Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?

Fluoride is more toxic than lead, yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of Ireland and Britain. In Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?, Barry Groves presents an array of convincing and persuasive arguments that dismantle the commonly held belief that the fluoridation of water is beneficial to our health.

The fluoridation of water has been used for the prevention of tooth decay for over fifty years. During this time little research has been done to ascertain whether it works. The chemicals used are classified as toxic industrial waste, yet no study has ever been conducted into their safety for human consumption.

At the same time, research has uncovered serious side effects including death, cancer, skeletal fluorosis, osteoporosis, dementia, lowered IQ, kidney damage and even increased dental decay. Fluoride is only slightly less toxic than arsenic and all the evidence points incontrovertibly to the harm caused by fluoride to human, plant and animal life. Yet it is routinely added to the drinking water of five million people in Britain and more than two and a half million people in Ireland.

Strongly opposed throughout the world, water fluoridation is far less widely accepted than its proponents would have us believe. Only two percent of the people of Western Europe have their water fluoridated — almost all of them within Britain and Ireland. Despite this, dental organisations lobby governments to compel everyone to ingest fluoride, whether they want it or not and without regard to possible harm.

The vast majority of dentists maintain that the fluoridation of water is not debatable. In this book, Barry Groves assembles evidence to refute every single argument made by the dental establishment in favour of fluoridation. This carefully researched and persuasively written book demonstrates that the case for fluoridation of water is based on poor science and dogmatic ignorance rather than on any scientifically proven benefit to public health. His conclusions are truly alarming for everyone concerned with their own health, that of their families and of society in general.

Fluoride: Drinking Ourselves to Death?: Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Water Fluoridation
2. Fluoride and Water Safety
3. Cancer and Fluoride
4. Safe Limit for Fluoride
5. Research into Fluoride
6. Fluoridation and High Infant Mortality
7. Fluoride as a Cumulative Poison
8. Fluoride Kills
9. People at Risk from Fluoride
10. EPA Scientists and Fluoride
11. Support for Fluoridation Diminishes in America
12. The Totality of Fluoride
13. The Ethics and Legality of Fluoridation
14. Dental Fluorosis
15. The Dose Makes the Poison
16. Fluoride-Related Bone Problems, Part One
17. Fluoride-Related Bone Problems, Part Two
18. The Death of Science
19. The Poor and Fluoride Toxicity
20. Sugar and Truth Decay
21. Money Down the Drain
22. The History of Water Fluoridation, Part One
23. Arsenic and Old Lies
24. The History of Water Fluoridation, Part Two
25. Dentrifrice — or Rodenticide?
26. Europe Against Fluoride
27. Skeletal Fluorosis
28. The Public and Fluoride
29. Legislating for Fluoride
30. Fluoride Not an Essential Nutrient
31. Fluoride and Controversy
32. The UK Review: The Final Word on Fluoride?
33. Are You at Risk?
Conclusion
Appendix: Scientific Opposition to Fluoride