Fluoride is Not Enough—Now They Want to Add Calcium to Our Drinking Water!
June 14, 2010
In the wake of the World Health Organization’s swine flu vaccine scandal we told you about last week, we have learned of even more WHO foolishness: they’re now recommending that municipal water supplies and foodstuffs be fortified with added calcium.
On the surface, this doesn’t seem like a bad idea. In their recommendations, they write: “In both developed and developing countries, typical diets are often deficient in calcium and magnesium, essential minerals which are necessary for the development of strong bones and teeth, and for cardiovascular function. At the same time, there is evidence that consuming ‘hard’ drinking-water [that is, water high in minerals] may be associated with reduced risks for some diseases.”
Quite true. And it is certainly good that they want to add both calcium and magnesium. Calcium shouldn’t be taken without magnesium (though magnesium may be taken without calcium), but the correct calcium-to-magnesium ratio is much debated. WHO won’t be able to recommend a universally accepted ratio because the science isn’t there yet.
Importantly, calcium also shouldn’t be used without vitamin D, omega–3 fatty acids, and especially vitamin K (in particular, vitamin K2). Without these essential co-factors, the calcium may end up in our blood vessels or our heart, where it causes harm, rather in than our bones, where it is needed.
The science is simply too complicated for governments to be putting things into our water supply. The current widespread fluoridation of water is bad enough—and may even be illegal—now that fluoride has finally been recognized to be toxic. This is just one more intervention that can have unintended and possibly disastrous consequences. We have noted the way governments (at WHO’s urging) mandate too many vaccines, often for diseases without pandemic potential. Some of the vaccines are risky or contain toxic ingredients, or are damaging when taken all at once or at too young an age. And the current requirement to add folic acid to bread may be riskier than anyone in government understands (something we will discuss further in a future newsletter).
Scientists need to study and test and debate and make their arguments for what they believe is healthy. Governments need to stop being so arrogant about forcing everyone to ingest increased levels of specific nutrients, particularly when the science is anything but unanimous on the subject. Decisions like these are always best left to the consumer.
The consumer, of course, does need to be informed. And government can help that by alerting the public to the emerging science of natural health. At the very least, food agencies around the world can lift their gag orders and stop censoring the dissemination of legitimate peer-reviewed science about food and dietary supplements.
DO NOT ALLOW CALCIUM IN THE WATER SYSTEM UNTIL MORE STUDIES ARE DONE! WHAT DOES CONGRESS KNOW ABOUT SUPPLEMENTS? LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS AND DON’T MESS
WITH OUR WATER SUPPLY!
I wonder how many people will get huge muscle cramps from calcium in their water. I have had this happen to me and was afraid to deaath that it was going to kill me by causing a heart attack. The heart I have heard is a muscle and I had muscles in my legs huge cramps. I got it stopped with I think Potassium or Magnesium. Anyway I am still here. sharon kerley
The “link” to share this webpage to Facebook is faulty!!
( http://www.anh-usa.org/fluoride-is-not-enough—now-they-want-to-add-calcium-to-our-drinking-water/)
Caution!
Adding calcium to tap water may expose our children and all of us to lead. The State of Oregon informed all medical doctors of our State of environmental sources of lead. One of many sources of lead listed in their brochure were commonly used calcium supplements. As we all know, typical calcium supplements are made of ground oyster shells or limestone (dolomite). Here is the problem: oysters and all other bivalves constantly filter water and deposit a lot of lead and other heavy metals in their shells. Hence, any considered calcium product, i.e. ground oyster shell or dolomite, must be carefully examined for presence of lead, mercury, and other toxic contaminants.
There is a safer option: our government may encourage increased consumption of vegetables that provide plenty of calcium that is highly bio-available and safe….
Calcium can not be added to our water supply, because different people need different amounts of calcium in their diet. There is no way to calculate the dosage in the water, so people who do not need as much calcium and/or must regulate their calcium intake will suffer greatly. On the other hand, some people nee additional calcium but will also not be able to calculate their prescribed dosage.
Consequently, adding calcium to the water supply i s harmful. The government should not do this.
But then who in the WHO is represented? Why the wealthy and the elite who own the pharmacuetical and food processing companies; both of which wish to keep us unhealthy and eliminate the “useless” eaters amongst us (Oh yeah! Isn’t that them?)
As a nutritionist and someone who has dealt with water filtration for 30 years, I am appalled that you are even considering adding calcium/magnesium to our water supply. Who would add this to the water and which source of calcium, etc. Follow the money and see who is pushing this ridiculous measure. We should consider taking out the flouride and filtering the other additives to deliver the purist product possible, as well as safeguarding the water shed.
As an orthomolecular biochemistry researcher who specializes in the essential mineral magnesium (Mg), and in calcium (Ca) metabolism, it is refreshing to see an informed view on the importance of maintaining a balanced calcium metabolism (balanced with adequate intakes of Mg) to prevent dystrophic calcification. As it turns out, a new advanced form of Mg, known as Potentiated Magnesium (pMg), has demonstrated the actual reduction of the physical presence of calcified arterial plaque buildup – simply by balancing calcium metabolism and by overcoming magnesium’s inherent hydrophilic nature. (References: U.S. Patent 5,849,337 titled: “Method of Enhancing Magnesium Absorption and Prevention of Atherosclerosis” and U.S. Patent 6,372,264 titled: “Method of Reducing Calcified Arterial Plaque Buildup and Cellular Malfunction and for Balancing Ionic Calcium” at http://www.uspto.gov; http://www.maxcelint.com starting July 2010 for pMg.)
Consumers need to know what is in their food, and not just what food agencies decide to tell us. Take the fluoride out of drinking water and forget putting calcium in.
You have heard of the presidents Science Czar, John Holdren? You should be VERY concerned when this administration wants to add ANYTHING to the water.I don’t think it’s a coincidence that new “studies” show a miracle recovery of our public water supplies that render bottled water an UNWISE choice.
To refresh on O’s whacknut advisor:
http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?tag=john-p-holdren
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/apr/08/geo-engineering-john-holdren
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97ECHLG1&show_article=1
Please do not add Calcium to our drinking water. Reasons as stated above.
I am appalled that the WHO would want to add calcium to our drinking water. I wonder what form of calcium it would be?. if it is not in ionic form, it would certainly cause problems. Isn’t it enough to just be able to get natural water in our homes without the government adding anything at all ? The government just seems to be getting us further and further from our natural surroundings. Whats next , statin drugs, antibiotics?
leave our water alone – I don’t trust them to make good decisions at this point. I already don’t drink the water because who knows what is really in it
We must stop adding unnecessary elements to our drinking water.
No extra calcium, please.
Whoa! Slow down. Stop tampering with our water.
Whoa! Slow down. Stop tampering with your water.
We already see what adding the posion fluoride does that is why thinking people filter their water . Calcium needs to be taken in combination with other vitamins and minerals to be effective . The efort should be to make the water as pure and clean as possible . Tooth decay rates are the same in areas with fluoride as in areas without it in the water supply .
now you want to put calcium into our water to give people calcium deposits so it may end up in our blood and cause heart problems…we can take our own calcium IF NEEDED…I guess you want to kill us sooner!
I don’t want calcium added to public drinking water. To some people calcium could be harmful!
Martha Thompson
Please do not add calcium to our drinking water. It can be harmful without the other essential
Vit. K and Vit. D vitamins. We do not need calcium and magnesium in our drinking water and they must be given in the right proportions. Please reconsider.
I’ve been a certified nutritionist for 14 years and I’m appalled at all the chemicals and contaminants that goes into our water. Not all people need extra calcium in their system; their personal health professionals, NOT the government should decide that. Please stop messing with our water except to clean it up and remove flouride (which has been tested to cause gum disease.
Thank you,
Deborah Marcus, C.N.C.
Good grief…..we should be getting things OUT of our water NOT putting more things in!
I think we need to tell WHO to take a flying leap into the nearest Gulf of Mexico! I don’t want anything added to my tap water, leave it alone.
If they want people to be healthy stop the spread of GMO’s, stop putting profits before people. Leave water as water.
This is dangerous. Calcium without a reasonable balance from magnesium causes kidney stones, bone spurs… this will ‘cure’ one thing while causing many painful illnesses to unsuspecting peoepl. Please don’t do it!
Before committing anything to our water or food supply a test should be conducted for four years with those advocating the additives taking their recommended doses and monitored closely by a group of unbiased individuals.
Forget about adding the calcium and ban the flouride in our drinking water and watch the health of the population improve – especially our youngsters. Every other country has smartened up and removed flouride from their drinking water.
cant afford to have healthy people – where would drs., drug companies, etc. be without sick patients to fund their country-club fees, Ferraris, etc.
GREAT POINT! Floride is bad news, just read about it on the internet. Also aspertaine which is used so much, reading about that will scare you to death.
They still fluoridate the water in Calgary, Alberta, Canada where I live. Fortunately, I have been using a reverse osmosis filter ever since they drugged our water supply. Also I have a whole house filter that removes almost everything including chlorine and fluoride. I have never had to demineralize my 15 year old kettle. It’s as bright and shiny inside as when it was new. You must take the necessary steps to protect yourself and your family from unscrupulous governments.
Decisions such as whether or not I need calcium and what type of calcium I need should be left to me. Your job is to make our food and drug supply safe not to administer fake vitamins through our water supply.
You know – it’s late, 12.37am precisely, but even at this late hour, and being tired as hell at the moment does not seem to detract from my anger at the crass ignorance of the WHO and the ever-increasing decisions by our various governments, the E.U. and various U.N. bodies & supra-national organisations, to ‘mandate’, ‘recommend’, ‘find’ and generally interfere in places they should just leave alone.
I’m fed up with these fools. Go away. Leave us alone and poison your own children with vaccines, useless medications & invasive procedures, junk in the food, chemicals on the crops, poisons in the oceans, fluoridated water, etc., etc., etc…. but just GO AWAY and die somewhere!!
I tell you – I need sponsors! I’m going to build myself a gigantic magic wand, and wave all these bloody people into oblivion. Any offers?!
I prefer that my water just be natural water, not doctored by any means. (distilled preferred)
as a means of purification. Any one needing or wanting added minerals may do so by the use of a bona-fide supplement.
Please stop adding things that most people don’t even need!
Please leave everything out of water. I drink only distilled. This adding to our water is very foolish.
Any chance you could just leave the water alone? I spend a small fortune on a device to filter out all the nasty stuff that’s in our water, so why don’t you try to clean up the water and stop adding stuff I don’t need, want or trust?
Please leave our water alone.
No Calcium additives.
No Flouride additives.
Nothing!
Please leave my water alone. You cannot control everything! My water already has hight levels of arsenic. That’s bad enough.
No-one should be forced to take calcium in their drinking water. If they want calcium it should be by desire and by choice of there own choosing. The same goes for magnesium too! Better to be prepared and to prevent than to regret and repent! But this is not the correct, honest and caring way to prepare and/or prevent!
Best Regards,
Terah Rutledge
And what about people who develope kidney stones from to much calcium in their system?
Just having clean water is enough with out trusting the government to add more junk to the water!
don’t add calcium to water
What is wrong with pure water and let us add things if we think we need them.
i don’t want flouride or any other additives. The current regulations aren’t even addressing the current levels of toxicities, ie arsenic, pollutants, etc. in our water systems. i
carin
This is so ridiculous. Dr. Nan Fuchs even says that calcium is not the be all end all for bone healthy anyhow. It’s strontium which is only in a few products.
please do not add calcium to the water because people with hyperparathyroidism can not take additional calcium. and they would be forced to buy bottled water without added calcium.
this could be very dangerous to our health. medical research shows that bone is built from many minerals not just calcium and this could lead to a severe imbalance.
this is a very serious threat, to think that the government is thinking of adding calcium to the water supply.
thank you,
Marilyn S. Beidler
Calcium intake requirements vary so greatly from person to person, especially with children in the mix, that one size fits all supplementation just is not feasible. Some people have health conditions that are exacerbated by additional calcium. My plumbing is expensive enough to maintain without clogging up the pipes in my house with calcium compounds, to boot.
Only Osteoprocare drink is absorbed my me…the rest of the Ca supplements make bone spurs in my joints etc. I would hate to have that happen to me or others from the water. Then many people would really buy their water but would want the Ca/F/Cl taken out of it.
Also, since they want to use elemental minerals, aka a “fractional nutrient”, the body might absorb the mineral into the blood, but it cannot utilize it because there are not the proper co-factors ie. amino acid chelates (and the rest of the co-factors) that are found in food or food structured nutritional supplements which there are a few on the market. these elemental minerals can also land in the kidneys, joints etc. and be a problem. Many people in the developed world probably get enough calcium, it is the diet as a whole that causes leeching of the minerals!!!
in addition, some forms of calcium can lead to the formation of kidney stones, and other calcifications of solft tissues. I would hate to have the government dictate what kind of calcium enters my body through the water. Studies have shown that for some people, clacium worsens osteoporosis. These people need more magnesium than calcium and the current recommendation of calcium harms them. Government should just leave the water alone. No toxic chemicals, no additives, and use a safe purification system.
If the food industry would stop over processing our food, then they would not have to add minerials and vitamins.
This is a joke! I
n Europe they use ozone to purify water!
The USA will not use because it is to cheap!
HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEMAND TO TRY OTHER ALTERNATIVES!
I have advanced liver damage and my doctor does not want me to consume anything with calcium in it. Are these guys crazy? I am certain I am not the only person with this problem so why is this even an issue?
Dane Hebert
Let me get this right. The government wants to put calcium in my water but wants to regulate my ability to purchase calcium supplements (as well as any other nutritional supplements) for myself, right?
What do they hope to accomplish by putting calcium in the water? Why not put all the water-soluble vitamins in the water? Why just calcium? I smell a rotten fish.
Taking calcium without twice the amount of magnesium will calcify the body cntributing to many ailments.