Health Food Guide

 

If you've ever taken the time to read a warning on your toothpaste tube, you might wonder why anyone would put toothpaste in his or her mouth. The label reads:

 

"Warning - Keep out of reach of children under 6 years of age. If you accidentally swallow more than used for brushing, get medical help or contact a poison control center."

 

There are toxins in that tube of toothpaste and no one, not even your dentist mentions it. Aside from the warning label in an inconspicuous place, blended discretely with the other verbiage, no one mentions the potential health hazards every time you brush your teeth.

 

Fluoride is hazardous to your health and yet makes it way into the drinking water of cities and the toothpaste you use several times a day. How can that be? Surely, the government has more information about its benefits and safety than the average person does.

 

Some believe that agents of the government promoted fluoride for business purposes. Smelters in Germany as far back as the 1850s lost suits involving poisoning waters with the waste materials from smelting the product aluminum. Andrew W. Mellon, founder of ALCOA Aluminum and Treasury Secretary of the United States in 1928 controlled what now would be the Department of Health. In order to avoid lawsuits, Mellon had to find a way to prove that the waste from his increasingly popular aluminum was safe and beneficial.

 

The proof came from a small town in the southwestern part of the United States. They had high naturally occurring fluoride. Trendley Dean was in charge of the mission to find something good about the health of the people in this area. Even though he had to skew the results, he came up with the fact that they had better teeth. Today, fluoride is in water everywhere and even though studies show there are health hazards, the practice continues to grow.

 

Since then, studies show that there are also increases in cancer and heart disease in cities with fluoridated water compared to those with no fluoridation. Improvements in teeth, according to John Colquhoun, a previous proponent of fluoridation from the School of Education, University of Auckland, come not from the fluoride but the effects of better access to fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy eating. After he revisited the evidence, he was convinced that fluoride was a health hazard with no benefits.

 

You are bombarded by fluoride in your water, your toothpaste and treatments at the dentist's office with no concern for the amount used. But that's not the only toxin in toothpaste, there are also antibacterial and antimicrobial agents like Triclosen. Scientists link Triclosen to problems with concentrations of the thyroid hormone. Because of chronic exposure to antibacterial agents, the "superbugs", germs resistant to antibiotics may be on the rise.

 

Glycerin, the substance that makes your toothpaste a gel, also plays a role in eroding your teeth. The glycerin blocks the body's normal action of remineralizing teeth. Remineralization is similar to the bones of the body mending. The body patches the surface of the teeth naturally unless a substance, like glycerin, blocks that action.

 

One answer to the dilemma of keeping your teeth clean is simply brush with water. Water, cleanses the teeth but does nothing to improve them, however. Another, more viable solution is the use of a Toothsoap. Toothsoap contains no harmful chemicals but is 100 percent natural. Toothsoap contains honey, a natural antiseptic, that's not just antibacterial but also antimicrobial and antifungal. Toothsoap doesn't stop the remineralization of teeth but enhances the body with vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Best of all, it freshens the breath while it cleans the teeth.