[HiTech RedNeck]

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In a number of small villages in Sicily, Turkey and India there is naturally occurring fluoride in the water ranging from 0.7 to 5.4 ppm. Here the villagers and their livestock are chronically ill, while neighboring villages with no fluoride have no such illnesses. Premature aging is the overall effect. Children have brown decaying teeth; young adults often have none. Young men are bent over and crippled with pain in their joints and hips. Their skin is wrinkled and they look 60 at age 30 to 40. There is premature hardening of the arteries, loss of appetite & sex drive by age 30. The rate of stillborn miscarriages by 4 months is extremely high.
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[TomB]

So why don't we see it in all the areas with high natural fluoride levels in this country? Those areas, specifically in the mountain west and southwest, are common and were much more common in years past, yet absolutely NO illness was reported as widespread in these areas that weren't in similar areas without fluoride.