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Fractures linked to fluoride
Topic Started: Apr 28 2009, 10:19 PM (933 Views)
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I'm just going to make it easy on myself and copy and paste this as it is.

Barb, thank you, this is a fantastic article. Even though the water is not fluoridated here in Oregon (like it is in Arizona, for instance) The toothpaste I use, is. It used to be you had a choice when you went to the store, the fluoridated toothpastes, and the non-fluoridated toothpastes... I think close-up and ultra brite used to be non-fluoridated... but not anymore. Now, I can't find toothpaste of any kind that doesn't contain fluoride......

Some time ago I found a really good recipe for making homemade toothpaste, which is still on my agenda and may be for quite the while, because gathering and assembling the recipe and the not necessarily so common ingredients isn't the easiest thing, lol.

More recently I was looking around for things at an online Islamic store and I was visiting the toothpaste pages. Miswik is the coolest stuff on Earth and natural and antiseptic and just great for your teeth and gums. I ordered it before and found it quite interesting. These stores also carry non-fluoridated toothpaste... Miswik toothpaste primarily and so are at least-most a resource for non-fluoridated toothpaste for hygiene and health.

It's convenient enough for a lot of us to order online and so some of you might want to check into it.

Thanks again, Barb. I would like to share this post with a couple of my other groups. Good information, thanks!

I'll add a couple links, and there are many more out there.

http://www.halalco.com/miswak.html

http://alhannah.com/personalcare.html



--- In earthchanges@yahoogroups.com, Barb Lantto <earthfeather99@...> wrote:



--- On Tue, 4/28/09, Paul Connett paul@...> wrote:

From: Paul Connett <paul@...>
Subject: FAN Bulletin 1067: Important News from Ireland
To: earthfeather99@...
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 8:47 AM




FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org

FAN Bulletin 1067: Important News from Ireland

April 28, 2009

Dear Barb,

Before you read the article below, Doctors 'struggling to cope' with upsurge in hip fractures, which appeared in The Sunday Times of Ireland on April 12, and Professor Vyvyan Howard's response to the article (April 19), here is some important background information to put this story in context.

Ireland is the only country in Europe with mandatory fluoridation and with more than 70% of its population drinking fluoridated water it is well above the next highest country (UK at 10%). Most European countries do not fluoridate their drinking water and yet according to WHO figures their teeth are no worse than countries that do.

The Irish mandatory fluoridation law went into effect in 1963, and in the 46 years since the government has done NO (zero) health studies on the population - just endless studies on teeth and a completely BOGUS review of the issue called the Fluoridation Forum (2002).

While the epidemiological studies on a connection between fluoridation and hip fractures are mixed, in my view and the view of the National Research Council (NRC, 2006), the weight of evidence of animal studies, clinical trials and the epidemiological studies is that excess fluoride weakens bones making them more brittle and more prone to fracture. The most convincing of the epidemiological studies is the study by Li et al (2001) who showed what looks like a linear increase in hip fractures in the elderly drinking well water containing above 1.00 ppm, with the rates in the village with 4.3 - 8 ppm triple that of the rate in the 1 ppm village .

The NRC 2006 report requested the EPA Office of Drinking Water to perform a new risk assessment because the Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) for fluoride --which is based on the "best" science at the time to provide a safe Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL), the regulatory standard-- was not protective of human health. Both the MCL and MCLG are 4 ppm fluoride. Two of the adverse health effects NRC wants EPA to re-assess are involved with fluoride's impact on the bone:
Bone fractures: "... the majority of the committee concluded that the MCLG is not likely to be protective against bone fractures." (page 3)

Clinical Stage 2 skeletal fluorosis: "associated with chronic joint pain, arthritic symptoms, calcification of ligaments, and osteosclerosis of cancellous bones ... the committee judges that stage II is more appropriately characterized as the first stage at which the condition is adverse to health. Thus, this stage of the affliction should also be considered in evaluating any proposed changes in drinking-water standards for fluoride." (pages 170-171)
Thus there is a strong chance that the increased rate of hip fractures (and maybe arthritis rates as well) in Ireland has something to do with the fact that those aged over 46 have had a lifetime of exposure to fluoride (in their water, in their toothpaste, in their tea, and in their Guiness! (see the Nun's Story on Guiness).

Remember each day approximately 50% of the fluoride ingested is mostly stored in the bone and accumulates there with age. Those with kidney impairment accumulate fluoride even faster.

Hopefully opponents of fluoridation in Ireland will force the government to take a serious look at the hip fracture-fluoridation connection- especially the Green party which is now a junior partner in that government and promised prior to the election that if elected they would end fluoridation!

Paul Connett
The Sunday Times (Ireland) - April 12, 2009

Doctors 'struggling to cope' with upsurge in hip fractures

With population on the rise and more people expected to live longer, medics insist a 'national strategy' is imperative

By Jan Battles

Doctors at Dublin's Mater hospital say a national strategy is needed to cope with the burden that hip fractures will place on the health system as Ireland's population ages and life expectancy increases.

They predict a doubling in the annual number of hip fractures in less than 20 years, and warn that facilities are struggling to cope. There are just over 2,800 fractures a year, but this will exceed 5,700 by 2026.

Ireland has no national strategy for the diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, even though an estimated 90% of hip fractures are due to the brittle-bone disease. The audit found that women over 50 are three times more likely to suffer broken hips than men.

"The prevalence of osteoporosis is increasing all the time," said Kevin Mulhall, an orthopaedic surgeon in the Mater and an author of the study published in Osteoporosis International. "On the surgical side we are seeing increasing numbers of fragility fractures. Because of osteoporosis, the bone is fragile so it fractures.

"People suffer a lot with a hip fracture. It's a serious trauma for an older person and the results afterwards can be pretty devastating for them in terms of their level of independence."

According to the Irish Osteoporosis Society, one in five people aged 60 or over who fracture a hip will die within six to 12 months due to the secondary complications of osteoporosis. These include blood clots, pneumonia or infection from being bed bound. Half of them will no longer be able to dress, wash or walk unassisted. Only 30% will regain their independence.

Mulhall said: "The whole idea is to try and get continuous care where the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of fractures is all improved."

Before the study, there were no figures on how many hip fractures occur each year in Ireland. The Irish Osteoporosis Society estimates the government spends €420m a year on fractures suffered by senior citizens. This is estimated to rise by up to €2 billion by 2030.

Michelle O'Brien of the society said: "The average hip costs approximately ¤15,000. Including rehabilitation it is ¤26,000. Yet a scan for osteoporosis costs on average ¤100 and takes eight minutes. In the majority of people the condition is preventable, and it is treatable."

Earlier this month the charity launched a new radio campaign, fronted by presenter Craig Doyle, to point out that good nutrition can help prevent osteoporosis. Weight-bearing exercise is also advised.

Robin Webster, chief executive of Age Action, said: "One of the problems with falls is that they take older people's confidence. Rehabilitation is critically important. They become prisoners in their own homes because they are not sure - they worry if they go into crowds that they will be pushed or fall."

Ursula Andress, 73, a former Bond girl who has osteoporosis, is supporting an international awareness campaign.
______________________________________________________________________

Professor Vyvyan Howard's response letter

The Sunday Times (Ireland)
April 19, 2009

Fluoride Insight

Further to your report Doctors 'struggling to cope' with upsurge in hip fractures ( News, last week ), the republic of Ireland is the most fluoridated country in the world. There is well documented epidemiological literature associating hip and other fractures with drinking-water fluoridation. It would be most illuminating to compare the reported hip fracture rates with those in unfluoridated Northern Ireland. This finding should be yet another nail in the coffin of this unwarranted mass medicaiton. We certainly should not be extending the practice in the UK.

Professor Vyvyan Howard
Molecular Biosciences Centre, University of Ulster


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--- On Sun, 8/8/10, Paul Connett <paul@...> wrote:


From: Paul Connett <paul@...>
Subject: FAN Bulletin 2028: Ending Fluoridation "One Town at a Time"
To: earthfeather99@...
Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 9:58 AM



Fluoride Action Network
http://fluoridealert.org/

FAN Bulletin 2028: Ending Fluoridation "One Town at a Time"


August 8, 2010

Dear Barb,

We are getting close to making a decision on an appointment of a Campaign
Director for FAN. We have been a little delayed interviewing candidates because
of the intensive activities we have had on two other fronts - last minute edits
on the new book and the July 23-27 FAN Conference.

As always these conferences have a way of paying us back over and over again in
the renewed energy and enthusiasm they generate. This conference was no
exception. As one participant wrote to us:

I don't remember ever attending any conference or meeting where I found
something significant, interesting, intelligent and worthwhile in just about
every person I met. Somehow our issue brought together a very caring and diverse
group of people that exuded an honest cohesion through whatever differences our
backgrounds may have created. That does not happen very often.

You can see a photograph of the participants at the conference (taken by Jack
Cook from Nashville TN) at
http://fluoridealert.org/fan.conference.july.2010.jpeg

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One of the positive outcomes of the conference has been the willingness of
several attendees to volunteer to be the FAN point persons for their respective
states, in the effort to end fluoridation in Canada and the US "one town at a
time." (We will be expanding the list to other countries later). We will be
passing these names along to FAN's new campaign director when he or she is
appointed.

The ideal sequence we envisage will be:

Individual point person to facilitate formation of local group.

Local groups to get help and advice from state point person and/or FAN's
campaign director.

Eventually, we hope that these individual groups can be networked into a
statewide coalition (e.g. NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, NYSCOF) along
with the formation of alliances with other groups (e.g. ActionPa.org).
So if you live in one of the provinces or states listed below, and you want to
see an end to fluoridation in your town or state, please contact the relevant
person in this list and give them your contact details. If no one is listed as a
point person for your state please contact us and we will forward your
information to a state point person when we find one. If you have already
contacted me or FAN wishing to be a point person for your town I will be
forwarding your details to the relevant person on this list.

Please help us maintain the tremendous momentum generated by the Mercola appeal
and consolidated by the FAN conference. Over 300,000 people have now watched the
interview he had with me. See
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/03/paul-connett-inter\
view.aspx . This is just one of the sites covering the hits on this video.

Paul Connett

Canada

Alberta - James Beck <beck@...>
Ontario - Diane Sprules <diane.sprules@...>
Quebec - Gilles Parent <gilles.parent-nd@...>
United States

Arkansas - Crystal Harvey <crystalthepink@...>
Colorado - Cathy Justus <justusoriginals@...>
Florida (St. Petersburg area) - Kurt and Marcia <kurt@...>
Florida (Miami area) - Heinz Dinter <HDinter@...>
Georgia -Dan Stockin <STOCKIN2@...>
Louisiana - Vic Hummert <vic@...>
Massachusetts (Central & South) - Mike Dolan (Central and South
Mass)<mdolan@...>
Massachusetts (Boston area) - Bill Patenaude <BillP173@...>Â
Minnesota - Jason Kreuger <jkrueger@...>
New York - Carol Kopf <NYSCOF@...>
Pennsylvania - Mike Ewall <catalyst@...>
Tennessee - Jack Cook <jcook56050@...>
Texas - Rae Nadler-Oelnick <mrn_olenic@...>
Vermont -Â Karl Novak <kavon95@...>
Virginia - Ken Case <case_k@...>
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Teeth whitening refer to the process of whitening the colour of teeth. Teeth lose its colour with age, intake of coffee, tea, smoking, sodas, and antibiotics. The mineral fluoride is also responsible for yellowing of teeth. It is also known as tooth bleaching. Many techniques have been used for teeth bleaching.

http://www.natural-homeremedies.com/homeremedies_teeth-whitening.htm

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