Get That Fluoride Out of Your Tea!
February 09, 2005
|
112,187
views
Share
-
Spread the Word to
Friends And Family
By Sharing this Article.
-
-
-
-
-
-
It is important to be reminded every so often that all things must come in moderation. That is certainly a lesson one woman learned after discovering drinking one to two gallons of super-strength tea a day resulted in harmful levels of fluoride in her body, causing her bone pain. Specifically, the woman was suffering from spine pain attributed to hyper-dense bones. When tested for the cause of her symptoms, the results showed high levels of fluoride in her urine.
This case motivated scientists to test several brands of instant tea available at grocery stores to determine the fluoride content in each. The study analyzed 10 different brands of tea at regular-strength levels in fluoride-free water. Each contained fluoride levels ranging from 1.0 to 6.5 parts per million (ppm):
| Product |
Preparation |
Fluoride (ppm or mg/L) |
| Laboratory 1 |
Laboratory 2 |
Mean |
| Lipton |
|
|
|
|
| |
Instant (1999) |
2.7 |
2.6 |
2.6 |
| |
Instant (2003) |
7.7 |
5.4 |
6.5 |
| |
Instant decaffeinated |
3.1 |
2.4 |
2.7 |
| |
Instant diet iced tea mix (decaffeinated lemon) |
1.1 |
1.0 |
1.0 |
| |
Naturally decaffeinated flow-through bags |
1.9 |
2.0 |
2.0 |
| Nestea |
|
|
|
|
| |
Instant |
2.4 |
2.1 |
2.3 |
| |
Instant decaffeinated |
2.4 |
2.2 |
2.3 |
| Schnucks |
|
|
|
|
| |
Instant |
1.5 |
1.0 |
1.3 |
| AriZona |
|
|
|
|
| |
Lemon iced tea mix |
2.5 |
1.9 |
2.2 |
| Luzianne |
|
|
|
|
| |
Specially blended for iced tea (bags) |
3.9 |
3.1 |
3.5 |
While consuming high levels of fluoride has been known to boost bone density, it also results in bone brittleness and can lead to skeletal fluorosis, resulting in:
- Bone pain
- Calcified ligaments
- Bone spurs
- Fused vertebrae
- Difficulty moving joints
Further, scientists believe fluoride is absorbed naturally into tea plants from soil and rainwater, and varies by the year, harvest and location all over the world. Aside from instant tea, Americans can be exposed to fluoride through drinking water, fluoridated toothpastes and dental preparations, coated cookware, chewing tobacco, some wines and certain sparkling mineral waters.
Washington University January 25, 2005
The American Journal of Medicine January 2005; 118(1): 78-82