> Before we get too carried away on the anti-big business stuff, let's just
> remember the history of fluorides. It was observed nearly 100 years back
> by
> dentists in certain communities that a lot of the local population had
> mottled teeth, which was perceived as being unsightly. Then they did a
> few
> statistics and found that these people's teeth were a lot stronger and
> they
> had much fewer cavities and fillings. Investigations showed that the key
> factor was high natural levels of fluoride in the water. The push to get
> fluorides in toothpaste came jointly from the dental profession (with the
> laudable aim of reducing the number of fillings they had to do) and
> consumers. Fluoridation of water was proposed in quite a lot of
> communities
> in the UK and Europe as well as the US/Canada. I don't think many adopted
> it; there was some uncertainty, but also more of a feeling on cost grounds
> that it was wasteful to fluoridate a whole water supply when most of it
> would go down baths, sinks, toilets, hosepipes etc. Fluoride toothpaste
> seemed a more sensible way to go as it was directed at the specific area
> that needed it.
>
> The composition of "salt" is always going to vary depending on its source.
> Any salt from anywhere (rock or sea) will contain mainly chloride, but
> also
> greater or lesser amounts of fluoride, bromide and iodide, besides
> countless
> other things. They are all very closely chemically related (halides,
> compounds of halogens) and can't easily be separated from each other. The
> chemical similarity would also the reason why high levels of fluoride have
> been reported to give "goitre" effects (low thyroid due to iodine
> deficiency). Normally the levels required are far beyond those which one
> could ingest in salt in food - but I guess salt baths and salt lamps could
> give you a higher dose. Difficult to know without actually measuring it,
> and testing the individual impact it has on your body. For anyone with
> hypothyroidism, though, (and this seems to be the case with quite a lot of
> ME/MCS/ES people), it does seem to be something to consider.
> Incidentally,
> brine baths, Dead Sea baths/mudpacks, and sea bathing will all give
> similar
> effects of exposure to a wide range of halides but evidently most people
> do
> not suffer any problems from them.
>
> Ian
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> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
> tayloka_40
> Sent: 13 March 2006 05:10
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [eSens] Re: Himalayan Salt alert
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> Andrew...I think the jist of the article is that salt is salt. No mountain
> makes it magical or
> any better, as for efficacy. It would stand to reason this salt would be
> higher in fluoride
> since the water table source is supposed to be exposed to fluorines in the
> earth.
>
> Similar to the fluorines found in tea. It is a wise eye to watch for
> fluoridation in all food
> processing. There are fluoridated water drinks for kids...Flo Go....a
> little
> dinasaur on the
> package with articial flavours....thankfully...LOLOLOL...no colour
> added...LMAO...
>
> No colour just fluoride so you can watch your kids glow in the dark....or
> bones melt...or
> thyroid...or ADD or ADHD or sterility or depression, teeth malformation,
> sterility.
>
> BUT.....it is good for you. The United States and Canada (we are the
> lemmings/sheep here)
> are the only countries that fluoridate water. Money talks. Need to dispose
> of a few
> thousand pounds of toxic...radioactive...fluoric acid (byproduct of
> smelting
> industrly)
>
> Oh...Oh...here is a good idea....let's put it up for sale...tell everyone
> it
> is good for them.
> Viola' we will teach these North Americans how to digest radiation...
>
> Go team go.
>
> Karen
>
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> --- In [hidden email], Andrew McAfee <amcafeerr@...> wrote:
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>> So does this mean that all Himalayan salt is high in Flouride or is
>> there a good source of Himalayan Salt and a bad source?
>> Andrew
>> On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:26 PM, snoshoe_2 wrote:
>>
>> > I ran across this the other day, so be careful to double, double check
>> > where your himalayan salt is coming from if that is the kind you use.
>> > http://www.bruha.com/pfpc/html/himalaya.html
>> >
>> > ~ Snoshoe
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