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Soil quality worsens as chemicals increase
Disastrous mismanagement of our soil and intensive farming methods have created such poor food quality that high-dose supplements are not a luxury, but the bread and butter of robust good health.
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Drowning in fluoride
Nearly all toothpastes sold in the US and UK contain fluoride - typically 1000-1500 parts per million. Commonly used mouth rinses contain 230-900 ppm.
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Fluoride: lowering IQ's?
New studies from China show that an excessive intake of fluoride can accumulate in the brain, permanently reducing a child’s intelligence.
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Where else is fluoride found?
Even if your drinking water isn’t fluoridated (and much of the UK’s isn’t), fluoride resides in all sorts of unlikely places. Indeed, the concentration in outer enamel of the teeth
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The chinese evidence at a glance
In the Chinese study of 907 children from four areas in Guizhou Province, the degree of exposure to fluoride was clearly linked to IQ test scores:
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A cause of violence and addiction?
Silicofluorides (SilicoFs) added to drinking water may even promote cocaine use and violent crime. SilicoFs are waste products from phosphate fertiliser and glass manufacturing.
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A farmer's perspective
Until last Monday, 12 March, Wynn Gittens was a hardworking dairy herd farmer, farming 200 cattle and 1350 sheep at Ucheldre Farm, Brooks, near Welsh pool, Wales. But in the space of a single day, ...
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A disease of intensive farming
Albert Howard, an Honorary Fellow of the Imperial College of Science, was formerly the Director of the Institute of Plant Industry and Agricultural Adviser to States in Central India and Rajputana ...
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Fluorosis and faint praise
The Systematic Review of Water Fluoridation commissioned last summer by the Department of Health has reported at last (BMJ, 6 October 2000 and NHS CRD Report No 18). It had been hugely misrepresen ...
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Deciphering the label - What do the percentages and parts per million on toothpaste labels actually mean?
In our survey, labelling information was not consistent. Some companies listed the amount of fluoride in ppm and some in percentages, some in both and some not at all. The British Dental Associati ...
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