Water is food too!!
http://www.mgoin.com/Medical/Fluorine/FluorineHalogen.html A really good read.
Some interesting excerpts:
--Fluorine is the most highly-reactive and chemically unstable of ALL existing chemical elements. Fluorine is not found by itself in nature, because it is so unstable that it chemically combines--violently, in many cases--with practically any other element.
--Fluorine has the strongest effect of all the halogens. Fluorine is one of the major ingredients in the controversial psycho-active psychiatric drug PROZAC (Fluoxetene Hydrochloride), and also in deadly Sarin military nerve gas, U.S. designation GB. (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl Fluoride).
--The nerve-gas Soman (GD) is chemically similar to Sarin (GB), and they both contain fluorine. They are called "nerve" agents because they directly attack and destroy the nervous system. According to an EPA report (following), once you remove the fluorine from Sarin, all that remains is a non-toxic acid. In other words, fluorine--the same fluorine that is in our drinking water--is what gives sarin its "kick".
--The infamous date-rape hypnotic drug "Roofs" (Rohypnol) is fluorinated Valium, which is reportedly 20-30 times more potent than Valium alone.
--Note the following entry in an EPA/NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Hazardous Waste book, on page 3066 under SODIUM FLUORIDE: "An experimental tumorigen [deliberately used to cause cancer in laboratory experiments] and teratogen [deliberately used to cause monstrous abnormalities in lab experiments]. Human system overdose effects: Burning, prickling, tingling, itching of the skin, drooping of the eyelid, tremors, extra fluid intake, muscle weakness, headache, EKG [brainwave] changes, cyanosis [bluish skin color from inadequate oxygen], respiratory depression, hypermotility [extremely physically active], diarrhea, nausea or vomiting, salivary gland changes, changes in teeth and supporting structures, musculo-skeletal changes, increased immune system response, and human mutatogenic data [mutates human cells, in other words]. A corrosive irritant to eyes and mucous membranes. Experimental reproductive effects. It is very phytotoxic [toxic to plant life]. Used in chemical cleaning, for fluoridation of drinking water, as a fungicide and insecticide. ... May be a carcinogen."
--In the same reference, page 1735 under FLUORIDES: "Can cause or aggravate attacks of asthma and severe bone changes, making normal movements painful. Some signs of pulmonary fibrosis are noted. Some enzyme systems effects are reported. Loss of weight, anorexia [loss of appetite], anemia, wasting and cachexia [general wasting of the body during a chronic disease], and dental defects are among the common findings in chronic fluoride poisoning. Symptoms of intoxication include gastric, intestinal, circulatory, respiratory and nervous complaints and skin rashes."
Independent scientific evidence over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package. One broad study found a direct relationship between areas that were fluoridated, and reports of hip fractures among the elderly.
Note that an "optimum" level of 1 PPM of natural calcium fluoride in water was what they studied in Texas and Colorado, yet they then dosed our drinking water with 1ppm of the 20-times more toxic hazardous-waste sodium fluoride, openly claiming that equal concentrations of each had exactly the same effect on human health. Thus even their starting premise was apples-versus-oranges.
The 1 PPM value was just picked at random because there were no tests or studies showing exactly what was the "optimum" and because people only supposedly drank one liter of water per day, and 1 milligram was a "proper" daily dose for normal people with normal kidney function. (It turns out that our actual average daily intake of fluoride is 2 mg, however.) During the 1952 Delaney Committee Congressional Hearings, scientists expressed concern that the dosage was much too high, especially for children or people with diabetes or kidney disease.
Scary stuff.
I'm going to review a book by this guy soon, InshaAllah. Here's what he said about Floride ( from the same page )
THE TEXAS TOWN WITHOUT CAVITIES
An often-quoted study favoring fluoridation was done in the 1930's in Hereford, Texas, once billed as "The Town Without Cavities", but there are flaws:
1. Hereford has a high level of naturally-occurring calcium fluoride in the water, not sodium fluoride.
2. According to a letter from Dr. George Heard, the dentist in Hereford, TX who initially promoted Hereford's lack of dental cavities to the dental profession, even the naturally-occurring calcium fluoride in the water supply in Hereford was damaging to people's teeth. After many years of dental practice and observation of dental patients in Hereford, he concluded that fluoride was not beneficial. Here is a 1954 letter from Dr. Heard:
"Hereford, Texas has been called the TOWN WITHOUT A TOOTH ACHE. This is not true. But the phrase has been used effectively by the people interested in marketing SODIUM FLUORIDE all over the country. ...I believe that fluorine does in a mild way, retard cavities, but I also believe that the damage it does is far greater than any good it may appear to accomplish. It even makes the teeth so brittle and crumbly they can be treated only with difficulty, if at all. The dental investigators who came to our county some fifteen years ago did, in my opinion, make a serious mistake when they gave fluorine the credit for our good teeth, and overlooked the quality of food grown in our rich, well mineralized soil. Every person I found who had no dental caries, consumed much milk. Why use a poison, when correct food will maintain our bodies free from diseases and tooth decay? It is hellish and non-American to put poison in city water supplies and force citizens to drink it." George W. Heard, DDS, 15 March 1954.
