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redundant. After the coconut meat has quinoa, corn, brown rice, potatoes and and promoting water fluoridation for
been dried and ground into flour, soak- yams. I notice that if my meal contains sixty years. Public Health’s policy is
ing it would ruin the flour and make it one of those along with my fat and pro- corrupted.
unusable. You should never soak coco- tein, I don't crave anything sweet. But, The corporate practice involves
nut flour. if I eat a meal that has none of those solving their too corrosive, toxic indus-
In the tropics coconut has been good carbohydrates, I will be starving trial fluoride waste problem that can’t
consumed as a traditional food for thou- soon after the meal and will be having be dumped on land, in streams, lakes,
sands of years. Those people who use it cravings for sugar and other sweet stuff. or oceans, or into the air with “dilution
as a food staple and regard it as "sacred I think we all really need to experiment is the solution to pollution.”
food," do not soak it or process it in any to find what is right for our bodies. Would you trade your teenage son’s
way to remove phytates. It is usually Leslie Manookian Bradshaw life to fatal osteosarcoma for dental
eaten raw. This is the traditional method Ketchum, Idaho benefits available through other alterna-
of consumption. They apparently have tives? Would you harm newborns on for-
not suffered any detrimental effects FLUORIDE STUDIES mula? Would you trade dental benefits
from it even though in some populations The first and only state-of-the-art, for harm to outdoor workers, athletes,
it served as their primary source of food. world-class scientific collection and diabetics, kidney patients, arthritic pa-
Would you please post this message analysis of the studies of fluoride’s ad- tients, broken hips of elderly women, and
with the article so readers will have a verse health effects was conducted by thyroid patients? These trade-offs were
fuller understanding of coconut and National Academy of Science (NAS), made by decision-makers who didn’t
phytic acid? the quasi-federal governmental branch read the original source material—the
Bruce Fife, ND with unbiased scientific expertise. Fluo- NAS fluoride report. They relied on
Colorado Springs, Colorado ride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Re- distorted secondary recommendations.
view of EPAs Standards by NAS, 2006, Zero is the only safe level for formula-
CRAVINGS can be read without charge at www.nap. fed infants and kidney dialysis. Infants
Regarding the article “Why We edu/catalog.php?recird_id=11571 are not expendable. Scientific thinking
Crave” (Spring 2011), my experience NAS explains its instructions from requires a ban on water fluoridation.
has been that people can get cravings EPA not to address water fluoridation: Susan Michetti
not only with a diet of too many carbs, EPA’s Safe Water Drinking Standards Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin
but also too few of them. I don't believe (SWDA) do not authorize adding fluo-
we are all the same metabolically, but ride, but rather identify the maximum
rather that some of us need more protein amount of contaminant allowable before
and fat and some need more carbs. enforceable removal for public safety.
I did the GAPS diet (very high fat, In switch-and-bait and twisted
protein, lots of veggies and no rice, logic, pro-fluoride folks interpret this to
potatoes or grains of any kind) for six allow adding heavy metal- and radioac-
months last year and felt horrible for the tive-contaminated non-pharmaceutical
first week. Then I had good energy and hydrofluorosilicic acid by referring to
felt well for three or four months. But testing and standards developed by
after that initial improvement, I started industry trade association, NSF, and
to get more tired, with lower energy and product manufacturers that magically Gifts and bequests to the
generally slid backwards. sanitize known harmful toxins as safe— Weston A. Price Foundation
I went off the diet and added back only on paper. Public Health displays will help ensure the gift of good health
some healthy carbs like sprouted millet, its self-serving bias from discovering to future generations.
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