The Pure Water Newsletter #13, 2001 Issue

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The Pure Water Newsletter
#13, 2001 Issue

"Improving the Quality of Life through the Quality of Water."
News and Views about Water and Health from http://www.purewaterinc.com/

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IN THIS ISSUE

Welcome!
New Web Site Announcement!
Water in the News
Featured Article: Fluoridation 101 - By New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation
From the FAQ Files!
Previous Newsletter

Welcome!

Welcome to the Pure Water Newsletter brought to you by Pure Water, Inc! Every month or so we will bring you up to date on Drinking Water and Health issues surrounding your drinking water.

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New Web Site Announcement!

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Water in the News!

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Nando Times - Ohio health officials warn of contaminated drinking water
NORTH CANTON, Ohio - Hundreds of residents were warned not to drink, bathe or wash clothes after deadly pollutants turned up in some test wells.
http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/27108p-483099c.html

Yahoo - New Hampshire proposes MTBE-free RFG alternative
New Hampshire, concerned that federally required cleaner-burning gasoline is polluting its groundwater, plans to replace the mandated fuel with its own blend of green gasoline that meets U.S. air quality standards.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010530/n30411132.html

KC Star - Fumes, foul water surface in region
In Missouri, MTBE has contaminated water in 20 towns. In Kansas, the chemical has polluted 19 of the state's 1,122 public water supplies since 1996.
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/story,local/3acc9c9f.421,.html

ENN - Mining industry is nation's biggest polluter
The mining industry was the nation's top polluter in 1999, contributing slightly over half the 7.77 billion pounds of toxic chemicals released to the environment, says a new government report.
http://www.enn.com/enn-subsciber-news-archive/2001/04/04142001/krt_mining_43056.asp

Fluoridation 101...

The chemical fluoride, purposely added to most US water supplies, doesn't purify it, but medicates those who drink it who are told fluoride is a safe and effective cavity fighter. But it's neither.

A 1940's concept, water fluoridation's goal was for every faucet in America to dispense one milligram fluoride daily via approximately 1 quart of water. Dentists mistakenly believed that swallowed fluoride incorporated into young children's developing teeth making them decay resistant; however, recent research shows fluoride's tooth remineralization occurs topically only. Public health officials predicted fluoride would eradicate tooth decay like vaccines prevented some diseases but they were wrong about that too.

Fluoride tablets were prescribed to children from communities that wouldn't or couldn't fluoridate. With no or very poor research to back them up, dentists said swallowing l milligram fluoride daily reduced tooth decay without fluoride's adverse effects such as dental fluorosis (see picture above) but they were even wrong about that.

Fluoride supplements, never safety tested by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), were "grandfathered" in before the FDA law passed requiring testing before a drug can be consumed by humans. New research shows that children who consume fluoride tablets are more at risk for dental fluorosis and the Canadian Dental Association no longer routinely recommends them.

Astonishingly, research now shows swallowing fluoride is virtually useless and has unnecessarily exposed millions of Americans to fluoride's adverse side effects like dental fluorosis and bone disease. Dental fluorosis, white spotted, yellow or brown stained and sometimes pitted and crumbly teeth, has, not so surprisingly, increased in North American children with the spread of water fluoridation. Ironically, studies show tooth decay rates are virtually the same in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities, alike.

Dental fluorosis has gotten so bad that some dental experts say that it costs more to repair teeth damaged by fluoride than would have been saved had water fluoridation actually reduced tooth decay.

HOW WE GOT INTO THIS MESS

At the turn of the last century, many residents of the Southwest US had unusually ugly teeth. They called it "Colorado Brown Stain." Dental researchers sought to discover the source of this disfiguring tooth malformation. The culprit was high levels of fluoride in the water. Since these ugly teeth resisted decay, well-meaning but misguided dentists assumed the fluoride also caused the teeth to resist decay. However, what they overlooked is significant. The water supply was also very high in calcium and magnesium, essential nutrients we now know makes teeth strong.

In another highly unbelievable move, the dentists convinced public health people to experiment with this new fluoride discovery. They hypothesized that, if natural fluoride (calcium fluoride) in drinking water makes teeth resist decay, let's see if artificially fluoridating a town's water makes any difference.

So they used all the people in a few cities like Grand Rapids Michigan and Newburgh New York as their guinea pigs. In Newburgh, NY, they added sodium fluoride into the water supply in 1945 and left Kingston, NY, unfluoridated to act as the control.

Of course they declared fluoridation a success after only five years even though the permanent teeth of the children who were born into the experiment hadn't even erupted yet. They said fluoride was safe because they examined school children who weren't sick two weeks before the examination date - virtually eliminating the very children who may have been made ill by the fluoride. And they never even checked out the adults.

Ten years later, the State University of New York found that children in fluoridated Newburgh had more cortical bone defects and higher rates of hemoglob anemia. Kingston never fluoridated and recent studies show that tooth decay rates are higher in fluoridated Newburgh and their rates of dental fluorosis has sky-rocketed.

And what's even more perverse is that the chemical used to fluoridate your drinking water is an industrial waste product that, along with fluoride, carries lead, arsenic, and other contaminants to a faucet near you.

The silicofluorides haven't even been safety tested in animals. With the map of the USA as a laboratory, researchers are finding that silicofluorides increase children's lead absorption, increases women's risk of hip fractures, increases dental fluorosis, can lower IQ and contribute to cancer risk and DNA damage. Fluoridation has provided a lucrative sector for researchers to apply for federal grants to study the after effects of the crazy decision to put fluoride into humans' water supply and then see what happens.

Over 62% of US communities fluoridate and most foods and beverages sold in the US are made with that water. US children are overdosed with fluoride whether rich or poor, healthy or malnourished from various sources. So it's not a surprise that after fifty years of pushing fluoride as a panacea to tooth decay, the US Surgeon General recently reported an oral health epidemic among the poor and certain minority groups, who most often already live in fluoridated communities. If their bodies were nourished, their teeth would prosper. But instead dentists are lobbying legislators all over the US to fluoridate water supplies - even when the people have voted against it and even when the studies say fluoride is hurting our children. Meanwhile, the American Dental Association reported to the press on June 16, 2000 that they have a new cavity fighting tool - calcium.

(The New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation consists of physicians, dentists, legislators, lawyers, scientists, environmentalists and other professionals as well as mothers, fathers and others who contribute their efforts in a volunteer capacity to inform the public about fluoride's/fluoridation's harmful dental, systemic and cumulative effects. Our primary objective, ultimately, is to end the fluoridation of public water supplies. We are part of a national and international network of organizations that oppose water fluoridation.)
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof/index.html

From the FAQ Files!

http://www.purewaterinc.com/html/frequently_asked_questions.htm

Why use distillation?

Distillation is the single most effective method of water purification and can be used throughout the world on all types of incoming water.

Unlike other treatment methods such as carbon filters and reverse osmosis, our systems are effective on virtually all contaminants and are not dependent on water pressure, water temperature, pH, or chlorine and can even be used on water containing bacteria and parasites and still produce safe, 99.9% pure water.

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Water in the News
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