Title: The Fluoride Deception,

Author: Christopher Bryson:

 ISBN: 1-58322-526-9 

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"If you accidentally swallow more than used for
brushing, get medical help or contact a Poison Control
Center right away." Those words, or something similar,
are on every tube of fluoride toothpaste sold in
America. What could be in it to cause such a warning?
According to this book, it's the fluoride.

Fluoride is not some safe, innocuous substance that
happens to fight cavities. It is used to enrich
uranium for nuclear weapons, to prepare Sarin nerve
gas, to produce high octane gasoline, also to make
refrigerant gases and Teflon plastic. It is also used
in drugs like Prozac and Cipro. Fluoride is a
potential workplace poison and grave environmental
hazard.

Since the 1930s, fluoride has been linked, in Europe,
to a number of illnesses, like central nervous system
disorders, breathing problems and a number of
arthritis-like ailments. But during the Cold War, with
help from researchers funded by the government and
industry, no such problems were reported in America.
It is as if "American" fluoride and "European"
fluoride have two different sets of properties. Can
anyone say "scientific fraud?"

Fluoride may actually help the teeth, but the evidence
is not clear-cut. Cavity rates have fallen
dramatically since the 1940s, but also in countries
that don't fluoridate their water. Perhaps good
nutrition, better dental care and antibiotics can
explain it.

The vast majority, nearly 90 percent, of the fluoride
added to drinking water is actually industrial waste,
scraped from the smokestacks of Florida phosphate
fertilizer mills. The companies are spared the expense
of treating this "fluosilicic acid" as toxic waste.
Instead, it is sold to towns all over America. Shipped
in rubber-lined tanker trucks, it is dumped into
municipal reserviors, supposedly to fight cavities.

On several levels, this book easily reaches the level
of Wow. This well-written tale of public relations
whitewash and corporate/government collusion at the
people's expense has over 100 pages of footnotes, and
is very much a Must Read.