UK - Letter - I beg to differ over fluoride claim

I beg to differ over fluoride claim
Date: 09 December 2009
Dulverton Road
Ruislip
Middlesex
AK Roberts's letter of November 25 said that as we have chlorine in water, why worry about the fluoride chemical being added? There is an important difference. Chlorine is added to kill bacteria to make water safe to drink – whereas fluoride is added to bring about changes in the human body.

This sets a dangerous precedent in giving the power to mass medicate healthy people. Also, chlorine evaporates off if you boil the water or leave it to stand in a jug. But you cannot boil away fluoride from water. If you boil fluoridated water the fluoride just becomes more concentrated.

The amount of fluoride added artificially to tap water is around 10 times higher than that which sometimes occurs naturally in some UK water. This is one reason why more harmful effects are caused by artificial fluoridation schemes.

However, in certain places such as the Punjab and Hyderabad in India, which have a high natural fluoride content there are photos of badly crippled people with deformed limbs from natural fluoride overdose.

A Wills