Fluoride in tea is too few to be too harmful plus it is less absorbable as you said but when it comes to water fluoridation and putting it in your toothpaste then there it becomes truly evil and bad for you.
Most of the evidence in the literature would say just the opposite. Plenty of Chinese people have fluorosis from drinking cheap brick tea, and there is lots of evidence that the use of fluoride for dental purposes is very beneficial. Here's a thought exercise for you: What would happen if you were on a diet that provided zero copper? What would happen if you ate a kilogram of copper sulfate? Dose matters.
Just typed in fluoride in google and this was the second link.
http://www.fluoridea...g/issues/water/
The booming market in internet fluoride (or mercury, or anti-vax...) quackery results in a good google ranking, but that doesn't mean it's right.
I meant it's too few if you take normal doses, I don't know about the consumption of tea in China but I guess it's pretty high and probably the Chineses ate the whole herb as well.
that it is beneficial for teeth in very low dose is a good thing but it's not a reason to force it into the whole population by fluoridating water and by hiding it in the labels, if fluoride in tea is already enough to cause fluorisis then it is even more a concern for fluoride in tap water, mineral water and toothpaste.
Drinking tea from time to time is more than enough to get enough fluoride in your diet, no need to poison our water or add massive amounts in toothpaste, if fluoride was harmless then why is it even counted in ppm?
There's some quackery about fluoride, yes but that doesn't mean it can be considered as safe, in the US fluoride poisoning affected 25% of children in 1987 and 40% in 2002 according to the Center of Disease Control, maybe it's time to think about it.
Also if you remove unproven facts that fluoride cause cancer, kidney damage, etc... there are still studies that show that high fluoride consumption leads to damage of the BBB, fluoride accumulates and does cause lesions.
Is it normal for some mineral water to contain the TUL of fluoride per liter? I don't think so and yet it's what you're being sold.
The average american takes 3-4 liters of water a day(including water in food), that's up to 4 times the TUL and even the TUL was likely designed by fluoride supporters so these levels are likely more dangerous than what we think.
People should be able to chose whether they want fluoride or not in their diet, if you want some fluoride drink some tea or buy some fluoride supplements, putting fluoride artificially where it shouldn't be is an utter stupidity.
Edited by renfr, 02 April 2013 - 05:33 PM.