Over The Hill Health Matters

« Posted by Pat Franczyk on February 1, 2010 »

Drop the fluoride toothpaste folks, it is hurting your health.

The union of scientists for the EPA has asked for fluoride’s removal from toothpaste and water. It apparently has been proven, unequivacally, to do more harm than good. And the risk to children’s health in particular, is not worth the risk of any supposed benefit it may have for a small portion of the population’s tooth enamel.

Children swallow toothpaste. So do a lot of adults. Too much fluoride-filled toothpaste causes very bad stomach aches, and less than a tube of toothpaste can kill a 25 pound child.

Two tubes can kill an adult.

CSI says so.

If you can’t trust CSI, well, I just don’t know who you can trust.

I remember playing “inventor” as a child. Toothpaste was often the main ingredient in my mad scientist concoctions.This was long before the U.S. and Canadian governments insisted that fluoride be listed as a poison on the toothpaste tubes in 1997.

I remember parents happily allowing their children to play with their toothbrushes and the toothpaste tube while in the bathtubs. Limitless amounts of toothpaste were being sucked between their children’s teeth and down their gullets. Parents thought that this would be beneficial for their precious baby boos.

I wonder how many children’s commonly reported bed-time stomach aches were a result of this innocent  practice, and not an excuse for more attention, as it was often thought.

I have recently been using a fluoridated toothpaste, since we ran out of our fluoride-free one, and I was housebound due to a torn knee. I love my teeth, and am happy to have a shiny, white, clean smile so that I can mesmerize my victims into providing me with favours.

You can imagine my dismay when I realized my machiavellian plans would all be falling by the wayside because my gums were bleeding for no apparent reason. No plaque or tartar build-up; I just had my teeth cleaned recently.

I went to the trusty internet to find out what might be causing the bleeding gums. A site called Doctor’s Home Remedies stated that anyone having teeth and gum difficulties without obvious cause should stop using fluoride toothpaste, as too much, ie. any fluoride could be the cause of these problems.

And many other problems in the body also. ADD and ADHD included.

What?…..

I was shocked to learn that fluoride, even in the so-called small amounts found in toothpaste and public water supplies, can contribute to thyroid issues, arthritis, low levels of digestive enzymes, weak joints, loose and brittle teeth, and mottled enamel.

Fluoride combines with other chemicals, you see, so the positive results for tooth enamel are dependent upon other, uncontrollable factors. Fluoride dangers are numerous. I will dedicate a later post to a more in-depth scientific paper on the extent to which fluoride can affect our bodies, with the emphasis on why.

For the time being, please just take the EPA’s word for it, and stop using any toothpaste, water, or mouthwash with fluoride in it.

Fluoride can actually kill you, or leave you toothless.

Or dead and toothless.

How undignified.

How insane to even consider putting this stuff in our water supply and toothpaste.

I gimped out to the car and hobbled into the drug store in order to find a fluoride-free toothpaste. There was only one product available in the major pharmaceutical franchise known as Shopper’s Drug Mart.

Shopper’s carries Tom’s of Maine brand toothpaste in a number of natural fluoride-free flavours. I used it for only one evening and one morning, and my bleeding gums healed and have stayed healthy ever since. I am never going back to a fluoride toothpaste again, not even in an emergency. I’ll suck it up and use salt or baking soda if I can’t get out to the store.

Since fluoride can also cause heart palpitations, and a hyper-sensitive response to a simple cup of tea, it is totally evil and should no longer be scraped out of the smoke stacks of fertilizer factories and dumped  into the water and dental paste of an unsuspecting, and uninformed general public.

The general public might be ignorant, but those in the know who allow this poisoning of the populous to continue unabated as a means of getting rid of a deadly environmental contaminant which is an offshoot of fertilizer manufacuring, are criminals.

Hurting their own families for a profit.

Support the Environmental Protection Agency in their scientifically-backed fight to free us from fluoride poisoning.

Solay toothpastes, like all of their products, are given the green light for poison-free and allergy-free cosmetic products by the U.S.-based international cosmetic watch-dog, the Environmental Energy Workers SkinDeep cosmetic database site, www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. No fluoride dangers lurking in any of Solay’s products. (And yes, “fluoride dangers” is a keyword phrase that I need to repeat to drive traffic to this site. So is fluoride-free toothpaste. Hee hee; I sneaked it in. I’m so sneaky. Not.)

Tom’s of Maine carry one fluoridated toothpaste that they have recently and most misguidedly added to their dental cleaning arsenal. They have bowed to the pressures of a misinformed public.

Don’t sell out to The Man, Tom. Stick with fluoride-free toothpaste. Be a man.

Well.ca is an excellent internet company providing a number of fluoride-free toothpastes on-line. It has affordable products and offers a 60-day money-back guarantee, should you feel the need to return any purchase. They are a new internet presence, offering over 10,000 non-prescription health products for your purchasing pleasure.

Don’t forget to cross-reference any of your potential cosmetic purchases at the Environmental Energy Worker’s SkinDeep www.cosmeticsdatabase.com. This independently funded body of cosmetic scientists have done the research. All you have to do to stay free of toxic additives and chemicals is use it.

Find your safe products at Well.ca and  SolayWellness.com.

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