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Experts disagree on fluoride in drinking water
CTV.ca News
Saturday, Aug 9, 2008
Fluoride can have a detrimental effect on a child’s IQ and should be removed from drinking water, anti-fluoride activists said Thursday.
Members of the Fluoride Action Network and Citizens for a Safe Environment said they have found studies from China and other countries that prove fluoride exposure may inhibit the development of a child’s brain.
An international group of scientists who study fluoride in drinking water appeared with members of the two advocacy groups at a Queen’s Park press conference.
“Does fluoride cause problems? Absolutely,” Paul Connet, director of the Fluoride Action Network, told reporters. “Fluoride lowers thyroid function, fluoride damages the bone and fluoride lowers IQ. All of these have been demonstrated in India and China.”
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However, a prominent Ontario dentist defends the presence of fluoride in drinking water, and refutes claims that it can cause a range of health problems in children.
Dr. Larry Levin appeared on CTV Newsnet on Thursday and dismissed concerns that fluoride is linked to health problems such as lower IQs in children.
Levin referred to a recent report posted on Health Canada’s website that recommended reducing the amount of fluoride in drinking water but found no evidence to suggest a link between fluoride and an increased risk of cancer, developmental or reproductive problems or a lower IQ.
“They’ve brought together six top experts who have carefully looked at all of the details and they have come to a very clear result that there is not a link that would suggest fluoride is going to cause the problems that some people would suggest,” Levin said.
The report, which was dated April 2008, recommends reducing the amount of fluoride, a chemical that prevents tooth decay, in drinking water.
The report says fluoride levels should be lowered to 0.7 parts per million from the current range of 0.8 to one ppm.
However, this recommendation is designed to lower the incidence rates of a stain that fluoride can leave on teeth.
The report also recommends that children up to age three use low-fluoride toothpaste, and says that fluoride levels in infant formula should be reduced.
Health Canada told CTV News last month that it accepts the recommendations, but would leave it up to the individual municipalities to implement them.
Levin said that children should be exposed to fluoride in drinking water to ward off dental problems later in life.
“The fluoride gets incorporated into the enamel of the tooth at the time that the tooth is forming, so this makes a stronger coating on the tooth which is more resistant to decay right from the very start,” Levin said.
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August 9th, 2008 at 5:35 am
hey idiots im proof your by product fluoride is poision my you all burn in hell
August 9th, 2008 at 7:06 am
I could prove in a court of law fluoride is toxic (the kind they put in water that is, not natural fluoride which is found in green tea).
August 9th, 2008 at 10:51 am
“a prominent Ontario dentist defends the presence of fluoride in drinking water”
Well don’t believe Dentist’s. They are part and parcel of the problem with their quack ‘treatments’ designed to ensure visits for the rest of your life. The medical field has many many questions to answer.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
That ’stain’ on teeth, is what is happening to ALL of the bones in your body when you drink the stuff, the teeth are the only place you can see it happening.
Scumbags like Levine will be exposed for the frauds they are.
August 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
levine didn’t answer the specific charges of lowered I.Q. and bone damage. they certainly won’t talk about the soviet camps and the U.T. studies…this subject requires immediate attention as the human race is being damaged to an unknown extent every moment this remains in the water….
August 9th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Look into the article by NTEU (national treasury employees union)
“Why EPA’s headquarters union of scientists opposes fluoridation”
1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers, and others directly opposing it with hard facts. May 1, 1999.
Chapter 280
P.O. box 76082
Washington, DC 20013
202-260-2383 (V)
202-401-3139 (F)
also:
“Fluoride, teeth, and the atomic bomb”
by Joel Griffiths and Chris Bryson 1997
Check out http://www.holisticmed.com/fluoride
August 9th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Probably the most important effect that flouride has on the body
is that of the Pineal gland in the center of the brain. Check it out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
And the 3rd 4th and 5th part of this google video series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVaOYDQAiY
August 9th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Greg Grisham that Wikipedia artical said nothing about floride having any effect on the pineal gland it simply said that the gland tends to calcify after puberty.
August 9th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
My sisters dentist said Fluoride is a poison and shouldn’t be consumed by people.
I was also told by my gastrointestinal surgeon that toothpaste is probably the cause of my Crohn’s disease.
Mercury was banned from school thermometers in the UK, yet dentists continue to the deadly substance in the teeth of children and adults alike.
We’re being bombarded by a huge array of toxins and soft-kill eugenics, such as Aspartame (which ASDA said they are removing from their products, but sneakily kept it in by using Acesulfame K instead, which is a blend containing Aspartame).
Try finding a bottle of cordial that doesn’t contain an assortment of suspect “E numbers” which they often use to hide behind and confuse people.
I could write pages and pages, but i’ll stop here…
August 10th, 2008 at 7:01 am
How about we just start throwing gasoline in our water supply?
Better yet, lets just build our water plants next to toxic waste dumps, and mix that into our water, I am sure that the government will convice us that it is “nutritional” or something beneficial to our health.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Sodium fluoride used in water treatment is a byproduct of the aluminum refining industry…it is not even bio-available to the human body and cannot be absorbed. This is a poison and the one that all the negative information is related with. ALCOA in Florida provides its waste product to be added to the water supply. This is also the same fluoride put in toothpaste.
Calcium fluoride found in some naturally occurring water supplies is the form that the body can use. But even excesses of this which naturally occurs in water can cause mottling of the teeth.
August 10th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Anyone have any advice on how to reverse the effects of flouride, detox from it?
August 11th, 2008 at 7:42 am
do any of the idiots in the white house drink the poision water
August 11th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I’ve stopped using toothpastes that contain fluoride.
Lucky where I live in London they don’t add fluoride to the water supply… yet
August 11th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I could prove the fluoride in toothpastes, water, and supplemental pills is TOXIC. ANd yes, it’s a by products of the aluminum industry.
To DETOX from fluoride a lot of good vitamin C is needed and the overall pH needs to go up. Magnesium is a good idea. Camu Camu fruit (available all over the web) is the best source of vitamin C that I have found.
Fluoride interferes with calcium abosorption and harms the thyroid. Lots of SEAWEED (kelp, dulse) helps with this, and loaded with minerals.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Where are the studies veryfying the the benefits of flouride for tooth enamal No studies were done by any dental group or governmant agency.. at least that I know of. Does anybody know of such a study??