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Fluoride, too much of a good thing
Water fluoridation has certainly been one of the public wonders of the last century, as Harvey Kern points out in response to the Sept. 20 article "Women protest fluoridated water." It is indeed a wonder that fluoride, a product promising to treat and prevent dental caries in children, has never been approved by the FDA, the agency required by Congress to review such product claims.
It is indeed a wonder that efforts to fluoridate water continue when Americans are overexposed to fluoride by the myriad of sources that now contain it, like vegetables irrigated by fluoridated water, pesticide residue, fertilizer, toothpaste, infant formula, processed cereals, your child's grape juice or your husband's can of Coke, your pitcher of instant ice tea, mechanically deboned chicken, the Teflon pans you cook with, anesthetics, pharmaceuticals and last but not least, air pollution from industrial fluoride emissions, all of which have contributed to an increase in dental fluorosis over the last 30 years.
Dental fluorosis is not just a mere cosmetic issue as the ADA contends, but rather it is a biomarker of systemic enzyme poisoning and indicative of problems throughout the brain and body. One third of all children now suffer from dental fluorosis.
It is not such a wonder, however, when you learn the suppressed history of fluoride's essential role in industry and in the U.S. government's secret plans to produce the first atomic weapon, the Manhattan Project.
New historical research provides deeply unsettling evidence that U.S. government officials and scientists, who well understood the health problems posed by fluoride exposure, worked with top industry executives (from companies like Alcoa, Dupont and Reynolds Metal), their lawyers and public relations professionals to recast fluoride from an environmental and health foe into a cavity-fighting hero in order to subvert the expensive lawsuits that threatened their work and profits.
To learn more, read investigative reporter Christopher Bryson's book "The Fluoride Deception," which fully documents the lies we've been sold about the benefits of fluoride.
Rather than fluoridate our water, we need to remove fluoride pollution from our water, air and food supply.
Nicole Johnson
Oak Park
Water fluoridation has certainly been one of the public wonders of the last century, as Harvey Kern points out in response to the Sept. 20 article "Women protest fluoridated water." It is indeed a wonder that fluoride, a product promising to treat and prevent dental caries in children, has never been approved by the FDA, the agency required by Congress to review such product claims.
It is indeed a wonder that efforts to fluoridate water continue when Americans are overexposed to fluoride by the myriad of sources that now contain it, like vegetables irrigated by fluoridated water, pesticide residue, fertilizer, toothpaste, infant formula, processed cereals, your child's grape juice or your husband's can of Coke, your pitcher of instant ice tea, mechanically deboned chicken, the Teflon pans you cook with, anesthetics, pharmaceuticals and last but not least, air pollution from industrial fluoride emissions, all of which have contributed to an increase in dental fluorosis over the last 30 years.
Dental fluorosis is not just a mere cosmetic issue as the ADA contends, but rather it is a biomarker of systemic enzyme poisoning and indicative of problems throughout the brain and body. One third of all children now suffer from dental fluorosis.
It is not such a wonder, however, when you learn the suppressed history of fluoride's essential role in industry and in the U.S. government's secret plans to produce the first atomic weapon, the Manhattan Project.
New historical research provides deeply unsettling evidence that U.S. government officials and scientists, who well understood the health problems posed by fluoride exposure, worked with top industry executives (from companies like Alcoa, Dupont and Reynolds Metal), their lawyers and public relations professionals to recast fluoride from an environmental and health foe into a cavity-fighting hero in order to subvert the expensive lawsuits that threatened their work and profits.
To learn more, read investigative reporter Christopher Bryson's book "The Fluoride Deception," which fully documents the lies we've been sold about the benefits of fluoride.
Rather than fluoridate our water, we need to remove fluoride pollution from our water, air and food supply.
Nicole Johnson
Oak Park
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