is FLUORIDE dangerous?

    An ‘Ideal’ Environmental Solution that we or our kids are going to regret! ...

What is FLUORIDE?

     Fluorine is the chemical element with atomic number 9, represented by the symbol F. It is the lightest halogen.   

     Fluoride is generated by aluminum, steel, fertilizer factories, coal burning power plants and in the production of glass and cement. Gaseous fluoride and other process waste byproducts have previously been allowed to be expelled through the factory smokestack. New environmental regulation now require "scrubbers" atop of smokestacks to remove these toxic chemicals from escaping in the air.

Where is it used?

      Despite its well-established role in the prevention of dental caries, fluoride is NOT considered an essential mineral element for mammals, including humans. Small amounts of fluoride provided by contamination may be beneficial for bone strength, but this is an issue only for formulation of specific artificial diets. Several fluorine compounds and elemental fluorine itself are dangerously toxic, whereas an increasing number of useful pharmaceuticals (about 10% of new drugs) are artificially produced fluorinated organic compounds.

      In the past, little attention was paid to the emission of gaseous fluorine compounds in the fertilizer industry. But today fluorine recovery is increasingly necessary because of stringent environmental restrictions which demand drastic reductions in the quantities of volatile and toxic fluorine compounds emitted in the waste gases. These compounds now have to be recovered and converted into harmless by-products for disposal or, more desirably, into marketable products.

Other research:

     These industries would have to pay dearly to dispose of their fluoride if they could not sell it to municipalities for adding to tap water.

     "In other words," says William Hirzy, a Senior EPA scientist, "fluoride that otherwise would be an air and water pollutant is no longer a pollutant as long as it's poured into your reservoir. The solution to pollution is dilution and in this case, the dilution is your drinking water."

      In 1983 Rebecca Hammer, the Deputy Assistant administrator in EPA's Office of Drinking Water, called fluoridation "an ideal environmental solution to a long standing problem."

      Fluoridation is not about "children's teeth". Rather, it is about industry ridding itself of crude hazardous waste products, silicofluorides, for a profit. Silicofluorides are 85 times more toxic than naturally-occurring calcium fluoride.

      Fluoride is more toxic than lead and like lead in minute doses, accumulates in and can be damaging to brain/mind development of children, producing abnormal behavior in animals and reducing IQ in humans, especially in conjunction with deficiencies of key nutrients such as calcium, iodine and vitamins. It can also contribute to many disease processes. Because it is almost as toxic as arsenic, fluoride's ability to play havoc in the human body should surprise no one.

    There is as much, or more, dental decay in fluoridated communities as there is in the non-fluoridated areas; however, the dental costs are higher in fluoridated communities due to dental fluorosis. Drinking fluoridated water may delay decay, but it does not prevent it.

     A small tube of fluoridated toothpaste could kill an infant!

Conclusion:

     Would you eat a band-aid if you cut yourself? So if you agree that toothpaste with Fluoride is good for you, keep using it! But why to get toxic Fluoride into your body otherwise??

Solution:

     Get a water filter eg.: http://www.primalmovement.com.au/jcms/SHOP/nikken-pimag-water-filter.html

Source : http://www.nofluoride.com/phosphate_plant.cfm

http://www.fluoridedebate.com/

http://www.greenfacts.org/en/fluoride/fluorides-3/01-use.htm#1p0