>From: Joshua Lutes <[email protected]> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Bryan Sant <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'll bite. Fluoride is toxic. Read the warning label (which the FDA >> now requires) on a tube of toothpaste sometime. > > > http://www.fluoridedebate.com/question21.html: > *Acute fluoride toxicity occurring from the ingestion of optimally > fluoridated water is impossible.104 The amount of fluoride necessary > to cause death for a human adult (155 pound man) has been estimated to > be 5-10 grams of sodium fluoride, ingested at one time.140 This is more > than 10,000-20,000 times as much fluoride as is consumed at one time > in a single 8-ounce glass of optimally fluoridated water.* > * > * > So, you need to ingest about sixty gallons at one time (we can even > suppose you have a whole day to do that). I suspect that if you were > able to do that you would need to deal with other problems unrelated to > too much fluoride.
Ok, so I'll bite now. This assumes that you are going to drink enough fluoride to kill yourself. But toxicity isn't just limited to killing you! A few weeks after I moved to Albany, New York, I began to develop a dry patch on my arm. After I married my wife, we moved to Troy, New York, and the dry patches spread to both my arms, and I began to suffer from itchy, dry skin. On a visit to my family in Salt Lake, my father complained that the then-recent fluoridation made his skin dry and itchy... so I decided that I should look up symptoms of ingested fluoride. >From this, I learned that itchy skin *is* a symptom of fluoride hyper- sensitivity; I learned that Troy *did* fluoridate their water; and, since I often visited my wife's family, who lived in Troy, I had exposure to fluoridated water. Since Albany did *not* fluoridate their water, I started to bring bottles of water from my school; and as I avoided fluoridated water, the patches almost went away. They didn't go away completely until I stopped using fluoridated toothpaste. Granted, I haven't done a double-blind test to determine if fluoride was the problem; it could be psychosomatic. Even so, I have a personal reason to avoid fluoride. Am I against others using fluoride? No. Am I against putting it in drinking water? Yes. Is there a conspiracy to put fluoride in the drinking water? I doubt it. The conspiracy I'm closest to believing is an article that tried to make the case that fluoride in the drinking water was a way for the government to justify putting large amounts of waste fluoride in the air during the Manhattan Project; and if this theory is correct, our use of fluoride is just a stupid mask to avoid liability. ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
