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Food & Nutrition
TylerStockton
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Do not give children fluoride!
TylerStockton
member
Flouridated water, drops, supplements, and toothpaste should NOT be
given to children, as fluoride in all of its forms is more toxic than
lead. Please watch this video from Ph.D. biochemist Paul Connett on the
damage that fluoride does to a child's IQ, due to the impossibility of
regulating dosage --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uew6vUlCRZM
Remember that children are receiving fluoride through water, toothpaste, and foods that are prepared with or grown in fluoridated water. They also absorb fluoride through the skin which means they get it from the bath or shower, as well. Most water districts in the USA buy their fluoride from China, where it is produced as a byproduct of their phosphate fertilizer industry. The fluoride is unregulated and contains other heavy metals in it, as well.
Distillation is the only way to remove 100% of fluoride from water. Filter water systems will not remove much fluoride.
To become educated on this topic, please watch the Arizona Fluoride Debate (2012) --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5qGpZj80E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uew6vUlCRZMRemember that children are receiving fluoride through water, toothpaste, and foods that are prepared with or grown in fluoridated water. They also absorb fluoride through the skin which means they get it from the bath or shower, as well. Most water districts in the USA buy their fluoride from China, where it is produced as a byproduct of their phosphate fertilizer industry. The fluoride is unregulated and contains other heavy metals in it, as well.
Distillation is the only way to remove 100% of fluoride from water. Filter water systems will not remove much fluoride.
To become educated on this topic, please watch the Arizona Fluoride Debate (2012) --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5qGpZj80EThis discussion has been closed.
Re: Do not give children fluoride!
- Dr. Leonard Weinstein, Emeritus Scientist, Cornell University
"(Fluoride) was more responsible for damage claims against industry than all 20 (nationally monitored air pollutants) combined."
- Edward Groth, Senior Scientist, Consumers Union
“We are left with compelling evidence that powerful interests with high financial stakes have colluded to prematurely close honest discussion and investigation into fluoride toxicity.”
– Dr. Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts University, August 16, 2004.
Given the above information, it seems "Priss08's" very rude comment is way out of line. May I recommend that individuals reading this check out the videos posted above? I am a concerned father and I did look into it, and I am very unsettled.
Perhaps you should watch the debate video, posted above. I did. It appears to place all the main points from both sides of the debate on the table. The dentist who is passionate about putting fluoride in our water systems loses the debate. It is very clear he is relying on emotional arguments and data that has not been thoroughly put to the test. Dr. Paul Connett knows the pro-fluoride studies well, and pokes holes in them quite easily.
It's rather obvious to me that big corporations are paying to produce massive amounts of propaganda around this issue, to support fluoride. They also appear to be paying people to post on forums, such as this one. Given the Edward Bernays, the father of propaganda/public relations, is the same man who was paid to convince the medical establishment that toxic fluoride was good for our teeth -- I am not surprised that this level of propaganda continues.
It's likely far less expensive for the medical establishment to pay for propaganda promoting fluoride, than to pay out class action lawsuits that would happen, if the public knew what they were consuming.
Parents who are not sure should be safe and not give their fluoride. This debate is already over with but the corporate $$ going into the pervasive propaganda continues and exists to make people think that fluoride is still safe. It is not safe -- especially for our children!
Remember when anyone who challenged Big Tobacco was a "nut case"? Same thing for anyone who questioned why lead was in gasoline -- the propaganda labelled them "wackos." This is happening with fluoride,as well.
Most western, industrialized countries have rejected water fluoridation. Countries that have banned or rejected fluoridation include:
-China, the largest population in the world
-Austria, where “toxic fluorides” are not added
-Belgium, which says that those who want fluoride should acquire it themselves
-Finland, where authorities have noted that there are better ways to stop cavities (through natural methods)
-Germany
-Denmark
-Sweden
-Norway
-The Netherlands
-Hungary
-France
-Spain
-Japan, which notes that calcium fluoride is the type needed and not industrial sodium fluoride, and regulates the amount as well
Israel recently announced a ban as well, as have parts of Africa.
Note that fluoridated table salt does not help teeth since to have ANY impact at all, fluoride needs to be in direct contact with teeth for a few minutes straight. Ingesting it does no good. It MUST be applied topically. Even then, the impact is so extremely small it is not even worth talking about as some form of tooth protection.
There is no ban on floride in drinking water in Sweden (I live here so I would know!). The bedrock in general has enough levels of flouride that no extra needs to be added. Get your facts straight.