Recently, the federal government recommended reducing the fluoride we put in our water. Is our water really safe to drink? Let’s look.
First we add chlorine, a greenish-yellow gas and a toxic-respiratory irritant used in World War I as a weapon. It can still react that way when taking a hot shower. We use chlorine to purify our water and eliminate harmful pathogens, but we don’t have to drink it. We can and should filter it out.
Fluoride is classified as hazardous waste by the EPA, slightly less toxic than arsenic, more toxic than lead! The naturally occurring element fluoride – a trace mineral – isn’t the same as the hydrofluoric acid we add to our water supply. Hydrofluoric acid is a waste product from aluminum, steel, cement, fertilizer and nuclear-weapon production. It has no nutrient value.
Fluoride is one of the most caustic of all industrial-waste products and the active toxin in rat poison and cockroach powder. The fluoride we drink is commercially used as a gas for making freezers, air conditioners, computer screens, fluorescent light bulbs, semiconductors, plastics, herbicides and, of course, toothpaste.
Fluoride has been shown to disrupt collagen synthesis, lead to the breakdown of bones, tendons, teeth, skin, cartilage, lungs, trachea, kidneys and destroy the body’s enzyme and intestinal-bacterial systems. Fluoride inhibits the formation of antibodies in the blood, increases tumor growth and elevates cancer rates! It has been directly linked to osteoporosis, cancer, low IQ levels in children, myriad thyroid conditions, elevated blood pressure, genetic disorders and muscle degeneration. Fluoride does make bones harder, but also makes them more brittle, so they break more easily. Fluoride at the level of 1 part per million, used in Durango, disrupts the body’s ability to repair its own DNA.
Telluride and Pagosa Springs are among five Colorado communities that choose not to add fluoride to local water supply. Durango, too, can make this healthy change and save thousands of dollars per year in the process.
For more information about water – and the scientific studies that back it up – see my article “Water Water Everywhere” at www.HeathisSimple.com.
Jim Forleo
Durango
