Avoiding Sal

[Tinto]

not Mineo, but sal as in table salt in LA. I'm a little hesitant to post this for fear of being labeled a little fanatic on the topic but then thought what the heck, those that know and love me already know I'm a tad bit strange so here goes...

Prior to 1993 I thought fluoride was beneficial in preventing dental caries. I reversed my opinion on the matter while at work when a friend and customer of mine, a registered nurse, came in to my business apparently very distraught about something. I asked her why she was so upset. I was floored at what she told me, that her nine year old son had recently died from a fluoride treatment at a local dentist's office. Needless to say I was stunned at what she told me.

Upon investigating her claims that fluoride was very toxic I was shocked that our government would allow this stuff to be added to much of our water supplies, toothpastes and dental treatments. I now avoid it like the plague.

While in Colombia this last go-around I picked up a common bottle of table salt and read the label. I could not believe what was added to it..."flor", Spanish for fluoride. I thought why in the Sam Hill are they putting fluoride into table salt in Colombia? Later I spoke with a friend who is a sports medicine doctor in Medellin about this and found out that very few people in Colombia are aware of it's dangers, including my highly educated friend. Needless to say she was intrigued when I told her about the available evidence that fluoride was harmful to one's health. She thanked me for the head's up and is now convinced that it should not be ingested.

I did a little investigating recently about this practice of adding fluoride to South American table salt and found out that it is a result of the Kellogg Foundation and the Pan American Health Organization. Here is the link for those interested:

http://www.rvi.net/~fluoride/000132.htm

My advice if you're concerned about your health, would be to avoid using this seasoning while in LA or bring your own sal de mar. Not only does sea salt taste better but it has none of these little American surprises in it.

[Charlie640]

Yep... Flouride can be nasty. I read this a few days ago.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070415...l_070415064531

The truth is ANYTHING done in excess will kill you. I was surprised one day to hear that some one died of drinking too much water!

[Tinto]

Charlie,

Thanks for pointing out that article. I was amazed at the quotes the Chinese government gave concerning how many of their citizens have skeletal fluorosis, "Nationwide more than 2.8 million have some form of skeletal fluorosis, according to data published in 2005 by China's national health ministry. The condition is so common in rural China, where 800 million of the nation's 1.3 billion people live, that the health ministry estimates that 100 million are at risk."

For those of you that would like to see some photos of this condition:







True, it's possible for someone to die of drinking too much water but we're not comparing apples to apples. Knowingly putting something in our water or food supply and even have one part of the medical community make false claims about its benefits is nothing less than heinous.

The first time fluoride was used on humans was in Nazi Germany and it wasn't for the dental health of their victims. If anyone thinks this is a little over the top read the following:

"The first occurence of fluoridating water on Earth was found in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluorides supposed effect on children's teeth; their alledged reason for mass medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book "The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)

The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from Mr. Charles Perkins, a chemist: "I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation regarding a statement made in my book, The Truth About Water Fluoridation, to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England from Russia by the Russian Communist Kreminoff. "In the 1930`s, Hitler and the German Nazi`s envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place. ...
"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual`s power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him. [A convenient light lobotomy]
"The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children`s teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty.
"When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go into Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communize the world. ...
"I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years` research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically." CHARLES E. PERKINS, Chemist, 2 October 1954.
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Quoting Einstein`s nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952:
"It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the 'next' on the agenda of the water poisoners.
"There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless 'intellectual' parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic--from within if they can, according to their plan--for their own possession.
"The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us.
"Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration. ..
"As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don`t do it.
"Even in small quantities, sodium fluoride is a deadly poison to which no effective antidote has been found. Every exterminator knows that it is the most efficient rat-killer. ... Sodium fluoride is entirely different from organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate needed by our bodies and provided by nature, in God`s great providence and love, to build and strengthen our bones and our teeth. This organic calcium-fluoro-phosphate, derived from proper foods, is an edible organic salt, insoluble in water and assimilable by the human body, whereas the non-organic sodium fluoride used in fluoridating water is instant poison to the body and fully water soluble.
The body refuses to assimilate it. "Careful, bonafide laboratory experimentation by conscientious, patriotic research chemists, and actual medical experience, have both revealed that instead of preserving or promoting `dental health,` fluoridated drinking water destroys teeth, before adulthood and after, by the destructive mottling and other pathological conditions it actually causes in them, and also creates many other very grave pathological conditions in the internal organisms of bodies consuming it. How can it be called a "health" plan? What`s behind it?
"That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity. "No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin`s Last Will and Hitler`s Mein Kampf:
> "America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within." ...
"Are our Civil Defense organizations and agencies awake to the perils of water poisoning by fluoridation? Its use has been recorded in other countries. Sodium fluoride water solutions are the cheapest and most effective rat killers known to chemists: colorless, odorless, tasteless; no antidote, no remedy, no hope: Instant and complete extermination of rats. ...
"Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity--treason!"
Dr. E.H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles.