New Year’s January issue of the journal “Scientific American” highlights the findings of some recent studies suggesting that over-consumption of fluoride can raise the risks of disorders affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland.
“Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift,” writes author Dan Fagin in the journal “scientific American”.
“Fluoride, the most consumed drug, is deliberately added to 2/3 of public water supplies theoretically to reduce tooth decay, but with No scientifically valid evidence proving safety or effectiveness,” says Lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
Dan Fagin, award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York
University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, writes,
“There is no universally accepted optimal level for daily intake of Fluoride“. Some researchers even wonder whether the 1 mg per liter added into drinking water is too much.
After 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, a ‘National Research Council (NRC)’ committee concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid, the gland that produces hormones, regulating growth and metabolism.
Dan Fagin quotes John Doull, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC Committee says, “The thyroid changes do worry me“.
Fluoride in foods, beverages, medicines and dental products can result
In fluoride over-consumption, visible in young children as dental fluorosis, white spotted yellow, brown or pitted teeth. “We can’t normally see Fluoride’s effects to the rest of the body” says Professor John Doull. Dan Fagin further reports that, “a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ.”
“Epidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and diabetics” writes Dan Fagin in the journal “Scientific American”.
Dan Fagin also interviewed Steven Levy, the Director of the Iowa Fluoride Study that tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. “Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis compared to the children living in non-fluoridated areas of the state”, writes Dan Fagin. Steven Levy said in the interview that he will further study fluoride’s effects on their bones. Over 1200 professionals urge to cease water fluoridation because scientific evidence indicates fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks.
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“Scientific attitudes toward fluoridation may be starting to shift,” writes author Dan Fagin in the journal “scientific American”.
“Fluoride, the most consumed drug, is deliberately added to 2/3 of public water supplies theoretically to reduce tooth decay, but with No scientifically valid evidence proving safety or effectiveness,” says Lawyer Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
Dan Fagin, award-wining environmental reporter and Director of New York
University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, writes,
“There is no universally accepted optimal level for daily intake of Fluoride“. Some researchers even wonder whether the 1 mg per liter added into drinking water is too much.
After 3 years of scrutinizing hundreds of studies, a ‘National Research Council (NRC)’ committee concluded that fluoride can subtly alter endocrine function, especially in the thyroid, the gland that produces hormones, regulating growth and metabolism.
Dan Fagin quotes John Doull, Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, who chaired the NRC Committee says, “The thyroid changes do worry me“.
Fluoride in foods, beverages, medicines and dental products can result
In fluoride over-consumption, visible in young children as dental fluorosis, white spotted yellow, brown or pitted teeth. “We can’t normally see Fluoride’s effects to the rest of the body” says Professor John Doull. Dan Fagin further reports that, “a series of epidemiological studies in China have associated high fluoride exposures with lower IQ.”
“Epidemiological studies and tests on lab animals suggest that high fluoride exposure increases the risk of bone fracture, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly and diabetics” writes Dan Fagin in the journal “Scientific American”.
Dan Fagin also interviewed Steven Levy, the Director of the Iowa Fluoride Study that tracked about 700 Iowa children for sixteen years. “Iowa children who lived in communities where the water was fluoridated were 50 percent more likely to have mild fluorosis compared to the children living in non-fluoridated areas of the state”, writes Dan Fagin. Steven Levy said in the interview that he will further study fluoride’s effects on their bones. Over 1200 professionals urge to cease water fluoridation because scientific evidence indicates fluoridation is ineffective and has serious health risks.
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