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American Dental Association reverses position,
warns its members that
fluoride is too dangerous to be consumed by infants
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 by: Ben Kage
reprinted from newstarget.com
On Nov. 9, 2006 the American Dental Association released an email alert to its members warning that, in order to prevent tooth damage, fluoridated water should not be mixed into formula or foods intended for babies aged 1 and younger.
Currently, two-thirds of the U.S. public water supply has fluoride chemicals added, a move centered on a now-disproved theory that fluoride ingestion prevents cavities. Research by the Centers for Disease Control has shown that fluoride absorbs into tooth enamel topically, but ingestion of the chemical can cause adverse reactions. Also, the CDC admitted that enamel fluoride concentration was not inversely related to cavities.
(Bolding added by friendsofwater.com)
Fluoridated bottled water is available in stores across the United States along with instructions to mix into formula, which is what prompted the ADA to warn its members.
"Infants could receive a greater than optimal amount of fluoride through liquid concentrate or powdered baby formula that has been mixed with water containing fluoride during a time that their developing teeth may be susceptible to enamel fluorosis," stated the ADA report, describing the condition marked by pitting and white spotting as well as yellow and/or brown teeth.
Paul Beeber, lawyer and New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF) president, noted that news releases from the NYSCOF in 2000 and 2004 cited studies that linked fluorisis to infant foods mixed with fluoridated water. However, Beeber remarked, it took the ADA until 2006 to release its alert, right after the FDA disapproved of marketing fluoridated water to babies in October and the National Research Council reported that babies are fluoride overdosed from "optimally" fluoridated water supplies.
"The ADA claims the NRC report didn't question the safety of fluoridation but it did, as the ADA now admits," Beeber said. "The NRC also revealed fluoridation's adverse effects to the thyroid gland, diabetics, kidney patients, high water drinkers and others."
He added that the ADA warning had only gone out to its members, and asked, "Who will alert parents?"
The Environmental Protection Agency, which sets allowable water fluoride levels, is required to consider the most vulnerable members of a population, so allowable fluoride levels should be near zero to protect infants.
"This should end water fluoridation," Beeber said. "Fluoridation is a failed concept that must be abandoned before more Americans are harmed."
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Additional information on fluoride:
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water this way is deplorable."
Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd
Past President of the American Medical Association.
Fluoride is a controversial topic, and there are many who believe that in the correct quantities it can be very beneficial for dental health. But the newest research suggests that it is only true if used topically, not through ingestion. And there is no question that too much does irreparable damage in many ways - including to teeth!
Friendsofwater.com works to share well-reasoned views, and we looked at the issue for quite a while before we took that stand that we should not ingest fluoride. (Although we personally got a fluoride-removing water filter earlier.) But the evidence has accumulated to too high a level to continue to avoid the conclusion that fluoride is too dangerous to be trifled with. Adding it to everyone's drinking water is a bad idea. We have customers who have been told to stop drinking fluoride and chlorine by their cancer clinics.
Some have voiced that their kids have had far fewer cavities than they did, and that must be from fluoride. Well it could be from fluoride toothpaste (still lots of room to argue about that) or other causes. You don't need to drink it. Europe eliminated fluoride from their drinking decades ago. Their reduction in cavity rate has equaled that of the US over those years, and in some places have improved even more.
Calcium is the primary hardener for bones and teeth. It can form two bonds with carbonate or oxygen to create chains. Fluoride can only create one bond. When fluoride combines with calcium, it breaks the chain, preventing calcium development.
Fluoride doesn't break down and disappear. It accumulates over time. People today ingest 4 times as much as they were when they started putting fluoride in our drinking water! This is approximately evenly spread across intake from water, other drinks, food and dental products. If you did everything you could think of to avoid fluoride, you couldn't do it! Cut back on fluoride. You'll still get lots.
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The Fluoride Action Network New Zealand says it very well:
Would you let someone put drugs in your drink at a party?
Would you drink industrial waste with heavy metal contaminants?
So why do you accept it in your water supply -
day in, day out, for your entire life?
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Drinking fluoridated water
will double the number of hip fractures
for older men and women.
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Fluoride can cause Skeletal Fluorosis, a potentially crippling disease.
Skeletal Fluorosis occurs in phases. Phase 2 includes chronic joint pain, calcification of ligaments, osteosclerosis and possibly osteoporosis.
Phase 3 inclueds crippling deformities of the spine and major joints.
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