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Advocates of fluoridated water insist that the chemical additive is good for teeth, but
actual science routinely shows otherwise, including a new study published in the Journal
of the American Dental Association confirming fluoride as a toxic substance that
actually destroys teeth, particularly those of developing young children and babies.
When people are exposed to excessive levels of fluoride through sources like drinking
water, foods and beverages and even swallowed toothpaste, it often results in a condition
known as dental fluorosis. The
internal uptake of fluoride into
teeth over time causes their enamel
to become mottled and discolored, the end result being damaged teeth that have essentially rotted from
the inside out.
Dr. Steven Levy, D.D.S., and his team found during their study that "fluoride intakes
during each of the first four years (of a child's life) were individually significantly
related to fluorosis on maxillary central incisors, with the first year more
important." They went on to warn that "infant formulas reconstituted with higher
fluoride water can provide 100 to 200
times more fluoride than breast milk, or cow's milk."
In other words, young children have the highest risk of severe tooth damage from fluoride,
especially those that are six months of age or younger, a time during which children's
blood-brain barriers have not fully formed. Even low ingestion levels cause the direct
depositing of fluoride into the teeth, brain
and other bodily tissues and organs which, besides causing fluorosis, also causes
disorders of the brain and nervous
system, kidneys and bones.
And the American
Dental Association (ADA) has known that fluoride exposure causes dental fluorosis since
at least 2006, but the group has done nothing to warn the 200 million Americans that live
in communities with fluoridated
water to avoid its use in babies
and infants. Many dentists still
recommend that children and adults not only drink fluoridated water, but even advise parents to add fluoride drops to their
children's drinking water if
the family lives in unfluoridated areas or drinks private well water.
In 2006, a study published in The Lancet identified fluoride as "an
emerging neurotoxic substance" that causes severe brain damage. The National Research
Council (NRC) wrote that "it is apparent that fluorides have the ability to interfere
with the functions of the brain and the body
by direct and indirect means."
About a month later, another study published in Environmental Health Perspectives
found a definitive link between fluoride intake and reduce IQ levels, indicating once
again that fluoride intake causes cognitive damage.
At Harvard University, researchers identified a link between fluoride and bone cancer. Published 14 years after it
began, the study found that the highest rates of osteosarcoma, a fatal form of bone cancer, were occurring most in
populations drinking fluoridated
water. The findings confirmed those
of a prior government study back in 1990 that involved fluoride-treated rats.
Kidney disease is another hallmark of fluoride poisoning. Multiple animal studies have
found that fluoride levels as low as 1 part per million (ppm) -- which is the amount added
to most fluoridated water systems -- cause kidney damage. And a Chinese
study found that children exposed to slightly higher fluoride levels had biological
markers in their blood indicative of
kidney damage.
The NRC has also found that fluoride impairs proper thyroid function and debilitates the
endocrine system. Up until the 1970s, fluoride was used in Europe as a thyroid-suppressing
medication because it lowers thyroid function. Many experts believe that widespread
hypothyroidism today is a result of overexposure to fluoride.
Since fluoride is present in most municipal water supplies in North America, it is absurd to even suggest
that parents avoid giving it to their young children. How are parents supposed to avoid it
unless they install a whole-house reverse osmosis water filtration system? And even if
families install such a system, fluoride is found in all sorts of food and beverages, not to mention that it is
absorbed through the skin every time people wash their hands with or take a shower in
fluoridated water. Perhaps these are some of the reasons why the ADA has said nothing about the issue
despite the findings.
There simply is no legitimate reason to fluoridate water. Doing so forcibly medicates an
entire population with a carcinogenic, chemical drug. There really is no effective way to
avoid it entirely, and nobody really knows how much is ingested or absorbed on a daily
basis because exposure is too widespread to calculate. But political pressure and bad
science have continued to justify water fluoridation in most
major cities, despite growing mountains of evidence showing its dangers.
Ending water fluoridation is a
difficult task, but concerted efforts by citizens, local authorities, and even dentists,
have resulted in some significant victories. To learn more about fluoride, check out the
Fluoride Action Network (FAN): http://www.fluoridealert.org (10.21.2010, Ethan A. Huff) http://www.naturalnews.com/030123_fluoride_babies.html
Sources for this story include:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...
http://jada.ada.org/cgi/content/abs...
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health...
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