Aluminum appearance benefits

The third article, appearing in the February/March 2003 issue, is concerned with ways to avoid fluoride accidents, namely an overdose, and describes how a city can reject fluoridation, a course of action beset with difficulties, however. Among the adverse effects cited is that fluoride can affect the central nervous system and thus serves as a neurotoxicant. Moreover, there is a correlation between water fluoridation and increased hip fractures for persons 65 years and older, and a correlation for a decrease in fertility rates. Furthermore, fluoride is a potential carcinogen, and is a known inhibitor for many enzymes involved in cell metabolism. It is mentioned that fluoride disposal is costly, requiring a class-one landfill, and would be an added cost for the aluminum and fertilizer industries, which produce fluoride as a waste byproduct. The ready alternative is to dispose of it via water fluoridation and toothpaste, although the risks have been found to outweigh the benefits, and fluoridation is outlawed in most of Western Europe, for instance. 

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