injipoint wrote:
>
> On 5/12/2013 4:00 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > In article >,
> > Pete C. > wrote:
> >>
> >> jmcquown wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>> If fluoride is (allegedly) so bad why is it added to toothpaste? Why do
> >>> they sell fluoride rinses? Why do dentists give fluoride treatments? I
> >>> really don't understand the paranoia about fluoride.
> >>
> >> Have you read the warning not to swallow more than a pea sized amount of
> >> fluoride toothpaste? It's on every single tube of fluoride toothpaste
> >> since fluoride is highly toxic. If you don't understand the significant
> >> difference between topical application of fluoride toothpaste to teeth
> >> followed by a rinse, vs. drinking the toxic fluoride (and it's reaction
> >> by-products) daily then you need to go back to grade school level
> >> science classes.
> >
> > If you don't understand the difference between 0.7 ppm fluoride
> > in drinking water and 1000 ppm fluoride in toothpaste, then you
> > need to go ack to grade-school level science classes.
> >
> > Cindy Hamilton
> >
> Yep - if it was THAT bad for you, everyone in Australia who's been
> drinking it for 51 years would be dead. Quite clearly, they're not.

Adverse health effects from chronic exposure to toxic substances are
well known. One need not die to suffer such effects.