A Potent Toxin
Chris D. Meletis, ND (with permission from cpmedical.net, access pin: 587556)
Fluoride is a chemical compound of the element fluorine found naturally in food, water and air. Humans are also exposed to fluoride from municipal water supplies (when it’s added), dental treatments, coal burning, pesticides, fertilizers, pharmaceuticals, bricks, tiles and ceramics, and steel and glass fiber industries. According to a World Health Organization 2002 publication, fluoride has both beneficial and detrimental effects on human health, with a narrow range between the intakes at which these occur.1
Fluoridation of drinking water began in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945. Currently, an estimated 300 million people are exposed to fluoridated water, including 5.5 million in the United Kingdom and 144 million in the United States.2 Although the controversy over fluoridation of drinking water continues in the U.S., 97 percent of Western Europe has chosen not to fluoridate their water.3
