Daily Echo letter - Fluoride facts that everyone must face

Fluoride facts that everyone must face
FLUORINE is an extremely reactive electronegative element that is never found alone in nature. Thus there are many kinds of fluoride compounds, such as calcium fluoride, found in water.
However, those fluorides added to water supplies are toxic non-biodegradable waste by-products from aluminium smelting process and phosphate fertiliser production.
It is recommended by Professor Damien Walmsley (Letters, May 5) and certain Government ministers that these fluorides should be added at one part per million to our water supply. A ratio found through world scientific and medical research to produce cancer in cells (Dr Takeki Tsutsui, Japan, 1984, and The American Medical Association, 1993).
It is interesting to note that the ; original fluoridation as a remedy for tooth decay was funded by the aluminium industry. Andrew Mellon, chairman of the Aluminium < Corporation of America, was Secretary of the Treasury at the time.
We are led to believe the wonders of fluoride added to the water supplies in American cities.
However, research shows:
1) A trial studying 50,000 inhabitants
across 68 US cities in 1986-7 showed that fluoride increased tooth decay.
2) After 20 years of water fluoridation in Seattle, authorities reported an unprecedented dental crisis in the city.
3)22,000 children were studied in Tucson, Arizona. Fluoride was found to increase tooth decay
4) 21,000 Japanese children were studied in 1972. Fluoridation was found to increase tooth decay.
5) In 1992 fluoride feed machinery on one of two community wells failed in the township of Hooper Bay, Alaska, resulting in the death of one man and the poisoning of 296 other citizens.
In countries worldwide, water fluoridation is banned including all of the European countries.
World research has found that fluoridated drinking water has resulted also in an increase of diseases. Among them disturbances in bones such as osteosclerosis, spondylosis and osteoporosis.
Whilst working in Kenya on a UN aid programme I witnessed these and other diseases in certain tribes -people poisoned by fluorides that had leeched from sub strata rock into the water supply. The tribes people were not only recognisable by their sickly features but also from their fluorinated teeth that were just small brown points. Despite the large amounts of money and great efforts of the aid agencies filtration of the fluoride proved impossible.
Not a wonderful pictured. One quote really summed it up.
Dr Dean Burk of the National Cancer Institute said:
"Fluoride causes more human cancer deaths, and causes it faster than any other chemical."
John Howard Southampton