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Show "V The UTAH INDEPENDENT April 28, 1972 Flioridotloi Look Continued From Page 8 pattern: The first sign of general systemic poisoning by fluorine is usually (though not always) a gentle mottling" of the teeth, which go gray and develop brown or black spots. British researchers report that a very high percentage of their - . g calcium- -phosphorus . . . watched it with Geiger counters as it tears normal molecules apart and forms unacceptable new compounds. I am indebted to Dr. Waldbott for the best insight into this grim battle yet After fifteen years of struggle with the fluoride Promoters, Dr. Wald-bo- tt has firmly established himself as one of the worlds leading authorities on the clinical aspects of fluorine poisoning. He has treated hundreds of victims and has saved many by prompt removal of all fluoride exposure. His book also gives a vivid insight into the political chicanery that is practiced in utter cynicism by organized medicine and dentistr and by the bureaucrats of the U.S. Public Health Service and hundreds of local public health officials and politicians. Even cursory reading in the field will establish that they have all been out to get Waldbott; but they havent got him yet. Another important authority, mentioned earlier, is Dr. Exner who, with Waldbott, wrote The American Fluoridation Experiment some years ago. They are perhaps the Spearhead of the Opponents, just now beginning to get organized. Both can tell you from personal experience how fluorine seeps into the kidneys, heart, lungs, bones, stomach, thyroid, even into the eyes and the brain, causing a catalogue of ills impossible to predict because no two people respond alike to the depredation. Some escape scot free; others, allergic to very tiny doses of fluoride, can be in serious trouble on first contact with it. About the only concession made by the Food and Drug Administration to antis today is that it rules out the predrugs scription of for pregnant women. For everybody else the Promoters make the sky the limit, although clinical experience is that people suffering from diabetes, kidney trouble, ulcers of the stomach in fact, any serious pathological condition are generally made worse by ingesting fluorides. Probably very few pregnant women living in fluoride areas avoid pub-lishe- d. Texas teeth," nation has these named because so many in that state from the High content of have mottling natural fluorides in the water. In artificially medicated areas so far, about twenty percent of the youngsters have the affliction; so many, at least, that health authorities have moved to propagandize mottling as desirable. The blemish is permanent, and grows worse as exposure continues. After a time the molars begin to decay, then gums and mouth environment are affected. Often the Promoters insist on fluoridating a town that already has natural fluoridation; the result is that fluorosis comes sooner. After mottling, or sometimes coincident with it, comes a bewildering variety of bodily aberrations, seldom diagnosed correctly, even today, because few physicians have yet had experience with fluorosis. The symptoms are easily misread. By this time the free fluoride ion has been loose in the whole body, finding things to do. As one of the most active elements in nature, it has the capacity to break its way into almost any molecule, either getting a free ride and changing the hosts chemistry by overstuffing it, or by ejecting some other atom of the original chemical compound and upsetting natures delicate chemical balance One of the most vulnerable targets for this depredation is calcium, a prime essential to metabolism. Strong-arminits way into the critically balanced levels in the blood, for instance, fluorine soon begins to cause havoc in the bone structure by interfering with the enzyme phosphatase. Damage to the enzyme system, the essential army of the body's catalytic agents, is a companion misfortune' to mottling. There are hundreds of enzymes, each one essential to some phase of the life process. Some enzymes seem to be immune from fluorine poisoning; many are not. Beer barons and bakers cannot use fluoridated water because it kills the enzymes that make beer ferment and bread rise. The human body is in a similar case. Using radioactive tracer techniques researchers have followed the many routes chosen by the fluoride ion and fluorine-containin- people willingly flirt with suicide by lethal chemicals, or why medical authority, public and private, dares use coercion to egg them on. Too many know to their sorrow that mistakes in public health practices have for years m bviia g IV The chemistry of fluorine is thoroughly well known, except as it pertains to the human body. Of the five halogen elements, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine, fluorine is the only one that accumulates indiscriminately in any part of the body from any source made available. For instance, dont think that drinking fluoridated water is the only route to fluorosis. Many foods contain the element. Six cups of tea daily will give you the same dose of fluoride as four glasses of New York City water. If the tea is made with New York water you can get a double shot of fluoride. A good meal of fish or sea food packs the same punch. The inhabitants of Newfoundland, committed to a diet of fish and tea, are heavily overburdened with fluorides. Yet the Promoters descended upon them, too, demanding that they fluoridate their water supply to save their children's teeth! Not only tea and fish but coffee, some wines and liquors, and plain gelatin are rich in fluorine. If you live in a fluoridated town everything you cook in faucet water loads up with the medication, too. Boiling fluoridated water concentrates it (while evaporating chlorine). Nor are the faucet filters reliable as eliminators of fluoride. Waldbott speaks of. two patients, whom he had taken off fluoridated water, who bought filters (continuing to drink the filtered water) and promptly suffered relapses into serious symptoms of poisoning. The secwell-advertis- ond died. Gardens watered with fluoridated water produce fluorine-bearin- g vegetables. Soft drinks made with it bring it to you, too. By the time you carry out what the U.S.P.H.S. calls ingesting the utterly safe dose, you are likely to have taken aboard as much as five times their recommended 12 ppm strength. Then there's the air, in many areas loaded with fluorides spewed out bv industry. Populations living around drinking the water. They should: Waldbott describes how statistical studplants usually carry ies in the midwest have shown that the quite a charge of the chemical. The incidence of mongoloid births is higher tragedies of the Meuse Valley in 1930 in fluoridated areas.' A British doctor and at Donora, Pennsylvania, in 194ft. has found that the first teeth of mongo-bi- d were cases of mass fluoride poisoning, babies come in already mottled, caused by stagnant air and predisposibep tion to illness from chronic exposure. At demonstrating a pretty good tween fluorine and such mental retarda- Donora. six thousand people were hit; tion. twentv died. Less than a year after DoThese matters are serious. nora had made world headlines, Newburgh's health specialists declared the exneriment a smashing success and fluoA Strugglt TUb Tiltm, G. L. Waldbott, Press, New York, IMI, $4.75. ridation absolutely safe!" fluoride-producin- g tie-u- JOIN Today there arc many instances of factories contaminating whole areas, manv of them also fluoridated hv Public IleaUh edict in idiotic redundance. Waldbott tells of visiting Shcrbrook. Ontario, surrounded by fluorine industry. He found many pen-- ' pie affected, two dving of fluorosis. Just lately the town of Dunnvillc, Ontario, has been making Canadian news, with many farmers ruined because crops and cattle are dying. human victims in court and health officials stoutly protesting the view that fluorides cannot possibly hurt humans. Garrison, Montana, is going through the same struggle. The canard of fluorine as a nutrient" was used, among other persuasions, to swing San Francisco into the medicated water 'column, beginning in 1952. Recently, Dr. Ellis Sox, City Health Commissioner, said that San Francisco has the highest death rate in the United States, averaging 13.3 per thousand. Bay cities have just about half that. The Golden City needs pro-ducin- X-ra- volved. Other nations are less trusting. Denmark, France and Italy outlaw fluoridation. But Connecticut, Kentucky and Illinois make it mandatory. America now-famo- us -- . glyco-phospha- te non-poisono- - Reprinted from American An objective mind could ask why Opinion, Mar., 1968 ($10 per year, Belmont, Mass. 02178). THE is tdavel mm THE SPORTSUANS CHOICE Give .us the help we need to continue to work to preserve and protect our health freedoms. a fllitftj fcWHty in America should belong to the National Health Federation TdJ Protect their health I- Know the truth about health matters li Reduce the cost of health care 4 Work for beneficial health legislation 5 Oppose detrimental health legislation 6 Secure fair and impartial law and regulation enforcement 7 Put a stop to injurious chemicals being added to food and drink health liberty and freedom of choice ' 9' Hare d strong and united voice in dll health matters . 10 be used Insist that all money raised for health research and care for that purpose and no other 1 g organizations to give a yearly detailed Compel oil health account of the expenditures of all funds collected i- - I - I ' ; ; 5 f (, -- A f I NATIONAL HEALTH FEDERATION IS SO JOIN ITS RANKS AND TAKE PART IN THIS ORGANIZED TO DO VITAL EFFORT ON BEHALF OF ALL AMERICA. THESE ARE THE THINGS J I I j i I ? I . j i $5.00 One year membership and subscription to the monthly bulletin bulletin arid the $100.00 lifetime subscription to monthly a Lifetime membership installments) in (payable a Donation (tax daductible) Mail this ad with either your one year or lifetime membership or donation and receive FREE a copy of "Tha Dictocrats" by Omar Garrison or the "Chemical Feast" by Ralph Nader's research group. Mail to: Uffak Chapfar Natioial Haaitli Fodoratioo Box 1 THE - A I fund-raisin- - 302, Saidy, Utah 84070 I ys Non-fluoridat- J I e brought tragedy. The history of medical ignorance of the dcadliness of is notorious. Today's TV watchers definite risk of radiation damage run by crowding too close to their sets. Modern foods are loaded with chemical additives, unhealthy or worse. And there are hundreds more examples in drugs and pesticides, and the pollution of air and water. Nevertheless, millions of Americans plunge blindly into a new experiment: an absolutely safe short cut to dental health via the fluoride route, without competent evaluation of the risks in- leads the way to new disaster. Encouragingly, the scientific community is aroused. In September of 1967, the International Society for Research on Nutrition and Vital Substances met in Luxembourg and made fluoridation? Resolution 39. public its Another canard is that fluoridated This said that all governments, state toothpaste is safer than drinking fluoparliaments and city councils concerned rides. You can control the dose with with the problem of fluoridation . . pastes, impossible with faucet water, should refrain from fluoridating drinkbut you cant control where the dose ing water, which measure is actually a winds up inside you, either way. If you medication, as long as the scientific asbrush your teeth with souped-u- p paste pects of the problem are not satisfacthe fluoridated two exposures torily clarified." in a area, The Public Health fraternity, of will add up to a definite overdose. Still is another canard says that fluoridation course, ignored it, They still call fluoridation one of the Four Horsemen of the pnly way to dental health. Many inHealth an Apocalyptic reference dentists point out that you could, stead, deal with the cause, which is too which seems to escape them. I realize that the credibility gap in much sugar and too little attention to whole story yawns like the Grand this those think who For they brushing. must drink medicated water, magnesia Canyon. Yet the authority behind the far better have been Opposition is of the best and calcium of the sordid machinations for the than Both are suggested. could hears How of but seldom Promoters. it, The public responsible exdone such have well as fluorides damage pipes as slipshod work? peoperts deliberate could suppression of ple. Riverhead, Long Island, gave up How been countenhave research and reinstated fluoridation three times bona fide before abandoning it for good. They anced by supposedly reputable profescouldn't keep the pipes intact. Concord, sionals? I am afraid that the answer to New Hampshire, had the same experi- both is money and power. Power over ence, but gave up for good the first millions who are willing to be babied time, footing a bill of $200,000 for a and taken care of. And the fear by some new water system. Fluoridated New scientists of losing status. And, as sadly, York Gty has constant trouble with its the downright permissiveness of most mains, water there, occasionally being doctors and dentists and of the public reduced to a trickle in some places. generally. In sum, the decay of moral A similar difficulty plagues the fluoriintegrity. We see it on every front today; fluoridation is only an aggravated case dated cities of San Francisco and Schenectady, New York, and is kept under of a universal failing. wraps in many other places. Fluorides and metals simply do not coexist. NATIONAL HEALTH j FEDERATION ; Page 9 COMPLETE KITH STOVE, ICEBOX, BUTANE TANK AND HEATER At GAIL'S VRAOILIIBS. JUST OFF RiVERDALE RD. ON 1999144 700 WEST, OGDEN |