Anyone know if there is /was fluoride in Omund's water?
The movement to remove industrial sodium fluoride from the world's water supply has been growing in recent years, with evidence coming out against the additive from several sources.
Now, a report from the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, has officially classified fluoride as a neurotoxin, in the same category as arsenic, lead and mercury.
The news was broken by author Stefan Smyle and disseminated by the Facebook page Occupy Food, which linked to the report published in The Lancet Neurology, Volume 13, Issue 3, in the March 2014 edition, by authors Dr. Phillippe Grandjean and Philip J. Landrigan, MD. The report can be viewed by clicking here.
Industrial Chemicals Identified
As noted in the summary of the report, a systematic review identified five different similar industrial chemicals as developmental neurotoxicants: lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls, arsenic, and toluene.
The summary goes on to state that six additional developmental neurotoxicants have also now been identified: manganese, fluoride, chlorpyrifos, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, tetrachloroethylene, and the polybrominated diphenyl ethers. The authors added that even more of these neurotoxicants remain undiscovered.
ADHD, Dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments
In the Lancet report, the authors propose a global prevention strategy, saying that "untested chemicals should not be presumed to be safe to brain development, and chemicals in existing use and all new chemicals must therefore be tested for developmental neurotoxicity."Also in the report, they note that neurodevelopmental disabilities, including attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, dyslexia, and other cognitive impairments, are now affecting millions of children worldwide in what they call a "pandemic of developmental neurotoxicity."
They continue: "To coordinate these efforts and to accelerate translation of science into prevention, we propose the urgent formation of a new international clearinghouse."
The report coincides with 2013 findings by a Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health that concluded that children in areas with highly fluoridated water have "significantly lower" IQ scores that those who live in areas with low amounts of fluoride in their water supplies.
Fluoride also linked to Cancers
Sodium fluoride in drinking water has also been linked to various cancers. It is functionally different than the naturally-occurring calcium fluoride, and commonly added to drinking water supplies and used by dentists and in dental products who posit that it is useful for dental health.
Currently, fluoride is added to water supplies across much of North America, but as this list of countries that ban or reject water fluoridation shows, the practice is actually not too common, or banned entirely throughout most of Europe and in several other developed nations across the world.
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According to Brian la Trobe, Oranjemund's first resident doctor in the early Sixties who also held clinics at Alex Bay and the mines further south he found Namaqualanders in general had heavily mottled teeth due to the natural fluoride in the water.
Alex Bay took its water from the Orange River as does Omund so it is likely there is some fluoride in local water. Mottled teeth were not so evident in Omund as few residents were here long enough. Also, CDM installed a superb filtration system which might have reduced it somewhat compared to the slap-happy methods used by the State diggings.
I think too much Fluoride in the drinking water should be the least of our problems. Still wondering why the company took it upon themselves to install high quality water filters all over the mining operations. That should tell you something.....
Now the question remains. Does these filters stop only bacteria or is it good enough to filter out viruses. There seam to be a high infection rate of Helicobacter pylori (aka. H Pylori) in town.
My Sickly 3 and a 1/2 cents.
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The filter has yet to be invented that will stop all bacteria. Viruses are too small to be trapped. The solution is to add a poison (chlorine) to drinking water. There are also other treatments for removing lead and solids (for example adding aluminium) and ensuring the pH (acidic balance) is kept around 7 (not too acidic, not too alkaline).
These are all fairly standard for most municipal drinking water systems. CDM, when money was plentiful, put in a first class system that was regularly monitored. The assumption is that it is still in operation today.