Throw Out Your Toothpaste

In the never ending fight to save our teeth, there is nothing more useless than toothpaste. If you ve been a subscriber for any length of time, you already know the dangers associated with fluoride use. And you also know that it s difficult to find a toothpaste that doesn t contain fluoride. 

dentists warn that young children should not use fluoridated toothpaste without supervision. That is because toothpaste is sweet and children swallow it. When they swallow it, they get massive overdoses of fluoride, which is an enzymatic poison. 

Whereas your water has only been contaminated from one to ten parts per million, toothpaste contains 1000 parts per million. There is also evidence that toothpaste can cause ulcerative colitis. 

If there is one thing the American people believe in, it s the power of toothpaste to prevent tooth decay and gum disease. But most people don t realize that this imputed power of prevention defies all the known facts of microbiology, to say nothing of common sense. 

But the power of persuasion is alive and well in the United States. Thanks to advertising, American dentists (and their patients) are sold on the combination of the toothbrush, toothpaste, and dental floss. In Finland it s the toothbrush in combination with toothpicks. (Some people have been so over sold on the virtues of tooth-brushing that dentists now have a new industry replacing the enamel on teeth that has been worn away from excessive brushing.) The water pick was much in vogue 

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