Australian Fluoridation Information Network
Tue, Nov 29, 2005
Fluoride bone of contention
CONTRARY to what was aired nationally on Australian Talks Back (ABC Radio National, November 16) fluoride in tap water has the potential to harm. The “optimum” recommended dose of fluoride for water supplies is one part per million. In Bhanakpur (an Indian village near Delhi), water with between 0.7 and 1.6 parts per million fluoride coupled with poor nutrition was enough to leave 17 per cent of the population suffering from the bent bones of skeletal fluorosis.
The average member of the population is already overdosing on fluoride. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services Review of Fluoride: Benefits and Risks (1991), “taken conservatively, the daily rate of fluoride ingestion from all sources (1.58-6.6mg/day) now overlaps the clinical dose of fluoride which is administered to lower thyroid function (2.3-4.5mg/day)”.
Under-activity of the thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) is now reaching epidemic proportions.
Prolonged and repeated exposure to fluoridating agents can cause embrittlement of bones so, too, can thyroid medication!
AILSA BOYDEN,
Australian Fluoridation Information Network, Mackay
Fluoride bone of contention
CONTRARY to what was aired nationally on Australian Talks Back (ABC Radio National, November 16) fluoride in tap water has the potential to harm. The “optimum” recommended dose of fluoride for water supplies is one part per million. In Bhanakpur (an Indian village near Delhi), water with between 0.7 and 1.6 parts per million fluoride coupled with poor nutrition was enough to leave 17 per cent of the population suffering from the bent bones of skeletal fluorosis.
The average member of the population is already overdosing on fluoride. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services Review of Fluoride: Benefits and Risks (1991), “taken conservatively, the daily rate of fluoride ingestion from all sources (1.58-6.6mg/day) now overlaps the clinical dose of fluoride which is administered to lower thyroid function (2.3-4.5mg/day)”.
Under-activity of the thyroid gland (hypothyroidism) is now reaching epidemic proportions.
Prolonged and repeated exposure to fluoridating agents can cause embrittlement of bones so, too, can thyroid medication!
AILSA BOYDEN,
Australian Fluoridation Information Network, Mackay
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