In the recent controversy
about the chemicals in the food we eat, we are increasingly bombarded
with warnings from the powers that be. We’re increasingly
buying organic and hormone free vegetables, dairy and meats.
We drink bottled spring water and distilled water. But just how
safe are these supposedly “chemical free” products?
Let’s start out with our water supply. We treat county and
city water with reverse osmosis filtering, we distill it, and we
believe that we are chemical free.
Unless you drink spring water from a source that you know is free
from chemical agents and poison, you just can’t be sure.
Is the spring fed from an aquifer that has leached poisons from
the soil? Does the filtration system or the distillation take care
of this poison if it has? Most chemicals can be either filtered
or distilled, but not all of them, not fluoride.
According to an on-line article about the water we drink, fluoride
cannot be filtered or distilled out of our water supply. Surf www.just-think-it.com
for an informative article by Floyd Maxwell, BASc. Makes you think
doesn’t it. Why would anyone put a substance more toxic than
lead into the drinking water supply? My challenge, go on line and
check it out. Fluoride is a hazard to our health, both mental and
physical.
If you aren’t a web surfer by nature, check out the August
2006 Prevention Magazine. It carries an article about the dangers
of fluoride. Reader’s Digest also makes mention of new research,
but doesn’t really get into the real danger. But believe
me, the danger is very real. The increased incidences of Alzheimer’s
disease and osteoporosis are merely two of the dangers cited on
the web site above. Another real danger is the increased incidences
of testicular cancer in young males who drink public water laced
with fluoride.
Prevention Magazine states that fluoride has been tied to bone
cancer, lower IQs and osteoporosis. In a quote from dentist Hardy
Limeback, PhD, DDS, head of preventative dentistry at the University
of Toronto and member of the panel that wrote the NRC’s fluoride
report. "It could turn out to be one of the top 10 mistakes
of the 21st century."
p.s. Fruits and vegetables are routinely sprayed with fluoride
which is a very effective insecticide. These concentrations make
the fluoride concentrations in tap water pale by comparison. Juices
from sprayed fruits are especially toxic.
