And, Of course, my understanding is fluoride that is used in water
supplies is derived from an industrial waste.
Different from natural plant sources.
I might be wrong (that would be the second time this year).
Chuck
Why don't cats like to swim?
On 9/3/2009 6:36:09 PM, Dan Nave ([email protected]) wrote:
> Mercola is often not correct with his facts. He has his positions and
> just because he says something
> doesn't make it correct.
>
> For instance, I was just at his site recently and someone had made a
> connection about preventing anthrax with black tea. Mercola stated
> that he couldn't
> recommend black tea because of
> it's fluoride content.
> In another article, he was extoling the virtues of green tea. I
> looked it up, and it appears that green tea often has even more
> fluoride than black tea. Although, that's
> not necessarily a problem.
> See below:
>
> http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemicals/tea/
>
> Fluoride
>
> Tea plants accumulate fluoride in their leaves. In general, the oldest
> tea leaves contain the most fluoride (9). Most high quality teas are
> made from the bud or the first two to four leaves—the youngest leaves
> on the plant. Brick tea, a lower quality tea, is made from the oldest
> tea leaves and is often very high in fluoride. Symptoms of fluoride
> excess (i.e., dental and skeletal fluorosis) have been observed in
> Tibetan children and adults who consume large amounts of brick tea
> (10, 11). Unlike brick tea, fluoride levels in green, oolong, and
> black teas are generally comparable to
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