Canada - Let's find out more about fluoride
Let's find out more about fluoride
By Judith Ann Parent, The Windsor Star April 7, 2012 Re: Fluoride debate: Advice for city council, Star editorial, March 19.
Although this editorial speaks loudly for those who support adding hydrofluorosilicic acid/HFS known as "fluoride" to our water, such as the Ontario Dental Association, Health Canada and others, simply supporting something does not make it safe.
In all fairness, Windsor, LaSalle and Tecumseh residents deserve to be informed about the negative effects fluoride has on our health. Since its inception here in Windsor in 1953, clinical data or toxicological studies have never been done to prove the safety of HFS.
In fact, both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine have reported a greater incidence of hip fractures in fluoridated areas. The National Institute of Environmental and Health Services has linked fluoridation with some cancers.
Although HFS is well known to cause dental fluorosis on teeth, it can also have an adverse effect on bones (known as skeletal fluorosis), impair kidney function, reduce thyroid activity and more. The potential for harm increases as the amount that we ingest and absorb increases.
For instance, infants drink more for their body size, and their kidneys aren't fully developed and able to filter out as much fluoride as an adult can, so this puts them at higher risk for fluoride-associated health problems.
For the sake of everyone's health, let's follow the lead of Lakeshore, Amherstburg and the rest of Essex County by being cautious until more is known about the true safety of fluoride, and make the decision to stop adding this toxic substance to Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle's water.
A five-year moratorium is a good place to start.
JUDITH ANN PARENT, Tecumseh
By Judith Ann Parent, The Windsor Star April 7, 2012 Re: Fluoride debate: Advice for city council, Star editorial, March 19.
Although this editorial speaks loudly for those who support adding hydrofluorosilicic acid/HFS known as "fluoride" to our water, such as the Ontario Dental Association, Health Canada and others, simply supporting something does not make it safe.
In all fairness, Windsor, LaSalle and Tecumseh residents deserve to be informed about the negative effects fluoride has on our health. Since its inception here in Windsor in 1953, clinical data or toxicological studies have never been done to prove the safety of HFS.
In fact, both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the New England Journal of Medicine have reported a greater incidence of hip fractures in fluoridated areas. The National Institute of Environmental and Health Services has linked fluoridation with some cancers.
Although HFS is well known to cause dental fluorosis on teeth, it can also have an adverse effect on bones (known as skeletal fluorosis), impair kidney function, reduce thyroid activity and more. The potential for harm increases as the amount that we ingest and absorb increases.
For instance, infants drink more for their body size, and their kidneys aren't fully developed and able to filter out as much fluoride as an adult can, so this puts them at higher risk for fluoride-associated health problems.
For the sake of everyone's health, let's follow the lead of Lakeshore, Amherstburg and the rest of Essex County by being cautious until more is known about the true safety of fluoride, and make the decision to stop adding this toxic substance to Windsor, Tecumseh and LaSalle's water.
A five-year moratorium is a good place to start.
JUDITH ANN PARENT, Tecumseh
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