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On Jan 15, 10:47=C2=A0am, "AleS" <sale...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's interesting to know:
>
> =C5=BE Fluoride prevents and can even reverse tooth decay.
> =C5=BE More than 60 percent of the U.S. population on public water supply
> systems has access to water fluoridated at approximately 1 part
> fluoride per million parts water - the optimal level for preventing
> tooth decay.
>
> What is fluoride?
> What is fluoridated water?
> Why fluoridate water?
> When did water fluoridation begin in the U.S.?
> Where can people find additional information on fluoridated water?
>
> Find out answers for this questions:http://dent.info.md
Well that all depends on which side of the fence you want to believe,
and how old is the research you are basing your feelings or beliefs on.
What is Fluoride and Why You Won't Want to Use It
By Carol S. Kopf, BS, MA
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Fluoride was a teeth damaging natural water pollutant way before it was
a cavity-fighting water supply additive. New research questions the
safety and efficacy of fluoride and fluoridation.
Dentists wondered why, in the early 1900's, in pockets of the Southwest
USA, many residents' teeth were permanently stained yellow, brown or
black, some just had white blotches, some were crumbling. They called
it "Colorado Brown Stain." The culprit - high levels of tasteless,
odorless fluoride in drinking water, from 2 - 13 parts per million
(ppm), which also irrigated crops the locals ate.
These ugly, sometimes deformed, teeth were unusually cavity-free. Since
fluoride stained teeth, dentists assumed fluoride also prevented decay.
"Colorado Brown Stain" became known by the more scientific term, dental
fluorosis. Unfortunately, dentists overlooked what's obvious today,
even to a layperson. They failed to factor in the calcium, magnesium
and other teeth strengthening minerals also in the water supply.
During an era when doubting government was anti-American, when public
health heroes of the day were idealists who believed they were saviors
of their people, fluoridation began in the late 1940's. One part per
million fluoride added to "fluoride deficient" water supplies, reduced
decay by 70% without unwanted fluorosis public health officials
promised. Holding the paternalist values of their time, they believed
mothers couldn't be trusted to give their children their daily fluoride
dose in pill form so they prescribed it into the drinking water.
Children up to nine years old would benefit, they told us. Fluoride
incorporated into their developing teeth to erupt with a shield against
decay as long as they consumed 1 milligram fluoride daily via
approximately one quart of 1 ppm fluoridated water.
Children, who didn't live in fluoridated communities, were (and still
are) prescribed fluoride supplements - a drug marketed before safety
testing was required by the Food and Drug Administration.
At its inception, fluoridation, or these supplements, was virtually
children's only fluoride source. Now over 62% of US water supplies are
fluoridated and so are the foods and beverages grown, bottled and
manufactured with that water. There's a glut of fluoridated dental
products on the market, both over-the-counter and by prescription.
Fluoridated pesticide residues remain on foods, medicines contain
fluoride, and air is polluted by fluoride from industry.
Instead of bringing tooth decay rates down to that enjoyed by early
Southwesterners who ate produce from their own gardens, children's
dental fluorosis rates have steeply increased. Yet, tooth decay is
still a major problem for malnourished or poorly nourished Americans.
New research proves old-time dentists' premise was wrong. Fluoride's
possible benefits, if any, are topical. So there's no good reason to
swallow fluoride or put it into the water supply.
The old dogma is beginning to unravel. British researchers report in
the British Medical Journal that fluoridation studies are flawed. A
Canadian Government report found fluoridation does more harm than good.
A US National Institutes of Health Panel found most tooth decay
studies, including hundreds on fluoride, scientifically invalid. Even
UNICEF, the organization that protects children, reports, "more and
more scientists are now seriously questioning the benefits of fluoride,
even in small amounts."
What's more unbelievable is that the chemicals most used to fluoridate
drinking water are silicofluorides, contaminated waste product of
industry, that were never safety tested on humans or animals. Meanwhile
we are conducting a massive toxicological experiment. Our children are
the test subjects
Silicofluorides are linked with children's increased lead absorption.
Studies link fluoride chemicals to bone fractures, lowered IQ, thyroid
dysfunction, cancer, allergies and more.
And the American Dental Association is working on a new and improved
cavity fighter, even better than fluoride - calcium and phosphate - the
minerals they overlooked in the early 1900's.
Not only this article out there. Another one I saw and cannot find said
that it does no good in our bodies as it does not protect the teeth at
that point at all, and it is a fluoride contaminant from industries
that they use so basically a poison.
I would do a lot of research and make your own decision about it. I
personally would never use the stuff if I was in a situation that
granted me choices with kids. I am not sure if my city has flouridation
or not. I hope not.
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