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Friday 11 October 2013

The Latest Fluoride Scam

A severe case of dental fluorosis in a white adult male. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Latest Fluoride Scam

Dear Reader,

You're lying in the dentist chair, with fingers in your mouth and all kinds of things sucking and drilling.

Let's face it, it's hardly a place to start up a conversation. In fact, it would be near impossible.

That's how they catch you with a sneaky technique that dentists use to beef up their cash flow these days.

Hard to say 'No'

As it stands, going to the dentist is a costly exercise, so the last thing you need is a dangerous treatment with no benefits.

I'm talking about fluoride treatment.

It's appropriate that the journal American Chemical Society published this latest fluoride study. After all, this latest fluoride treatment isn't about dental health. It's just a scam to sell tons of fluoride.

Fluoride is a natural mineral. But the fluoride they put in water is a by-product of the fertilizer industry. Decades ago, someone got the bright idea to add unusable fluoride to our water supplies. They hyped it as healthy, and a trusting public bought it.

That's why it's in our tap water. It's in our toothpaste. It's even in some bottled waters. Now, your dentist wants to pile on another pointless layer.

If you manage to decline your dentist's fluoride treatment, he might mention this study. If he does, he'll tell you that it proves that fluoride prevents bacteria from sticking to your teeth.

What he won't mention is that the study didn't even use real teeth... they used false teeth. So what the study really proves is that fluoride prevents bacteria from sticking to synthetic resin, acrylic and porcelain. Once you've highlighted this to your dentist, you can also tell him about the many other downsides of fluoride.

As I've mentioned before, excess fluoride causes dental fluorosis. That's a discolouration of teeth. But it can also cause teeth to pit and crumble. The US Centres for Disease Control (CDC) actually admits that about 40 per cent of US children have some level of dental fluorosis.

That's insanely ironic! They put stuff in your water to protect your teeth. But you can't control the dose and an overdose might ruin your teeth.

But that's not even the worst of it.

Recently, Harvard researchers examined more than two dozen trials that studied cognitive function in children and fluoride exposure. Results show that children who live in high fluoride areas have significantly lower IQ scores than children in low fluoride areas.

Nobody should be surprised. Animal studies already suggest fluoride might be neurotoxic.

It's pure junk! Any scant benefit is no more useful to you than standard dental hygiene.

If your dentist suggests fluoride treatment, take a cue from France, Italy, Israel, Japan, Holland, Sweden, China, Austria, Germany, and other countries. They all decided not to put fluoride in their water supplies.

Tell your dentist you don't need it either.

Saturday 27 July 2013

Valley fever: An incurable illness in the dust!

San Joaquin Valley, California. Children of migrant agricultural workers. - NARA - 521811 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Cases of an incurable illness called valley fever are multiplying at a mystifying rate in the American south-west. Six states are affected, and Mexico too, but few places have been hit as hard as one remote city.

Even in sweltering heat, the wind brings no respite to Avenal.

The gusts are warm, like a hair-dryer, and they carry an invisible threat that has claimed and disrupted many lives

The tiny city of 14,000 people, nestling in a dip in the floor of the San Joaquin Valley, California, is what experts refer to as a "hot zone" for coccidioidomycosis - an illness caused by the inhalation of tiny fungal spores that usually reside in the soil.

Described by the Centers for Disease Control as a silent epidemic, 22,401 new infections were recorded across the US in 2011, mostly in the south-west, up tenfold from 1998.

Although two-thirds of those infected suffer no symptoms, and the illness is not contagious, about 160 people die each year when the fungus spreads beyond the lungs to the brain.

Avenal is at the centre of the epidemic. While millions flock to the famous Californian beaches a couple of hours to the west and to Yosemite National Park to the east, they rarely linger in the San Joaquin Valley, the state's agricultural heartland. Avenal has the air of a forgotten place.

Courtesy of the BBC News - Valley fever: An incurable illness in the dust:

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Tuesday 16 July 2013

Supreme Court rules Drug Companies exempt from Lawsuits

Supreme Court rules Drug Companies exempt from Lawsuits:

In 2004, Karen Bartlett was prescribed the generic anti-inflammatory drug Sulindac, manufactured by Mutual Pharmaceutical, for her sore shoulder. Three weeks after taking the drug, Bartlett began suffering from a disease called, ‘toxic epidermal necrolysis’. The condition is extremely painful and causes the victim’s skin to peel off, exposing raw flesh in the same manner as a third degree burn victim.

Karen Bartlett sued Mutual Pharma in New Hampshire state court, arguing that the drug company included no warning about the possible side effect. A court agreed and awarded her $21 million. The FDA went on to force both Mutual, as well as the original drug manufacturer Merck & Co., to include the side effect on the two drugs’ warning labels going forward.

Now, nine years after the tragedy began, the US Supreme Court overturned the state court’s verdict and award. Justices cited the fact that all generic drugs and their manufacturers, some 80% of all drugs consumed in the United States, are exempt from liability for side effects, mislabeling or virtually any other negative reactions caused by their drugs. In short, the Court ruled that the FDA has ultimate authority over pharmaceuticals in the US. And if the FDA says a drug is safe, that takes precedent over actual facts, real victims and any and all adverse reactions.

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Friday 11 October 2013