A Case for Water Fluoridation as Toxic Ingestion

Dr. Yiamouyiannis received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Rhode Island and served his post-doctoral fellowship at the Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He then became editor at Chemical Abstracts Service, the world's largest chemical information center, where he first became aware of the health damaging effects of fluoride. He states 'Dean Burk was former chief chemist of the National Cancer Institute, and has co-authored studies with many Nobel prize winners including Otto Warburton, and he is the co-author of the most cited paper in the entire field of biochemistry - the Lineweaver-Burk Enzyme Kinetics. In the 1970s, Dean Burk and I conducted a number of studies that linked fluoride, and cancer. There was already scientific evidence from the 1950s that fluoride was causing cancer, and a 1963 study by Driscowitz and Norton showed that increased fluoride concentrations in the media in experimental animals - thereby increasing tumour incidence from 12% at the lowest concentrations up to 100%. Taylor and Taylor published a study in 1965 at the University of Texas in all the mainline medical journals showing that 1 ppm or even 0.5 ppm increased tumour growth rate by 25%. Through these studies enough data was found to compare the cancer death rate before and after fluoridation of fluoridated communities and compare them to non-fluoridated communities. Based on millions of subjects, the study showed a 5 to 10% increase in cancer death rate within three to five years after fluoridation was put into the water after correcting for various demographic factors like age, race and sex. All the variables were controlled. This was then followed by a series of other studies. In 1977, via full blown Congressional Hearings Congress stated: "We can no longer assure the American public that fluoride does not cause cancer". Dean Burk and other well-known scientists were there, and on the opposing side was the American Dental Association. Ten years later, Proctor and Gamble, makers of Crest toothpaste found that fluoride was causing precarcinogenic changes in cells.

Further, even if fluoride is able to mitigate dental caries, this is under the premise of topical application – not ingestion. In fact, fluoridated toothpaste is labeled with warnings to seek medical help or contact a poison control center immediately if the toothpaste is swallowed. Fluoride is an industrial waste product, a by-product of the aluminum industry and the phosphate fertilizer companies who have mountains of fluoride that is polluting the ground water. They have to get rid of it, and the old solution to pollution is dilution - just put it in the drinking water. Yet ironically enough, and due to the high degree of industrialization there, research indicates that much of the product used for water fluoridation now comes from China,

According to a book review by Jay Seavy of Yiamouyiannis’ book: Fluoride the Aging Factor: How to Recognize and Avoid the Devastating Effects of Fluoride, it is a straightforward account of fluoride and the politics of fluoridation by one who was in the midst of the scientific and political battles for over a quarter of a century. Yiamouyiannis, a Ph.D. in biochemistry, documents with about 50 pages of references a very readable explanation of how fluoride upsets the body's collagen metabolism, causing damage to bones, teeth, connective tissue, arteries and skin; how it damages DNA and upsets the body's ability to repair its DNA, with tumors and cancer as a result; and how it damages enzymes and proteins, upsets the immune system, and causes autoimmune diseases. He thoroughly refutes the idea that fluoride is beneficial in preventing tooth decay, and that it has a useful function in human nutrition. It is, in fact, a toxic pollutant generated by many industries, such as the manufacturing of aluminum, phosphate fertilizer, steel, nuclear materials and fuels, ceramics, brick, glass, concrete, to name a few. Yiamouyiannis lays out the long, ugly, and outrageous history, and is a lot more even-tempered in his presentation than you may be after reading his book. A must-read for anyone contemplating the issue of water fluoridation, and wanting to do so from a factual basis. Further toward the "social corruption" aspect of water fluoridation, one may wish to read, by Jay Seavey: "Water Fluoridation and Crime in America" www.fluorideresearch.org/381/files/38111-22.pdf which reference is offered in memory of John Yiamouiannis”

Sources:
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2009/04/oregon_the_goto_place_for_toot.html

http://www.amazon.com/Fluoride-Aging-Factor-Recognize-Devastating/product-reviews/0913571016/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

The Fluoride Deception by Christoper Bryson http://www.amazon.com/The-Fluoride-Deception-Christopher-Bryson/dp/1583227008/ref=pd_sim_b_3