Aspartame and water Fluoridation

[EireEngineer]

Originally Posted by Eye-Kon

Your absolutely right, the devil is in the details that you continuously fail to point out. I'm really getting tired of your ignorant posts. Quit spamming this forum with dis-information. I find all sorts contradicting info on the net about how big the worlds population, this info is very hard to get accurate data on. Btw I don't use wikipedia a whole lot, its alotta garbage. Anyways ever since I was kid (20 right now) I've heard the worlds population is like 6 billion and today I hear the same thing. My dad says in the 70s it was supposably 6 billion. The population seems to be plateau-ing. Which is some-what amazing considering it should probably be around at least 8 billion by now. I remember hearing in 98 in school that by 2010 the population should be 7.5-8 billion. On top of that the average life expectancy is going down, my generation is suppose to be the first in a long time that doesn't live as long there parents did. Death rates are regulated, wake up. Lay off the wikipedia and start reading some substantiated data. Start reading books.

As for fluoride its a poison, simple as that. You don't need it at all. It only temporarely helps your teeth produce enamel, one of the long term affects of fluoride is actually the destruction of tooth enamel. Look up dental fluorosis or skeletal fluorosis. It also causes BRAIN LESIONS! And no you don't have FLUORIDE in your body naturally. Maybe by-products of it but thats not the same. The US center of disease control estimates theres 30-50 thousand excess deaths each year in areas with 1 ppm of fluoride in the tap water rather then no fluoride in the water.

LOL, I find it funny that you of all people is telling someone to read books more. Do you have a bachelors in any science discipline, much less a Masters?

Anyway....yes you do need Fluorine in your body in trace amounts for bone formation. About 20 ug/g (thats twenty micrograms per gram, for those of you in Rio Lindon). Also, the sodium fluoride used in tap water is a soluble compound, and easily processed and excreted from the urine. This means that it can never build up into sufficient concentrations to cause brain lesions or an of the other horrid symptoms you ascribe to it.

Also, by all credible reporting (your father’s redoubtable memory aside), the world population has nearly doubled since the 1970’s. I would be interested to know what these purported causes of death are that will kill the current generation off faster than the previous one? Seems unlikely since they just raised the life expectancy again.

[BlueAngel]

Originally Posted by Eye-Kon

You don't ingest tooth paste. However, alot of people do ingest tap water and some bottled waters. Try googling fluoride.. it will come up with thousands of pages on how fluoride is a poison.

Yes.

Fluoride is a poison in high doses.

For instance.

I ingested a GLOB of toothpaste the other day, which I've never done before.

On the back of the tube, it said to call poison control if swallowed.

I did.

They asked for my weight and age.

All was okay.

When brushing your teeth, one is supposed to apply only a "pea-sized" shape of paste onto the brush and not a line of paste from bristle to bristle.

You are wrong.

We ingest a small amount of toothpaste which contains FLOURIDE each time we brush our teeth.

[EireEngineer]

You should probably get checked for brain lesions according to this guy. However, I would be more worried about the benzyl alcohol/sodium benzoate than the flouride, but even this is harmless in small amounts.

[Milly]

Not all toothpastes contain fluoride. People do have this option, and it's very easy to find if you are looking for it.

Fluoride may or may not be necessary. Personally I try to avoid it when I can by using a toothpaste without, and drinking reverse osmosis water.

I am not an oral health professional, but as far as oral health goes, personally I'd say the bigger problem might be old dental amalgams. Take the following video click for example:

You Tube

My dentist was careful to change our old amalgam to the new white ones years ago, and explained that they were healthier. And then I found the above video a few months ago.

[Cazbat]

Originally Posted by EireEngineer

Pure sillyness. "Oooooohh. I found a YouTube video! It must be true!"

Well you continue to have your aspartame and fluoride intake then, I think I'll pass.

it is quite hard to buy a diet soft drink these days without aspartame in it I tried in one shop and ended up buying a bottle of water as there was none available. and that prob contained fluoride.

[EireEngineer]

Probably, considering almost all bottled water is merely packaged tap water.