Re: Green tea - fluoride

[Guest guest]

I''ve read that the flouride content is *less* depending on how/when

the tea leaves are prepared. I wonder, are there any *solid* animal

cancer studies on sodoim fluoride/fluro-silicate/fluro-silic acid or

whatever industrial wastes they use to poison the water supply (most

of which never even gets INTO a human being, to do anything at all -

most is used in industrial processes). There is apparently something

in the FDA code that says (I think) that if something is shown to

cause cancer in animals, it MUST be declared unsafe for humans (the

" Delaney Ammendment " ) That argument is currently (??) being tried

with the newer cancer studies with aspertaime in rats. Not that I

expect anything to happen while Bush is in office, but perhaps after

him.

Of course, then the only thing they'll really have is Splenda and

acefame-K (sp), given that they won't let Stevia into foods, and band

cyclamate for some reason (dubious cancer study?)

I wonder what kind of hullabaloo it would cause if some reasearch

found that Splenda will " consort " with the estrogen receptor (and/or

others..)? AFAIK, the FDA has no provisions (yet) to deal with such

endocrine disrupting chemicals that don't cause cancer. The scary

thing is, Splenda has only been on the market for what - about 3 or 4

years? And it's only starting to penetrate the soda market (Diet

Rite uses it, and Coke seems to be doing " trial runs " - I can get

Diet Splenda Coke in *cans* but not in bottles. Great! I get to

trade a poisonous alcohol for the possibility of aluminum leaching

into my coke.. Time to start drinking only sea salt (reverse

osmosized) water with a bit of Stevia. Since Splenda hasn't been on

the market for long, especially in soda (possibly the biggest

" consuption sub-market " , we won't see the reproductive effects (on

fetuses) for another 10 years *at the least*! Probably more like 20,

and certainly 30 until there would be enough cases to " warrant

attention " (unless people take these things seriously for a change)

I think I also read that the fluoride content of green tea is

inversely related to the EGCG content for some reason.

Jim

> I would not touch green tea. It s full of fluoride. All tea only grows

> on fuoride rich soils and we certainly fdo not need an endocrine

> disruptor liek fluoride to consume

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