Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride chemicals
into public water supplies, began 68 years ago promising to eradicate tooth
decay, lower dental bills, and put dentists out of
business.
Instead, tooth decay rates
and dental bills are rising, more dental professionals were created, more dental
schools opened, both fluoridated dental products and tooth decay have become
multi-billion dollar international industries. And fluoride-overdose, dental
fluorosis, is the new epidemic facing America’s children, along with UNtreated tooth decay.
The
following fluoride-related stories occurred in 2012 adding to the alarming body of evidence
proving fluoridation is not safe, not effective and not
wanted:
-- Wichita Kansas voters Rejected
Fluoridation,
60% to 40% despite a well-funded,
stealth lobbying campaign by fluoridationists.
-- Portland,
Oregon
residents halted the ill-advised, secretly-planned fluoridation mandate after collecting over 40,000 valid petition
signatures in one month to force a
May 2013 referendum instead (Portlanders defeated fluoridation in 2013)
-- Windsor,
Ontario,
Canada stopped 51 years of
fluoridation. The number of people drinking fluoridated water in
Canada has dropped by about 25% since
2008.
-- New Hampshire
Passes First State-Wide Fluoride Warning
Law “if your child under the age
of 6 months is exclusively consuming infant formula reconstituted with
fluoridated water, there may be an increased chance of dental
fluorosis.”
-- Arsenic
in fluoridation chemicals costs society $1 – 6 billion in
medical
costs, according to research published in
Environmental Science &
Policy
-- Dr. Yolanda Whyte, a primary care
pediatrician, explains why she no longer
supports water fluoridation in
this Fluoride Action Network (FAN) video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iu9HzaVbWQ
-- FluorideGate – An American Tragedy by David Kennedy, DDS - This new documentary
exposes the scientific fraud behind the promotion of
water fluoridation
-- "fluoridation rates were not significantly
related to the measures of either caries or overall condition of the teeth for urban or rural
areas."
((West Virginia University Rural Health Research
Center, 2012 )
-- 37 studies link
fluoride to reduced IQ in human populations. FAN located
obtained, and — in many cases — translated these studies. FAN also
identified dozens of other studies which correlate fluoride exposure with
impaired
learning and memory, altered neurobehavioral function, fetal
brain damage, and
altered thyroid hormone levels.
-- Harvard researchers’ review of fluoride/brain
studies “support the possibility of adverse effects of fluoride exposures on
children’s neurodevelopment.”
(Environmental Health Perspectives).
Co-author Grandjean says, “Fluoride seems to fit in with lead, mercury, and
other poisons that cause chemical brain drain.”
Fluoridationists continually
misrepresent this research. So, Grandjean corrects them on his own
blog,
“Chemical brain drain should not be disregarded. The average IQ deficit in
children exposed to increased levels of fluoride in drinking water was found to
correspond to about 7 points – a sizable difference. To which extent this risk
applies to fluoridation in Wichita or Portland or elsewhere is uncertain, but definitely
deserves concern.”
-- Vandenberg et al. include sodium fluoride in a list of endocrine
disrupting chemicals (EDCs) with low-dose effects. They noted the EDC action
of sodium fluoride as: “Inhibits insulin secretion, PTH, TH.” [parathyroid
hormone, thyroid hormone]
-- Crescent City,
California stops
fluoridation partially because
no fluoridation chemical manufacturer or distributor could provide required
safety studies. They join fluoridation-free Poughkeepsie, NY;
Selmer, Tennessee and the Carroll-Boone Water District employees,
Arkansas in asking for but failing to receive this
necessary documentation.
-- Nidel Law Re-files Case For Injury From Fluoridated Drinking Water
-- “the average number of decayed, missing or filled teeth in
12-year-olds was higher in the United States than in 11 peer countries (and
three nonpeer countries)” behind 13 countries that do not
fluoridate public water supplies according to a National Research Report .
-- Dentists are trained to use politics and not
science to promote water fluoridation, according to a Journal of the American Dental
Association article. The authors write: "Studies of dentists' attitudes about
water fluoridation suggest that a lack of knowledge and preparedness are
barriers to discussing the topic ... more than one-half of the respondents
believed they needed more information and training on the issue…Dentists’ lack
of self-efficacy with respect to critically evaluating scientific literature may
help to explain their reluctance to promote
fluoridation”
-- Public Relations fluoridation-promoter
strategist, Matt Jacob paid by the Pew Foundation, teaches fluoridationists to focus on teeth and not
health. “Opponents are likely to win if the dialogue is trapped” on
Harms and Risks, he says.
--
New York City
Fluoridation Opposition Rally held by Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr.
on city hall steps. Local school
children studied the issue and protest the continued addition of fluoride
chemicals into their bodies via NYC’s water supply without their
consent.
-- At least
Four New
Jersey
County legislatures passed
resolutions opposing NJ’s proposed but abandoned fluoridation mandate bill
“As the
I-Team dug into the science behind the fluoride controversy, we found study
after study dating back to the 80s from respected academic and scientific
institutions that connect fluoride to health dangers.”
-- Exposure to fluoride
suppresses the production of certain cells that resorb bone, and
account for osteosclerosis, an
increase in bone density, the major clinical manifestation of skeletal
fluorosis, according to a report in the journal Fluoride (Vol. 45, No. 2,
2012)
-- Postmenopausal women drinking water with 2.0
parts per million fluoride suffered significantly greater oxidative stress on
their bones than women drinking
water in a village with a low amount of fluoride, researchers reported in the
same issue of the journal Fluoride (pp.
108-115).
--- “Some infant foods/drinks, when reconstituted
with fluoridated water, may result in a F intake in infants above the suggested
optimum range and therefore may put infants at risk of developing dental
fluorosis” Community Dentistry and Oral
Epidemiology,
-- Captive New Zealand zoo frogs living in ponds of
fluoridated water (0.94 ppm) suffered increased rates of bone
disease, “consistent with skeletal
fluorosis” and mortality according to published research
In 2012,
the following joined
hundreds of communities that stopped or rejected fluoridation:
U.S.A.
St. Croix
Falls, Wisconsin
Balsam Lake,
Wisconsin
Pine Island,
Florida
Milton,
Florida
Bradford,
Vermont
Romulus,
New York
Pulaski,
New York
Wichita,
Kansas
Harvard,
Nebraska
Crescent
City, California
Lake View,
Iowa
Cassadaga and Lily
Dale, New York
Santa Fe,
New Mexico
Argos,
Indiana
Walkerton,
Indiana
North
Liberty, Indiana
Lakeville,
Indiana
Bassett,
Nebraska
Palisade, Colorado
Pevely,
Missouri
Albuquerque,
New Mexico
West Manheim,
Pennsylvania
Bourbon, Indiana
Bolivar, Missouri
Myerstown,
Pennsylvania
O’Fallon, Missouri
Smithville, Missouri
Canada
Windsor,
Ontario, (includes
LaSalle and Tecumseh )
Kirkland
Lake, Ontario
Orillia,
Ontario
Rosetown,
Saskatchewan
Okotoks,
Alberta,
Amherstburg,
Ontario
Becancour,
Quebec
Wynyard, Saskatchewan
Australia
Burdekin,
Queensland
Bundaberg region,
Queensland
Cairns,
Queensland,
North and South
Burnett,
Queensland
Blackbutt,
Queensland
Nanango,
Queensland
Kingaroy,
Queensland
Wondai,
Queensland
Murgon,
Queensland
Cunnamulla,
Queensland
Fraser
Coast,
Queensland
Tablelands,
Queensland
Carnavon
Domadgee
New Zealand
Waipukurau,
New
Zealand
Curacao (The entire country)
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