & Brain Damage)
There was an accident in 1943 that had to be covered up, big time.
DuPont was the chemical company charged with producing millions of
gallons of fluoride for the Manhattan Project. A DuPont facility in
Deepwater, New Jersey dumped so much fluoride into the air and water
that things they couldn't hide started happening in the towns downwind:
1. poultry died
2. horses got sick and couldn't work
3. cows became so crippled they could only crawl on their bellies to
graze
4. the peach crop was destroyed
5. fluoride content of local vegetables was off the charts
6. abnormally high level of fluoride in the blood of the local people
7. even the workers at DuPont began to get sick
Now all this may not seem like a big deal compared with the development
of the most top secret weapon in history, but the farmers in those towns
didn't know nothing about no atomic bomb. Hiroshima hadn't happened yet.
all these farmers knew was that the chemical company was poisoning the
air and the water.
The chief toxicologist for the Manhattan Project was a guy named Harold
Hodge. Hodge was the first to notice the horrific effects of fluoride
pollution on the local environment, and alerted his superiors in several
memos, which have now been declassified. In true military fashion,
Hodges' superiors took the warnings seriously and thought them worthy of
investigation, not because of the dangers to human and animal
life, but because of the legal liability to DuPont and the
government if the farmers were successful in a lawsuit. So the head of
the Manhattan Project, Gen. Groves, directed Harold Hodge to research
the toxicity of fluoride spills for one reason: their own legal defense
against the farmers. (Griffiths)
Why was this never a movie?
Hodge was granted funding to study the nerve effects of fluoride way
back in 1944. (Ferry) It is likely that the research was carried out,
but it is missing from the declassified papers. What a surprise. Not
until 1991 was the there any published research on the neurological
effects of fluoride, when it was discovered that fluoride was a powerful
neuro-toxin that could affect human brain development and functioning,
even at low levels. (Mullenix) Even though Hodge collaborated on
Mullenix's research some 50 years after the Manhattan Project, and it is
almost certain that Hodge was the one who conducted the missing research
in 1944, Hodge maintained a strict silence on the subject.
These guys knew how to keep a secret.
Here's just one example of the difference between old published versions
of fluoride research documents and secret versions of those same
documents that have recently been declassified:
old version, published in Journal of the American Dental Association,
Aug 1948:
-- the men who used experimental fluoride had fewer cavities
secret version, recently de-classified:
--most of the men had no teeth left
- Griffiths & Bryson, p 41
Remember, this was the beginning of the Atomic Age. Hiroshima and
Nagasaki were just the opening act. The game was not world destruction,
but rather atomic bomb production. By 1946 the government and
industry were out to arm the world with atomic, and eventually nuclear,
weaponry. The billions of dollars all that represented, not to mention
the balance of world power (America first) - all this was not going to
be derailed just because a few horses died and the peaches didn't come
in one year.
LAWDOGS GET A BONE
So here's what they did. You've probably guessed it. Whom do you call when you want to turn water into wine, night into day, black into white? That's right. Lawyers. But not the local variety. These guys were from Washington. They knew that if the farmers won the lawsuits, it would open the door to a whole storm of lawsuits, and that could seriously interfere with bomb production. Fluoride was essential. Bomb production was essential. So they did the only thing a red-blooded American could do. They lied their heads off. They proved that fluoride
was not the cause of all this destruction
was totally safe, indeed so safe that -
it should be added to the drinking water as a nutrient
This took some doing. Not only did they have the local farmers to
bamboozle; the FDA started sniffing around. After some masterful
negotiating by Dupont's FDA lawyers, everyone came to realize that the
tremendous liability to which DuPont and the government were both open
could be swept away, delayed, and sidetracked by agreeing that the
fluoride problem needed "research." And who was charged with doing that
research? The US Army! That should be an unbiased scientific outcome,
right?
Ultimately DuPont got away with it. They avoided copping to any serious
liability by claiming that to admit how much fluoride had been released
into the New Jersey environment was a matter of national security!
Without that information, the farmers' case fell apart, and most of them
settled for token sums of a few hundred dollars.
One way the bomb-makers diverted attention from the lawsuits was to take
the hint from Harold Hodge's memo:
"Would there be any use in making attempts to counteract the local fear
of fluoride on the part of the residents…through lectures on F
[fluoride] toxicology and perhaps the usefulness of F in tooth health?"
- Hodge
And this is where the bomb-makers found willing allies in industry and
medicine who saw an angle in using public drinking water as a dumping
ground for industrial and military toxic waste.
For the whole detonating story, check out Griffith and Bryson's
well-researched "Fluoride, Teeth, and the A-Bomb."
FLUORIDIOTS GAIN POLITICAL MOMENTUM
Fluoridation gathered momentum, supported by the billions that could be
made from selling a toxic waste to city water providers and the untold
billions behind the arms manufacturers outfitting the world with nuclear
weapons. Gradually, the AMA and the ADA, began to soften their views
toward fluoridation, until they had made a complete 180-degree shift in
their opinion, as cited above.
In 1951 a huge pep rally was held for all the state dental directors.
The focus was not to present research pro and con on fluoridation, but
rather, how to get the public to accept the policy from above, the new
religion of fluoridation.
(4th Annual Conference, 1951)
By 1952, the American Dental Association had turned completely,
publishing the articles of radical fluoridiot Frank Bull in the JADA.
Bull's whole focus was disinformation; avoiding confrontation with
actual studies. As the B in BS, Bull put the propaganda theories of
Bernays into actual practice.
Next, Procter and Gamble scored big when they got the ADA to endorse
fluoride in toothpaste. Any dentists who spoke out against this ADA
decision were censured, lost grant funding, or were thrown out of the
ADA. (Fluoride the Aging Factor, p147)
By 1960 the alliance was formed: ALCOA, the US Public health Service,
the Federal Security Administration, the American Dental Association,
and Procter&Gamble. It was like all the decades of research showing
fluoride as a poison had never existed. Anyone bringing it up was
subject to attack and persecution on any level possible.
DOESN'T THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION KNOW THE TRUTH?
You bet it does. Many articles in their main journals, JADA and
the Journal of Dental Research , have proven for years that
fluoride causes dental fluorosis. (JADA, vol 96 p78 (1978);
vol.80, p777(1970) and JDR, vol.17, p.393 (1938); vol 67 p318 ( 1988);
vol 96 p1158, (1978), to cite just a few from Fluoride The Aging
Factor.
But despite all the pertinent studies and years of research, the
American Dental Association is formally in favor of fluoridation! This
position has never changed since its 1979 White Paper on Fluoridation.
Politics eclipses science, as we see in excerpts like this:
"…opponents of fluoridation are uninformed or misinformed" or
"self-styled experts whose qualifications for speaking out on such a
scientific issue as fluoridation were practically non-existent or whose
motivations are self-serving.."
or the amazing "… individual dentists must be convinced that they need
not be familiar with scientific reports on fluoridation…"
or the ever-present non-sequitur "…what kind of mentality would reject
the opinion of those who are qualified by education, training,
experience…." and blah, blah, woof woof..
or the old stand-by "…numerous studies have shown…" although none are
ever named.
or the Orwellian "…the advice of behavioral scientists should be sought
with regard to realistic, convincing rebuttals…"
Rebuttals? This isn't a high school debate. What about presenting
research?
Always remember - the ADA is a trade union, a lobby whose main purpose
is furthering the economic advancement of the dental profession. It
doesn't represent dental health. And in many cases the ADA doesn't
represent the dentists themselves. This is especially true in the class
action suit filed by some 40 dentists against the ADA in a DC Superior
Court. The charges? Ethical breach of the public trust for recommending
fluoridation while failing to inform its members and the public of the
widespread available literature proving toxicity. (Foulkes)
The American Dental Association has a website which is a masterpiece of
disinformation: www.ada.org. At the beginning of the Fluoridation
Questions section, we find the standard fluoridiot disinformation
posture in which natural fluoride compounds that exist in many places in
nature are presented as the same fluoride which is added to municipal
water. This is unmitigated, deliberate, fraudulent misrepresentation.
The fluoride added to water is a toxic industrial byproduct in a form
nature could never have come up with. Once you realize this simple fact,
you will be able to see the rest of the Website Whitewash in its proper
light. While you are reading the sections of this website, just remember
that the ADA is a trade lobby, whose mission is to assure people of the
safety and efficacy of a drug that is not safe and not effective, so
that the interests of its fellow trade lobbies from the chemical
industry are best served. The ADA is a mouthpiece for a huge
constituency. Their website is the modern manifestation of Edward L.
Bernays program of disinformation and crowd control, carrying the dogma
of Cox, Dean, and Bull into the 21st century
Dr Y gives a good summary of the liaison between the US Public health
Service and the American Dental Association, and their control by
salaried employees of the aluminum and phosphate industries, in his
Chapter 17. It's the predictable unholy alliance between big money,
lobbyists, and government agencies who determine policies. Just a quick
glance:
THE EPA AND THE ADA SELL OUT
In 1974, Congress passed the Safe Drinking Water Act. Political
forces cited in the above paragraph caused safe fluoride levels to be
set by the EPA at 1.4 to 2.4 PPM! This is after decades of research
showing all the above diseases could be caused by less than 1 PPM.
The American Dental Association's reaction to these new levels? With no
new research whatsoever, the ADA began pressuring the EPA to raise the
maximum level to 8 PPM! Their reasoning? For the past 20 years
the ADA had been using 1 PPM as the recommended level. Now they didn't
like the idea of the EPA doubling the ADA's old recommendation without
consulting them. The ADA wanted to be in control, no matter what the
effect on the public health.
The ADA was immediately backed by the entire Fluoridiot Underworld,
because higher levels meant the polluting industries could sell even
more toxic fluoride wastes to municipal water suppliers.
Note that the entire controversy for setting the levels of toxicity for
fluoride in US drinking water was not based at all on science, but
entirely on politics. The EPA was maneuvered into contracting a "new
study" of fluoride toxicity to a research group called ICAIR Life
Systems in 1985. Dr. Y cites a few of ICAIR's "findings":
-"dental fluorosis was not an adverse health effect"
-"teeth with fluorosis are desirable"
-skeletal fluorosis has not been found below 4 PPM
-there is no data on fluoride and genetic damage
-there is no data on fluoride as a carcinogen
Fluoride The Aging Factor, p159
This is the kind of shenanigans tax dollars are spent on: lies and
disregard for decades of important scientific research. But the waste of
time and money is secondary to the real issue: these lower primates are
endangering public health for their own political advantage and power
tripping. Big news flash, right?
The result of all the hearings, fraudulent reports, and maneuvering was
that in 1989 the EPA tried to raise the maximum allowable level of
fluoride to 4 PPM ! (Yiamouyiannis, p 161)
Today, the recommended level remains at 1 - 1.2 PPM, with the maximum
allowable level set at 4 PPM by the EPA.
Now check this out: 4 parts per million is 4000 parts per billion,
right, math wizards? OK. 4000 parts per billion of fluoride are allowed
in drinking water, according to the EPA. Compare that with the allowable
levels of Arsenic, Lead, and Mercury:
MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL ALLOWED IN U.S. DRINKING WATER:
ARSENIC _______ 50 PARTS PER BILLION
LEAD___________15 PARTS PER BILLION
FLUORIDE _____4000 PARTS PER BILLION
source: EPA National Primary Drinking Water Standards ( July 1987)
Remember this citation: "Fluoride is more poisonous than lead, and
just less poisonous than arsenic."
- Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products - 1984
What's wrong with this picture?
DELAYED REACTION
As California Medical Association president Dr. Alesen points out, concentration in parts per million sidesteps the issue, regarding something that accumulates in the body year after year. The EPA is comparing fluorine to vitamins, for which there are minimum daily requirements. But vitamins are completely used up in a day or less. They don't accumulate. In addition, setting an arbitrary level of 1 PPM fluoride in the drinking water provides for a wide variation in toxicity: some people drink half a glass of water per day, while others drink two liters. This idea is a very big deal when you're talking about something that never goes away in the body.
"It is obvious that the important factor is not the concentration of the
fluoride in the water supply, but the total amount consumed."
- Alesen, p.6
That is why fluoride poisoning can be disguised - diseases like skeletal fluorosis may take 25 or 30 years to appear, since accumulation of fluoride in the bones is slow and gradual. (Shortt)
WHAT DO THE REAL EXPERTS SAY?
"When historians come to write about this period, they will single out
[fluoridation] as the single biggest mistake in public policy that we've
ever had."
- Paul Connett, PhD, Biochemistry
"Water fluoridation is the single largest case of scientific
fraud, promoted by the government, supported by taxpayer dollars, aided
and abetted by the ADA and the AMA, in the history of the planet."
- David Kennedy, DDS President International Academy of Oral
Medicine and Toxicology
"Sodium fluoride is a registered rat poison and roach poison. It
has been a protected pollutant for a very long time."
- William Hirzy, PhD President of the Union of Professional
Employees of the EPA
"sodium fluoride is a very toxic chemical, acting as an enzyme
poison, direct irritant and calcium inactivator….It reacts with growing
tooth enamel and with bones to produce irreversible damage."
- Granville Knight, MD president of the American Academy of
Nutrition
Congressional Record, 31 July 56 (Robotry, p. 22)
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for
drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects
on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
- Charles Gordon Heyd, MD, president, AMA
"no physician in his right mind would hand to his patient a
bottled filled with a dangerous drug with instructions to take as much
or as little of it as he wished… And yet, the Public health Service is
engaged upon a widespread propaganda program to insist that communities
do exactly that…The purpose of administering fluoride is not to render
the water supply pure and potable but to contaminate it with a
dangerous, toxic drug for the purpose of administering mass medication
to the consumer, without regard to age or physical condition."
- L. Alesen, MD, president of the California Medical Association
Robotry, p14
"Fluoridation is the greatest fraud that has ever been
perpetrated and it has been perpetrated on more people than any other
fraud has."
- Albert Schatz, PhD Nobel Laureate for discovering streptomycin
quoted in Sutton's Fluoridation:The Greatest Fraud
"More people have died in the last 30 years from cancer
connected with fluoridation than all the military deaths in the entire
history of the United States."
- Dean Burk, PhD National Cancer Institute--Fluoridation:A
Burning Controversy
"Fluoridation is the greatest case of scientific fraud of
this century, if not of all time."
- EPA scientist, Dr. Robert Carton (Downey, 2 May 99)
Why do we never hear any of this????
IT ISN'T JUST THE WATER
Adding fluoride to the drinking water causes bioaccumulation in our
cells, year after year. If fluoride is in the water, it's everywhere:
-growing vegetables and fruit
-washing vegetables and fruit
-in the meat of animals who have drunk fluoridated water
-in toothpaste
-in canned foods
-in processed foods
-in soft drinks
-in beer
A 1998 laboratory analysis done at Sequoia Analytical Labs in
California showed very high concentrations of fluoride in the following
foods:
- Dole pineapple, canned
- Snapple
- Coke Classic
- Hansen's soda
- Minute Maid orange juice
- Gerber strawberry juice for babies
- Amstel Lite beer
- Rice Dream
- Sunny Delight orange drink
- Pepsi
Another analysis done in 1998 by Jupiter Environmental Labs in Florida
showed similar findings:
food..................fluoride in PPM (parts per million)
Gerber White Grape juice____ 3.5
Gatorade_________________________.44
Diet Coke_______________________1.12
Lipton Ice Tea___________________.58
Sprite___________________________.73
Hawaiian Punch___________________.85
Last one for now. A study in the Journal of Clinical Pediatric
Dentistry:
food ----------------fluoride in PPM (parts per million)
Welch's 100% Grape juice_____2.6
Ocean Spray Cranapple________1.8
Hi-C Apple-grape_____________1.16
Minute Maid Grape____________1.25
Minute Maid White Grape______3.0
Gerber's White Grape_________6.8
And it's not just the juices: Froot Loops cereal was found to have
2.1 ppm by Expert Chemical Analysis of San Diego.
These are just a few examples of fluoride levels in some common grocery
store items consumed by most Americans. The point is that there's an
notable fluoride content in many, if not the majority of processed foods
in our refrigerators and pantries. That's not mentioning our fruits and
vegetables, even if they're 'organic' but grown with city water. We're
taking in a ton of fluoride from ubiquitous sources. It accumulates over
the years in our collagen, bones, and teeth.
BACKS DOWN
In 1973,
British Columbia was considering mandatory fluoridation. They gave the
job of researching and reporting the topic to Richard Foulkes, MD.
Foulkes then wrote a 2000 page report and recommended that legislation
begin to make fluoride mandatory in Canada. Based on that work, Canada
began to fluoridate.
Then something happened. Little by little, Foulkes found out that the
statistics that his researchers had based their findings on were largely
falsified. It took Foulkes years to run down the truth, but by 1992, he
shocked the country by backing down from his original recommendation:
"I now hold a different view. …the fluoridation of community water
supplies can no longer be held to be either safe or effective in the
reduction of dental caries….Therefore, the practice should be
abandoned."
- Foulkes, 1992
Foulkes is not some tree-hugger from Santa Cruz. He is one of Canada's
top scientific researchers. Many areas of Canada listened and stopped
fluoridating. Want to read a first-hand story about lies and greed and
disregard for human health and crooked deals between government and
industry? Read Dr. Foulkes stuff.
Another pro-fluoride Canadian scientist, Dr. Hardy Limeback, changed his
tune when he learned that 30-65% of Canadian children now have
visible signs of overexposure to fluoride: dental fluorosis. Limeback:
"Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste. Or
drink fluoridated water."
- Toronto Star Michael Downey interview with Limeback
Such research also prompted the Canadian Dental Association in 1992 to
keep fluoride supplements from children of three and under. But
attacking fluoride supplement pills is just a smokescreen to protect
fluoridation of drinking water. Most research has found all the above
ill effects at concentrations even less than the standard 1 PPM that is
in most city water. It's not the supplements that are killing us; it's
the fluoridated water.
FLUORIDATION IN OTHER COUNTRIES
If
fluoridation is as safe and effective as the American Dental Association
says it is, why don't other countries do it?
The U.S. is nowhere near the top of any health list which compares other
countries of the world, as we saw in Chapter One. So what are the
healthy countries doing?
If fluoride is so great, why have the following countries either never
fluoridated or else stopped when they found out how bad it was?:
West Germany
The Netherlands
France
Belgium
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Japan
Italy
Scotland
- Smith, G.
- Foulkes (1992)
Only about 2% of the population of Europe is subjected to fluoridated
water.
- Yiamouyiannis, p.208
LOCKED IN
Three
reasons why we're so far down the road of toxic fluoridation, it's hard
to come back:
1. To reverse the policy of fluoridation now would be for the
ADA, the EPA, the FDA, and the USPHS, Congress, and
all the municipal water polluters in the US to admit that they made a
mistake. Not a good move for re-election.
2. To criticize fluoridation as a policy would challenge the
billions of tons of fluoride being released into the air and water by
the nuclear, aluminum, phosphate, steel, glass, cement, and
petrochemical industries.
3. If fluoridation stopped, a multi-million dollar gravy train of
research grants, propaganda contracts, and sweetheart arrangements
between government and industry would vaporize overnight.
FREUD AND THE SLIME FACTOR
It may not
be a good idea to blind ourselves to the presence of cold-blooded
24-karat Evil as it exists in the world today. But it's not like some
madman in a James Bond movie with terminal acne, dressed in a metallic
suit, speaking terrible English from his office in a hollowed-out
volcano somewhere, threatening to destroy the world. No, no. These guys
are polite and well-groomed, and have impeccable credentials. More like
Al Pacino where he's the devil in that movie with Keanu Reeves - very
likable, well-traveled, appreciates a fine wine, knows when to say that
one perfect remark to make things work…Or even Billy Crystal where he's
the devil in that Woody allen movie - very charming and confident. These
are not people to be confronted and defeated. No, these individuals
advance. Their expertise is in how to get on, pageantry, presentation.
Beneath them, are the ones who do the work. Dr. Y chronicles a group of
low-level bureaucrats and opinion makers whose unsupported,
semi-literate propaganda gets constant media play. Propaganda can't be
brilliant, and doesn't have to be true or make sense. It just has to be
simple and be repeated over and over every day. These same pretenders
and "social scientists" are coincidentally the stable of "experts" who
are continually given extensive media space to criticize anything
alternative or holistic that threatens organized medicine. Doctors of
the evening. Flaccid guns for hire. Their tactics are low-level and
powerful, according to the Bernays formula:
- conduct no research
- avoid the real issues when possible
- never engage in any debate where actual research data will be
used
- attack the opponent, not the issue
- don't try to instruct, or lead through a process of
step-by-step education
- persuade; do not inform
- use emotional phrases to distract people from the real issues
- when confronted, change the subject
- cover up the real studies; never refer to them
- pretend there is some favorable research by using phrases like
"Numerous studies have shown…" or "Research has proven..." or
"Scientific investigators have found…." but then never cite anything
- always harp on the "superior education and training" of the
fluoridation people, pretending that the most educated doctors and
professionals favor fluoridation, even though Dr Y thoroughly proves
that most of the propaganda has been written by non-science people,
generally with public relations or mass-psychology backgrounds
- keep repeating unfounded falsehoods about the safety and
effectiveness of proven poisons
- remind people how many decades fluoridation has been going on
- favor mandatory fluoridation legislation, removing all
opportunity for free discussion when possible
- try to keep all opposing evidence from being seen or considered
by any policy-making agency
- omit pertinent data from actual studies
- Above all, never stop repeating the same falsehoods, over and over.
Like him or not, we must respect Freud's grasp of the human mind and
what motivates it. Freud is the father of psychoanalysis, and even
though that profession has largely fallen by the wayside, diluted by a
thousand social servants, his original principles have found a home: the
media. Shaping mass opinion in the "proper" mold - the PC lemmings can
be guided to practically any cliff the controllers can dream up.
REALITY CHECK
Most people
have no opportunity to have the facts of the issues presented to them,
because of the virtual blackout of information in the media. That's why
all this seems so odd. With the help of the colossal disinformation
machine in operation, according to the American Dental Association
probably about 62% of the drinking water in the U.S. is
fluoridated. (www.ada.org) But some courts have shown the other side of
the picture, and beginning to see through the standard shell-games of
the pro-fluoridationists.
In a famous legal battle over fluoridation in the 1950s we find the
judge letting us have it:
"By
[fluoridating the water] the municipal authorities...arrogate to
themselves the sole right to decide what medicine is good for the health
of the water consumers, and thereby the municipal water system becomes a
direct conduit for the transportation of medicine from the apothecary's
pestle to the patient, without the latter's consent. Thus will the
people be deprived of a very important part of their constitutional
liberty under our republican form of government and the police state
will be substituted for the police power of the state."
- Justice Donworth in KAUL vs. CITY OF CHEHALIS
from Robotry, p 18
Two decades later a Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge made a meticulous review of all available research, both pro and con, before entering his 1979 injunction against fluoridation. His Honor was less than impressed with the wit of the fluoridationists:
"The proponents
of fluoridation do nothing more than try to impugn the objectivity of
those who oppose fluoridation."
- Judge John Flaherty
Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Judge Flaherty wrote a letter to the Mayor of Auckland, New Zealand
stating:
"…In my view
the evidence is quite convincing that the addition of sodium fluoride to
the public water supply at one part per million is extremely deleterious
to the human body, and…there is no convincing evidence to the contrary."
- The Arthritis Trust, 1994
THE LEGAL NOVELTY OF FLUORIDATION
Fluoridation is a totally new idea, from a Constitutional point of view. It's nothing like adding chlorine. Although chlorine has toxic side effects, it actually does something beneficial to the water - chlorine purifies the water. Fluoride does no such thing. Fluoride is a drug, a medication that supposedly has beneficial effects for a small percentage of the population.
"The purpose of
administering fluoride is not to render the water supply pure and
potable but to contaminate it with a dangerous toxic drug for the
purpose of administering mass medication to the consumer without regard
to age or physical condition."
- Alesen, p 16
In other words, without consent. And giving drugs without consent is in direct violation of international codes of war behavior, like Nuremberg and the Geneva Accords. Commenting on the famous KAUL case above, Judge Hamley had this to say:
"What future proposals may be made to treat noncontagious disease by
adding ingredients to our water supply, or food or air, only time will
tell. When that day arrives, those who treasure their personal liberty
will look in vain for a constitutional safeguard. The answer will be :
'You gave the Constitution away in the Kaul case."
- Robotry, p. 18
CONVERSATION STOPPER
Want to stop
a fluoridation advocate in his tracks? Ask him to cite exact legitimate
studies that prove fluoridation prevents tooth decay. Then find them.
Besides the few bogus political documents by Dean and Cox, cited above,
there aren't any. Fluoride research is a huge area. The fact that most
studies have been almost completely suppressed for the past 50 years
mars many illusions about the democratic process.
If people want fluoride in their drinking water, let them buy
supplements. Fluoridation of municipal water has nothing to do with
health. It's just politics.
A THOUSAND LITTLE BATTLES
The
fluoridation battle is being waged back and forth in the individual
cities and towns across America. Many districts have never fluoridated.
Many others have recently decided to begin fluoridation. Still another
group of 63 cities, since 1900, which had fluoridated for a long time,
have voted to stop. (Jones) It's an ongoing struggle, with million of
dollars of fluoridiot funding available for presentations, flyers, and
media ads in any community where the issue is coming up for a vote. If
fluoridation is defeated this year, it may appear on the ballot again
the following year if the city is on the Priority Schedule.
California's Priority Schedule is a list of 167 communities in
California which are now being targeted by the formidable alliance of
fluoridation interests. (Table 64434-A) Doesn't look like they'll run
out of cash any time in this life: support comes from the slush funds
and lobbyists of the mega industrial polluters who wish to maintain the
public water works as their private sewer. They want to keep this
50-year gravy train rolling, and the best way to do that is marketing
and promotion. Here are the Top Ten of the 1999 Priority Schedule in
California:
- Helix Water District
- Ventura, CA
- Daly City, CA
- Escondido, CA
- Santa Maria CA
- Fair Oaks Water District
- Manhattan Beach, CA
- Sweetwater Authority
- Santa Barbara, CA
- El Dorado Irrigation District
It floors you to realize the immense amount of scientific research and
legal opinion proving the toxicity of fluoride since the 1930s, that has
been ignored and suppressed. Why did all those people do all that work?
With every new city that places fluoridation on the ballot, all the old
arguments are dragged out, as if it's from scratch every time, without
the benefit of input from all the other hundreds of communities that
have gone through this same battle. Divide and conquer - worked for the
Romans.
Antifluoridationist information programs are often privately funded
grassroots little organizations, but their influence is being felt
across the nation. With the rise of the Internet, it is getting harder
to keep people from learning the real effects about fluoride. For these
reasons, clean water is very slowing making progress against the
totalitarian forces of mass medications. But the struggle never ends.
OTHER CONTAMINANTS
Chlorine and
fluoride are added on purpose to the water. We haven't even mentioned
the millions of tons of industrial pollutants that sneak into the
earth's water supply every year. To give just one small example,
Congress did a study in 1979 of the extent of industrial pollution
between 1950 and 1970. They verified just a part of what was actually
dumped into America's water supply: the top 14% of industrial
polluters discharged 1.5 trillion pounds of industrial wastes
into the water supply in that 20 year period.
What about the other 86%?
Think it's improved since 1970? Consider this:
The only federal agency for ensuring clean drinking water is the EPA. In
1997, after the cryptosporidium deaths in Milwaukee and Las
Vegas, Clinton tried to upgrade the provisions of the 1986 Safe Drinking
Water Act. But the EPA only regulates some 60 chemicals—there are
thousands of chemical pollutants in the water! And the states are
individually claiming that complying with the restrictions on just those
60 are "too expensive" because they just don't have the money. Most
water systems are operating on very old designs with inadequate
capacity. (Kupua A'o, p16)
As a result, in 1991-1992 alone, the EPA reported over 250,000
violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act, affecting more than 100
million Americans. (Natural Resources Defense Council) For those 250,000
violations, guess on how many the EPA took enforcement action. Just
guess. About 600.
Looks like we're on our own out here.
HOW CAN WE GET PURE, CLEAN WATER?
The tap
water in this country seems to have a few problems:
- organochlorines
- fluoride
- PCBs
- THMs
- heavy metals
- resistant biologicals
You'd think that since we created the problem, we could fix it. But even
if Greenpeace or someone took over the government of the world tomorrow
and stopped all further pollution tonnage, it would be years, decades
before the water would be like it was before the Industrial Revolution.
These contaminants will be around for centuries. By now everyone
knows what the concept of half-life means. Different data
sources, different time frames, but one thing is certain: the water
cannot be cleaned up in our lifetime, no matter what is done.
Writing a sentence like that is a shocker. Where is my ninja team?
So what can we do?
Don't drink the tap water for starters. But does that also mean don't
wash vegetables, make ice cubes, or cook with tap water? Yes, it does,
because heat doesn't destroy fluoride, heavy metals, or other
contaminants. Remember the word bioaccumulative.
So the first step is
BOTTLED WATER
That's right
- drag it home from the market every week. Or the 5-gallon bottle from
the water store. Is that safe enough? Maybe. Who knows? You have to
trust two groups of people in order to be sure:
- the regulating agencies
- the sellers
Water stores sell reverse osmosis water - no minerals. Bottled water is
only as good as the monitoring system in place. Step right up.
FILTERS
"Buy a
filter or be a filter." That's one company's slogan.
Today there is enough grassroots consciousness about the dangers of tap
water that cheap carbon filters are now available in any hardware store
which attach easily to the kitchen faucet. It is likely that such
filters get rid of most of the chlorine - for awhile. But to really get
the resistant biologicals, the fluoride, heavy metals, and other
contaminants, the customer may consider one of the high-end drinking
water filters. These cost between two and four hundred dollars and come
in models for both over and under the sink.
This valuable information was supplied by Tim O'shea from
www.thedoctorwithin.com.
copyright 2000
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