Green Tea is promoted as a healthy beverage yet few consumers are aware of the health risks caused by its Aluminium, Fluoride, Fluoroacetate, Heavy Metal, Oxalate and Polyphenol content.
Keywords: Aluminium, Anaemia, Asthma, Bai-mieng, Brick Tea, Camellia sinensis, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Chemical Castration, Extract, Fluoride, Fluoroacetate, Fluorosis, Genotoxin, Green Tea, Heart, Hepatitis, Hepatotoxin, Hypertension, Kidney, Kombucha, Leydig cell, Liver, Lung, Ovary, Oxalate, Polyphenols, Spina Bifida, Teratogen, Testes, Urolithiasis
Introduction
Fluoride is a Schedule 6 Poison. The acute lethal dose of Fluoride for humans is less than 5 milligram of Fluoride per kilogram of body weight. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that Fluoride is more toxic than Lead and slightly less toxic than Arsenic.
Fluoride is a bio-accumulative, endocrine disruptor that has no nutritional value [Pain 2016a]. Fluoride is a teratogen [Fedrick 1974, Correa 2000, Wang 2004, Zielinsky 2013].
Therefore all allegations that there is an “adequate intake”, “optimal intake” or “tolerable upper intake” of Fluoride are completely false and misleading.
The question of what constitutes a “safe” dose of this bio-accumulative poison has been addressed using the criterion of predicted reduction in the IQ of exposed children and is estimated to be 0.0010 mg Fluoride/kg-day [Hirzy 2016]. Clearly this implies that the commitment expected to be made by public health authorities should be to the ALARA principle, i.e. keeping exposure reduced to As Low as Reasonably Achievable. Tea (Camellia sinensis) is a major source of Fluoride in the diet throughout the world. Despite this, the Australian government, through its agency the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), deliberately excluded in its 2017 review on the health effects of water fluoridation, twenty-eight (28) peer-reviewed scientific papers relevant to the Fluoride content and adverse health impacts of drinking tea [Jack 2016].
The focus of this review is Fluoride content of Green Tea and its derivative products such as Brick Tea formed by compression, Kombucha formed by fermentation and instant packaged Green Teas. Tea also contains other toxins not covered in any detail here, such as Aluminium, heavy metals and Oxalate [Simpson 2001].
The toxicity risk of Green Tea has been evaluated [Sarma 2008, Zerabruk 2010, Janiszewska 2013, Atasoy 2016]. Human toxicity of Kombucha has been reported [Ernst 2003, Sunghee Kole 2009] and its Fluoride analyses reported [Kumar 2008].
As Green Tea, Black Tea and White Tea all come from the same plant, the health impacts of Fluoride ingestion from Green Tea discussed here are generally applicable.
Green Tea and its Fluoride Content, a major Health Hazard (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322924754_Green_Tea_and_its_Fluoride_Content_a_major_Health_Hazard [accessed Feb 26 2018].
Green Tea and its
Fluoride Content, a
Major Health Hazard