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In 1994, the New York Times reported
a scientific study which revealed that aluminum
and fluoride in water could be responsible for the alarming
increase in Alzheimer's Disease and percentile dementia.
This confirmed the long-held suspicion
of environmental writer George
Glasser that fluoride has the ability to act synergistically
with other toxic minerals in drinking water. Glasser,
currently on speaking engagements in England, said:
"For years I badgered various US
government agencies to investigate this specific activity
between fluoride and other substances, which is commonly
seen in medicines. Aluminum sulfate (alum) is used to clarify
drinking water and I could see the possible relationship
with Alzheimer's-like dementia."
Said Glasser,
"In 1999, the US Environmental
Protection Agency finally reviewed three studies carried
out by scientists at Binghamton University. The scientists
reported 80% death rates,
kidney damage and brain damage in rats exposed to half of
one milligram of aluminum fluoride complexes in a litre
of drinking water. This is less
than half of the amount of fluoride which is added in fluoridation
schemes.
Finally, the National Toxicology Program
was asked to commission studies to determine the extent
of neurotoxic damage from aluminum in drinking water, particularly
stressing the fluoride interaction."
Last October, a Report by the National
Institutes of Environmental Heath Sciences (NIEHS) acknowledged
that fluoride has been
observed to have synergistic effects on the toxicity of
aluminum
"I was particularly pleased when
the US Environmental Protection Agency report by Urbansky
and Schock on the toxicity of lead and fluoride in drinking
water confirmed that fluoride complexes with other substances
in the water.
They also acknowledged that most drinking
water contains a substantial amount of fluoro-aluminium
complexes. This should be a warning to dentists who hold
with the simplistic notion that fluoride only affects teeth
and is perfectly safe in drinking water."
According to the NIEHS Report, most
water treatment processes result in increased
levels of aluminum in the finished drinking water.
It stated that fluoridation will result
in aluminum fluoride complexes which will enhance neurotoxicity,
or that fluoride itself will enhance uptake and synergise
the toxicity of the aluminum
Other studies have shown that in the
presence of fluoride, aluminum
leaches out of cookware. Boiling fluoridated
tap water in an aluminum pan leached almost 200
parts per million (ppm) of aluminum into the
water in 10 minutes.
Leaching of up to 600 PPM occurred with
prolonged boiling. Different releases of aluminum depend
upon the composition of the pan and the type of food being
cooked. Using non-fluoridated water showed almost no leaching
from aluminum pans.
Glasser
is frustrated that the Report recommended further studies.
"There are more than 40,000
studies on fluoride in the scientific literature.
How many more do they need? The recent York review examined
less than 300 - and they never bothered to review the Binghamton
University studies.
The incidence of Alzheimer's Disease
and Alzheimer's-like dementia
is hitting people at much younger ages. The average age
used to be 65 - now, it affects people in their forties
in ever-increasing numbers.
With these revelations, health authorities
have a moral obligation to employ the precautionary principle
and cease the practice of artificial fluoridation forthwith.
In the meantime, six million people in England and about
160 million in the United States drink artificially fluoridated
water. "
US Government
References:
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Aluminum.pdf
http://fluoride.oralhealth.org/papers/urbansky.pdf
http://www.oehha.ca.gov/water/phg/pdf/Alumin.pdf
http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf/Aluminumalt.pdf
George Glasser
articles:
http://home.att.net/~gtigerclaw/newsletter/Increasing_Alzheimer.htm
For more information, contact:
George Glasser (currently in UK):
email: g_tigerclaw@email.com
Website: www.gtigerclaw.bigstep.com
Jane Jones, Campaign Director, National Pure Water Association
email: jane@npwa.freeserve.co.uk
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