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Citizens should speak out against fluoride in water
Opinion
November 05, 2010 2:00 AMOct. 31 — To the Editor:
Portsmouth and many of our neighboring towns have added fluoride to water supplies for over 30 years. At 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, Portsmouth residents will have the opportunity to speak out against the fluoridation of our water at the City Council meeting at City Hall. Sign up is required by 6:45 p.m.
Why would we want fluoride out of the water? The reasons are many.
First, the evidence is now clear that fluoride ingested through drinking water has been shown to have little to no positive effect on our teeth.
Second, fluoridated water has been shown to have very serious health effects: quadrupled risk of bone cancer in teenage boys, as well as damage to the thyroid and other organs, which could explain the explosion in hypothyroidism, which itself has been linked to heart disease, mental decline and other illnesses.
Most frightening among the health effects is hard evidence showing a significant decrease in intelligence quotient scores among children from ingesting fluoride at the levels many children ingest. In November 2006, the American Dental Association advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water, either directly, or in baby formula, and similar advice was published in The Lancet. How many parents have even heard this?
The fluoride added to our water is not pharmaceutical grade medicine. It is industrial waste from phosphate fertilizer and aluminum production, often contaminated with lead, arsenic and other dangerous chemicals, and much of what is used in the United States is now imported from China.
In Europe, only 3 percent of the population live in areas with artificially fluoridated water. In the United States, it is more than 70 percent, and in Portsmouth it is 100 percent if you use the public water supply. Fluoride cannot be removed by regular water filters, and filters that do remove fluoride are expensive and cause other potential health problems. The intent of the fluoridation of water was as a dental "medication."
However, FDA safety studies have never been done, and unlike all other medications, we and our children have no choice in taking this medication.
This is just plain wrong, and it must stop. Please join us on Nov. 8 at Portsmouth City Hall to speak out. Show your support, bring signs, speak out. Call our city councilors. It's way past time to stop this ill-advised program.
Rick Horowitz
Portsmouth
Opinion
November 05, 2010 2:00 AMOct. 31 — To the Editor:
Portsmouth and many of our neighboring towns have added fluoride to water supplies for over 30 years. At 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, Portsmouth residents will have the opportunity to speak out against the fluoridation of our water at the City Council meeting at City Hall. Sign up is required by 6:45 p.m.
Why would we want fluoride out of the water? The reasons are many.
First, the evidence is now clear that fluoride ingested through drinking water has been shown to have little to no positive effect on our teeth.
Second, fluoridated water has been shown to have very serious health effects: quadrupled risk of bone cancer in teenage boys, as well as damage to the thyroid and other organs, which could explain the explosion in hypothyroidism, which itself has been linked to heart disease, mental decline and other illnesses.
Most frightening among the health effects is hard evidence showing a significant decrease in intelligence quotient scores among children from ingesting fluoride at the levels many children ingest. In November 2006, the American Dental Association advised that parents should avoid giving babies fluoridated water, either directly, or in baby formula, and similar advice was published in The Lancet. How many parents have even heard this?
The fluoride added to our water is not pharmaceutical grade medicine. It is industrial waste from phosphate fertilizer and aluminum production, often contaminated with lead, arsenic and other dangerous chemicals, and much of what is used in the United States is now imported from China.
In Europe, only 3 percent of the population live in areas with artificially fluoridated water. In the United States, it is more than 70 percent, and in Portsmouth it is 100 percent if you use the public water supply. Fluoride cannot be removed by regular water filters, and filters that do remove fluoride are expensive and cause other potential health problems. The intent of the fluoridation of water was as a dental "medication."
However, FDA safety studies have never been done, and unlike all other medications, we and our children have no choice in taking this medication.
This is just plain wrong, and it must stop. Please join us on Nov. 8 at Portsmouth City Hall to speak out. Show your support, bring signs, speak out. Call our city councilors. It's way past time to stop this ill-advised program.
Rick Horowitz
Portsmouth
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