We put our trust in the U.S. regulatory agencies and our federal, state and local governments to protect us from chemical consumption like pesticides, industrial runoff, excrement, mercury, and a mile-long list of other pollutants, but much to our dismay, the CDC, FDA, USDA and EPA are not in the business of protecting our health. To the contrary, those agencies are run like for-profit businesses, and they work in conjunction with Big Food and Big Pharma. No, that's not a conspiracy theory.
Adolf Hitler used sodium fluoride in WWII to weaken the Jewish prisoners in the Holocaust concentration camps. He had his scientists drip it in the water so the prisoners would stay weak, malnourished and unable to rise up and rebel. Immediately after the war ended, the United States began medicating municipal tap water with deadly sodium fluoride, beginning in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sodium fluoride is a powerful insecticide and byproduct of industrial pollution. The EPA has known this since the beginning.
The American Dental Association spreads propaganda that this kind of fluoride, that is NOT the natural kind, is good for fighting cavities and building strong teeth. That is a bold-faced lie. Let's take a close look at a fairly recent Harvard Study of what fluoridated water does to human beings who drink it regularly. Here's proof.
For decades, health "experts" have pushed fluoride propaganda and shoved lies down our throats (literally and figuratively speaking). With no clinical proof whatsoever, we've been told fluoride builds strong teeth and fights cavities. Nutritionists, on the other hand, have been screaming the opposite about fluoride, warning consumers about the dangers of this unnatural additive.
In a comprehensive study done by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical University in Shenyang (27 studies were analyzed in total), strong indications were revealed that fluoride adversely affects the brain and cognitive development in children. This study was published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on July 20, 2012. The results? More than 8,000 school-age children were analyzed for drops in their IQ due to fluoridated water consumption and 26 of the 27 studies showed that the fluoride negatively affected their cognitive development.
The average IQ loss was 7 points, and the researchers concluded that even slight fluoride exposure could be toxic to the brain of children. For even more in-depth proof of the damage, children living in high-fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those living in low-fluoride areas. The researchers further concluded that fluoride can be lumped in with lead and mercury as far as other poisons in water that cause "chemical brain drain." One researcher is quoted as saying, “The effect of each toxicant may seem small, but the combined damage on a population scale can be serious, especially because the brain power of the next generation is crucial to all of us.”
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