tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192757422024-03-14T12:04:20.119-04:00Fluoride DangersCarol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-37308521976044787222023-03-21T16:55:00.010-04:002024-02-25T07:35:40.466-05:00Fluoride Abundant in Foods, Beverages, Dental Products; Fluoridation Unnecessary Total fluoride intake should be determined before prescribing more, reported former New York State Department of Health Dental Director, J. Kumar, He wrote: “Because of the availability of fluoride from multiple sources, practitioners should prescribe other forms of fluoride therapy based on an understanding of patients’ total exposure to fluoride and the need for it,” (<a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9542393/"><i>NYS Dental Journal</i> February 1998</a>). Few dentists, if any including him, heed that advice.<div><br /></div><div>The American Dental Association concurs: "It also
is critical that the dentist assess a child’s total fluoride
exposure from all sources (beverages, food, toothpaste,
supplements, topical applications and so forth..." (<a href="https://jada.ada.org/action/showPdf?pii=S0002-8177%2814%2960226-9" target="_blank"><i>Journal of the American Dental Association</i></a> 2014)</div><div><br /><div>But now, as the California state dental director and <a href="https://www.ada.org/publications/ada-news/2020/december/new-community-water-fluoridation-system-is-game-changer" target="_blank">American Dental Association's</a><span face="Montserrat, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.ada.org/publications/ada-news/2020/december/new-community-water-fluoridation-system-is-game-changer" target="_blank"> National Fluoridation Advisory Committee,</a> </span>Kumar says "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izErKWUAOUs" target="_blank">my job is to promote fluoridation</a>." </div><div><br /></div><div>Never is fluoride intake tallied when communities are pressured to continue or start fluoridation. Legislators should know much fluoride children already ingest before feeding them more via their water supply. </div><div><br /></div><div>In fact, a 1999 study specific to <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10403089/" target="_blank">non-fluoridated Connersville, Indiana</a>, showed resident children ingested sufficient fluoride from foods, beverages and dental products. Dentists ignored that inconvenient fact <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-02-09-0002090340-story.html" target="_blank">pushed more fluoride into them in 2000 </a>after a successful but misguided lobbying effort to start fluoridation.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Fluoride sources are many:</b><br /><div><br /></div><div>Absent from labels, fluoride is in virtually all f<a href="https://www.nal.usda.gov/sites/www.nal.usda.gov/files/fluoride.pdf" target="_blank">oods and beverages</a>, including, soda, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24598501/" target="_blank">baby foods</a> and <a href="https://safemama.com/wp-content/uploads/jadaoct09.pdf">all infant formulas</a>, It’s high in <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1403494821990284#:~:text=The%20fluoride%20concentration%20from%20tea,%2FL%20(white%20tea)." target="_blank">tea</a> (up to <a href="https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/" target="_blank">6 mg/L</a>), <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4525598/#:~:text=Also%2C%20the%20mean%20total%20fluoride,water%20fishes%20(2.59%20ppm)" target="_blank">ocean fish</a> and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35885364/" target="_blank">soy products</a>. <span face="Arial, sans-serif">And,
because of </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1815742/#:~:text=Since%20it%20is%20common%20practice,produced%20appreciable%20quantities%20of%20fluoride." style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">fluoride-containing
pesticide residues</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, all grapes and its products (</span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/16505/#:~:text=The%20water%2Dextractable%20F%20content,ppm%20(mean%202.71%20ppm)." style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">raisins</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,</span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1815742/#:~:text=Juice%20made%20from%20grapes%20separated,produced%20appreciable%20quantities%20of%20fluoride." style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
juice</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, wine, jellies, jams) have a significant fluoride content.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div>EPA allows extremely high amounts of fluoride pesticide residues on foods See "<a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/pesticide/fluoride-residues-food/" target="_blank">Fluoride tolerances approved by US EPA as of July 15, 2005</a>"</div><div><br /></div><div>Fluoride is even in <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19275742/3730852197604478722?hl=en#" target="_blank">chocolate</a> and <a href="https://www.openpr.com/news/68409/kids-eat-too-much-fluoride-from-foods-studies-show.html" target="_blank">french fries</a> and <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/195392a0#:~:text=Sea%20salt%20was%20reported%20to%20contain%2040%20p.p.m.%20of%20fluoride1." target="_blank">sea salt</a>, <a href="https://blog.saltsup.com/himalayan-pink-salt/" target="_blank">Himalayan salt</a> contains some fluoride too.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Foods
made with mechanically separated (boned) chicken, such as canned meats, hot
dogs, and infant foods, also add fluoride to the diet (<span style="background-color: white; color: #0071bc; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11559124/" target="_blank">J Agric Food Chem</a> Sept 2001) "</span></span><span face="BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121;">A single serving of chicken sticks alone would provide about half of a child's upper limit of safety for fluoride," the researchers report.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Fluoride ingested daily from toothpaste ranges from 1/4 to 1/3 milligram (<a href="https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessional/#:~:text=Estimated%20typical%20amounts%20of%20fluoride,is%20well%20absorbed%20%5B1%5D." target="_blank">National Institutes of Health</a>) “Gels used by dentists are typically applied one to four times a year and can lead to ingestions of 1.3 to 31.2 mg fluoride each time.” </div><div><br /></div><div>"<span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9060293/#:~:text=Fluoride%20and%20Silver%20Pharmacokinetics&text=Following%20SDF%20application%2C%20the%20serum,ppm)%20(Figure%201)." target="_blank">Following Silver Diamine Fluoride application</a>, the serum fluoride concentrations ranged from 6 to 36ng/mL</span><span face=""Google Sans", Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">(0.006 to 0.036 ppm)"</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Fluoride is in <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022113910000722" target="_blank">20% of medicines</a>, food <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.6b00435#:~:text=We%20found%20that%20fluorinated%20compounds,%CE%BCg%2Fg%20in%20paperboard)." target="_blank">packaging</a> and <a href="https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/20482/chapter/3#9" target="_blank">inhaled from air pollution</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Droid Serif";">Other sources come from feed regimens of animal products, animal products; food storage containers (Teflon-coated containers); and food packaging (migration of perfluorochemicals into food).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Droid Serif";"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Droid Serif";"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19440049.2023.2240908" target="_blank">Paper straws</a> even contain fluorinated compounds.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>How much is too much?</b> </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.nap.edu/read/5776/chapter/10" target="_blank">According to the National Academy of Sciences</a>, “without causing unwanted side effects including moderate dental fluorosis,” (yellow splotched teeth), the adequate daily intake of fluoride, from all sources, should not exceed: (But does) </div><div><br /></div><div> -- 0.01 mg/day for 0 – 6-month-olds (which is in every infant formula – concentrated or not) </div><div><br /></div><div>-- 0.5 mg/day for 7 through 12 months </div><div><br /></div><div>-- 0.7 mg/day for 1 – 3-year-olds </div><div><br /></div><div>-- 1.1 mg/day for 4 – 8 year olds </div><div><br /></div><div>This is what moderate dental fluorosis looks like, a<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faqs/dental_fluorosis/index.htm" target="_blank">ccording to the US Centers for Disease Control</a> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYhNY_5SrHCXm49y8VXllFCq2jd5sBqWUHPHITBBYAAnBTKQhJEhg-XP-PC0kjbDsfNia7dUlj5psq5RYEtZO4ZHHzXJIaZzEiTHWUR3EkbK7slUm0Upq8lVDDyp7VX6Kh-_eC5jN5ZX9GTBucy2Ln94h-fOTRb0VA-9r3f9fOFKB1PA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="74" data-original-width="100" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYhNY_5SrHCXm49y8VXllFCq2jd5sBqWUHPHITBBYAAnBTKQhJEhg-XP-PC0kjbDsfNia7dUlj5psq5RYEtZO4ZHHzXJIaZzEiTHWUR3EkbK7slUm0Upq8lVDDyp7VX6Kh-_eC5jN5ZX9GTBucy2Ln94h-fOTRb0VA-9r3f9fOFKB1PA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: #fcff01;"><a href="https://centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/33/quackwatch/phs_1991.pdf" target="_blank">The US Department of Health and Human Services (1991)</a> estimated that total fluoride exposure in fluoridated communities ranges from 1.6 to 6.6 mg/day </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Further, parents need to know that fluoride supplements have “<a href="https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=6e7a7e17-7538-4763-810c-7e56bd630494&audience=consumer" target="_blank">not been found by FDA to be safe and effective</a>.” </div><div><br /></div><div>No evidence proves anyone is or ever was fluoride-deficient. Fluoride <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/" target="_blank">isn’t a nutrient or essential</a> for decay-free teeth – meaning that fluoride-free diets do not cause cavities. Fluoride is a drug with side effects. In fact, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510" target="_blank">70% of US kids are fluoride overdosed</a> and afflicted with dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth which created <a href="http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosisBeforeAfter" target="_blank">a lucrative market for cosmetic dentistry </a>because fluoride is everywhere. But <a href="https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/we-can-take-care-children-taking-care-their-teeth" target="_blank">tooth decay is still epidemic</a> </div><div><br /></div><div>The EPA regulates water fluoride levels to <a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-06/documents/npwdr_complete_table.pdf" target="_blank">protect against fluoride-caused bone damage</a>. So It's important to know that fluoride concentration in drinking water does not equate to an individual's daily dose. Fluoridation should never begin without fore knowledge of the community's fluoride intake from all sources.</div><div><br /></div><div>Foods originating from Mexico <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0379572119858486" target="_blank">have higher concentrations of fluoride than those found in US foods</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://anubooks.com/uploads/special/16848408441.pdf#page=57" target="_blank">FLUORIDE AIR POLLUTION</a></div><div><br />"Chief sources of fluoride pollutants are glassworks, steelworks, ceramic factories, phosphate fertilizer plants, brickworks, aluminum factories and uranium smelters. Combustion of coal is also source of fluorine pollution to some extent. Most injurious fluoride pollutant is gaseous hydrogen fluoride (HF). Fluoride is released into the air in large quantities by aluminum reduction plants, phosphate processors, steel mills, coal burning operations, brick and tile manufacturers, and various less significant sources (8). It can cause adverse effects when ingested by domestic animals or absorbed by plants. Fluoride air pollution adversely affect health of human beings. Fluorides are released into the atmosphere in gaseous state (as hydrogen fluoride and silicon tetra-fluoride) as well and in form of solid particles. These particles fall on and the gases are absorbed by, plants/ vegetation near the source of pollution. If such vegetation/ plants are consumed by the animals like cattle, sheep, horses, or pigs they will suffer from serious problems as these animals, particularly the cattle are vulnerable to fluoride (9). Ninety-six percent of the ingested fluoride accumulates in the bodies of animals is incorporated into the crystal structure of bone and tooth mineral (10, 11). Fluorides affect the bones & teeth (9, 12, 13)." </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div> END </div></div></div>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-61940066800425690092023-01-24T14:00:00.002-05:002023-01-24T14:00:35.333-05:00Fluoridation a 78-Year-Old Blunder<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;">Seventy-eight
years ago, on January 25, 1945, dentists convinced government officials to
experiment on all Grand Rapids, Michigan, residents to prove that (</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;">not <i>if</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;">)
dosing the public’s water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would make
children's developing teeth cavity-free. It ended prematurely, control city was fluoridated, promoted with PR, and evidence of harm ignored or untested.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Planned
to last 15 years, the 1945 study <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=595397182&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC2627472%2Fpdf%2F17128347.pdf&a=ended+prematurely+after+6+%C2%BD+years" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">ended prematurely after 6 ½ years</span></a>. Teeth of most
children born into the experiment hadn't even erupted yet. Muskegon, the non-fluoridated
comparison or control city began fluoridating its water in 1951; thereby,
negating the experiment.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;">An American
Dental Association (ADA) </span><span style="color: #00837e; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fluoridation-a-75-year-old-blunder-300987763.html">news
release </a></span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;">reported, "many communities did not wait for the studies to
be completed before starting their own fluoridation efforts. By 1950,
[fluoridation] had the full support of the ADA." This support came without
any safety evidence. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grand
Rapids citizens' health was untested. But Newburgh NY's healthy
schoolchildren were examined in another 1945 human experiment, also cut short
prematurely. Newburgh kids suffered more bone defects, anemia and earlier
female menstruation after 10 years (<i>Journal of the American Dental
Association,</i> 1956). These findings were dismissed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
1951, dentists strategized ("<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210808110144/https:/www.nofluoride.com/PDF/State%20Dental%20Directors.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Proceedings 4</span><sup><span style="color: #00837e; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"> annual
conference of state dental directors</span></a>") on how to sell
fluoridation using misinformation and misdirection e.g. "We have
told the public it works, so we can't go back on that." And "those
research people, they can't get over their feeling that you have to have test tube
and animal research before you start applying it to human beings."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly_QP4rGczo">Edward Bernays, the father
of public relations, promoted fluoridation,</a></span><span style="color: #00837e; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> consulting on strategy
for the National Instit</span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">ute of Dental Research. "Selling fluoride was child's
play," Bernays told the author of <i><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=2403814543&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fcontent%2Ffluoride-deception%2F&a=The+Fluoride+Deception" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Fluoride Deception</span></a></i>. Bernays said citizens trust
medical authority. So Bernays fooled doctors to believe in fluoridation – a
tactic used by today fluoridation PR flacks.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><i><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chemical
& Engineering News</span></i><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;"> reported: "Rational </span><span style="color: #00837e; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/articles/hileman-sidebar03/" target="_blank">voices
of opposition were suppressed from the start.” </a></span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt;"> Science justified those fears. Fluoride isn't
a nutrient or required for healthy teeth and has <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=1805042456&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fissues%2Fhealth&a=serious+side+effects" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration-line: none;">serious side effects</span></a>, rendering fluoridation unnecessary and
harmful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fluoridation
is celebrated <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ignoring strong <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=556779036&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffluoridedangers.blogspot.com%2F2019%2F11%2Ffluoridebrain-research-alarming-growing.html&a=fluoride%2Fbrain+links" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">fluoride/brain links</span></a>, 100 years of damning <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=1163531124&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffluoridedangers.blogspot.com%2F2019%2F08%2Ffluorides-link-to-kidney-disease.html&a=fluoride%2Fkidney+" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">fluoride/kidney </span></a>& <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=2947930711&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fstudytracker%2F%3Feffect%3Dthyroid-2%26sub%3D%26type%3Dhuman%26start_year%3D%26end_year%3D%26show%3D10%26fulltext%3D%26fantranslation%3D&a=thyroid" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">thyroid</span></a> research and that <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2693869-1&h=2086232568&u=https%3A%2F%2Fajph.aphapublications.org%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.2105%2FAJPH.2016.303614&a=cavity+experience+and+inequities+increased+in+the+last+20+years" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">cavity experience and inequities increased in the last 20 years</span></a> despite
widespread fluoridation contributing to US children's fluoride-damaged teeth-
dental fluorosis – white spotted, yellow splotched teeth <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510#:~:text=Exposure%20to%20excessive%20fluoride%20levels,surface%20layer%20of%20the%20enamel.">afflicting
70% of US children and adolescents).</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 26.25pt;"><span style="color: #373737; font-family: Montserrat; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead
of putting themselves out of business as predicted 78 years ago, fluoridation
has created a new lucrative market for cosmetic dentistry
http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosisBeforeAfter<o:p></o:p></span></p>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-5888584709899244472022-06-23T07:05:00.003-04:002022-10-25T07:25:50.182-04:00Babies Most Vulnerable to Fluoride's Neurotoxic Effects<p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">As of Jul7 2022,</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">76 studies</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">found fluoride lowers IQ - </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/23-studies-published-since-2017-on-the-association-of-fluoride-exposoure-and-reduced-iq/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #336688; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">23 published since 2017</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"> The fetus and formula fed infants are the most vulnerable to fluoride's neurotoxicity. </span></p><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt;"></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">These studies are the basis of a current lawsuit against the US EPA which could end the artificial fluoridation program in the US to protect the brains of the fetus and babies. The next court date is October 26, 2022. Counsel for the plaintiffs is <a href="https://waterskraus.com/attorney/michael-connett/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #336688; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Michael Connett, JD, Partne</a>r, <span style="color: #57575b;">Waters Kraus & Paul.</span> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div><span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">Fluoride from foods and beverages consumed during pregnancy is associated with lower cognitive neurodevelopment in boy babies, even when fluoride is ingested at recommended levels, report researchers Cantoral et al. in <i>Neurotoxicology</i> (</span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161813X21001005?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">December 2021</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">) and funded by the US National Institutes of Health.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100yqt3872144523" id="yiv5540717100yqtfd65321"><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fluoride's adverse neurological effects are backed by <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">hundreds of animal and cell studies.</a></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>Few know that fluoride, besides being added to many public water supplies, is in foods and beverages at varying and inconsistent levels – either naturally or from fluoridated pesticides; fluoridated water used in processing; feed regimen of animal products; food storage containers (Teflon-coated containers); and food packaging (migration of perfluorochemicals into food). Too much fluoride is health-harming and indisputable. Topical fluoride application also invites some absorption into the bloodstream.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>“Specifically, a 0.5 mg increase in dietary fluoride intake during the third trimester and across pregnancy was associated with a 3.10-points and 3.46-point lower cognitive score in boys, respectively,” reports Cantoral’s team.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>“Fluoride is not an essential nutrient and…fluoride ingestion in pregnancy does not strengthen enamel during tooth formation in the fetus but has been associated with increased risk of neurotoxicity, even at optimal exposure levels,” they write.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;">Prominent scientists proclaim “</span><a href="https://www.ehn.org/fluoride-and-childrens-health-2648120286.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">It is time to protect kids’ developing brains from fluoride</span></a><span style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;">”</span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>Cantoral’s team writes that “The National Toxicology Program concluded that fluoride is ‘presumed to be a cognitive developmental hazard to humans’ based upon a growing body of high-quality epidemiological studies conducted in endemic and non-endemic fluorosis areas.”</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>“These findings suggest that the development of nonverbal abilities in males may be more vulnerable to prenatal fluoride exposure than language or motor abilities, even at levels within the recommended intake range,” they write.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>After 77 years of water fluoridation, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">70% of US children and adolescents are fluoride-overdosed</a> and afflicted with dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) while <a href="https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/tooth-decay-epidemic-among-todays-kids" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">tooth decay remains a US epidemic.</a></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100yqt0678776056" id="yiv5540717100yqtfd93570"><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span>SCIENTISTS WHO CAUTION THAT FLUORIDE CAN DAMAGE BABIES' DEVELOPING BRAINS</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Experts who testified in the US Federal Lawsuit <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 19.046px;"> </span><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/watersupply.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0563c1; line-height: 19.046px;">Case No. 17-CV-02162-EMC</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 19.046px;">, challenging water fluoridation safety, that's set to continue in September 2022, </span><span style="color: #373737;">include:</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100yqt8793656852" id="yiv5540717100yqtfd51616"><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">1) <a href="https://www.orrisk.com/thiessen_bio.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #336688;">Kathleen M. Thiessen</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Ph.D. a risk assessment scientist at Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/Kathleen-Thiessen-Spotlight-Final.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Dr. Thiessen testified</a> that “The animal data on fluoride neurotoxicity are consistent with the epidemiological data in showing a risk of cognitive deficits at doses of fluoride ingested from fluoridated water.”<span style="color: #222222;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #666666;">2) A Fulbright Scholar, </span><a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/philippe-grandjean/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Phillipe Grandjean</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is on the faculty of Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark. He’s received multiple awards throughout his long career for his research on the effects of environmental toxins affecting children and has also been recognized for his advocacy in protecting future generations from the effects of neuro- and developmental toxins.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/the-tsca-trial-day-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Dr. Grandjean testified</a><span style="color: #666666;"> that </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"… there is little doubt that developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation, natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption, especially when the exposure occurs during early development."</span><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3) <a href="https://deohs.washington.edu/faculty/howard-hu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Howard Hu</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, from the University of Washington’s School of Public Health, has led international research teams investigating the environmental, nutritional, social, and epi/genetic causes of chronic disease and impaired child development in the USA, Mexico, India, China, and elsewhere around the world.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Hu advises pregnant women and infants to avoid fluoride ingestion to assure normal brain development (<a href="https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)30467-4/pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Journal of Pediatrics</span></i></a> <span style="color: #222222;">“Current Best Evidence,”</span> <span style="color: #222222;">July 2020). He wrote, </span>"Fluoride is not essential for growth and development, a cautious step could be avoidance of fluoridated products and water by women during pregnancy and by infants during the first 6 months of life."</span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">4) <a href="https://beehive.ubc.ca/people/bruce-lanphear#:~:text=BC%20Children's%20Hospital%20Research%20Institute,Sciences%20at%20Simon%20Fraser%20University." rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Lanphear</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is on the faculty at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where his research focuses on preventing common diseases and disabilities in children, as well as quantifying the impact of risk factors to children’s health including exposures to heavy metals and chemicals.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #666666;">An Op-Ed by </span>Dr. Lanphear; Linda Birnbaum, PhD<i>,</i><i> </i>Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and Christine Till, PhD, <span style="color: #4472c4;">co-author of the JAMA</span>-Pediatrics research article “Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada” wrote<span style="color: #666666;">:</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span>“Mounting evidence suggests fluoride may be hampering brain development and reducing kids' IQ. The US needs to rethink this exposure for pregnant women and children.”</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><span> </span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>JAMA Pediatrics</i> Journal editor <a href="https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/17802991" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Dimitri Christakis</span></a>, MD, said.<span style="color: #222222;"> “I would advise them [pregnant women] to drink bottled water or filtered water because it is not a particularly odious thing to do and actually does reduce the risk,” in a discussion of the </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black;">JAMA Pediatrics</span></i><span style="color: black;"> fluoride/IQ</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> study.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Fluoridation was declared safe for 75 years. “Yet, studies conducted in North America examining the safety of fluoride exposure in pregnancy were nonexistent,” write <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Till and Green</span></a> in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32443137/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">“Controversy: The evolving science of fluoride: when new evidence doesn’t conform with existing beliefs.” </a><span style="color: #222222;">Till and Green both advise pregnant women to avoid fluoride.</span></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dr. Till's youtube presentation about her research which garnered intense scrutiny before being published in <i>JAMA-Pediatrics</i> is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3L_jwJtio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">here</a>: </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color: #373737;">EPA scientists, in a recent research paper, write </span><span style="color: #666666;">"</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5451/htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Fluoride was observed to have the greatest increase in impacting cognitive ability and it is often reported to affect memory and cause cognitive deficits</a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">"</span></a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> (International <i>Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</i>, July 2020) </span></a></span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></div><div class="yiv5540717100MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; 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Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-3838283378529700142022-01-29T09:26:00.016-05:002023-11-30T05:58:12.686-05:00US Govt Report Reveals Fluoridation Futile. Fluoride Confirmed Neurotoxic. EPA Sued.<div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Despite increases in public water fluoridation, dental visits, sealants, fluoride varnish applications, and </span><a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303614" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">significant financial, training, and program investments</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> oral health hasn’t improved in 22 years</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> in the US</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">, according to a National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) <a href="https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2021-12/Oral-Health-in-America-Advances-and-Challenges.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">Oral Health in America</a> Report (December 2021). 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font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: small; outline: none;">A new UK study, entitled CATFISH, shows a modest cavity reduction of 4% and 3% in 5-year-olds and 11-year-</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">old's</span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">, respectively over their lifetimes, between fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas and <a href="https://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/phr/SHMX1584/#/abstract" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">admits disparities persist.</a></span></div><div class="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" style="outline: none;"><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; 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outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">Hundreds of studies support 76 human studies which show </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">fluoride damages babies' developing brains</a><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">. Prominent scientists urge us all to </span><a href="https://www.ehn.org/fluoride-and-childrens-health-2648120286.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">protect babies' brains from fluoride</a><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="outline: none;"><div class="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" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;">These studies are the basis of a current <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/tsca-trial/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)</a> to lower allowable fluoride contaminant levels in drinking water. The trial starts January 29, 2024 (Food and Water Watch, et al). Counsel for the plaintiffs is </span><a href="https://waterskraus.com/attorney/michael-connett/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: #336688; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; outline: none;" target="_blank">Michael Connett, JD, Partne</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;">r, </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #57575b; outline: none;">Waters Kraus & Paul.</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"> </span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;">EPA admits that fluoride is a chemical “</span><a href="https://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/mundy-epa.neurotoxicant.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; outline: none;" target="_blank">with Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity”</a> Under oath, CDC's Oral Health Director (who claims fluoridation is safe) has <span face=""YouTube Sans", Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #0f0f0f; outline: none;"> <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/tsca-trial/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">No Safety Data on Fluoride and the Brain</a></span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">I<a href="https://insideepa.com/daily-news/ntp-ties-fluoride-childhood-iq-loss-bolstering-plaintiffs-tsca-suit" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">nsideEPA.com reports</a> (3/15/23), "<span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">The National Toxicology Program (NTP) has quietly unsealed its 2022 draft report on fluoride toxicity, publishing for the first time its finding 'with moderate confidence' that common drinking water fluoridation levels are associated with drops in childhood IQ -- a conclusion environmentalists plan to use in their suit seeking TSCA limits on fluoridation."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"> </span></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Fluoride chemicals (<a href="https://d2evkimvhatqav.cloudfront.net/documents/Fluoride_Fact_Sheet_2019.pdf?mtime=20200716154338&focal=none" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">hydrofluosilicic acid</a> and sodium fluoride) are added to about 70% of US public drinking water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay in tap water drinkers. But after 78 years of fluoridation, 50% of US 6-8 year-olds still have cavities, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/pdf/aag/Division-Elevator-DOH-508.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">according to the CDC</a>. Fifty-seven percent of adolescents aged 12-19 years have cavities </span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">(<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jphd.12521" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-style: italic; outline: none;" target="_blank">Journal of Public Health Dentistry</a>). Seventy percent of US children and adolescents are afflicted with fluoride overdose - dental fluorosis - white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth - <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">according to published federal data (NHANES</a>) Dentists profit from covering fluorosis </span><a href="http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosisBeforeAfter" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosisBeforeAfter</a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" data-setdir="false" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt; 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outline: none;"><div class="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" id="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" style="outline: none;"><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">Recently, <span style="color: #363135; outline: none;">the State College Borough Water Authority in Pennsylvania,</span> made up of scientifically trained professionals representing various aspects of water quality, source water protections, engineering and business management, <span style="color: #363135; outline: none;">voted to reject fluoridation unanimously after members read the science and didn't just rely on outdated and unscientific endorsements. </span> </span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;">They criticized fluoridationists who <span style="color: #0f1419; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.centredaily.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/article263829597.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">"misrepresented and discredited the scientific evidence"</a> (including Dr. Johnny Johnson's testimony. He is the President of the American Fluoridation Society)</span></span><span style="color: #363135; outline: none;"></span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="color: #0f1419; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="color: #0f1419; outline: none;">Former New York State dental director (now California Dental Director), who works closely with the American Dental Association, <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/articles/californias-dental-health-director-buried-data-linking-fluoridated-water-to-iq-deficits/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">has been accused of misrepresenting his published fluoride/IQ study.</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="color: #0f1419; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1419; outline: none;">US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy: "Nine out of 10 adults 20 to 64 years of age have had dental caries, a figure that hasn’t meaningfully changed during the past 20 years...dental care costs have increased by 30%</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1419; outline: none;">," reported in <span style="font-style: italic; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp2118478" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">the New England Journal of Medicine</a></span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1419; outline: none;"></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0f1419; outline: none;"></span><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2022/02/09/nih-analysis-shows-that-oral-health-has-improved-since-2000-but-major-inequities-remain" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">The Pew Charitable Trusts</a> writes: "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; outline: none;">the nation has failed to reduce the prevalence of untreated tooth decay among certain populations...limited access to dental care is a persistent factor contributing to oral health inequities among </span><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2016/05/12/dental-health-is-worse-in-communities-of-color" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #296ec3; outline: none;" target="_blank">racial and ethnic minorities</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; outline: none;">, low-income individuals, </span><a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2016/07/older-americans-need-better-access-to-dental-care" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #296ec3; outline: none;" target="_blank">older Americans</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; outline: none;">, rural residents, and other marginalized groups.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; outline: none;">" (February 9, 2022)</span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298yqt3355411648" id="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298yqtfd86258" style="outline: none;"><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">America’s </span><a href="https://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/columnists/america-s-shockingly-poor-dental-care-system/article_8548bc46-6ccf-11e7-839e-c72d1946c41f.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">shockingly poor dental system</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">, poverty and poor diets are to blame. Fluoridation can't fix that."</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">"CDC reports show that among working-age US adults, over 40% of low-income and non-Hispanic Black adults have untreated tooth decay. <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">Roughly another 40% of adults with low income or no private health insurance have untreated cavities," <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/meharry-medical-college-provides-free-dental-procedures" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">according to NewsChannel5</a>.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">NIDCR reports little improvement since the <a href="https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/research/data-statistics/surgeon-general#:~:text=The%20report%20elaborates%20on%20the,general%20health%20and%20well%2Dbeing.&text=The%20major%20message%20of%20this,be%20achieved%20by%20all%20Americans." rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">2000 US Surgeon General’s Oral Health report</a> revealed “a silent epidemic” and its now-failed </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47472/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Call to Action</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> “<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; outline: none;">to eliminate oral health disparities.”</span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 13.3333px; outline: none;"><br style="outline: none;" /></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">For example, the NIDCR reports:</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;">The</span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> military continues to face challenges in meeting recruitment goals and military readiness because of oral health-related issues.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Untreated cavities among the poor remain twice that of non-poor. Disparities persist by race/ethnicity status.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;">Pr</span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">imary</span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> tooth decay increased in boys aged 6-11 and didn’t change in adolescents’ and adults’ permanent teeth.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Untreated decay in permanent teeth shows no progress.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">In ages 2-11, decayed tooth surfaces increased with a greater impact on boys</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Four out of 5 Americans aged 6 years and older experience cavities, irrespective of poverty or race/ethnicity status.</span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; outline: none;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">40% of children have eroded teeth. </span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none; text-indent: 0in;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Dental Therapists could alleviate the dental access problem; but the politically powerful American Dental Association (ADA) lobbies against their legalization, according to the </span><a href="https://everychildthrives.com/rise-of-dental-therapy/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">W K Kellogg Foundation</span></a><span class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoHyperlink" style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/know-lobbyists-sure-americans-don-114700924.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span color="windowtext" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">and</span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> Wendell Potter</span></a><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">NIDCR admits vitamin D deficiency is a cavity risk. But the ADA turned this nutritional deficiency into a profitable fluoride drug treatment (</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/12/4361/htm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Nutrients</span></i><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> 2021</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">). Forty-two percent of </span><a href="https://www.cantonmercy.org/healthchat/42-percent-of-americans-are-vitamin-d-deficient/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Americans are vitamin D deficient</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">. None are fluoride-deficient.</span><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"> Fluoride, like all drugs, has side effects.</span><span style="color: #0094d9; letter-spacing: 0.75pt; line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;">Politics, not science, supports fluoridation as evidenced by the <a href="https://www.ada.org/publications/ada-news/2022/february/ada-urges-ntp-to-base-upcoming-fluoride-report-on-scientific-evidence#.YhPlVJrgBwk.twitter" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">ADA's lobbying the US National Toxicology Program</a> to conclude fluoridation is not neurotoxic when the science says it is - even though adverse health effects, outside of the oral cavity from ingested fluoride, are not within the purview of dentistry, according to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120229084433/http://www.nofluoride.com/cal_dental_examiners.cfm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">California Board of Dental Examiners</a>. </span><a 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ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298r-bcqeeo 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-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">4433/http://www.nofluoride.com/cal_dental_examiners.cfm</span></a></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">Few know that fluoridation chemicals aren't natural, but are <a href="https://d2evkimvhatqav.cloudfront.net/documents/Fluoride_Fact_Sheet_2019.pdf?mtime=20200716154338&focal=none" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">lead- and arsenic-laced waste products</a> of phosphate fertilizer manufacturing (hydrofluosilicic acid or sodium fluoride) which often requires adding an acid-neutralizing chemical to the water such as sodium hydroxide.<br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Artificial fluoridation is outdated, unscientific, ineffective, unnecessary, politically motivated, harmful and must cease across the US</b></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: yellow; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;">A prominent professor and former public health dentist writes, "<span style="color: #222222; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 26.4px;">Pro-fluoridationists should not make the mistake of concluding that the anti-fluoridationists are all quacks or believers in conspiracies. This is a serious court case, and it behooves all interested parties to take the case and the evidence seriously." (<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/17/3507/htm" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic; outline: none;">Nutrients</span> 2022</a> "</span>Fluoride: From Nutrient to Suspected Neurotoxin"<span style="color: #222222; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-indent: 26.4px;">)</span></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">Many fluoridation reviews consistently found fluoridation studies faulty. For example:</span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">The <a href="https://www.waterworld.com/home/article/16209039/tooth-decay-returns-despite-water-fluoridation" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">US National Institutes of Health</a> (2001)</span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">The <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Fluoridation%20Statement.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">UK York Review of Fluoride</a> (2003)</span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;">Chairman of the <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/panelists/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">US National Research Council's Report</a> on Fluoride (2006)</span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/no-valid-evidence-exists-to-prove-fluoridation-works-say-researchers-300115959.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">UK Cochrane Research Group</a> (2015)</span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><a href="http://www.medicinaoral.com/medoralfree01/aop/52890.pdf" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank"><i style="outline: none;">Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry</i></a> (2016)<br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span class="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-chron" style="color: #373737; font-style: italic; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/after-72-years-of-fluoridation-uncertainty-persists-300396429.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; outline: none;" target="_blank">Journal of Risk Assessment</a> </span><span class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298xn-chron" style="color: #373737; outline: none;">(2016</span><span class="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-chron" style="color: #373737; outline: none;">)</span><span style="color: #373737; outline: none;">. </span><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="color: #373737; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;">New York State Communities which have stopped or rejected fluoridation are: Suffolk, Nassau & Rockland counties, the capital city of Albany, Elba, Naples, Levittown, Canton, Corning, Johnstown, Oneida, Carle Place, Beacon, Poughkeepsie, Riverhead, Central Bridge Water District, Homer, Ithaca, Rouses Point, Pulaski, Romulus, Rockville Center, Amsterdam, Walden,</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"> Glens Falls</span><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"> and Manhasset </span><br clear="none" style="outline: none;" /></span></div><div class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp36f955e1yiv5342432361ydp2aa8e21eyiv9747284345ydp2306332ayiv5989925732ydpbbb1f588yiv4270653553ydp2c582bc9yiv2735174525ydpe3da43ayiv7124815805ydpa30d7b4ayiv4837797625ydp981af3cfyiv9679951759ydp34ebe5f9yiv5977649142ydpcb335af2yiv0457615472ydpab710b4dyiv0569354102ydp89649f46yiv4700029339ydpc14d8610yiv0031554164ydp1a090465yiv3547864394ydpb06b7cc5yiv2349625298MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; outline: none;"><div class="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" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; outline: none !important;"><span style="font-size: small; outline: none !important;">NYS Dept of Health statistics show there is no correlation between the </span><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; font-size: small; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">fluoridation rate of a county and tooth decay</a><span style="font-size: small; outline: none !important;"> rates:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; outline: none !important;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; outline: none !important;"> <span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important;">or to f</span><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/p/tooth-decay-hospital-visits-for-new.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #338fe9; font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">ewer dental-related hospital ER visits for toddlers </a></span></span><br style="outline: none !important;" /></div><div class="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" style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; outline: none;"><div class="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" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; outline: none;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; 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outline: none;">It's not just New York, in Florida, <span class="ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp2b5ea5c8css-901oao ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp2b5ea5c8css-16my406 ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp2b5ea5c8r-poiln3 ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp2b5ea5c8r-bcqeeo ydpb7614bf5yiv0980168046ydpfc8009b1yiv7516522902ydp2a3aa2edyiv4871524656ydpa5e298c8yiv3781766227ydp599cf93cyiv1333332511ydp7062a962yiv6632116248ydp60847bd9yiv3427261711ydp5faf2386yiv0649792023ydpb695c016yiv5727399050ydpfadd9332yiv3282200364ydp2b5ea5c8r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">despite a 78.5% fluoridation rate "<a href="https://floridapolitics.com/archives/623692-report-cavities-abcesses-tooth-decay-are-driving-children-to-florida-emergency-rooms/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Cavities, abscesses, tooth decay are driving children to Florida emergency rooms</a>" The reason, as always, is lack of dental care - not lack of fluoride <span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="outline: none;"> </span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="outline: none;">"Only about 8% of [Florida's] licensed dentists <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4469898/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">participate in the Medicaid program"</a></span></span></span></div><div class="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" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; 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z-index: 0;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: small; outline: none;">Kentucky is the US. state with the 2nd highest percentage of residents with fluoridated drinking water (99.9% - CDC, 2020) due to the legislature mandating the practice in 1994. RESULTS: <a href="https://wbkr.com/kentucky-leads-nation-in-toothless-adults/?trackback=twitter_mobile" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">Kentucky Leads the Nation in the Number of Toothless Adults </a></span><br style="outline: none;" /></div></div></div><div class="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" dir="ltr" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"> END IT</span></div></div></div><div class="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" style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 10pt; outline: none;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small; line-height: 14.2667px;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><br /></div><p><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.2667px;"></span></span></p><div class="yiv5543115768yqt8149595689" id="yiv5543115768yqtfd31166" style="background-color: white;"><div class="yiv5543115768yqt0140969403" id="yiv5543115768yqtfd49425"><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Details about above-listed scientific reviews which report fluoridation studies are faulty.</span></div><div class="yiv5543115768yqt3355411648" id="yiv5543115768yqtfd86258"><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal"><div class="yiv9041063574yqt8149595689" id="yiv9041063574yqtfd31166"><div class="yiv9041063574yqt0140969403" id="yiv9041063574yqtfd49425"><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">2001 -- An NIH panel reviewing tooth decay research was disappointed in the overall quality of the clinical data that it reviewed. According to the panel, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010605192401/http://odp.od.nih.gov/consensus/news/releases/115_release.htm" target="_blank">far too many studies were small, poorly described, or otherwise methodologically flawed</a>." Over 560 studies evaluated fluoride.</span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">"If the current weak trend of caries research in the United States continues, history will be harsh on all of us for our failure to use our knowledge and resources to reduce, if not eliminate, the burden of one of the world's most prevalent diseases," <a href="https://guides.lib.umich.edu/nihcdc/abstractsip/ismail" target="_blank">wrote Amid Ismail, BDS</a>, Professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry in a report to the panel.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">2001 -- <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm" target="_blank">The CDC reports</a>: "The prevalence of dental caries in a population is not inversely related to the concentration of fluoride in enamel and a higher concentration of enamel fluoride is not necessarily more efficacious in preventing dental caries." </span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">2003 -- When members of the 2000 York Review of fluoridation found their work was being misrepresented by fluoidationists, <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Fluoridation%20Statement.pdf" target="_blank">they corrected the misreporting by writing a statement,</a>: </span><i>What the 'York Review' on the fluoridation of drinking water really found</i>. "We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide....The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable."</span></div><div class="yiv9041063574yqt2884105002" id="yiv9041063574yqtfd96526"><div class="yiv9041063574yqt1259575918" id="yiv9041063574yqtfd49374"><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">2006 -- Chairman of the National Research Council Report on Fluoride Toxicity (Toxicologist John Doull) wrote: <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/panelists/" target="_blank">"What the committee found is that we've gone with the status quo regarding fluoride for many years--for too long, really--and now we need to take a fresh look. In the scientific community, people tend to think this is settled. I mean, when the US surgeon general comes out and says this is one of the 10 greatest achievements of the 20th century, that's a hard hurdle to get over. B</a>ut when we looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should, considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on. I think that's why fluoridation is still being challenged so many years after it began. In the face of ignorance, controversy is rampant."</span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">2015 -- <span style="color: #373737;">After reviewing all available fluoridation studies, the independent and trusted UK-based</span><span style="color: #373737;"> </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953324/" target="_blank">Cochrane group of researchers</a><span style="color: #373737;"> </span><span style="color: #373737;">could not find any quality evidence to prove fluoridation changes the "existing differences in tooth decay across socioeconomic groups." Neither could they find valid evidence that fluoride reduces adults' cavity rates nor that fluoridation cessation increases tooth decay.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Fluoridation may reduce cavities in children (2 primary teeth or 1 permanent tooth). But Cochrane cautions these studies have "high risk of bias" and were mostly done before preventive measures were widespread, e.g. fluoridated toothpaste and sealants.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #373737;">2015 -- </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00837e; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Newsweek reports</a><span style="color: #373737;"> that scientists, who were assigned to review fluoridation research, are shocked at the lack of valid fluoridation-supporting evidence. Government agencies have a long history of </span><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2015/06/fakes-phonys-frauds-fabricators-and.html" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00837e; hyphens: auto; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">minimizing reviews critical of fluoridation</a><span style="color: #373737;"> science.</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="color: #373737;">2016 -- </span></span><span style="color: #252324;">Sicca, et al. analyzed thirty systematic reviews on tooth decay prevention, from 2002 – 2015, and report “there is not sufficient evidence to determine whether the use [of] water fluoridation has a significant impact in the reduction of caries.” (<a href="Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry" target="_blank"><i>Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry</i></a>)</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #252324;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #252324;">2023 - A suppressed National Toxicology Program fluoride report which government officials tried to hide from the public was revealed via a freedom of in formation request concluded "<a href="https://fluoridealert.org/articles/national-toxicology-program-finds-no-safe-level-of-fluoride-in-drinking-water-water-fluoridation-policy-threatened/" target="_blank">The data support a consistent inverse association between fluoride exposure and children's IQ</a>"</span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #252324; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span><span style="color: #373737; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><p style="color: #252324; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></span></span></div><div class="yiv9041063574MsoNormal"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> END</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv5543115768MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br /></div></div></div></div>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-62900041091304572092021-12-18T11:01:00.005-05:002022-01-19T09:15:34.279-05:00Dentistry Treats Vitamin D Deficiency With Nonessential Fluoride Drugs for Profit <p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Vitamin D Deficiency, Not Fluoride Deficiency, Causes Cavities, Dentist/Researcher Reveals </span></span></p><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">American Dental Association (ADA) internal documents reveal how it influenced the world to ignore a preponderance of evidence proving vitamin D can prevent tooth decay in order to promote nonessential fluoride so dentists could profit, reports </span><a href="https://dental.washington.edu/people/philippe-p-hujoel/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">Philippe P. Hujoel, PhD, DDS</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">, Professor, Oral Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Washington (</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/12/4361/htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">Nutrients </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">December 2021</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">)<span style="color: #222222;">.</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049yqt3279566074" id="yiv6505669049yqtfd10357" style="background-color: white;"><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">Hujoel writes, “The ADA was a world</span><span style="font-family: serif; line-height: 16.05px;">‐</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">leading organization and its governing bodies worked through political channels to make fluoride a global standard of care for a disease which at the time was viewed as an indicator of vitamin D deficiencies.” <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;">The ADA scientific council endorsed vitamin D for 15 years but reversed its decision in 1989. </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The evidence suggests that professional organizations of clinical specialists, such as the ADA, have the power to create standards of care which ignore key evidence and consequently can harm public health, reports Hujoel.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">It seems the rich and powerful ADA uses legislators, the media and water engineers for its own <a href="https://patch.com/california/gilroy/fluoride-water-ineffective-harmful-wa-teful-studies-show" target="_blank">political viability</a> and <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/01/fluoridation-follow-money-by-carol-s.html" target="_blank">financial gain </a>to manipulate the public into believing fluoride is an essential tooth nutrient - which it isn't. Artificial fluoridation is based more on politics and deception than science. </span></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21310306/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">Vitamin D deficiency, now common in US</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;"> adults and </span><a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/memo_to_pediatricians_screen_all_kids_for_vitamin_d_deficiency_test_those_at_high_risk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">children</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">, is also more prevalent in the same groups suffering the most tooth decay.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;">Many c</span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22vitamin+D%22+caries&sort=date&size=200" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.05px;">urrent studies</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;"> link vitamin D deficiency to more cavities.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;">After 77 years of water fluoridation, intending to dramatically reduce tooth decay, 70% of US children are fluoride-overdosed, </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.05px;">afflicted with dental fluorosis</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;"> (discolored teeth). Yet, </span><a href="https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/tooth-decay-epidemic-americas-poorest-children/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.05px;">tooth decay is epidemic</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;">. Like all drugs, </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?effect=&type=human&start_year=&end_year=&show=10&fulltext=&fantranslation=&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1ce31b2a-6665-41f9-8b66-906d23665d7c" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.05px;">fluoride has adverse side effects</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 16.05px;">.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin D, an essential nutrient, is free via sunlight exposure; fluoride is a huge money maker.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">ADA’s Seal of Approval is paid for reports </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/blogs/paging.dr.gupta/2007/09/paying-for-product-approvals.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">).</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“ADA governing bodies had several channels of influence to put fluoride experts on authoritative writing panels who globalized the now conventional wisdom of ignoring and dismissing the evidence of the role of nutritional deficiencies in dental disease etiology,” writes Hujoel. </span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“It did not matter that the professional organization had a self-evident conflict of interest; topical fluoride applications in dental offices were revenue-generating procedures, vitamin D prescriptions were not,” writes Hujoel.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Hujoel explains that vitamin D was shunned to knock </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent;">competition from physicians.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">With its success in suppressing vitamin D supplementation, the dental guild went on to dismiss other dental-related deficiencies such as vitamin C for gingival bleeding, according to Hujoel.</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He concludes, “Public health may well depend on looking at professional societies no different than the way we look at the pharmaceutical industry— conflicted organizations with a power to shape conventional wisdom based on fragile evidence. This historical analysis adds to the evidence that professional societies should serve their members and be kept at arm’s length from research agendas, disease definitions, clinical practice guidelines, and public health policies.” </span></span><div class="yiv6505669049yqt5009978947" id="yiv6505669049yqtfd54773"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></div></div><div class="yiv6505669049yqt5009978947" id="yiv6505669049yqtfd38746"><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">The powerful politics of the ADA is well documented as explained </span><a href="https://fortune.com/2021/11/19/congress-lobbying-americans-dental-care-biden-democrats-medicare-build-back-better/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">here</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;"> and </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists/2017/07/01/ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">here</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;"> and </span><a href="https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2020/06/dentists-open-wide-after-lobbyists-pressure-cdc/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">here</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;">.</span></span></b></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 16.05px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="line-height: 16.05px;">Buried on its website but rarely, if ever, shared with the public, the ADA admits science shows (under "dental caries") </span></span><a href="https://www.ada.org/resources/research/science-and-research-institute/oral-health-topics/nutrition-and-oral-health" target="_blank">Vitamin D deficiency is linked to more cavities. </a></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;">Fluoridation gives dentistry “political viability” was admitted in a 1981 </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.8px;">Journal of the American Dental Association </i><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;">article. (</span><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;"><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6938577/" style="color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">“Fluoridation Election Victory: A Case Study for Dentistry in Effective Political Action”</a>)</span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/pediatric-dentistry/article/16355554/good-oral-health-begins-in-the-womb" target="_blank">ADA is cited in this 2002 article admitting</a> "It is important for pregnant women to receive sufficient amounts of nutrients, including calcium, protein, phosphorous and vitamins A, C and D." </span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333; font-size: 17.8px;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, stixgeneral, serif;"><span style="font-size: 19.9989px;">"This review aims to provide comprehensive evidence of how Vitamin D levels should be considered to promote good oral health, and to summarize how Vitamin D Deficiency may hamper oral development and its role in certain oral conditions." (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7285165/" target="_blank"><i>Nutrients</i> 2020</a>)</span></span></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p class="MsoNormal">High doses of vitamin D during pregnancy improved tooth
enamel in offspring. (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/13/well/family/vitamin-d-during-pregnancy-may-improve-dental-health-of-babies.html" target="_blank"><i>New York Times </i>201</a>9)</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> END</p></div><div class="yiv6505669049MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><br /></div><div style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></div></div>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-37316358178757712542021-10-27T08:29:00.002-04:002023-11-08T09:06:42.672-05:00Fluoridationists' Talking Points Easily DebunkedUsing their titles and degrees more often than science, fluoridationists often say:<div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white;">1) Fluoride is natural - The truth is that the most-used fluoridation chemicals are not natural calcium fluoride but instead are </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19275742/3731635817875771254#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">never safety-tested hydrofluosilicic acid</a><span style="background-color: white;"> or sodium fluoride which “</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/19275742/3731635817875771254#" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">has not been found by FDA to be safe and effective</a><span style="background-color: white;">” Calcium binds more tightly to fluoride. In fact, </span><a href="https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/814774-medication?form=fpf#2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">calcium is the antidote</a><span style="background-color: white;"> for fluoride poisoning. But even </span><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30060-7/fulltext" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">naturally fluoridated water can cripple and maim</a><span style="background-color: white;"> when concentrations are high.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div> 2) Fluoridation reduces disparities -
It doesn’t. For example, "Despite significant financial, training, and program investments, US children's caries experience and inequities continued to increase over the last 20 years," according the <a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303614" target="_blank"><i>American Journal of Public Health</i></a> (2017).</div><div><br />
3) CDC proclaims fluoridation is 1 of the 10 Greatest Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century -
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm" target="_blank">CDC also reports</a>, “The prevalence of dental caries in a population is not inversely related to the concentration of fluoride in enamel and a higher concentration of enamel fluoride is not necessarily more efficacious in preventing dental caries.”</div><div><br /></div><div> 4) There are hundreds or thousands of studies prove fluoridation safety -
There are not. In fact, the studies <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/cdc-official-lied-about-fluoridation.html" target="_blank">CDC lists</a> as proving safety actually don’t</div><div><br /></div><div> 5) Fluoridation is safe for every human for their entire lifetimes - That has never been proven. Fluoride, <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/" target="_blank">neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth</a> is a drug with side effects – the most egregious is <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2021/09/70th-human-study-links-fluoride-to.html" target="_blank">fluoride’s neurological effects</a>. Fluoride’s <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2019/08/fluorides-link-to-kidney-disease.html" target="_blank">kidney effects are 100 years old</a> and its <a href="https://poisonfluoride.com/dir/history-2/" target="_blank">thyroid effects</a> well documented. </div><div><br /></div><div>So, after 76 years of fluoridation which was supposed to drastically reduce tooth decay, save money and put dentists out of business with a minimum of adverse side effects (mild dental fluorosis): </div><div><br /></div><div> • <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510?via%3Dihub" target="_blank">70% of US children and adolescents are afflicted with dental fluorosis</a> – much of it moderate/severe – creating a <a href="http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosisBeforeAfter">lucrative new cosmetic dentistry</a> business for dentists.</div><div><br /></div><div>• Tooth decay is epidemic, according to the <a href="https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/tooth-decay-epidemic-among-todays-kids">American Association of Pediatric Dentists </a></div><div><br /></div><div>• In 1950 there were 42 dental Schools. <a href="https://pages.ada.org/ada-news/dental-education-then-now?utm_campaign=ADA%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=147892372&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8J8RmjIdsDY6gRcT2FKsnwHgfd2tIO48xbaPVaLpTUxa7A6ekJWDCHW0N8_9QPxoVULR3AOSfc9bNuJPk9Frof4Rwkug&utm_content=147892372&" target="_blank">Now there are 68</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>• 16,555 were enrolled in dental school in 1969-70. <a href="https://pages.ada.org/ada-news/dental-education-then-now?utm_campaign=ADA%20News&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=147892372&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8J8RmjIdsDY6gRcT2FKsnwHgfd2tIO48xbaPVaLpTUxa7A6ekJWDCHW0N8_9QPxoVULR3AOSfc9bNuJPk9Frof4Rwkug&utm_content=147892372&" target="_blank">Now 25,995 are enrolled,</a> the most ever. </div><div><br /></div><div>• Dental spending reached a <a href="https://www.dentistrytoday.com/news/industrynews/item/5981-dental-spending-increases-in-2018" target="_blank">historic high of $136 billion,</a> according to the American Dental Association </div><div><br /></div><div>• <span style="background-color: white;">Dental spending reached a </span><a href="https://www.ada.org/about/press-releases/2020-archives/ada-health-policy-institute-finds-uptick-in-dental-spending" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">historic high of $136 billion</a><span style="background-color: white;"> in 2018, according to the American Dental Association. Then n</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important;">ational dental expenditures increased by 11% in 2021, from $146 billion in 2020 to $162 billion in 2021, </span><a href="https://www.ada.org/resources/research/health-policy-institute/us-dental-spending-in-2021" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; outline: none !important;" target="_blank">according to the American Dental Association</a></div><div><br /></div><div>• More dentists and dental groups now oppose fluoridation. For example, the <a href="https://iaomt.org/top-ten-reasons-oppose-water-fluoridation/" target="_blank">IAOMT</a>, the <a href="https://iabdm.org/why-fluoride-doesnt-have-a-place-in-a-biological-dental-practice/" target="_blank">IABDM,</a> t<a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/p/dentists-who-oppose-fluoridation.html" target="_blank">hese dentists</a>. 378 dentists listed <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/" target="_blank">here</a>. More are opposed but <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/sep/22/bill-osmunson-dds-mph-fluoridation-is-about-a-lot-/">fear speaking ou</a>t .</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists/2017/07/01/ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html" target="_blank">Organized dentistry </a>is one of the richest and most powerful special interest groups. Fluoridation is their sacred cow. Most dentists prefer to treat the water of; but not the teeth of low income folks. Eighty percent of dentists refuse Medicaid patients. </div><div><br /></div><div>Americans are fluoride-overdosed and dentist deficient. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/04/americans-dental-dentist-teeth-health-insurance" target="_blank">74 million Americans don't have dental insurance</a> and, many of those that do, can't afford dentistry's out-of-pocket expenses</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/oral_health_disparities/index.htm" target="_blank">According to the CDC</a>, oral health disparities persists: </div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">"<span style="background-color: white;">Among working-age US adults, over 40% of low-income and non-Hispanic Black adults have untreated tooth decay.</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.15; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">Untreated oral disease has a large impact on quality of life and productivity:</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 25px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over 34 million school hours were lost in the United States in 2008 because of unplanned urgent dental care.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Over $45 billion is lost in productivity in the United States each year because of untreated oral disease.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.4rem;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Nearly 18% of all working-age adults, and 29% of those with lower incomes, report that the appearance of their mouth and teeth affects their ability to interview for a job.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Politic$, not science, supports fluoridation. <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/01/fluoridation-follow-money-by-carol-s.html" target="_blank"> Follow the Money</a>!</span></div><div><br /></div><div> END FLUORIDATION
</div></div>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-50616982833420083962021-09-22T07:56:00.009-04:002023-12-19T06:08:26.511-05:0078 Human Studies Link Fluoride to Babies’ Neurological Damage; EPA Sued<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Backed by hundreds of animal and cell research, 78 human studies link fluoride to lower IQ - some at optimal water fluoride levels (0.7 mg/L) The fetus and formula fed infants
are the most vulnerable to fluoride's neurotoxicity. The CDC's Oral Health Director, Casey Hannon, admitted under oath that CDC has <a href="https://fluoridealert.org/fan-tv/cdc-oral-health-director-we-have-no-safety-data-on-fluoride-and-the-brain/" target="_blank">no evidence of fluoride's brain safety in the fetus, babies or children. </a>Hannan also admitted that no evidence exists to prove fluoride is beneficial to the same group.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; outline: none;">EPA admits that fluoride is a chemical “</span><a href="https://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/mundy-epa.neurotoxicant.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">with Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity”</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; outline: none;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">These studies are the basis of a current lawsuit against the EPA
which could end the artificial fluoridation program in the US. EPA set "safe" water fluoride contaminant levels to protect bones and children's teeth (skeletal fluorosis and dental fluorosis). They failed to consider neurofluorosis. The next court date is in January 2024. Counsel for the
plaintiffs is <a href="https://waterskraus.com/attorney/michael-connett/" shape="rect" target="_blank">Michael
Connett, JD, Partne</a>r, <span style="color: #57575b;">Waters Kraus & Paul.</span> </span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; line-height: 14.2667px;">
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">Fluoride from foods and beverages consumed during pregnancy is associated with lower cognitive neurodevelopment in boy babies, even when fluoride is ingested at recommended levels, report researchers Cantoral et al. in <i>Neurotoxicology</i> (</span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161813X21001005?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">December 2021</span></a><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;">) and funded by the US National Institutes of Health.</span></span></p><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">“Fluoride is not an essential nutrient and…fluoride ingestion in pregnancy does not strengthen enamel during tooth formation in the fetus but has been associated with increased risk of neurotoxicity, even at optimal exposure levels,” Cantoral's team write.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2e2e2e; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica; outline: none;">Prominent scientists urge us all to </span><a href="https://www.ehn.org/fluoride-and-childrens-health-2648120286.html" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="color: blue; font-family: arial, helvetica; outline: none;" target="_blank">protect babies' brains from fluoride</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; outline: none;"> US National Toxicology Program report confirms </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica; outline: none;"><span face="Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737; outline: none;"><a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/suppressed-government-report-finding-fluoride-can-reduce-childrens-iq-made-public-under-epa-lawsuit-301773074.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #196ad4; outline: none;" target="_blank">that prenatal and early life fluoride exposures can reduce IQ.</a></span></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="yiv8741607941yqt3872144523" id="yiv8741607941yqtfd65321"><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Few know that fluoride, besides being added to many public water supplies, <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2023/03/fluoride-abundant-in-foods-beverages.html" target="_blank">is in foods and beverages at varying and inconsistent levels</a> – either naturally or from fluoridated pesticides; fluoridated water used in processing; feed regimen of animal products; food storage containers (Teflon-coated containers); and food packaging (migration of perfluorochemicals into food). Those for and against fluoridation concede too much fluoride is health-harming. Topical fluoride application also invites some absorption into the bloodstream.</span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 18.75px;">"Given the ubiquity of elevated fluoride exposure, a recent study estimated that the population impact of adverse effects from fluoride may exceed the one associated with other toxic elements like lead, mercury, and arsenic," report researchers </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; outline: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><a href="https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckad170/7291347?login=false" target="_blank">European Journal of Public Health</a> </i>(October 2023)</span></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After 78 years of water fluoridation, </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651321005510?via%3Dihub" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial;" target="_blank">70% of US children and adolescents are fluoride-overdosed</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> and afflicted with dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) while </span><a href="https://www.contemporarypediatrics.com/view/tooth-decay-epidemic-among-todays-kids" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial;" target="_blank">tooth decay remains a US epidemic.</a></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="yiv8741607941yqt0678776056" id="yiv8741607941yqtfd93570"><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">SCIENTISTS WHO CAUTION THAT FLUORIDE CAN DAMAGE BABIES' DEVELOPING BRAINS</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 14.2667px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br clear="none" /></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Experts who testified in the US Federal Lawsuit <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 19.046px;"> </span><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/watersupply.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #0563c1; line-height: 19.046px;">Case No. 17-CV-02162-EMC</span></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 19.046px;">, challenging water fluoridation safety, that's set to continue in January 2022, </span><span style="color: #373737;">include:</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941yqt8793656852" id="yiv8741607941yqtfd51616"><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">1) <a href="https://www.orrisk.com/thiessen_bio.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #336688;">Kathleen M. Thiessen</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Ph.D. a risk assessment scientist at Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/Kathleen-Thiessen-Spotlight-Final.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Dr. Thiessen testified</a> that “The animal data on fluoride neurotoxicity are consistent with the epidemiological data in showing a risk of cognitive deficits at doses of fluoride ingested from fluoridated water.”<span style="color: #222222;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;">2) A Fulbright Scholar, </span><a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/philippe-grandjean/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Phillipe Grandjean</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is on the faculty of Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark. He’s received multiple awards throughout his long career for his research on the effects of environmental toxins affecting children and has also been recognized for his advocacy in protecting future generations from the effects of neuro- and developmental toxins.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/the-tsca-trial-day-2/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Dr. Grandjean testified</a><span style="color: #666666;"> that </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"… there is little doubt that developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation, natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption, especially when the exposure occurs during early development."</span><span style="color: #666666;"></span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">3) <a href="https://deohs.washington.edu/faculty/howard-hu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Howard Hu</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, from the University of Washington’s School of Public Health, has led international research teams investigating the environmental, nutritional, social, and epi/genetic causes of chronic disease and impaired child development in the USA, Mexico, India, China, and elsewhere around the world.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Dr. Hu advises pregnant women and infants to avoid fluoride ingestion to assure normal brain development (<a href="https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)30467-4/pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: #1155cc;">Journal of Pediatrics</span></i></a> <span style="color: #222222;">“Current Best Evidence,”</span> <span style="color: #222222;">July 2020). He wrote, </span>"Fluoride is not essential for growth and development, a cautious step could be avoidance of fluoridated products and water by women during pregnancy and by infants during the first 6 months of life."</span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">4) <a href="https://www.bcchr.ca/blanphear" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in;">Dr. Lanphear</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is on the faculty at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, where his research focuses on preventing common diseases and disabilities in children, as well as quantifying the impact of risk factors to children’s health including exposures to heavy metals and chemicals.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #666666;">An Op-Ed by </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Dr. Lanphear; Linda Birnbaum, PhD<span style="color: black;"><i>,</i></span><i><span style="color: black;"> </span></i><span style="color: black;">Former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and Christine Till, PhD, </span><span style="color: #4472c4;">co-author of the JAMA</span><span style="color: black;">-Pediatrics research article “Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada” </span>reported</a><span style="color: #666666;">:</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">“Mounting evidence suggests fluoride may be hampering brain development and reducing kids' IQ. The US needs to rethink this exposure for pregnant women and children.”</span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>JAMA Pediatrics</i> Journal editor <a href="https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/17802991" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Dimitri Christakis</span></a>, MD, said.<span style="color: #222222;"> “I would advise them [pregnant women] to drink bottled water or filtered water because it is not a particularly odious thing to do and actually does reduce the risk,” in a discussion of the </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: black;">JAMA Pediatrics</span></i><span style="color: black;"> fluoride/IQ</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> study.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Fluoridation was declared safe for over 7 decades. “Yet, studies conducted in North America examining the safety of fluoride exposure in pregnancy were nonexistent,” write <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Till and Green</span></a> in <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32443137/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">“Controversy: The evolving science of fluoride: when new evidence doesn’t conform with existing beliefs.” </a><span style="color: #222222;">Till and Green both advise pregnant women to avoid fluoride.</span></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Dr. Till's youtube presentation about her research which garnered intense scrutiny before being published in <i>JAMA-Pediatrics</i> is here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3L_jwJtio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3L_jwJtio</span></a></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #373737;">EPA scientists, in a recent research paper, write </span><span style="color: #666666;">"</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5451/htm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Fluoride was observed to have the greatest increase in impacting cognitive ability and it is often reported to affect memory and cause cognitive deficits</a><span style="color: #666666;">.</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">"</span></a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;"> (International <i>Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</i>, July 2020) </span></a></span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="yiv8741607941MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; 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Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-79510687858118716982020-09-07T09:10:00.042-04:002021-07-12T06:42:23.935-04:00Judge Rules Fluoride IS Neurotoxic in Fluoride Lawsuit<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">In a May 12 ruling, <span style="background: white; color: #4d5156;">federal </span><span style="background: white;">Judge Edward
Chen put on hold </span><span style="background: white; color: #4d5156;">the
lawsuit requesting fluoridation be banned based on fluoride’s adverse
neurological effects </span>until 3 new studies are peer-reviewed, 2 of which
preliminarily show fluoride’s harm, </span><a href="https://insideepa.com/tsca-news/judge-eyes-future-studies-order-extending-stay-tsca-fluoride-suit"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">according
to InsideEPA.com</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">. He also awaits the conclusion of a US National
Toxicology Program analysis of fluoride which, in draft form, declared
"…fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to
humans.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">As of June 2021, <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain/" target="_blank">69 of 77 human fluoride-IQ studies</a> found
a reduced IQ among children with higher fluoride exposure. Very strong evidence shows that </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/moms2b/mother-offspring-studies/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">fluoride
damages both the fetal and infant brain at the levels used to artificially
fluoridate water</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%;">. Additionally, over 400 animal, cell and human
studies link fluoride to neurological effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">Unnecessary and unnatural fluoride chemicals are added to 73%
of US water supplies in a </span><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2017/08/decay-rates-unchanged-for-decades.html"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #336688; line-height: 107%; text-decoration-line: none;">failed attempt to reduce tooth decay </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333; line-height: 107%;">in
tap water drinkers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">Federal </span><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/watersupply.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0563c1; line-height: 107%; text-decoration-line: none;">Case No.
17-CV-02162-EMC</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">, challenging water fluoridation
safety, was brought by several environmental groups and individuals led by
Food & Water Watch and the </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #0563c1; line-height: 107%; text-decoration-line: none;">Fluoride Action
Network</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"> (FAN). Plaintiffs argue that fluoride is
neurotoxic to children and should not be added to water supplies, which would effectively
end artificial water fluoridation.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">Instead of using fluoridation-promoting government
officials to vouch for fluoridation safety, EPA hired employees from the
consulting firm, Exponent Inc., Some call Exponent a "</span><a href="https://business-ethics.com/2016/12/13/1724-big-companies-in-legal-scrapes-turn-to-science-for-hire-giant-exponent/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">Science for Hire</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">" firm which “…</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">routinely bend
conclusions to the needs of clients.” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;"> </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/bulletin_6-16-20/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The cost to the taxpayers = approximately $350,000</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2021/07/02/epa-chemical-safety-corruption-whistleblowers/" target="_blank">A recent expose' revealed that EPA</a> "</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">scientists are afraid of retaliation for trying to implement TSCA the way Congress intended, and they fear that their actions (or inactions) at the direction of management are resulting in harm to human health and the environment.”</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Despites repeated claims that fluoridation is
safe, fluoridation-promoting government and dental agencies could provide </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/Comparison-of-orgs-chart-on-neurotoxicity-logos-3-14-20.pdf?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=4bf19898-1504-43ba-a52e-ec58fcbad397"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">no
proof of safety regarding fluoride's effects to the nervous system. </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #333333;">Representatives for EPA, CDC
and FDA could not provide, in their testimony, any scientific studies showing
fluoridation is safe. All agreed fluoride has no benefits prenatally.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #373737;">EPA admits that fluoride is a
chemical with </span><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/EPA%20admits%20that%20fluoride%20is%20a%20chemical%20with%20%22Substantial%20Evidence%20of%20Developmental%20Neurotoxicity.%22" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">"</span></a><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/EPA%20admits%20that%20fluoride%20is%20a%20chemical%20with%20%22Substantial%20Evidence%20of%20Developmental%20Neurotoxicity.%22" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #00837e; text-decoration-line: none;">Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">,</span></a><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/EPA%20admits%20that%20fluoride%20is%20a%20chemical%20with%20%22Substantial%20Evidence%20of%20Developmental%20Neurotoxicity.%22" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">"</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #373737;"> but is haggling over
the exact levels while our children pose as lab rats in this ongoing
experiment. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">EPA's current safe water
fluoride contaminant levels are set to protect against bone and teeth damage;
but fail to consider fluoride's proven neurological effects.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">The experts who testified for plaintiffs
include:</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.orrisk.com/thiessen_bio.html" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #336688; text-decoration-line: none;">Kathleen
M. Thiessen</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">, Ph.D. a risk
assessment scientist at Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis in Oak Ridge,
Tennessee.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/Kathleen-Thiessen-Spotlight-Final.pdf"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Thiessen testified</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> that “</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The animal
data on fluoride neurotoxicity are consistent with the epidemiological data in
showing a risk of cognitive deficits at doses of fluoride ingested from
fluoridated water.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">A Fulbright Scholar, </span><a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/philippe-grandjean/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr.
Phillipe Grandjean</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"> is
on the faculty of Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark.
He’s received multiple awards throughout his long career for his research on
the effects of environmental toxins affecting children and has also been
recognized for his advocacy in protecting future generations from the effects
of neuro- and developmental toxins.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;"><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/the-tsca-trial-day-2/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Grandjean testified</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"> that </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">"… there is
little doubt that developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with
elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation,
natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption, especially
when the exposure occurs during early development."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://deohs.washington.edu/faculty/howard-hu" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr.
Howard Hu</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">, from the University
of Washington’s School of Public Health, has led international research teams
investigating the environmental, nutritional, social, and epi/genetic causes of
chronic disease and impaired child development in the USA, Mexico, India,
China, and elsewhere around the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Hu advises pregnant women and infants to
avoid fluoride ingestion to assure normal brain development (</span><a href="https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(20)30467-4/pdf" target="_blank"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;">Journal
of Pediatrics</span></i></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">“Current Best Evidence,”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">July 2020). He wrote, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">"Fluoride is not essential for growth and development, a
cautious step could be avoidance of fluoridated products and water by women
during pregnancy and by infants during the first 6 months of life."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.bcchr.ca/blanphear" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2598f5; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Dr. Lanphear</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"> is on the faculty at Simon Fraser
University in British Columbia, where his research focuses on preventing common
diseases and disabilities in children, as well as quantifying the impact of
risk factors to children’s health including exposures to heavy metals and
chemicals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">An Op-Ed by </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Lanphear; Linda Birnbaum, PhD</span><span style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">,</span></i></span><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"> </span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Former
Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; and Christine
Till, PhD, </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #4472c4; text-decoration-line: none;">co-author of the JAMA</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">-Pediatrics
research article “Association Between Maternal Fluoride Exposure During
Pregnancy and IQ Scores in Offspring in Canada” </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">reported</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">“Mounting evidence suggests fluoride may be
hampering brain development and reducing kids' IQ. The US needs to rethink this
exposure for pregnant women and children.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">JAMA Pediatrics</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> Journal editor </span><a href="https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/17802991" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Dimitri Christakis</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, MD, said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> “I would advise them [pregnant women] to drink
bottled water or filtered water because it is not a particularly odious thing
to do and actually does reduce the risk,” in a discussion of the </span><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2748634" target="_blank"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">JAMA Pediatrics</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"> fluoride/IQ</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"> study.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Fluoridation was
declared safe for 75 years. “Yet, studies conducted in North America examining
the safety of fluoride exposure in pregnancy were nonexistent,” write </span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41390-020-0973-8" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">Till and Green</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> in </span><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32443137/"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">“Controversy:
The evolving science of fluoride: when new evidence doesn’t conform with
existing beliefs.” </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Till and Green both advise pregnant women to avoid fluoride.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Till's youtube
presentation about her research which garnered intense scrutiny before being
published in <i>JAMA-Pediatrics</i> is here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3L_jwJtio" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp3L_jwJtio</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">EPA scientists, in a
recent research paper, write </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">"</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/15/5451/htm"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Fluoride
was observed to have the greatest increase in impacting cognitive ability and
it is often reported to affect memory and cause cognitive deficits</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">.</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">"</span></a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;"> (International <i>Journal of
Environmental Research and Public Health</i>, July 2020) </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #373737;">EPA scientists, in a recent research paper,
write "</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666;">"Fluoride was
observed to have the greatest increase in impacting cognitive ability and it is
often reported to affect memory and cause cognitive deficits.</span><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">"</span></a><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343302046_A_Meta-Analysis_of_Stressors_from_the_Total_Environment_Associated_with_Children's_General_Cognitive_Ability/fulltext/5f2245f8299bf1340492720f/A-Meta-Analysis-of-Stressors-from-the-Total-Environment-Associated-with-Childrens-General-Cognitive-Ability.pdf" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;"> (International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 2020) </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Recently, </span><a href="https://www.portnews.com.au/story/7162817/councillor-says-community-must-make-opinion-clear-on-fluoride/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: blue;">An Australian
legislator/PhD </span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif">who
read every official government fluoridation report, mostly from the WHO,
Australia, UK and the US, says all of the reports assumed fluoridation
safety. She was shocked to discover the actual data doesn't support that
assumption.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">More on the fluoride
lawsuit here: </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/issues/tsca-fluoride-trial/" target="_blank"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: black; text-decoration-line: none;">https://fluoridealert.org/issues/tsca-fluoride-trial/</span></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> END </span></span></span></p>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-38375923892827900712020-02-07T07:15:00.002-05:002020-02-22T10:36:38.820-05:00Fluoridation: A 75-Year-Old Blunder<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">January 25, 2020 -- Seventy-five years ago, dentists convinced government
officials to experiment on every Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident without
individual informed-consent to prove that (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i><b>not <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">if</span></b></i></span>)
dosing the municipal water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would
decay-proof children’s developing teeth. The experiment failed; but it spread across the country anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Today, tooth decay</span> is an epidemic
among Grand Rapids' children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">"The typical child that comes in to us between 3 to 8,
9 years old and they could have anywhere from 3 to 20 cavities," said Dr.
Darren Riopelle of Smile One who sees it first hand as a pediatric dentist.
"It's a disease. If it's one tooth, it spreads to all the other
teeth," <a href="https://www.wzzm13.com/article/life/wellness/healthy-you/new-pediatric-dentistry-office-offering-painless-visits-for-kids/69-f975c6ec-8546-477f-91f0-1ca824e25c00">reported WZZM</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Last year more than 3,000 children in the Grand Rapids area
had full mouth rehabilitation surgery under general anesthesia, they reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Planned to last 15 years, the 1945 Grand Rapids/Muskegon study </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627472/pdf/17128347.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">ended prematurely after 6 ½ years</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">.
Teeth of most children born into the experiment hadn’t even erupted yet.
Muskegon, the planned non-fluoridated comparison city began fluoridating its
water in 1951; thereby, negating the experiment. Fluoridationists changed the intent of the study, further politicizing the experiment, by claiming water fluoridation reduced tooth decay in Grand Rapids by 65% in the 6 1/2 year experiment but failed to share the evidence that rates declined in non-fluoridated Muskegon concurrently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white;">Additional
flaws are detailed In the book “</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160820120951/http:/cof-cof.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sutton-Fluoridation-Errors-And-Omissions-In-Experimental-Trials-Melbourne-University-Press-1959-1960.pdf"><span style="background: white;">Fluoridation - Errors and Omissions in
Experimental Trials</span></a><span style="background: white;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background: white;">Even the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm#tab1">CDC admitted in 2001</a> that "</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Despite the strengths of early studies of the efficacy of naturally occurring fluoride in community drinking water, the limitations of these studies make summarizing the quality of evidence on community water fluoridation as Grade I inappropriate</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;">.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">An American Dental Association (ADA) </span><a href="https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2020-archive/january/anniversary-of-community-water-fluoridation-arrives" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">news release</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;"> admits, “many communities
did not wait for the studies to be completed before starting their own
fluoridation efforts. By 1950, [fluoridation] had the full support of the
ADA.” Pressured by some Wisconsin dentists, the US Public Health Service recommended fluoridation in 1950, first; then the ADA and the American Medical Association followed. All without safety evidence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Grand Rapids citizens’ health was untested. But Newburgh NY’s
healthy schoolchildren were examined in another 1945 human fluoridation experiment, also cut
short prematurely.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"> Newburgh school-kids suffered more
bone defects, anemia and earlier female menstruation after 10 years (<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Journal of the American Dental Association,</span> 1956).
These findings were dismissed.</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">Pre-schoolers, adults and brain effects weren't examined. Now 400 studies point to fluoride's <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/brain">neurological effects</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">In 1951, those Wisconsin dentists strategized (“</span><a href="https://www.nofluoride.com/PDF/State%20Dental%20Directors.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">Proceedings 4<sup>th</sup> annual
conference of state dental directors</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">”) on how to sell fluoridation
using misinformation and misdirection e.g. “We have told the public it works,
so we can’t go back on that.” And “those research people, they can’t get over
their feeling that you have to have test tube and animal research before you
start applying it to human beings.”</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140313192649/http:/archive.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard85.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">promoted fluoridation</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">,
consulting on strategy for the National Institute of Dental Research. </span><span style="color: black;">“Selling fluoride was
child’s play,” Bernays told the author of </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/content/fluoride-deception/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0096ef;">The Fluoride Deception</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Bernays said citizens trust medical authority
so he indoctinated doctors to believe in fluoridation without providing valid
science and they, in turn, would and did pass that information to their
patients, media and legislators - who failed to fact-check. Modern day fluoridation PR flacks do
the same.<span style="background: white;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background: white; color: black;">“Rational </span><a href="https://www.nofluoride.com/CEN_Voices_of_opposition.cfm"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">voices
of opposition were suppressed</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;"> from the start,
reported <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Chemical & Engineering News</span> in 1988. Science justified those fears. Fluoride
isn’t a nutrient or required for healthy teeth, as early fluoridationists theorized and has </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health"><span style="background: white; color: #0096ef;">serious side effects</span></a><span style="background: white; color: black;">,
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persists today, i.e. Legal Scholar </span><a href="http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol39/iss1/7/" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #00837e;">Rita Barnett-Rose</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;">; Historian </span><a href="http://americanfluoridationsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CW-Fluoridation-hstrcl-studies-4-AJPH.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #00837e;">Catherine
Carstairs, Phd</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;">; Social
Scientist </span><a href="http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/ss/ss3.html" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #00837e;">Brian Martin</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;"> PhD; investigative reporters in </span><a href="http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files/Second%20Thoughts%20About%20Fluoride,%20Scientific%20American%20Jan-08.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e;">Scientific American</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;">, </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251" target="_blank"><span style="color: #00837e;">Newsweek</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;"> and </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblka13FfCA" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #00837e;">ABC-TV</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #373737;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Health Magazine</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">reported in 2016 that "</span><span style="color: black;">The [highly respected] Cochrane report also concluded that early
scientific investigations on water fluoridation (most were conducted before
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"> <span style="color: #36454c;">“What the committee found is that we’ve gone with the status quo regarding fluoride for many years—for too long, really—and now we need to take a fresh look. In the scientific community, people tend to think this is settled. I mean, when the U.S. surgeon general comes out and says this is one of the 10 greatest achievements of the 20th century, that’s a hard hurdle to get over. But when we looked at the studies that have been done, we found that many of these questions are unsettled and we have much less information than we should, considering how long this [fluoridation] has been going on. I think that’s why fluoridation is still being challenged so many years after it began. In the face of ignorance, controversy is rampant.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #36454c;">Even earlier than that, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #36454c;">a </span>National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel convened to evaluate tooth decay research and <a href="https://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/toothdecay.html">reported in 2001</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">It seems not much as changed, The <i><a href="https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(19)30606-3/fulltext">Journal of the American Dental Association</a> </i>just reported in 2020 that abstracts published in dental journals don't always correctly reflect the actual research.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">"Approximately one-third of the 75 RCT [Randomized Controlled Trials - the gold standard in research] abstracts published in high-impact dental journals in 2015 with nonsignificant outcomes presented with some form of spin, irrespective of funding type and journal impact factor."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Dental and other groups are celebrating fluoridation, ignoring</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;"> strong </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2019/11/fluoridebrain-research-alarming-growing.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0096ef; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">fluoride/brain links</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;">,100 years of damning </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="color: #0096ef; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2019/08/fluorides-link-to-kidney-disease.html" target="_blank">fluoride/kidney </a> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;">; </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?effect=thyroid-2&sub=&type=human&start_year=&end_year=&show=10&fulltext=&fantranslation=" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0096ef; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">thyroid</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;"> research
and evidence that </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303614" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0096ef; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">cavity experience and inequities increased in the last 20 years</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;"> despite
widespread fluoridation contributing to US children’s fluoride-damaged teeth (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30931722" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0096ef; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">fluorosis</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #14171a;">)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Water fluoridation is linked to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a study in <i><u><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=3690940326&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0160412019315971&a=Environment+International" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Environment International</a></u></i> (December 2019), adding to the growing pile of scientific literature linking fluoride to neurological disorders e.g. <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=100809395&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fstudies%2Fbrain01%2F&a=lower+IQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">lower IQ</a>, <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=2208394736&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F1660-4601%2F16%2F18%2F3431&a=Autism" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Autism</a>, <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=577389634&u=http%3A%2F%2Farticle.sapub.org%2F10.5923.j.ajmms.20180810.04.html&a=poor+memory" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">poor memory</a>, <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=2830650543&u=https%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fstudytracker%2F33547%2F&a=dementia" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">dementia</a>, <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=2707237995&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpubmed%2F30544885&a=Alzheimer%27s+Disease" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Alzheimer's Disease</a>. Governments failed to determine fluoride's toxic brain effects before declaring fluoridation safe in the early 1900's. So one is left to wonder if fluoridation promoters are protecting their own political viabiilitly rather than the health of Americans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Unnecessary fluoride chemicals are added to public water supplies attempting to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers. But <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2017/08/decay-rates-unchanged-for-decades.html">evidence shows it's failing</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">Additionally, a study in the Janurary 2020 concludes: "low-moderate fluoride exposure is associated with alterations in thyroid function that may modify the association between fluoride and intelligence." </span><span style="color: #14171a;"><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>(</i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019301370"><i>Environment International</i>)</a>. This was predicted in a</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"> </span><span class="yiv7534697314xn-chron" style="color: #373737;">July 2019</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"> </span><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=1447220974&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fcalgary.obrien-report.july2019.pdf&a=University+of+Calgary+public+health+fluoride+report" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv7534697314xn-org">University of Calgary</span> public health fluoride report</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"> which stated that t</span><span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; white-space: pre-wrap;">hyroid disturbances may underlie fluoride effects on the developing brain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> Also this Canadian report concludes: "There is some new emerging evidence that fluoride exposure during pregnancy may be harmful to the brain development of children." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Fluoride is presumed to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to humans," concludes the US HHS's <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=2554773425&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019.ntp_.draft-fluoride-systematic-review.online-Oct-22.pdf&a=National+Toxicology+Program%27s" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">National Toxicology Program's</a> monograph, <i>Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects</i> (Draft 9/6/2019).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NTP writes: "This conclusion is based on a consistent pattern of findings in human studies across several different populations showing that higher fluoride exposure is associated with decreased IQ or other cognitive impairments in children."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=1466397282&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fissues%2Fmoms2b%2Fmother-offspring-studies%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0EbL2ZQzkmS0EZoxbFlbugvNAYkJZdqKITEW40BaMwaaWL7YiwgnORXuk&a=Six+Mother-Child+studies" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Six Mother-Child studies</a> link fluoride to offspring's lower IQ. Sixty-one studies found elevated fluoride exposure associated with <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/">reduced IQ in humans</a>. Over <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=2783460054&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fissues%2Fhealth%2Fbrain%2F&a=400+more+fluoride%2Fneurotoxic+studies" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">400 more fluoride/neurotoxic studies</a> support its biological plausibility. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">EPA admits that fluoride is a chemical with "<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=740065081&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F266871638_Building_a_Database_of_Developmental_Neurotoxicants_Evidence_from_Human_and_Animal_Studies&a=Substantial+Evidence+of+Developmental+Neurotoxicity" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity</a>." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At EPA's request, the <span class="yiv7534697314xn-org">National Research Council</span> (NRC) reviewed fluoride toxicology research to <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=396421170&u=http%3A%2F%2Ffluoridealert.org%2Fstudies%2Fbrain06%2F&a=conclude+in+2006" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">conclude in 2006</a>, "fluorides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain." EPA was advised to reduce the safe fluoride levels allowed in public water supplies based on NRC guidance. But since NRC's review, hundreds of fluoride/brain studies were published; yet EPA has stil taken no action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Based on this evidence and more, <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2627079-1&h=152754278&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eenews.net%2Fassets%2F2017%2F04%2F21%2Fdocument_gw_02.pdf&a=consumer+groups+are+suing+the+EPA" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">consumer groups are suing the EPA</a> to recognize fluoride's brain effects when setting safe water fluoride levels now based solely on fluoride's adverse bone and teeth effects. The Trial date is currently set for April 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Government agencies and organized dentistry were irresponsible to instigate fluoridation without brain-safety evidence. Instead, they continue to protect fluoridation and their own carelessness by demanding more research. Shouldn't that have been done 75 years ago?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The precautionary principle dictates that, at least, pregnant women should be advised to avoid ingesting fluoride. The fetus derives no benefit from fluoride, anyway. Brains don't need fluoride. At best, put fluoride on your teeth not in your brain or the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Fluoride is <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/essential-nutrient/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">NOT a nutrient or essential for healthy teeth</a> as it was mistakingly assumed to be when fluoridation was introduced in 1945, meaning that consuming a fluoride-free diet will NOT cause tooth decay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over 30 studies in the last couple of years ignite even more doubt of fluoridation's safety <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2019/01/fluoride-disparaging-studies-rarely.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2019/01/fluoride-disparaging-studies-rarely.html</a></span></div>
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-70885660913432246482019-08-15T08:31:00.002-04:002019-08-15T08:33:25.636-04:00Fluoride's Link to Kidney Disease is 100 Years Old, Researcher Reports <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">A </span><a href="https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2019/fluoride-may-diminish-kidney-and-liver-function-in-adolescents-study-suggests"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">new study</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> by Mt. Sinai School of
Medicine researchers reports fluoride may diminish kidney function; but that’s
not new. A review of nearly 100 years of
research shows excess fluoride leads to kidney damage and dysfunction<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk16661120"> was published in </a></span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0960327118814161?rfr_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org&journalCode=hetb"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Human and Experimental
Toxicology</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">, by </span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> RW Dammarane in 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Dammarane lists 45 studies which show with
certainty that there are toxic effects of excess fluorides on animal kidneys
and 21 studies confirm the toxic effects of fluoride on human kidneys.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Dammarane writes, “In humans, fluoride intake
of more than 6 mg per day can lead to retention of fluoride in the kidneys.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Alarmingly, studies already show adults can reach
6.6 mg/day from all sources when their water is fluoridated at “optimal” (0.7
to 1.2 mg/L) levels, according to a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.dentalwatch.org/fl/phs_1991.pdf"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">US
Health and Human Services 1991</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> report.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brewed tea, alone, can contain up to 6
mg/liter of fluoride. (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.nap.edu/read/5776/chapter/10#294">National
Academies 1997)</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%; text-decoration: none;">Governments purposely
add artificial fluoride chemicals <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(e.g. hydrofluosilicic acid, sodium fluoride), at great expense,
into drinking water in a failed attempt to reduce tooth decay, especially in
the poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite 74 years of
fluoridation and soaring rates of fluoride overdose (dental fluorosis or
discolored teeth) </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">“<a href="https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2019-08/SurgeonGeneralsReport-2020_IADR_June%202019-508.pdf">Disparity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has doubled in the past 2 decades</a>”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Children retain more fluoride than adults. They
are vulnerable to fluoride as low as 2 parts per million (ppm) in the drinking water and more prone to
develop a sick kidney in adulthood, Dammarane explains. Kidney disease </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">can </span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; line-height: 107%;">go undetected</span><span style="background: white; color: #222222;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> until it is very advance</span>d. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The US EPA allows fluoride
to contaminate public water supplies up to 4 ppm</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Fluoridation protectionists claim the
concentration of fluoride chemicals added to drinking water is too low to
damage the kidney.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ignored is that kidney
impairment is caused by<b><i> total</i></b> fluoride intake from<i> <b>all</b></i>
sources – not just water - and that the kidneys accumulate more fluoride than
any other organ in the body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Fluoride is present in virtually all foods and
beverages from pesticide residues and because fluoridated water is used in the processing.
Some are naturally high in fluoride e.g. tea and ocean fish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fluoride content of some foods are listed </span><a href="https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/nutrients/report?nutrient1=313&nutrient2=&nutrient3=&&max=25&subset=0&offset=0&sort=c&totCount=533&measureby=m"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> by the USDA. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no dispute that too much fluoride
damages bones and children’s teeth and children’s intake should be monitored;
but it never is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">For decades, government and private agencies express
concern for fluoride’s kidney effects but fail to adequately notify the public.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">The </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/kidney-foundation-drops-fluoridation-support/"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">National Kidney Foundation</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">
withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research
Council fluoride report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to
fluoride’s bone and teeth-damaging effects.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">The American Dental Association reports in its </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ada.fluoridation-facts-2005.pdf"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Fluoridation Facts</span></i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> booklet</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> “decreased fluoride removal may occur among persons with severely
impaired kidney function who may not be on kidney dialysis.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10454411900010040501"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">A 1990 New York State <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Department of Health</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> report alerted bureaucrats that “individuals with renal
insufficiency who consume large volumes of naturally fluoridated water at 2 to
8 mg/1 are possibly at increased risk of developing skeletal fluorosis.</span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Studies on the effects of fluoride in individuals with renal
insufficiency are needed.” But they haven’t been done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Certain populations, such as patients with kidney disease, may be
especially sensitive to fluoride exposure,”</span><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> according to </span><a href="https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/ToxProfiles/tp11.pdf"><i><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Toxicological Profile for Fluorides,
Hydrogen Fluoride and Fluorine,</span></i></a><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> (</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">US
Department of Health and Human Services 2003)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/cdc-misleads-legislators-about.html"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">US
Centers for Disease personnel</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> privately express concern about fluoride’s
kidney effects, according to Freedom of Information requests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">In 1980, </span><a href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/i0ssXC3tuvf9jegwtKuEYQ/zuywc0hhynREP6sPJhpRbQ/M2EZ5ssL6cSmTa29SewwZg" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #337ab7; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">a Virginia
Department of Health toxicologist </span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> wrote in his ignored (and oddly lost
report) “</span><a href="https://sendy.securetherepublic.com/l/i0ssXC3tuvf9jegwtKuEYQ/qhgRX0x0KvC8ZGJrIWK6sw/M2EZ5ssL6cSmTa29SewwZg" target="_blank"><span style="background: white; color: #23527c; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Where the kidney
is concerned persons with impaired kidney function may suffer from acute
fluoride toxicity when consuming water containing as little as 2 ppm fluoride</span></a><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“The National Kidney Foundation in its
‘Position Paper on Fluoride - 1980’ as well as the Kidney Health Australia
express concern about fluoride retention in kidney patients. They caution
physicians to monitor the fluoride intake of patients with advanced stages of
kidney diseases,” according to “</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Fluoridation of Drinking Water
and Chronic Kidney Disease: Absence of Evidence is Not the Evidence of Absenc<i>e,”
by Schiffli, </i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>published in <i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span><a href="https://academic.oup.com/ndt/article/23/1/411/1927240"><i><span style="background: white; border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> 2008</span></i></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“A
number of prominent scientists including Nobel Prize winners too have warned
about inhibition and poisonous activity of fluoride on the kidney and other
enzymes, based on their chemical and enzymological research,” Dammarane writes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Fluoride isn’t a nutrient or required for
healthy teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consuming a fluoride-free
diet doesn’t cause tooth decay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
there is no dispute that ingesting too much fluoride can damage bones and
children’s teeth and now possibly kidneys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Journalists must stop being fearful of
providing their readers with the truth about fluoride’s toxic effects to some
people instead of protecting fluoride, fluoridation and fluoridationists,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">Further, it’s clear that water fluoridation
concentration has nothing to do with an individual’s fluoride dose from all
sources. There is no dispute that too much fluoride is health-damaging Fluoridation is an
outdated public health blunder that needs to stop</span></div>
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-13389040977637757832019-01-28T09:08:00.001-05:002019-05-04T08:22:46.338-04:0030+ Fluoride-Disparaging Studies Ignite More Doubts of Fluoridation Safety<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Poorly done pro-fluoride studies are <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/juneau-fluoridation-study-more-hype-than-evidence/">widely
publicized</a> but never fact-checked</span>. Fluoride disparaging studies are ignored. Even more
studies link fluoride to brain, kidney, thyroid, bone, vascular damage and more. Are health reporters letting us down or just unable or unwillling to decipher science? Is organized dentistry or advertisers pulling their strings? Are legislators too concerned with their own political viability than the truth? <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/01/fluoridation-follow-money-by-carol-s.html">Follow the Money.</a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies, fluoridation, is touted
as a safe tooth-decay preventive. However, a <span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://fluorideaction.net/issues/health">growing body of research</a></span>
shows fluoridation can cause harm. Here are headlines you have been deprived of:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fluoride Linked to ADHD</b> (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30316181"><i>Environment International</i> (2018</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30316182"><i>Environment International </i>2018</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fluoride Linked to Lower IQ</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28937959"><i>Environmental Health Perspective</i> 2018</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #36454c; text-indent: -24px;"><b>ADHD Symptoms Linked to Early-Life Exposure to Fluoride </b></span>(<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/32332/">Environment International</a> 2018)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><b>Fluoride Linked to Thyroid Dysfunction in Iodine-deficient Adults </b></span><i>(<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/32333/">Environment International</a></i> 2018)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) </span><b>"Childhood fluoride exposure was associated with atherosclerotic biomarkers."<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></b><span style="color: #505050; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">(</span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118303888">Environmental
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3)</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span style="line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><b>“Fluoride could be considered an environmental
kidney toxicant.” </b>(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041008X18302382">Toxicology
and Applied Pharmacology <span style="font-style: normal;">2018</span></a></i></span>)</span> </span><br />
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contributors to chronic kidney disease.” </b>(</span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #505050; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11255-018-1892-z">International
Urology<span style="font-style: normal;"> and </span>Nephrology <span style="font-style: normal;">2018</span></a></i></span><span style="color: #292f33; text-indent: -0.25in;"> )</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #38444c;"> 5) </span><span style="color: #555555;"><b>“Exploring the role of excess fluoride in chronic
kidney disease: A review” </b></span><span style="color: #38444c;"> (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0960327118814161">Human
andExperimental Toxicology<span style="font-style: normal;"> 2018</span></a></i></span><span style="color: #38444c;">)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">- 6) </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>“Positive correlation exists between fluorosis
and thyroid functional.” </b>(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="http://www.jaypeejournals.com/eJournals/ShowText.aspx?ID=15194&TYP=TOP&isPDF=YES">The
Journal of Contemporary Dental Practice</a></i></span> 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> 7)</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><b>“Systematic review suggests a positive correlation between excess
fluoride and hypothyroidism"</b> (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.ijdr.in/article.asp?issn=0970-9290;year=2018;volume=29;issue=3;spage=358;epage=363;aulast=Chaitanya">Indian
Journal of Dental Research 2018</a></span></span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;">)</span><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">- 8) </span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>“Fluorosis is associated with a higher
incidence of OPLL" [a spinal cord
disease] </b>(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30233012/">Neurology India<span style="font-style: normal;"> 2018</span></a></i></span>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"> 9) <b>Fluoride included in
“Environmental chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental impairments in
children” </b>(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="http://pm.amegroups.com/article/view/4617/pdf">Pediatric Medicine 2018</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> 10) </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; line-height: 107%;"><b>"Long-term
high intake of fluoride can cause skeletal fluorosis in patients with diabetes
insipidus" </b></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29424157">Zhongguo Gu Shang (2017</a></span></span><u><span style="background: white; color: #660066; line-height: 107%;">) </span></u><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> 11) </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; line-height: 107%;"><b>"A
relatively large proportion of fluoride intake is retained in the body in
weaned infants."</b> </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-nutrition/article/fluoride-retention-in-infants-living-in-fluoridated-and-nonfluoridated-areas-effects-of-weaning/BFC2F44C66597EFD59C6F403B4BF9A85">British
Journal of Nutrition<span style="font-style: normal;"> 2019</span></a></i></span>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">· 12) <span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;"><b>Fluoride linked to poor memory. </b>“The study may
support the hypothesis that excess fluoride in drinking water is neurotoxic.” (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ajmms.20180810.04.html">American
Journal of Medicine and Medical Science <span style="font-style: normal;">2018</span></a></i></span>)
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> 13) </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; line-height: 107%;"><b>"Fluorosis
is more common in adults with lifetime exposure to water fluoridation than
those with no exposure"</b> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><span style="background: white; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdoe.12411">Community
Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology <span style="font-style: normal;">2018</span></a></span></i></span><span style="background: white; color: #292f33; line-height: 107%;">) </span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">·<span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> 14) </span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="line-height: 107%;">Editorial (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><i><a href="http://www.fluorideresearch.org/514/files/FJ2018_v51_n4_p307-318_pq.pdf">Fluoride<span style="font-style: normal;"> 2018</span></a></i></span>) <b>“Fluoride-induced
Developmental Disorders and Iodine Deficiency Disorders as Examples of
Developmental Disorders Due to Disturbed Thyroid Hormone Metabolism”</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Disease</a></span> </b>(<i>International Journal
of Molecular Sciences</i> 2018) and </span></span></div>
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Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health </i>2019)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">More here: <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=2356108-1&h=2639809172&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.prnewswire.com%2Fnews-releases%2Ffive-more-fluoride-condemning-studies-are-published--when-is-it-enough-300730954.html&a=October+2018" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; color: #00837e; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">October 2018</a>; <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-studies-link-fluoride-to-adverse-health-effects-300704043.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">August 2018</a>; <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/childrens-fluoride-exposures-linked-to-later-life-disease-300653700.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">May 2018</a>; <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/study-reveals-more-proof-fluoridation-can-damage-human-thyroid-gland/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">February 2018</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 16px;">More human/fluoride studies </span><a href="https://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/?effect=&type=human&start_year=1970&end_year=2019&show=10&fulltext=&fantranslation=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">here:</a><span style="font-size: 16px;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fluoridation chemicals, hydrofluosilicic acid, can also adversely affect the environment. A t</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-small;">rucking company was fined $250,000 for a crash that spilled 8,000 litres of fluoridation chemicals all over the highway and the driver, killing him, sending 28 to the hospital, injuring first responders, and harming the nearby ecosystem: </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/fluorosilicic-fine-250000.ontario.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/fluorosilicic-fine-250000.ontario.pdf</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-small;">A 2019 <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/sandy-utah-february-2019-drinking-water-contamination-event/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Sandy, Utah, accidental overfeed of fluoridation chemicals</a> into the water supply seriously sickened residents, damaged pipes and lowered property values. Public officials were unprepared and/or uneducated about how to deal with the problem. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/recent-fluoridation-related-accidents/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Many fluoridation chemical accident</a>s prove fluoridation can't be guaranteed as safe. </span></div>
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January 09, 2019 </div>
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U.S. Water Fluoridation: A Forced Experiment that Needs to End</h1>
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<b>By the Children’s Health Defense Team</b><br />
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The United States stands almost entirely <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/water_europe/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">alone</a>
among developed nations in adding industrial silicofluorides to its
drinking water—imposing the community-wide measure without informed
consent. Globally, roughly 5% of the population consumes chemically
fluoridated water, but more people <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/bfs-2012/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">in the U.S.</a>
drink fluoride-adulterated water than in all other countries combined.
Within the U.S., just under a third (30%) of local water supplies <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/communities_2010/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">are not fluoridated</a>; these municipalities have either held the practice <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fluoride-wont-be-added-to-portland-ore-water-voters-decide/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">at bay</a> since fluoridation’s inception or have won hard-fought battles to halt water fluoridation.<br />
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Dozens of studies and reviews—including in top-tier journals such as <i>The Lancet</i>—have shown that fluoride is neurotoxic and lowers children’s IQ.</div>
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The fluoride chemicals added to drinking water are <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/water/fluoridation-chemicals/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">unprocessed toxic waste</a>
products—captured pollutants from Florida’s phosphate fertilizer
industry or unregulated chemical imports from China. The chemicals
undergo no purification before being dumped into drinking water and
often harbor significant levels of arsenic and other heavy metal
contamination; one researcher describes this unavoidable contamination
as a “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4090869/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">regulatory blind spot</a> that jeopardizes any safe use of fluoride additives.”<br />
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Dozens of studies and reviews—including in top-tier journals such as <i><a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422%2813%2970278-3/fulltext" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Lancet</a></i>—have shown that fluoride is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">neurotoxic</a> and lowers children’s IQ. Fluoride is also associated with a variety of other <a href="https://files.iaomt.org/wp-content/uploads/IAOMT-Fact-Sheet-on-Fluoride-and-Human-Health.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">health risks</a>
in both children and adults. However, U.S. officialdom persists in
making hollow claims that water fluoridation is safe and beneficial,
choosing to ignore even its own research!<br />
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A multimillion-dollar
longitudinal <a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp655" rel="noopener" target="_blank">study</a> published in <i>Environmental Health Perspectives</i>
in September, 2017, for example, was largely funded by the National
Institutes of Health and National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences—and the seminal study revealed a strong relationship between
fluoride exposure in pregnant women and lowered cognitive function in
offspring.<br />
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Considered in the context of other research, the study’s
implications are, according to the nonprofit Fluoride Action Network, “<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-exposure-in-utero-linked-to-lower-iq-in-kids-new-study-says/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">enormous</a>”—“a cannon shot across the bow of the 80 year old practice of artificial fluoridation.”<br />
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According
to declassified government documents summarized by Project Censored,
Manhattan Project scientists discovered early on that fluoride was a
leading health hazard to bomb program workers and surrounding
communities.</div>
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<b>A little history</b></h2>
During World War II, fluoride (a compound formed from the chemical element <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_fluorine" rel="noopener" target="_blank">fluorine</a>)
came into large-scale production and use as part of the Manhattan
Project. According to declassified government documents summarized by
Project Censored, Manhattan Project scientists discovered early on that
fluoride was a “<a href="https://www.projectcensored.org/18-manhattan-project-covered-up-effects-of-fluoride-toxicity/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">leading health hazard</a>
to bomb program workers and surrounding communities.” In order to stave
off lawsuits, government scientists “embarked on a campaign to calm the
social panic about fluoride…by promoting its usefulness in preventing
tooth decay.”<br />
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To prop up its “<a href="https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-case-against-fluoride/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">exaggerated claims</a> of reduction in tooth decay,” government researchers began carrying out a series of poorly designed and fatally flawed <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627472/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">community trials</a> of water fluoridation in a handful of U.S. cities in the mid-1940s. In a <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">critique</a>
decades later, a University of California-Davis statistician
characterized these early agenda-driven fluoridation trials as
“especially rich in fallacies, improper design, invalid use of
statistical methods, omissions of contrary data, and just plain
muddleheadedness and hebetude.”<br />
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As one example, a 15-year trial launched
in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1945 used a nearby city as a
non-fluoridated control, but after the control city began fluoridating
its own water supply five years into the study, the design switched from
a comparison with the non-fluoridated community to a before-and-after
assessment of Grand Rapids. Fluoridation’s proponents <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2627472/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">admitted</a> that this change substantially “compromised” the quality of the study.<br />
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In <a href="https://www.encyclopedia.com/medicine/drugs/pharmacology/fluoridation" rel="noopener" target="_blank">1950</a>,
well before any of the community trials could reach any conclusions
about the systemic health effects of long-term fluoride ingestion, the
U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) endorsed water fluoridation as
official public health policy, strongly encouraging communities across
the country to adopt the unproven measure for dental caries prevention.
Describing this astonishingly non-evidence-based step as “the Great
Fluoridation Gamble,” the authors of the 2010 book, <i>The Case Against Fluoride</i>, <a href="https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-case-against-fluoride/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">argue</a> that:<br />
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“Not only was safety not demonstrated in anything
approaching a comprehensive and scientific study, but also a large
number of studies implicating fluoride’s impact on both the bones and
the thyroid gland were ignored or downplayed” (p. 86).</blockquote>
In 2015, <i>Newsweek</i> magazine not only agreed that the scientific rationale for putting fluoride in drinking water was <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251?fbclid=IwAR3eFfl5ihCRVsl58gbbr7zp2yPyQWopOVQbyA9OWhNsWLNmLF6m8SSK42k" rel="noopener" target="_blank">not as “clear-cut”</a> as once thought but also shared the “shocking” finding of a more recent Cochrane Collaboration <a href="https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010856.pub2/abstract" rel="noopener" target="_blank">review</a>, namely, that there is no evidence to support the use of fluoride in drinking water.<br />
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<b>Bad science and powerful politics</b></h2>
The authors of <i>The Case Against Fluoride</i> persuasively argue
that “bad science” and “powerful politics” are primary factors
explaining why government agencies continue to defend the indefensible
practice of water fluoridation, despite abundant evidence that it is
unsafe both developmentally and after “a lifetime of exposure to
uncontrolled doses.” Comparable to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s <a href="https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/thimerosal-let-science-speak/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">book</a>, <i>Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak</i>, which <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2015/04/thimerosal-let-science-speak/">summarizes studies</a> that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and “credulous journalists swear don’t exist,” <i>The Case Against Fluoride</i> is an extensively referenced tour de force, pulling together hundreds of studies showing evidence of fluoride-related harm.<br />
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… death rates in the ten most fluoridated U.S. states are 5% to 26%
higher than in the ten least fluoridated states, with triple the rate of
Alzheimer’s disease.</div>
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The research assembled by the book’s authors includes studies on
fluoride biochemistry; cancer; fluoride’s effects on the brain,
endocrine system and bones; and dental fluorosis. With regard to the
latter, public health agencies like to define <a href="https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5802/cdc_5802_DS1.pdf" rel="noopener" target="_blank">dental fluorosis</a>
as a purely cosmetic issue involving “changes in the appearance of
tooth enamel,” but the International Academy of Oral Medicine &
Toxicology (IAOMT)—a global network of dentists, health professionals
and scientists dedicated to science-based biological dentistry—describes
the damaged enamel and mottled and brittle teeth that characterize
dental fluorosis as “<a href="https://iaomt.org/resources/fluoride-facts/fluoride-exposure-human-health-risks/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">the first visible sign of fluoride toxicity</a>.”<br />
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The important <a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp655" rel="noopener" target="_blank">2017 study</a>
that showed decrements in IQ following fluoride exposure during
pregnancy is far from the only research sounding the alarm about
fluoride’s adverse developmental effects. In his 2017 <a href="https://pregnancyandfluoridedonotmix.com/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">volume</a>, <i>Pregnancy and Fluoride Do Not Mix</i>,
John D. MacArthur pulls together hundreds of studies linking fluoride
to premature birth and impaired neurological development (93 studies),
preelampsia (77 studies) and autism (110 studies).<br />
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The book points out
that rates of premature birth are “unusually high” in the United States.
At the other end of the lifespan, MacArthur observes that death rates
in the ten most fluoridated U.S. states are 5% to 26% higher than in the
ten least fluoridated states, with triple the rate of Alzheimer’s
disease. A 2006 report by the National Research Council warned that
exposure to fluoride might <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/letter-the-link-between-fluoride-levels-and-alzheimers-disease/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">increase the risk</a> of developing Alzheimer’s.<br />
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<b>The word is out</b></h2>
<i>Pregnancy and Fluoride Do Not Mix</i> shows that the Institute
of Medicine, National Research Council, Harvard’s National Scientific
Council on the Developing Child, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and National Toxicology Program all are well aware of the substantial
evidence of fluoride’s developmental neurotoxicity, yet no action has
been taken to warn pregnant women. Instead, scientists with integrity,
legal professionals and the public increasingly are taking matters into
their own hands.<br />
<br />
A <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/government-reports/timeline-the-tsca-law-suit-against-u-s-epa/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Citizens Petition</a>
submitted in 2016 to the EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act
requested that the EPA “exercise its authority to prohibit the
purposeful addition of fluoridation chemicals to U.S. water supplies.”
This request—the focus of a lawsuit to be argued in court later in
2019—poses a landmark challenge to the dangerous practice of water
fluoridation and has the potential to end one of the most significant
chemical assaults on our children’s developing bodies and brains.<br />
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reproduced and distributed with the permission of Children’s Health
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</article>Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-54296253790289630142018-10-31T09:13:00.004-04:002024-03-09T08:19:11.944-05:00NBC's Fact-Challenged Fluoridation Article Raises Questions<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white;">Conspiracy theory attackers - hold your fire. This email exchange on twitter raises serious concerns.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: white;">(Protagonists in this story: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Johnny Johnson is the President of a fluoridation advocacy group</span><br />
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Great reporting by <a class="yiv8126864379twitter-atreply yiv8126864379js-nav yiv8126864379pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/echuckles" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">@echuckles</a> on Brooksville FL fluoridation vote, the evidence backing the safety/efficacy of fluoridation, & the controversy that still surrounds it in spite of this. Love working w/ passionate advocate and expert <a class="yiv8126864379twitter-atreply yiv8126864379js-nav yiv8126864379pretty-link" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/drjohnnyjohnson" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">@drjohnnyjohnson</a>!</div>
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<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Over 300 studies 50+ human show that fluoride causes neurological damage. Even the EPA admits it is so. However, the NBC writer decided that one poorly done study (The 2018 National Toxicology Program Animal Study) was enough to "prove" fluoridation is safe. She oddly used the same lame argument the fluoridationists use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN" style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">Nonetheless,
the NTP animal study has already been debunked in </span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987718308600" target="_blank">Medical Hypotheses</a></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal;">
(December 2018) The authors identify ten major flaws in the NTP experiment, for
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: normal;">Further, Brenda Staudenmaier further </span><yt-formatted-string class="style-scope ytd-video-owner-renderer" has-link-only_="" id="owner-name" style="--yt-endpoint-hover-color: var(--yt-channel-owner); background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6rem;">debunks the article in her video rebuttal here:</yt-formatted-string><span style="font-family: "arial";"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE5ekdn96G4 (For example, the NBC writer erroneously said fluoride toxicity studies are not published in peer-reviewed journals - but they are)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The writer, as all fluoridationists do, invokes the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/guidelines/cdc-statement-on-community-water-fluoridation.html">CDC
which claims the 4 scientific fluoridation reviews prove safety</a>
Two aren't safety studies and the following two prove the opposite<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">1)
<a href="https://www.health.gov/environment/ReviewofFluoride/default.htm">The
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">This report
lists many gaps in knowledge, e.g., fluoride's relationship to bone
fractures, bone cancer, reproductive effects and genotoxicity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Fluoride/Documents/crdreport18.pdf">The
United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health Research, Centre for Reviews and
Dissemination, at the University of York</a> (dubbed the “York Review”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Fluoridation%20Statement.pdf">This is
what the York Review actually reported</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in 2003. “</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the
fluoridation literature world-wide. What evidence we found suggested that water
fluoridation was likely to have a beneficial effect, but that the range could
be anywhere from a substantial benefit to a slight disbenefit to children's teeth…we
felt that not enough was known because the quality of the evidence was poor.
The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality,
contradictory and unreliable.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in 2015 the independent and respected <span style="color: black;">UK-based <a href="http://www.cochrane.org/CD010856/ORAL_water-fluoridation-to-prevent-tooth-decay" target="_blank">Cochrane group of researchers</a> </span>confirmed the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">York</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";"> review. After <span style="color: black;">reviewing
all available fluoridation studies, they could not find any quality evidence to
prove fluoridation changes the “existing differences in tooth decay across
socioeconomic groups.” And they neither could find valid evidence that fluoride
reduces adults’ cavity rates nor that fluoridation cessation increases tooth
decay</span><b><span style="color: blue;">. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Cochrane reported that f</span>luoridation may reduce cavities in
children (2 primary teeth or 1 permanent tooth). But Cochrane cautions these
studies have “high risk of bias” and were mostly done before preventive
measures were widespread, e.g. fluoridated toothpaste and sealants. Here’s how
Newsweek reported on Cochrane: “<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251">Fluoridation
May Not Prevent Cavities, Scientific Review Shows</a>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in 2008, a </span><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/cdc-official-lied-about-fluoridation.html" style="font-family: arial;">CDC
official lied to the Fairbanks, AK</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">, City Council about reviews he claimed
proved fluoridation safety but they actually didn’t.</span></div>
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an FOIA request uncovered the fears that <a href="https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/11/cdc-misleads-legislators-about.html">CDC
oral health dentists are privately concerned about fluoride’s kidney effects;</a>
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Dental Association shows concern for fluoride’s kidney effects</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fact, the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3aHKalc1ud4J:regianidental.com/PDF/National_Kidney_Foundation_Withdraws_Fluoride_Endorsement.doc+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">National
Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation endorsement</a> as many other
organizations have done quietly over the years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial";">The NBC writer links to a 1999 CDC report which gave rise to an oft-repeated politically-motivated
meme but she fails to link to a <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5014a1.htm">2002 CDC report</a>
which says, in effect, that fluoride hardens teeth topically but the amount that's absorbed into teeth doesn't reduce tooth decay and <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"The prevalence of dental caries in a population is not inversely related to the concentration of fluoride in enamel, and a higher concentration of enamel fluoride is not necessarily more efficacious in preventing dental caries.”</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Elizabeth Chuck and her fluoridation informants took a undeserved and unverified pot shot at the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF) </span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">She wrote</span><span style="background: white; color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";">, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“They spread the word on
Facebook groups, like that of the </b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/NYSFluoridation"><span style="background: white; color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none;">New York State
Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation</span></a><span style="background: white;">,
which blames fluoride for problems including thyroid damage and was </span><a href="https://www.scienceinmedicine.org/policy/papers/AntiFluoridationist.pdf"><span style="background: white; color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none;">slammed</span></a><span style="background: white;"> in 2012 for falsely claiming that the federal
government “recommends avoiding fluoridated water when making infant formula.” </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">For example, according to the first-ever published review of the
fluoride/thyroid literature, (2006 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National
Research Council Fluoride(NRC) report)</i>, there is clear evidence that small
amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to US water supplies present
potential risks to the thyroid gland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">“</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Many Americans are exposed to
fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people
with iodine deficiency," says a co-author of the
government-sponsored report. "The recent decline in iodine intake in the
U.S could contribute to increased toxicity of fluoride for some
individuals," she said.<span style="color: #1f0a00;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Robert Carton, PhD, an
environmental scientist who worked for over 30 years for the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> government including managing risk
assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, says "fluoride has
detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With
iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average
male.”</span><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">This
is confirmed by a recent <a href="http://news.yorku.ca/2018/10/11/study-shows-potential-effect-of-fluoride-on-thyroid-function-for-some-canadians/">University
of Toronto<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>study</a> which reports
that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">“Adults living in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"> who have moderate-to-severe iodine
deficiencies and higher levels of urinary fluoride may be at an increased risk
for <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">underactive thyroid gland activity</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Also,
a February 2018 study published <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20696-4">in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nature Scientific Reports </i></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times"; font-size: 16pt; letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">found
that fluoride has impacts on thyroid hormones even in the standard
concentration of less than 0.5 mg/L. “Application of standard household water
purification devices was recommended for hypothyroidism,” the researchers
advise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">More information on how fluoride
affects the thyroid gland <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/thyroid/" title="http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/thyroid/">http://fluoridealert.org/issues/health/thyroid/</a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">The NRC was first to raise a red
flag about mixing infant formula with fluoridated water in its 2006 report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The American Dental Association sent an e-gram to all its members and supporters in
2006 with the advising them to inform their patients to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>avoid mixing fluoridated water into infant
formula to prevent dental fluorosis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">The
message has been softened over the years but not the science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Journal of the American Dental
Association published the fluoride content of all infant formulas and found
that infants exceed their adequate intake (0.01 mg per day) from the formula
alone – whether concentrated, organic or ready to feed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See: https://safbaby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/infant-formula-fluoride-jadaoct09.pdf<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Also, soy based formulas are
higher in fluoride than milk based formulas. See:<a href="http://www.aapd.org/assets/1/25/McKnight-Hanes-10-03.pdf">http://www.aapd.org/assets/1/25/McKnight-Hanes-10-03.pdf</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">Fluoridationists pointed the NBC writer to a slanderous “Science in Medicine” report which is an egregious
assault on credible science by two unqualified individuals. Of course, she dutifully linked to it</span><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">It </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">denigrated
me personally and others opposed to fluoridation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I reported the two authors to their
respective state dental boards in 2013 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">NBC's main fluoridation
source, Dr. Johnny Johnson, also used ad hominen attacks against me in an email
message to </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";">Potsdam</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: "arial";">NY</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">, city council members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s here:
https://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/p/johnny-johnsons-ad-hominem-attack-on-me_35.html</span></div>
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question fluoridation safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here are samples:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Legal Scholar <a href="http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol39/iss1/7/" title="http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol39/iss1/7/">Rita Barnett-Rose</a>;
Historian <a href="http://americanfluoridationsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CW-Fluoridation-hstrcl-studies-4-AJPH.pdf" title="http://americanfluoridationsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/CW-Fluoridation-hstrcl-studies-4-AJPH.pdf">Catherine
Carstairs, Phd</a>; Social Scientist <a href="http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/ss/ss3.html" title="http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/ss/ss3.html">Brian Martin</a>
PhD; investigative reporters in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files/Second%20Thoughts%20About%20Fluoride,%20Scientific%20American%20Jan-08.pdf" title="http://www.waterloowatch.com/Index_files/Second Thoughts About Fluoride, Scientific American Jan-08.pdf">Scientific<span style="font-style: normal;"> </span>American</a>, <a href="http://www.slweb.org/hileman.html" title="http://www.slweb.org/hileman.html">Chemical & Engineering News</a>, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251" title="http://www.newsweek.com/fluoridation-may-not-prevent-cavities-huge-study-shows-348251">Newsweek</a>
</i>and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblka13FfCA" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yblka13FfCA">ABC-TV</a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>In
fact, US public health bureaucrats<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>ignore
their own published evidence of fluoride’s potential harm i.e. <a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10454411900010040501" title="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10454411900010040501">New
York State Department of Health</a> and <a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/16925697/Dementi-Fluoride-Report" title="https://www.scribd.com/doc/16925697/Dementi-Fluoride-Report">Virginia
Department of Health</a>.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">One has to wonder, if fluoridation is based on such solid science, why is it necessary to attack people.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Using endorsements instead of science is another way of circumventing the truth. And why did NBC editors allow this poorly-researched article to be published and where were the fact-checkers?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">New York – October 15, 2018 -- Five new published studies support previous research linking fluoride to thyroid disease; ADHD; overdosing formula-fed infants and bias in government reports. Another reveals pregnant Canadians have higher urine fluoride levels in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated areas which previous studies linked to offspring’s lower IQ, reports New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1) Fluoride exposure coupled with iodine deficiency is linked to <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">thyroid</span> disease, report researchers in <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201830833X" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank"><i>Environment International</i></a> (December 2018). They report that this is the first human population-based examination of chronic low-level fluoride exposure on thyroid function that considers residents’ iodine status.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Our findings are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting that the growing fetal nervous system may be negatively affected by higher levels of fluoride exposure," said Morteza Bashash, the study's lead author and a researcher at University of Toronto's School of Public Health</span><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(<a href="https://neurosciencenews.com/adhd-pregnancy-fluoride-10021/" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">NeuroscienceNews.com</a>).</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We found that fluoride in drinking water was the major source of exposure for pregnant women living in Canada," said Christine Till, an associate professor of Psychology in York's Faculty of Health and lead author on the study. (<a href="https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/yu-fli101018.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" style="cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">News Release from York University in Toronto</a>)</span></div>
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-82697997336713834222018-08-05T07:07:00.001-04:002018-08-05T07:07:25.369-04:00Fluoride Can Cause Acne<div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Using her FBI intellligence analyst skills, Melissa Gallico identifies fluoride as the root cause of acne in many individuals whose physicians are ignorant of the connection in her new book, "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Cause-Acne-Affecting-Health/dp/1620557096">How Toxic Water Is Affecting Your Health and What You Can Do About It</a>." which is carefully scientifically referenced.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">A video interview of Melissa can be seen </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Qjd8hgAtI" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">She shares her personal 20-year struggle with severe cystic acne which finally disappeared after she pinpointed fluoride as the protagonist in her story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Usual acne suspects - from diet to dirty pillowcases, hormones or genetics have not been able to explain the majority of acne cases or why chronic acne is on the rise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">She explalins how her travels around the world and her intelligence work helped her identify exactly what was causing her treatment resistent flare ups - fluoridated water, foods, dental products, and the systemic build up of chilhood fluoride treatments were the culprits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Evidence that individuals can be allergic to or hypersensitive of fluoride has existed since the begining of the last century; but is mostly ignored or unknown by those who promote water fluoridation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Fluoride hypersensitivity (some would call a toxic reaction) manifests as skin conditions in some. It's rarely diagnosed by physicians or dentists who have never been trained to look for it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Acne sufferers have already written Melissa telling her their skin eruptions disappeared after excluding fluoride from their diets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">More examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/359782161292/videos/10152930852076293/UzpfSTI1MjE5OTI2MTgxMToxMDE1NjcwNDE2NTAzMTgxMg/">Here are two women in a video </a> speaking about their own fluoride reactions before a legislative body in 2013.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">A 1975 article in</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> J<a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/535073">AMA Dermatology</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"> links fluoridated toothpaste to acne</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 17.8px;">‘The Physicians Desk Reference (1979) indicates fluoride may cause a variety of symptoms such as skin eruptions, eczema, gastric distress, headache, weakness, etc. in hypersensitive individuals.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "montserrat" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A 1990 </span><a href="http://crobm.iadrjournals.org/cgi/reprint/1/4/261" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00837e; font-family: montserrat, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">NYS Department of Health report</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737; font-family: "montserrat" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> alerted bureaucrats about fluoride's potential harm to kidney patients, diabetics <b><i>and the fluoride hypersensitive</i> </b>even at optimal levels purposely added to water supplies.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Melissa describes fluoridation as a brand protected and promoted by the same strategies big corporations use to influence consumers as described in the book “</span><a class="a-link-normal" data-hook="product-link-linked" href="https://www.amazon.com/Primalbranding-Create-Zealots-for-Your-Brand-Your-Company-and-Your-Future/dp/1451655312/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c0; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-decoration-line: none;">Primalbranding: Create Zealots for Your Brand, Your Company, and Your Future</a><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">,” by expert, Patrick Hanlon He identifies seven primal branding elements that inspire fans to rabid addiction: the creation story, the leader, the creed, rituals, icons, sacred words, and pagans.</span></div>
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Like the little boy who shouted the obvious to the naked emperor, Melissa exposes community water fluoridation as unscientific and unsafe. It’s more like a religion created and promoted by believers, PR, money and powerful special interest groups.</div>
</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">She explains that fluoridation believers serve both as evangelists and defenders. When the brand is threatened they protest as if they are the ones under attack. Believers who express doubt are excommunicated and exiled to the opposing camp.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">A current example of that – an internet public health dentist listserv exists to facilitate group discussions on dental issues. When a prominent public health dentist who is also a published fluoride researcher and university professor brought up doubts about fluoridation, he was banished from the listserv along with anyone else who dared question fluoride in any way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The same fate awaits the respectful science-savvy who get blocked on twitter, facebook and uninvited or escorted out of meetings if they dare doubt fluoride. <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2015/10/fluoridationists-behaving-badly-part-1.html">It happened to me</a> And it happened to <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/bulletin_05-20-15/">Dan Stockin</a></span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">After all, as Melissa shows the reader, fluoride is the whole foundation upon which modern dentistry is built. If the cornerstone is pulled out, the whole system may crumble. Americans’ health is not organized dentistry’s priority. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.8px;">Fluoridation gives dentistry “political viability” was admitted in a 1981 </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17.8px;">Journal of the American Dental Association </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.8px;">article. (</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 17.8px;"><a href="https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(81)24017-1/pdf?code=adaj-site">“Fluoridation Election Victory: A Case Study for Dentistry in Effective Political Action”</a>)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Fluoridation began with zealotry and little, if any, valid science.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">After attending a 1941 meeting where fluoridation was suggested, Dentist John Frisch became “a man possessed.” “Fluoridation became practically a religion with him.” (</span><a class="a-link-normal" data-hook="product-link-linked" href="https://www.amazon.com/The-fight-for-fluoridation/dp/B0007E2SYA/ref=cm_cr_othr_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0066c0; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">The fight for fluoridation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">, McNeill)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Frisch wouldn’t let science shake his belief in fluoride. For example, university biochemists reported in 1947, in a series of experiments, that whole milk prevented more tooth decay than 1 part per million (ppm) fluoridated water.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Frisch exploded with wrath and called the conclusions ‘’hogwash from the biochemistry department.” Frisch accused the biochemists of fudging the data so they could keep their dairy grants coming in. Of course, now we know for sure that calcium-rich foods, such as milk, help prevent tooth decay. In fact, calcium is an essential nutrient while fluoride is not. And calcium is the antidote for fluoride poisoning. And naturally occurring fluoride, upon which the fluoridation program is based upon, is generally calcium fluoride.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Fluoridation came about in the early 1900’s when it was discovered that healthier wealthier residents living where the water was naturally fluoridated had discolored or mottled but decay-resistant teeth. Dentists pinpointed fluoride as the tooth discoloring culprit. They assumed fluoride was also the cavity preventive. They ignored that residents grew and ate their own nutritious foods, drank calcium rich water and could afford dental care. Just like now, dentists settle where people can afford them.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">So, Frisch, to prove his belief that sodium fluoride worked the same as natural calcium fluoride, experimented on his own 7- and 9-year-old serving them 1.5 ppm sodium fluoridated drinking water. When the 7-year-old displayed faint mottled enamel that was all the proof he needed. Early fluoridationists concurred. He went on to influence many cities to start fluoridation on his non-scientific say-so.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Frisch used “satire, ridicule and tartness” while criticizing those opposed to fluoridation for denying children the “benefit” of fluoride just like today’s fluoridationists. </span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Another early fluoridationist, appropriately named Dr. Bull, put a positive spin on fluoridation and provided talking points for sticky questions – years before the first experimental fluoridation trials were planned to be completed – at the Fourth Annual Conference of State Dental Directors with the Public Health Service and the Children's Bureau in 1951.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Bull said: “Now, in regard to toxicity, I noticed that Dr. Bain used the term ‘adding sodium fluoride,’ we never do that. That is rat poison. You add fluoride…”</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">The first fluoridation experiments conducted on entire city popluations starting in 1945 were cut short prematurely - before the permanent teeth of those born into the experiments had even erupted. The belief in fluoridation was so deep, early fluoridationists couldn't wait for the science to catch up with their misguided but well-intended theories.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Modern day “Dr Bull’s” are paid PR-trained individuals and companies who teach pro-fluoridation spokesperson training to “cultish” followers who are instructed to avoid talking about fluoridation’s risks because that battle can’t be won.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Even Edward Bernays, the father of public relations got into the act, Melissa explains. In 1960, he counseled the NYS Health Commissioner to write to television executives to influence them to avoid fluoridation debates. Bernays’ campaign advice included sending government letters to influential newspaper editors and even dictionary and encyclopedia editors to leverage government influence to dominate the fluoridation narrative and marginalize opposition. In this way, pro fluoridationists manipulated the human tendency to defer to authority sources, such as doctors, dictionaries and the daily news.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">It worked. In 1965 New York City began fluoridation over the objections of Arthur Ford, New York City’s water commissioner.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Fluoridationists appear to be an army protecting themselves, first and foremost. They claim fluoride science is settled, repeating the cult mantra, “safe and effective” even though, because of tooth toxicity, fluoride levels had to be lowered over the years in infant formula, twice in supplements, water supplies and amounts of toothpaste placed on brushes. Also, advice is given to avoid routine mixing of fluoridated water into infant formula. Fluoridation protectionists will rarely share this with the public preferring, instead, to protect fluoride.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">There is no dispute that too much fluoride is bad for teeth and bones. There’s also no dispute that large fluoride overdoses cause serious side effects. But consumers are rarely informed to tally daily fluoride intake, what’s too much and where it comes from. Fluoride isn’t revealed on food and beverage labels, unknown amounts are absorbed from dental products and consumed via the water supplies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But few parents, if any, are counseled to keep track of children's total fluoride intake and where hidden fluoride resides and <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2018/04/back-off-of-fluoride-caution-fluoride.html">how much is too much</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> ***<br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Melissa has written a very informative and interesting book which is different from most on this subject. She engages the reader and has evidence to back up her conclusions. If you or your child has acne or other skin conditions and nothing has worked for you, you must read this book. It took Melissa 20 years to figure out for herself that fluoride caused her severe acne. You don't have to suffer that long.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "amazon ember" , "arial" , sans-serif;">If you live in an area with fluoridated water, you should do all you can to get your local or state legislators and/or water departments to stop.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Because fluoride overdose is a new concern, <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.123" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Zohoori and Maguire in the <i>British Dental Journal</i> (</a></span><st1:date day="23" month="2" year="2018"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2018.123" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Feb 23, 2018</a></span></st1:date><span style="font-family: "arial";">) suggest that manufacturers use non-fluoridated water in food processing and that food and beverage labels include fluoride content.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In February 2018, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29500282">US researchers reported</a>, "</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif;">The continued increase in fluorosis rates in the U.S. indicates that additional measures need to be implemented to reduce its prevalence."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoride, touted as decay preventive, is added to most </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> water supplies. This means fluoride is also flowing into foods and beverages made with that water. The consequences - white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth (fluorosis) the outward manifestation of fluoride overdose. Up to 60% of US adolescents are so afflicted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoride is also absorbed into the bloodstream via topical application e.g. toothpaste, varnish, gels and also found naturally in ocean fish, tea and fluoride-containing pesticide residues on produce.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“[C]ontrolling fluoride ingestion has regained the attention of researchers around the world due to the reported rise in the prevalence of dental fluorosis in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated areas,” write Zohoori and Maguire. Even the World Health Organization is concerned, they report.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="865ct-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"Dietary fluoride supplements increase the risk of fluorosis for </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">those in nonfluoridated areas by more than six-fold. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Children who begin using toothpaste before age 2 -- </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">regardless of whether their drinking water is fluoridated </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">-- increase their odds of having fluorosis by </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">approximately three times" (<a href="https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e911/4daa2304089bae9b79b52432e8648aacc962.pdf"><i>Pediatric Dentistry</i> 1995</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Even though many assume that swallowing too much fluoridated toothpaste is the major cause of dental fluorosis, the CDC’s Fluoridation Engineer, Kip Duchon, is </span><a href="https://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2018-archive/april/whats-in-your-water-dental-providers-can-look-at-local-reports" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial;">reported in the ADA News</a><span style="font-family: "arial";"> as saying: “A provider needs to understand a patient’s total fluoride exposure and fluoride in drinking water is the largest contributor to total fluoride exposure.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Former NYS Dental Director and close associate of the American Dental Association, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9542393" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">JV Kumar wrote</a>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“</span><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">practitioners should prescribe fluoride therapy based on an understanding of patients' total exposure to fluoride and the need for additional amounts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But that is rarely, if ever, done.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Dentists are still taught to prescribe fluoride supplements <a href="https://www.ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/fluoride-topical-and-systemic-supplements" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">based solely on the fluoride levels in drinking water</a>, Even though fluoride supplements have <a href="https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/drugInfo.cfm?setid=2e05a9bf-f8e7-41b1-b382-2dc9d8dafee4" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">never been FDA approved or tested for safety or efficacy</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In fact, the <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007592.pub2/abstract" style="color: #0096ef; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Cochrane Oral Health Group</a> reports that fluoride supplements fail </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to reduce tooth decay in primary teeth, permanent teeth cavity-</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">reduction is dubious and health risks are little studied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Only expensive cosmetic dentistry can cover fluorosed teeth affording many dentists the ability to neglect low-income folks with serious tooth decay but inability to pay dentists' exhorbitant fees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In a failed attempt to alleviate the fluorosis problem, recommended water fluoride levels were lowered and fluoride supplement doses were lowered twice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">In 1970’s, manufacturers voluntarily lowered the fluoride content of infant formula although they all still contain a little fluoride – whether the formula is concentrated, organic or ready to use. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">On top of that, it’s now discouraged to mix infant formula with fluoridated water if parents want to avoid lifelong discoloration of their babies’ permanent teeth. In Feb 2018 researchers reported </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">"</span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29500282"><span style="background: white;">The
continued increase in <span class="highlight">fluorosis</span> rates in
the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="background: white;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region></a><span style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29500282"> indicates that additional measures need to beimplemented to reduce its prevalence</a>." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoridation is the real problem. Science shows it must end. But the politics of organized dentistry, enriched by corporations that profit from tooth decay, have more entre' to legislators' ears and pocketbooks than the average citizen who needs to use their own resources to organized and a substantial amount of voters to force their legislators to do what's best for their constituents instead of their own political viability.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Also concerned are the Centers for Disease Control and Colgate which urge parents to use non-fluoridated toothpaste until their children are able to spit it all out to avoid fluorosis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Zohoori and Maguire write, even though the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">UK</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> and the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> have fluoride in foods databases, fluoride levels vary greatly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“For example, the composition of animal products could be influenced by age, feeding routine and season. In addition, factors such as the country of origin and local growing conditions could affect the composition of plant products, while alteration in recipes, amounts and types of ingredients and even the material composition of the cooking vessel can affect the fluoride content of a particular product,” they write.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Of course, the best way to limit fluoride intake is to stop adding unnecessary fluoride chemicals into the public’s water supply that finds it’s way into the food chain and builds up in our bones, brains and children's teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">“The Iowa Fluoride Study (IFS) reported that during the first 12 months of age, up to 96% of total fluoride intake can be from diet, which then decreases to 53% at age 24 months,” report Zohoori and Maguire. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-family: "arial";">IFS revealed </span><a href="http://www.fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/warren_2009_figure1.gif" style="font-family: arial;"> in 2009</a> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #36454c; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">achieving a caries-free status may have relatively little to do with fluoride intake, while fluorosis is clearly more dependent on fluoride intake.”</span></span><br />
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<br />Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-36683247258594397192018-04-04T13:40:00.000-04:002018-04-05T08:12:53.040-04:00New Study: Fluoride Perilous to Babies’ Brains<br />
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three-years-old, according to <i><a href="http://oem.bmj.com/content/75/Suppl_1/A10.1"><span style="color: windowtext;">Occupational
& Environmental Medicine </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal;"> (March 2018)</span></a></i>, and at levels commonly
found in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">Researchers, Thomas et al., found that, for
every increase of 1 milligram per liter of fluoride in pregnant women's urine,
their offspring averaged 2.4 points lower IQ scores at age 1-3 years-old.
This finding is statistically significant and was adjusted for confounders.</span><br />
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upon previous research from the same prestigious team funded by the U.S. National
Institutes of Health (NIH) showing in utero fluoride levels associated
with lower IQ in 4 and 6-12 year-olds (</span><i style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/articles/fluoride-exposure-in-utero-linked-to-lower-iq-in-kids-new-study-says/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Environmental Health Perspectives</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal;">, September 2017</span></a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "arial";">).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoridation protectionists try, but fail, to scientifically
debunk these studies. <i>Environmental Health Perspectives</i> is a leading
peer-reviewed journal published by the National Institute of Environmental
Health, an NIH division, They were funded by </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> government grants. The authors are some of the
world’s foremost experts who study neurotoxicity from fetal and early childhood
exposures.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoridationists, who rarely challenge pro-fluoridation outcomes, often use knee-jerk criticisms to protect negative fluoride research – even making it up sometimes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/bulletin_4-3-18/"><span style="color: windowtext;">For example, the American Dental Association (ADA) said
the researchers “did not adequately address a number of potential confounders</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But the truth is that maternal age,
gestational age, birth weight, mother’s education, lead and mercury were all measured.
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">As an aside, studies the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">ADA</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";"> promotes to claim fluoridation is safe and effective
almost never control for important confounders such as diet, poverty and total
fluoride intake.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">So, in direct contradiction to the </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">ADA</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "arial";"> , one of the most important strengths of these studies
is how comprehensively and carefully it did control for potential confounders.</span><br />
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fluoridated water was the main source of fluoride in Mexican pregnant women in
these two studies, fluoride intake is similar and applicable to those consuming
artificially fluoridated water. For example, the Mexican women's urine fluoride
levels are similar to levels found in pregnant women in fluoridated </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";">New Zealand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="background: white; font-family: "arial";"> (Brough et al. 2015). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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pregnant </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> women have similar fluoride intake as Mexican women,
whether it comes from artificially or naturally fluoridated water, medicines,
is absorbed from dental products, eaten from foods and beverages, especially
ocean fish and tea which are high in fluoride, or inhaled from air pollution or ocean mist.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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300</a> studies, <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studies/brain01/">50+ human</a>,
now link fluoride to neurological effects – something that was virtually not
considered when fluoridation began in 1945. Even the EPA admits that fluoride
is a chemical “with substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">These studies form the basis
of the <a href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/content-bulletin_3-1-18/">legal challenge against the EPA</a> by the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>et al., under the Toxic Substance and Control
Act, to ban the deliberate, unnecessary and health-damaging addition of
fluoride chemicals into the public’s drinking water supply for the <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2017/08/decay-rates-unchanged-for-decades.html">failed effort to reduce tooth decay</a> Fluoride also taints foods made with that water at home or purchased in supermarkets and restaurants.</span><br />
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FAN’s Legal Director says, “The new finding from NIH’s fluoride/IQ study
further strengthens the evidence of fluoride’s neurotoxicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The fluoride levels at issue in the study are
within the range that pregnant women in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> will receive, so the findings are clearly relevant
to our ongoing case against the EPA.”</span></div>
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absorption which is also <a href="https://today.duke.edu/2017/03/lead-exposure-childhood-linked-lower-iq-lower-status">linked
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some teas contain more fluoride than EPA allows in public water
supplies, which can do skeletal damage, according to research published in <i><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28865383"><span style="color: windowtext;">Environmental Pollution</span></a></i> (Das, et al.
12/2017).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s undisputed that e<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5651468/">xcessive fluoride
ingestion</a> can cause many adverse health effects, not just to bones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Waugh and a team of researchers, paint a more dismal picture in the International <i><a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/3/259/htm" target="_blank">Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</a></i> (2016)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tea plants (Camellia
sinensis) absorb fluoride from soil and air then released from 1.47 to 6.9
milligrams fluoride per liter (mg/L) when brewed, reports Das’ research team</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It can be predicted that long-term consumption of
copious quantities of traditional tea might increase the chances of fluorosis in
the consumers,” they report.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fluoride from <a href="https://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/fluoride-hazardous-your-health/2013/mar/21/fluoride-from-tea-can-cause-bone-and-tooth-damage/">tea,
alone, has reportedly caused skeletal fluorosis</a>, an arthritic-type disease
that most US physicians aren’t trained to diagnose and consumers aren’t informed
about.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The US EPA caps fluoride water
contamination at 4 mg/L to protect against skeletal fluorosis. But an
EPA-requested review of fluoride toxicology research (<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/">NRC 2006</a>) revealed 4 mg/L
doesn’t protect bones. The level must be lowered – some say to as close to zero
as possible.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally, <a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/13/3/259">Waugh et al</a>. brewed 54
different brands of tea to find fluoride levels reaching up to 6.1 mg/L. Waugh
concludes that individuals’ total fluoride intake “could readily exceed the
levels known to cause chronic fluoride intoxication.” Heart, liver, kidneys,
endocrine and <a href="http://cehn.org/our-work/articles-of-the-month/2017-articles-of-the-month/december-2017">nervous
systems</a> are also at risk, they caution.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Alarmingly, some studies found <a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100714104059.htm">9 mg/L fluoride in brewed tea</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Without determining constituents’ <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9542393">total fluoride intake from
foods, medicines, dental products, etc., as advised by JV Kumar</a> (formerly
NYS DoH), legislators, lobbied by rich and powerful special interest groups,
often pass fluoridation laws quietly to avoid confrontation with science-savvy
voters opposed to fluoridation. This happened in <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-dentists-manipulate-legislators-to.html">California</a>,
<a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/arkansas-senators-dont-let-science-or-the-public-stand-in-the-way-of-mandatory-fluoridation/">Arkansas</a>
and <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2016/07/new-york-back-doors-fluoridation-on.html">New
York State</a>. Fluoridation is doing more harm than good as proven by dental researchers, themselves.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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is bad. Local market basket analyses of commonly consumed foods and beverages
must be calculated before ever considering water fluoridation.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><br />“Among
populations habitually consuming black tea, water
fluoridation<br />is
not only unnecessary but also possibly harmful…The target organs
of<br />chronic
fluoride intoxication are not only the teeth and skeleton,
but<br />also
the liver, kidney, nervous and reproductive systems,” </span><span style="color: #222222;">reports <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814604001074" target="_blank">Cao et al. in Food </a></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814604001074" target="_blank">Chemistry (2004). </a><span style="color: #222222;"><br /><br />A
March 2008 Food and Chemical Toxicology study found up to 4.5,
1.8,<br />and
0.5 mg/L fluoride in black, green and white teas,
respectively,<br />when
brewed for 5 minutes (61 teas sampled).<br /><br />Brewed
teas could contain up to 6 mg/L fluoride depending on
the<br />amount
of dry tea used, the water fluoride concentration and
the<br />brewing
time, according to the American Dental Association
(ADA).<br /><br />According
to 1997 ADA data, 3 and 4 milligrams daily is adequate
for<br />women
and men, respectively, to prevent fluoride’s adverse
effects.<br />It’s
much lower for children. In 2006, the National Research
Council<br />reported
the basis for those levels should be reduced.<br /><br />Case
Reports by Cao and Yi in the Journal of Fluorine
Chemistry<br />(February
2008) “Tea and fluorosis:”<br /><br />--A
57-year-old Englishman’s misdiagnosed Paget’s disease
(weakened<br />bones)
with osteoarthritis was finally correctly diagnosed as
skeletal<br />fluorosis
caused by his long-term heavy tea-drinking habit.<br /><br />--A
Pakistani woman’s dental fluorosis resulted solely from tea
which<br />she
consumed from age two.<br /><br />--A
36-year-old Chinese woman’s ten-years of joint pain
disappeared<br />when
she stopped drinking tea.<br /><br />--French
doctors identified 5 patients who developed bone
softening<br />(osteomalacia)
from drinking tea.<br /><br />--
An American woman's fluoride-caused debilitating joint
pains<br />disappeared
when her two-gallon-a-day iced-tea habit stopped.<br /><br />"By
2020, one in two Americans over age 50 will be at risk
for<br />fractures
from osteoporosis or low bone mass," according to the<br />Surgeon
General.<br /><br />Fluoride
is in many foods as determined by the
USDA </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><a href="http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=6312" rel="nofollow" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #6611cc;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.ars.usda.gov/<wbr></wbr>Services/docs.htm?docid=6312</span></span></a><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div>
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-63357928791309134342017-11-30T20:24:00.002-05:002019-10-17T06:40:13.542-04:00Fluoride Increases Blood-Lead-Levels in Children, Studies Show<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A 2017 study reports that
children who drink typically-fluoridated tap water have higher blood-lead
levels (BLL) than children, who drink bottled water, according to dental researchers
Sanders and Slade (<i><a href="http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(17)30495-6/fulltext">American
Journal of Preventive Medicine</a>, </i>Nov 2017). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Several previous studies also link fluoridation chemicals to higher BLL; others
link blood-lead to more tooth decay.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lead-laced <a href="https://www.nsf.org/newsroom_pdf/Fluoride_Fact_Sheet_2019.pdf">hydrofluosilicic acid</a> is the most used fluoridation chemical added to public water supplies attempting, but failing, to reduce tooth decay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It appears Sanders and Slade protect dentistry's sacred cow, fluoride, instead of America's children and future, when they oddly put
tooth decay on the same level with brain damaging lead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Without knowing the
fluoride content of any of the water consumed by their test subjects, they
imply that tap water drinkers have less tooth decay and the reason is the
presumed fluoride content of tap water. They hint that parents might need to
choose between damaging their children’s brains with lead or save their teeth
with fluoride.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">No! Cavities can be fixed but lead poisoning is
irreversible. Besides, fluoride is neither a nutrient nor required for healthy teeth - meaning that consuming a fluoride-free diet doesn't cause tooth decay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Further, good diet and
dental care can prevent cavities without exposure to fluoride’s <a href="http://fluorideaction.net/issues/health">adverse drug effects</a>. For
instance, vitamin D deficiency <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=vitamin+d+caries">is linked to
more tooth decay <o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But lead is a brain-damaging
poison that can cause <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/lead/health.html">life-threatening
disease</a>s without any safe level (<st1:place><st1:placename>American</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>Academy</st1:placetype></st1:place> of Pediatrics,<a href="http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/1/e20161493"> Council
on Environmental Health</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Low blood-lead-levels
are also linked to lower IQ, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/ACCLPP/Final_Document_030712.pd">according
to the CDC</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Masters and Coplan (<i><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11233755">Neurotoxicology</a></span></i><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11233755"> 2000</a>)
reported a link between fluoridation chemicals (silicofluorides) and children’s
lead absorption.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A CDC study (Macek) attempted
but failed to dispute Masters and Coplan’s findings. Macek’s research also revealed
that fluorosilicic acid was associated
with an elevated risk for high blood-lead-levels,</span>Macek decided the findings weren't significant except among children living in houses of unknown age who had a 530% increased risk for high-blood-levels, reports FAN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A re-analysis of Macek's data, after placing children exposed to fluorosilicic acid and sodium fluorosilicate in one group (silicofluorides) and all others in another, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17420053" target="_blank">Coplan et al</a>. found that the children exposed to silicofluoridated water had a significantly elevated risk of having high blood lead levels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Coplan explained to this
writer that, since silicofluorides don’t come apart totally in water, a
breakdown product may enhance the uptake of lead </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">into children’s blood – lead that’s already in
the environment (not necessarily in the water). </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sodium fluoride
completely comes apart in water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">An <i>Environmental Health Perspectives</i> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12361944">2002</a> study, supports
Masters and Coplan’s findings. Children in the silicofluoridated <st1:city><st1:place>Boston</st1:place></st1:city>
area have more tooth decay and higher blood lead levels than children in non-fluoridated
<st1:place><st1:city>Farmington</st1:city>, <st1:state>Maine</st1:state></st1:place>.</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Lead Linked to Tooth Decay</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">Several studies link blood lead levels, even low amounts, to
higher rates of tooth decay. (<i>BMC Oral
Health</i> </span><span style="color: #1f0a00;"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5237218/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Jan 2017</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;">; <i>Caries Research</i>
</span><span style="color: #1f0a00;"><a href="https://www.karger.com/article/fulltext/365297" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">2015</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;">; <i>Journal of the
American Medical Association</i> </span><span style="color: #1f0a00;"><a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/190537" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">1999</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;"> ; <i>Journal of Clinical
Pediatric Dentistry</i> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24579287">2013</a>
& <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29087791">2017</a>; </span><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vojnosanit Pregl</span></i><i><span style="color: #222222;">ed</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24069824">2013</a>
)</span><span style="color: #1f0a00;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact, <span style="background: white;">“Associations between childhood <span class="highlight">lead</span> exposures and <span class="highlight">dental
caries</span> in children have been reported for over 30 years,” according
to <i>Science of the Total Environment</i> (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17363037">2007</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Children’s
teeth with a high lead <i>and</i> high
fluoride content had significantly more cavities than teeth with less lead and
fluoride (<i>Journal of Dental Research</i> <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/272374">1977</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Fluoride Can Increase the Uptake and Toxicity of Lead </b></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Rats exposed to lead and
sodium fluoride accumulate higher lead concentrations in their blood than rats
only exposed to lead, according to </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/studytracker/17216/">NIH government researchers
in 1976.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lead intensifies fluoride’s
tooth damaging effects causing a greater incidence and severity of dental
fluorosis. (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21269604">Leite 2011</a>)</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Exposure to <span class="highlight">lead</span> exacerbates <span class="highlight">dental</span> fluorosis. (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21269604" target="_blank">Arch Oral Biology</a>)</span> </span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In fact, there's some evidence that <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoride-causes-cavities.html" target="_blank">fluoride causes cavities</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1f0a00;">“Despite significant financial, training, and program investments, US children’s caries experience and inequities continued to increase over the last 20 years.” </span><span style="color: #1f0a00;">( </span><i style="color: #1f0a00;"><a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303614" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Journal of Public Health</a> 2017). </i><span style="color: #1f0a00;">This after </span><span style="color: #1f0a00;"> 72 years of fluoridation, reaching 2/3 of Americans, promising to
substantially reduce tooth decay, especially in poor children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1f0a00;">The</span> <i><a href="http://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177%2817%2930348-3/fulltext" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Journal of the American Dental
Association</a></i> (Dye 2017) reports, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">65% of poor 6-8 year-olds and 12-15 year-olds have
cavities in their primary and permanent teeth, respectively. </span></span></div>
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Fluoride is harming <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s children and <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s future.
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s up to you to urge legislators and water departments to stop adding
this unnecessary, health-robbing, ineffective and money-wasting chemical,
fluoride, into your bodies via the water supply.
If you don’t, nothing will change.
It’s time to speak truth to power and see the dominoes fall just as the powerful predators are being taken down by courageous women in the workplace.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-23001273871910716722017-11-26T07:46:00.000-05:002017-11-26T07:46:34.621-05:00Is Fluoride in Water Good or Bad, by Susannah Shmurak<h1>
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<span class="postDate">November 17, 2017 — </span><span lang="EN">If you’re like many Americans, you drink fluoridated water without questioning its safety or efficacy. For decades municipalities have been adding fluoride to water supplies to reduce the incidence of tooth decay at the advice of numerous highly credentialed entities, including the World Health Organization, the U.S. Public Health Service, the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">But in late 2016, a coalition of activist groups — Food and Water Watch, The American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Fluoride Action Network, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, the Organic Consumers Association, and Moms Against Fluoridation — together with private citizens from around the United States petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban the addition of fluoride to water supplies, citing research pointing to health risks linked to exposure to fluoride.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">What exactly are the benefits of fluoridating municipal water supplies? What are the risks? And how does a conscientious society balance the two? These questions are finding new urgency as </span><span lang="EN"></span><span lang="EN">a growing body of research calls into question its safety. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The practice of adding fluoride to drinking water began in the 1940s after dentists observed that children living in communities with naturally high levels of fluoride had fewer cavities than those who didn’t. Several communities began adding fluoride to municipal water supplies as a public health measure to lessen the prevalence of dental decay. Studies revealed that cavity rates in those communities were lower than in comparison communities that did not fluoridate, and increasing numbers of municipalities decided to fluoridate in ensuing decades. Rates of dental decay </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4841a1.htm#fig1">continued to drop</a></span><span lang="EN">. Today, more than 200 million Americans live in communities with fluoridated water. (Most, but not all, major U.S. cities fluoridate.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">However, </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001050/">some argue</a></span><span lang="EN"> that other factors during this period, such as advances in dental care and widespread use of fluoridated toothpaste, are likely behind these declines. In fact, European countries that never fluoridated </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2001050/figure/fig1/">have seen very similar drops in cavity rates</a></span><span lang="EN">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Howard Pollick, professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Dentistry and spokesperson on fluoridation for the American Dental Association, says it has become “harder and harder to separate the benefit of water fluoridation in light of the use of fluoride products” such as toothpaste and fluoride varnishes. Designing a study that can tell us with certainty that fluoridated water confers benefits above and beyond what we derive from other sources of fluoride and dental care like sealants, he says, is “very difficult.”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">In an effort to quantify the benefits of fluoridating water, the </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.dentistry.uiowa.edu/preventive-fluoride-study">Iowa Fluoride Study</a></span><span lang="EN"> has followed 570 participants from infancy to young adulthood. Researchers have found that children living in communities that fluoridate their water </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-7325.2008.00108.x/full">don’t have statistically significantly fewer cavities</a></span><span lang="EN"> than those in unfluoridated communities. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Steven Levy, who directs the study, says that the demographics of study participants, who report brushing regularly and receiving consistent dental care, likely affect results. For those who lack access to fluoridated dental products and preventive dental care, Levy speculates that fluoridated water’s impact on dental health may be considerably greater. In fact, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that fluoridated water </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/basics/index.htm">reduces cavities by 25 percent</a></span><span lang="EN"> which includes low-income populations who Levy says generally have much higher rates of tooth decay. Critics point out that this reduction amounts to perhaps one cavity per person and argue that these benefits to teeth — minimal for those who brush regularly with fluoride toothpaste and see a dentist regularly — must be weighed against the risks to other parts of the body.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The <a href="https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-02-27/pdf/2017-03829.pdf" rel="noopener">EPA in February 2017 denied the 2016 petition</a> on</span><span lang="EN"></span><span lang="EN"> the grounds that it lacked “scientifically defensible” proof of neurotoxic harm caused by fluoridated water. But Kathleen Thiessen, senior scientist at Oak Ridge Center for Risk Analysis who has three decades experience assessing fluoride’s risk, maintains that the agency dismissed many high-quality studies. Further, Thiessen says the sheer number of studies, despite their limitations, requires taking the possibility of harm from fluoride more seriously. And </span><span lang="EN">Harvard adjunct professor of environmental health Philippe Grandjean, who has spent his career investigating the effects of environmental pollutants on children’s development, says evidence suggesting fluoride’s potential for harm warrants reconsidering its addition to drinking water.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Indeed, over the past two decades, numerous studies have begun to challenge assumptions about the safety of ingesting fluoride. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">A </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laneur/article/PIIS1474-4422(13)70278-3/abstract">2014 paper on developmental neurotoxins</a></span><span lang="EN"> Grandjean and colleague Philip Landrigan of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York published in <i>The Lancet </i>included fluoride in a list of chemicals with developmental neurotoxic effects. In 2012 Grandjean worked on a </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1104912/">systematic review</a></span><span lang="EN"> of studies from China showing lower IQ in areas with naturally high levels of fluoride. Though these studies had some design issues, Grandjean contends that when more than 20 discrete studies point to a similar effect, they should receive serious consideration rather than be dismissed for their limitations. If anything, he says, the imprecision in these studies likely “led to an underestimation of the effects” of fluoride on neurodevelopment. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">A </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/ehp655/">study</a></span><span lang="EN"> published in <i>Environmental Health Perspectives</i> in September 2017 sought to address the shortcomings of previous studies. Looking at nearly 300 mother-child pairs, researchers analyzed samples of pregnant mothers’ urine archived in the Mexican Early Life Exposures in Mexico to Environmental Toxicants (ELEMENT) project. The study measured maternal urinary fluoride and cognitive performance in children and found significantly lower cognitive performance in children whose mothers had higher levels of fluoride. Howard Hu, founding dean of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study, says that results may underpredict the relationship between fluoride and IQ.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span class="pullquoteWide">Research currently underway aims to clarify the relationship between fluoridated water and urinary concentrations of fluoride. </span>ADA’s Pollick has reviewed studies on fluoride’s health effects and says that the dental community has taken them into consideration. He reports that at present “the evidence points to its being safe” and notes that we lack information about urinary levels in Americans. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Research currently underway aims to clarify the relationship between fluoridated water and urinary concentrations of fluoride. The Canadian </span><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.mirec-canada.ca/en/">“Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Chemicals”</a></span><span lang="EN"> (MIREC) study is examining urinary fluoride levels of women during pregnancy and subsequent behavior of their children. The MIREC study took samples from 1,960 pregnant women in 10 Canadian cities, half of which fluoridate drinking water. Preliminary findings suggest urine levels in women from fluoridated communities in the Canadian study are comparable to those found in the Mexico research, according to study director Christine Till, associate professor of clinical neuropsychology at Toronto’s York University.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Linda Birnbaum, director of the U.S. National Toxicology Program, oversaw a 2016 </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/pubhealth/hat/noms/fluoride/neuro-index.html">review of animal studies on fluoride</a></span><span lang="EN"> that she says determined the available evidence inconclusive. The NTP is currently reviewing human epidemiological data, including the recent ELEMENT study. Its findings, says Birnbaum, help confirm conclusions drawn from the Chinese studies on fluoride and IQ and show that smaller increases in fluoride concentrations are associated with impaired cognitive performance. While she calls it “an important study,” she also notes that it requires replication.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Researchers face numerous difficulties, Birnbaum says, including quantifying how much fluoride people ingest, since “it’s everywhere now,” including in prepared foods and beverages, such as soup, soda and coffee made with water sourced from fluoridated community water supplies that reach people living in communities without fluoridated water. Since everyone is likely consuming some fluoride, finding a comparison group that doesn’t is nearly impossible. What additional research will hopefully help us do, says Birnbaum, is “understand differential susceptibility — are there some people because of genetics or past history who are more sensitive [to fluoride] than others?”</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span class="pullquoteNarrow">Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is another area of scrutiny. </span>Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is another area of scrutiny. A </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389999/"><span lang="EN">study</span></a><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4389999/"> published in <i>Environmental Health</i> in 2015</a> found that every 1 percent increase in the prevalence of water fluoridation in 1992 was associated with 67,000–131,000 additional cases of ADHD between 2003 and 2011. Till, who co-authored the study, says that such observational studies cannot prove causation. She and other researchers are using the Mexican ELEMENT and Canadian MIREC study data to better understand possible relationships between fluoride exposure and ADHD.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Because fluoride can interfere with absorption of iodine and affect thyroid function, some research has looked into the possible links between drinking fluoridated water and the prevalence of thyroid disorders. A</span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714098"> </a></span><u><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25714098">2015 study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health</a></span></u><span lang="EN"> looking at the association between drinking water fluoride and hypothyroidism in two regions of the United Kingdom found the prevalence of hypothyroidism prevalence was almost two times higher in the fluoridated area as in the unfluoridated one. Critics have challenged the study design and argued that other confounding factors should have been accounted for. A </span><a href="http://jech.bmj.com/content/71/10/1019"><u><span lang="EN">2017 Canadian report</span></u></a><span lang="EN"> using data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) found no association between fluoride exposure and incidence of reported thyroid disorders in fluoridated communities. Other research has found some correlation between fluoride exposure and elevated or lowered levels of different thyroid hormones.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">The coalition that petitioned the EPA in 2016 has since filed a </span><span lang="EN"><a href="https://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/04/21/document_gw_02.pdf">complaint</a></span><span lang="EN"> with the U.S. district court in northern California calling for a new review of the evidence. If the court decides that water fluoridation indeed poses an “unreasonable risk” of harm, it can require the EPA to ban the addition of fluoride to drinking water supplies. The EPA has filed a motion to dismiss the case. Plaintiffs have requested a trial they expect to take place in 2018.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Challenging the status quo on chemical safety has become increasingly difficult, says Bruce Lanphear, a public health researcher at Simon Fraser University whose work focuses on disease and disability prevention. The evidence required to alter policy, he says, has risen dramatically in the last several decades, thanks in part to powerful industry lobbies.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN">At present, many focused on preventing tooth decay<b> </b>are not persuaded of fluoride’s health risks, while fluoridation opponents argue sufficient evidence exists of fluoride’s negative effects on the body that far outweigh its marginal benefit to teeth. As research on fluoride continues to clarify its biological effects and litigation pushes government to reconsider policy, governing bodies, communities, and individuals may find themselves grappling anew with how to weigh the potential benefits of fluoride with its possible harms to human health.
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Health Perspectives</i><span style="font-family: "arial";"> (September 2017), and at levels commonly found in US adults.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Fluoridation lobbyists
cavalierly dismissed this study because it was conducted on women from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">Mexico</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> which makes it irrelevant to the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US, they claim</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";">. However,
urine fluoride levels in healthy </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> adults in US fluoridated areas are similar and is a measure of one's total fluoride intake from all sources. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Howard Hu, also disagrees with their assessment. He is quoted in the media as saying “This is a very rigorous
epidemiology study. You just can’t deny it. It’s directly related to whether
fluoride is a risk for the neurodevelopment of children. So, to say it has no
relevance to the folks in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";">, seems disingenuous.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Most </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> water suppliers add unnecessary fluoride chemicals into
public water supplies in a failed attempt to reduce tooth decay for political
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compared to that of school-aged children.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">This new careful
investigation, by respected researchers from respected institutions and
published in a respected peer-reviewed journal, adds to a frightening trend. Over 300 studies now link fluoride to neurotoxic effects – 50 of them human – over 20 at fluoride
levels allowed in US water supplies. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taken together, with this new study added, the evidence is now very strong that fluoride exposures common in the USA is causing IQ loss in at least some children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">A </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: "arial";">New Zealand</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: "arial";"> study (Broadbent, et al) is often touted as proof
fluoride is not neurotoxic. However,
that study showed no difference in total fluoride intake between children in
fluoridated and nonfluoridated areas since most of the children in
nonfluoridated areas were given fluoride supplements.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Action Network (FAN)<b>, “</b>The loss of IQ is very large. The child of
a mother who was drinking 1 ppm fluoride water would be predicted to have </span><st1:time hour="17" minute="55"><span style="font-family: "arial";">5 to 6</span></st1:time><span style="font-family: "arial";"> IQ points lower than if the mother had drunk water
with close to zero fluoride in it… Such a drop of IQ in the whole population
would half the number of very bright children (IQ greater than 130) and double the
number of mentally handicapped (IQ less than 70).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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from all sources. When drinking water is the dominant source of fluoride, urine
fluoride and water fluoride are usually about the same So, the average urine
fluoride level in this study of 0.9 mg/L implies that women were ingesting the
same amount of fluoride as women drinking water with 0.9 mg/L fluoride,
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Up until 2011, government agencies advised artificially
fluoridating water up to 1.2 mg/L.
Because of the growing dental fluorosis epidemic, they revised it downward to 0.7 mg/L.
But it’s just a recommendation. Not all water suppliers comply. Also,
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fluoride. Fluoride is absorbed into the bloodstream from topical application of
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a pediatrician who studies environmental exposures and health problems at New York University Langone Health said to Newsweek: “This is a very well-conducted study, and it
raises serious concerns about fluoride supplementation in water. These new
insights raise concerns that the prenatal period may be highly vulnerable and
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lobbyists, such as the American Dental Association, the American Fluoridation
Society and the Children’s Dental Health Project </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(sponsored by the </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: #1f0a00;">American</span></st1:placename><span style="color: #1f0a00;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: #1f0a00;">Academy</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: #1f0a00;"> of Pediatrics) erroneous claim that<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and therefore the study isn’t applicable to American women.
They fail to understand the urine levels come from a mix of
sources. What’s relevant is that the fluoride levels found in Mexican
mothers urine is similar to that found in Americans regardless of the sources of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After fluoride gets into the body and can be measured in the urine, as was done
in this study, it is immaterial what the original source of that fluoride is. The
fluoride may have come from fluoridated water, fluoridated salt, swallowed
toothpaste, fluoride supplements, dental office fluoride treatments and/or air pollution. Once fluoride is ingested or absorbed into the bloodstream, it is all the same in terms of toxic effects on the fetus. The
developing brain in the fetus can't tell which source the fluoride came
from.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This study was performed by respected leading researchers in
environmental neurotoxins. It was funded by $3 million in grants from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It was published in the premier journal for environmental health after undergoing peer-review. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understandably, this study cuts to the heart of the dental
profession's support of fluoride to combat dental decay. But rather than a
knee-jerk reaction to deny the importance of this study in the interests of
teeth, perhaps dentists should take a more holistic perspective and consider the
entire child, including his cognitive development. How many IQ points loss
would you consider is worth one cavity prevented???</span></span></div>
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-8464470785550500672017-08-13T15:40:00.001-04:002017-08-22T10:49:31.379-04:00Dentists Responsible for Tooth Decay Epidemic?<ul>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";">Fluoridation: A
Failed Tooth Decay Preventive, Federal Data Shows </span></strong></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cavity Rates Unchanged</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dmM2Rrx0Vo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dental Fluorosis Up 600%</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Safety <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/after-72-years-of-fluoridation-uncertainty-persists-300396429.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Still
Doubted</a></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Is
Organized Dentistry, Compared to ISIS and the NRA, to
Blame?</span></span></b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">D</span></span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/11/a-practical-solution-to-americas-dental" target="_blank">ental Therapists</a>, Not Fluoridation, Reduces Oral Health Disparities </span></span></b></li>
<li><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2016/07/new-york-back-doors-fluoridation-on.html" target="_blank">Politics, Not Science</a>, Keeps Fluoridation Afloat</span></span></b></li>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">After 72 years of fluoridation, reaching 2/3 of
Americans, promising to substantially reduce tooth decay, especially in poor
children, the <i><a href="http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303614" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">American Journal of Public Health</a>
(2017) </i>reports </span></span></span><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">“Despite significant
financial, training, and program investments, <span style="background-color: yellow;">US children’s caries experience
and inequities continued to increase over the last 20 years</span>.” </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Children are </span><a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fluoridation-useless-for-low-income-children-federal-data-shows-300319933.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">fluoride-overdosed</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> while oral-health-disparities
between poor and non-poor increase. “</span></span></span><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://www.yakimaherald.com/opinion/columnists/america-s-shockingly-poor-dental-care-system/article_8548bc46-6ccf-11e7-839e-c72d1946c41f.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">America's shockingly poor
dental care system</span></a></span></u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">,” is profiled in the </span><i><span style="font-family: "arial";">Yakima</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "arial";">
Herald<span style="color: #1f0a00;">.</span></span></i><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">The silent oral-health
epidemic, declared in 2000 by </span><a href="https://www.nidcr.nih.gov/datastatistics/surgeongeneral/report/executivesummary.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">US Surgeon General David
Satcher</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, </span><a href="https://undark.org/2017/07/20/dental-care-poor-minority-americans/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">persists
today</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, he says. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">For example: 2001 statistics show that tooth decay doubled after <a href="http://www.orgsites.com/ny/newyorkstatecoalitionopposedtofluoridation/_pgg3.php3" target="_blank">fluoridation was mandated in Kentucky</a> in 1977</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica";">in 2016, cavities in Kentucky children </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica";">increased again despite more oral health education, dental visits, sealants, </span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">By avoiding the real problem - lack of dentists who care to treat poor people - has organized dentistry created this dental health epidemic the US faces today?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Fluoridation, an
outdated 1945 concept, predicted only 10% would suffer mild dental fluorosis
(white-flecked teeth). However, 58% of adolescents are now afflicted - some with
</span><a href="https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/about_ntp/bsc/2015/december/publiccomm/connett20151130_508.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">more severe
fluorosis</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> (stained, pitted teeth) </span><a href="http://fluoridealert.org/news/jada-study-proves-fluoridation-is-money-down-the-drain/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">without benefit of less
tooth decay.</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> Dentists <a href="http://tinyurl.com/DentalFluorosis" target="_blank">are profiting</a> from covering dental fluorosis.</span></span><br />
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The<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i><a href="http://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177%2817%2930348-3/fulltext" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Journal of the American Dental
Association</a></i> (Dye 2017) reports, </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";">65% of poor 6-8 year-olds and 12-15 year-olds have
cavities in their primary and permanent teeth, respectively.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Dye reports: “T<span style="background-color: yellow;">he prevalence of pediatric caries in
the </span></span></span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";">United States</span></span></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: yellow;"> has remained consistent for the past 3
decades</span>.” </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #404040; font-family: "arial";">"…<span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="background-color: yellow;">there has been little improvement in preventing
caries initiation</span>,"<span style="color: #404040;"> <a href="http://www.ada.org/en/publications/ada-news/2017-archive/july/jada-caries-experience-in-permanent-teeth-in-older-kids-unchanged-in-last-decade" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said Dye.</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Is organized dentistry,
</span><a href="https://www.asdanet.org/docs/advocate/final-caap-50-state-fluoridation-report.pdf?sfvrsn=4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">leading fluoridation
promoters</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, to blame? They wrote in December 2016, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: white;">"the ADA will
need to increase efforts in communities not only where fluoridation is
challenged but increase efforts to assist members in identifying and initiating
fluoridation efforts in those communities where fluoridation might be
successfully implemented." </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(</span>This link has been removed from public
view after this was published.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">)</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">80% of dentists refuse government-sponsored dental insurance (i.e. Medicaid and CHIP) They prefer to treat the water of but not the teeth of low-income folks. Fluoridation gives the illusion that organized dentistry cares about the poor folks who aren't welcomed in their dental chairs.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Legislators are often intimidated by fluoridation-promoting dentists who threaten to unseat them if they vote against fluoridation as happened in <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/pinellas-county-commission-votes-6-1-to-return-fluoride-to-drinking-water/1263426" target="_blank">Pinellas County, Florida</a>. Too many legislators prefer to keep their jobs than protect their constituents.<br />
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Organized dentistry is
possibly protecting its political viability by supporting fluoridation. But are the
American people protected? <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/after-72-years-of-fluoridation-uncertainty-persists-300396429.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Researchers
report fluoridation safety doubts
persist</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">say to <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/01/fluoridation-follow-money-by-carol-s.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">follow the money.</a></span> In fact, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> organized dentist<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ry <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-dentists-manipulate-legislators-to.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">misinformed and manipulated California </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/how-dentists-manipulate-legislators-to.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">legislators</a> to mandate <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fluoridation in 1<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">995 <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. And they continue to thwart perceived threats to their lucrative monopoly as occurred when the Massachusetts' Governor attempted to legalize Dental Therapists in the state but was dropped <a href="https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0615/America-s-dental-care-gap-is-wide.-How-some-states-are-trying-to-close-it" target="_blank">due to strong opposition by dentists</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><i><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/07/18/tired-of-high-health-care-costs-look-at?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+reason/Articles+%28Reason+Online+-+All+Articles+%28except+Hit+&+Run+blog%29%29" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Reason
Magazine</span></a></span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"> reports “</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The over-the-top intimidation tactics of the
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">ADA</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> [American Dental Association] and its shiny-toothed
shock troops,” contributed to high healthcare costs. A lawmaker is quoted as
saying </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: "arial";">“I put their
power right up there with the NRA.” </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">The <i><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-unexpected-political-power-of-dentists/2017/07/01/ee946d56-54f3-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Washington Post</a></i>
(“</span></span><span style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "arial";">The unexpected
political power of dentists”)<b> </b></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">quoted a Harvard dentist comparing
the </span></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">ADA</span></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"> to </span></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">ISIS</span></span><span class="aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_aolmail_m_5205482438965156851aolmail_aolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailaolmailxn-location"><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";">.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In July 2<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">017<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a California<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> newspaper reports<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the "<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Denta</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">l </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">l</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">obby pre</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vai</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ls </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">again in </a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.dailydemocrat.com/health/20170712/dental-lobby-prevails-again-in-legislature" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Legislature</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">,"<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">by</span> b<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">locking le<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">gisla<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">tion<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> inten<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ding to <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">save <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">children's</span> lives.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Free once-a-year “pop-up” dental clinics
“fail to relieve the suffering of marginalized people but also can produce it,”
</span><a href="http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/bitstream/10150/581303/1/azu_etd_14205_sip1_m.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">according to a dissertation
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Raskin explains extractions are routine
and “incentivized” instead of preventive or restorative care.</span><span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"> Dentist volunteerism declined;
patients are turned away. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/time-break-down-wall-between-110040563.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Oral health issues costs $6
billion in lost productivity yearly</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. Emergency
department oral pain visits cost $2 billion yearly and </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/opinion/dentists-opioids-addiction-.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">contribute to the
opioid-addiction epidemic.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">Organized dentistry has priced
low-income Americans out of dental care but spent millions of dollars unsuccessfully trying to thwart Dental Therapists from working in rural Alaska where dentists refused to work or live and where people were pulling out their own teeth. They claimed patients would get substandard care; but 11 years later reports show Dental Therapists are successful. For example:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">-- more children and adults received preventive care</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">-- Fewer children under age 3 had extractions of the front four teeth<br />-- Fewer adults ages 18 and older had tooth extractions</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2008, the <i><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/nyregion/23dentist.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New York Times</a></i> <span style="color: #1f0a00;">profiled the political clout of the New York State Dental
Association.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1f0a00; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">July 2017, the New York
Post reported that that </span><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/07/24/dentist-pac-donated-4m-to-political-campaigns/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">NYS Dentist PAC donated $4M
to political campaigns in 2010</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"> and “the mint from the
dentist’s chair has paid off – the trade group has blocked legislation in the
statehouse that could spur competition and hurt business.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Evidence that fluoridation failed
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">New York</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">State</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> is <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2005/12/fluoridation-fails-new-york-state.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;">.People need to take back their water
systems from special interest groups<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Despite growing evidence that fluoridation
is a
failed concept, the American Dental Association and its constituent groups are aggressively pursing
increased fluoridation throughout the nation without discerning or caring that our children are already fluoride overdosed.. Are they serving the
public or the political viability of organized
dentistry?</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: small;"> END FLUORIDATION </span><br />
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Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-14531583647610253432017-07-17T18:25:00.001-04:002017-07-18T08:19:07.863-04:00Stop Fluoridation: It's Ineffective & Harmful, Say Chilean Researchers<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Water and milk fluoridation haven't reduced tooth decay but is potentially harmful, report researchers from Chile (<i><a href="http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872017000200012&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en" target="_blank">Medical Journal of Chile</a>, </i>February 2017,Translated with Google Translate). They recommend the government of Chile change its laws to stop adding fluoride chemicals into drinking water and milk in all regions of the country.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">They show how fluoride intake can cause bone, thyroid, neurological and skin damage without reducing tooth decay. For example, t</span><span style="color: black;"><span style="size: 3;">hey
explain that, in the 1950s, fluoride was used to depress or reduce overactive
thyroid glands (hyperthyroid) at doses which corresponds to the doses in
drinking water of some fluoridated areas.(</span><span style="size: 3;"><span style="size: 3;">between
2 and 5 mg per Liter per day)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="size: 3;"><span style="size: 3;">So it's not surprising that a recent study found a link between fluoridation and hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Unnecessary
<a href="http://www.nsf.org/newsroom/nsf-fact-sheet-on-fluoridation-chemicals" target="_blank"> fluoride chemicals</a> are added to public water supplies, in a <a href="http://www.fluoridenews.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">failed effort to reduce tooth decay </a>in tap water drinkers. Many theories which
gave birth to fluoridation in the early 1900's have been scientifically disproved making fluoridation a waste of money and a detriment to
health.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The Chilean researchers report, “The fluoridation of drinking water does not significantly impact on
caries prevention... effectiveness is rather a topical and non-systemic
effect, </span><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">as
demonstrated by countries that do not fluoridate drinking water, and do
not use milk or fluoride salts," yet have similar decay rates.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">The research
team based their analysis on a review of irrefutable scientific studies which
included control of confounding variables.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="size: 3;"><span style="color: black;">They report that, according to WHO data, between 1970 and 2013, a decrease in 12-year-old's tooth decay occurred and at the same rate whether a country fluoridated its water or not. The same holds true for
countries that fluoridate drinking water vs countries that do not fluoridate
drinking water or salt.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">Many European countries that have substantially
decreased dental decay have never had massive fluoridation programs for milk and
milk products (and/or drinking water).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;">"Therefore,
fluoridation of drinking water and salts have no incidence at all in reducing
dental [decay]," they conclude. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="size: 3;"><span style="color: black;">About 3 million Chilean children consume
fluoridated milk, diluted with water that naturally has at least 0.3 mg/L of
fluoride. Considering consumption of at least 3 glasses of milk a day (200 ml),
the intake of fluoride would be 2.59-3.6 mg/day which is above any international
recommendation, they report.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="size: 3;">"...</span><span style="size: 3;"><span style="color: black;">the fluoridation of milk has no relevance in reducing
dental decay. In addition children who have received fluoride salts are
at increase risk of developing not only dental fluorosis [discolored teeth], but diseases such as
those described in this review," they write.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This isn't the first review to expose the fluoridation boondoggle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The respected <span style="font-size: small;">UK-based<span style="color: black;"> <a href="http://www.cochrane.org/CD010856/ORAL_water-fluoridation-to-prevent-tooth-decay" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cochrane group of researchers</span></a> could
not find any quality evidence to prove fluoridation changes the “existing
differences in tooth decay across socioeconomic groups.” Neither could they find
valid evidence that fluoride reduces adults’ cavity rates nor that fluoridation
cessation increases tooth decay.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="size: 3;"><span style="color: black;">"Peckham and Awofeso concluded that the evidence suggests that
fluoride has the potential to generate health problems, while it only has a
discrete effect on the prevention of dental caries," the Chilean research team reports.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="role_document" style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Three expert committees <span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">(</span><a class="linkOnClick" data-include="300396429" href="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/findings/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #205b6d; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank" title="http://fluoridealert.org/researchers/nrc/findings/">NRC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">, </span><a class="linkOnClick" data-include="300396429" href="http://fluoridealert.org/content/review-of-the-eu-scher-report-june-21-2011/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #318da8; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="http://fluoridealert.org/content/review-of-the-eu-scher-report-june-21-2011/">SCHER</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">, </span><a class="linkOnClick" data-include="300396429" href="https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Fluoridation%20Statement.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #318da8; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://www.york.ac.uk/media/crd/Fluoridation Statement.pdf">YORK</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">)</span>
revealed “that there is uncertainty surrounding both the safety and the efficacy
of fluoridation, report Israeli researchers, <span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"> </span><a class="linkOnClick" data-include="300396429" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4VKL_8YAAAAJ&hl=en" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #318da8; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4VKL_8YAAAAJ&hl=en">Anat
Gesser-Edelsburg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">,
PhD, Head of Health Promotion Department, School of Public Health, University
of </span><span class="xn-location" itemprop="contentLocation" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Place" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #373737;"><span itemprop="geo" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/address" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span itemprop="addressLocality" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Haifa</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;">,
and </span><a class="linkOnClick" data-include="300396429" href="https://hevra.haifa.ac.il/~comm/index.php/en/doctoral-program/536-yaffa-shir-raz" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #318da8; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://hevra.haifa.ac.il/~comm/index.php/en/doctoral-program/536-yaffa-shir-raz">Dr. Yaffa Shir-Raz</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #373737;"> </span> ( <i><a href="http://carmel-ltd.haifa.ac.il/images/Health_and_Risk_Communication/Communicating_risk_for_issues_that_involve_uncertainty_bias.pdf" title="http://carmel-ltd.haifa.ac.il/images/Health_and_Risk_Communication/Communicating_risk_for_issues_that_involve_uncertainty_bias.pdf"><span style="color: blue;">Journal of Risk Research</span></a></i>, August
2016)</span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Fluoridated water [does] not seem,
based on the existing literature, to hold sufficient evidence for the reduction
of dental caries,” report Italian researchers in the <i><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5149099/" title="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5149099/"><span style="color: blue;">Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry</span></a>
</i>(December 2016).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In July 2012, <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230569997_A_systematic_review_on_fluoridated_food_in_caries_prevention" target="_blank">Cagetti, et al,</a> reported "Studies of the effectiveness of water fluoridation have been based on observational study designs...these studies are regarded as low in quality and the weight of the evidence derived from cross-sectional and observational studies can be questionable." </span><br />
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Even<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #1f0a00;"> respected <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fluoridation-based-on-belief-not-science-says-dentist-textbook-71697127.html" title="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fluoridation-based-on-belief-not-science-says-dentist-textbook-71697127.html">dental
researchers have reported in dental textbooks </a>that fluoridation is based
more on unproven theories than scientific evidence.
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<br />Carol S. Kopf, BS, MAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17554155868935368892noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19275742.post-64445977985044780272017-06-03T09:18:00.002-04:002017-06-03T09:18:23.956-04:00Lead Linked to Autism - Fluoride Increases Lead Absorption<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new study reveals that children with Autism had much higher levels of lead levels throughout their development, according to <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317754.php" target="_blank">Medical News Today</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15493" target="_blank">new research</a>
was led by Manish Arora, Ph.D., an environmental scientist and dentist
at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, NY, and
the findings were published in the journal <em>Nature Communications.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally exfoliated baby teeth were analyzed for lead content. However, fluoride level wasn't mentioned; but should be tested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.nsf.org/newsroom/nsf-fact-sheet-on-fluoridation-chemicals" target="_blank">Lead is allowed in fluoridation chemicals</a> used in most US public water supplies</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-lead-gets-into-your-fluoride.html" target="_blank">Here's </a>an explanation of how that occurs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, while not providing a direct link to autism, several studies show that fluoride increases blood lead levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fluoride chemicals added to public water supplies, boosts lead absorption in lab animals' bones, teeth and blood, report Sawan, et al. (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toxicology</i> 2/2010).<br />Earlier studies already show children's blood-lead-levels are higher in<br /> fluoridated communities, reports Sawan's research team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"…exposure to increased amounts of lead and fluoride occurs at about the same age (1-3 years)… Therefore, this is a critical time when systemic exposure to fluoride should be minimized since fluoride may increase lead accumulation," the researchers caution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"These findings suggest that a biological effect, not recognized so far, may underlie the epidemiological association between increased blood-lead levels in children and water fluoridation," concludes Sawan's research team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"[O]ur findings may have serious implications for populations exposed to<br />increased amounts of both lead and fluoride, particularly young children,"<br />the research team writes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Masters and Coplan's landmark studies show higher blood-lead-levels in</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">children living in silico-fluoridated communities. (<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Neurotoxicology</i> 2000, 2007). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Macek's research shows children's higher blood-lead-levels are associated with water fluoridation when lead is already in the environment<br />(<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Environmental Health Perspectives</i>, 2006).</span></div>
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