Protecting Your Family from Fluoride By Stuart Cooper, FAN campaign manager

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Protecting Your Family from Fluoride

 By Stuart Cooper, FAN campaign manager

 

Of course, the best way to avoid fluoride is to work with your friends and neighbors to get it out of your water - or keep it out of the water.  That requires organizing and education.  We need education not fluoridation!
When fluoride was first added to water in the 1940s, in an experiment to prevent tooth decay, not a single dental product contained fluoride: no fluoride toothpastes, no fluoride mouth rinses, no fluoride varnishes, and no fluoride gels. In the past 60 years, as more communities began fluoridation and one fluoride product after another entered the market, exposure to fluoride increased considerably, particularly among children.
Exposure from other sources has increased as well, such as: infant formula, processed foods, soups, soda and beer made with fluoridated water, food grown with fluoride-containing pesticides and fumigated in warehouses with sulfuryl fluoride (buy organic!), iced tea, raisins, fruit juices, wine, mechanically deboned chicken, and pharmaceuticals and fluoridated anaesthetics that metabolizes to yield a free fluoride ion.  Taken together, the glut of fluoride sources in the modern diet and at the tap has created a toxic cocktail, one that has caused a dramatic increase in dental fluorosis (a tooth defect caused by excess fluoride intake) over the past 60 years. The problem with fluoride, therefore, is not that we are receiving too little (we don’t need any!), but that we are receiving too much. 
FAN guides to help you reduce your exposure to fluoride. 

Please share these guides with your friends and family:  

• Top 10 Ways to Reduce Fluoride Exposure
• FAN’s Grocery Guide: 7 Ways to Avoid Fluoride in Beverages and Food 
• Top 5 Ways to Reduce Fluoride Exposure From Infant Formula
• Considerations When Buying a Water Filter

Fluoride Content in:

• Tea / Bottled Water /Processed Beverages / Fruit Juice / Beer (from ffbeers.com.
• Mechanically Deboned Chicken / Fresh Food
• Dental Products
• Approved Fluoride Levels in U.S. Food

Other Sources of Exposure:

• Industrial Workplace
• Teflon Pans
• Pharmaceuticals
• Pesticides on Food 

The Fluoride Action Network is committed to educating citizens around the world about the risks associated with fluoride in an effort to ultimately reduce exposure to this neurotoxic and endocrine disrupting chemical, which accumulates in our bones over our whole lifetime.  
With your help we can continue to develop more free educational materials and guidebooks in this pursuit. If you find these resources helpful and would like to see more developed, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution--why not give it to FAN instead of Uncle Sam!

To make a tax-deductible donation you can either:

• Donate online using our secure server.

• Or by check – please make checks payable to Fluoride Action Network and send to: FAN, c/o Connett, 104 Walnut Street, Binghamton NY 13905

See the many GIFTS available for your donation!

 

Sincerely,

 

Stuart Cooper

Campaign Manager

Fluoride Action Network 

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