Ingesting fluoride bad for the brain
Ingesting fluoride bad for the brain
Christopher Spourdalakis, The Windsor Star
Mar 01, 2013
Re: When the decision-making process goes off the rails,
I will respectfully have to disagree with Mr. Gord Henderson's assertions that the decision to take the fluoride out of Windsor's drinking water will "give tooth decay a new lease on life."
According to research papers in the British Medical Journal, the National Research Council, the Journal of the American Dental Association and others, the benefits that fluoride provides to dental health come from its topical application not from systemic supplementation or ingestion. Said in more layman terms, any good that fluoride may provide comes from using it with toothpaste to brush one's teeth. The benefits to dental health have not and do not come by ingesting or drinking fluoride that is in fact a waste product from the fertilizer industry.
A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) came to the conclusion "that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory ..."
Additionally, researchers from both Harvard University's School of Public Health and China Medical University in Shenyang together studied the effects of fluoride on children by doing a meta analysis of 27 different fluoride studies. Their team found "strong indications" that fluoride exposure, especially among growing young children, may have negative effects on their neurodevelopment. Said another way, the researchers are concerned that ingested fluoride could reduce children's IQs. Harvard is one of the finest research universities in the world.
As for Mr. Henderson's assertions about people wanting to put "an end to compulsory vaccination for childhood diseases," first of all, vaccinations are thankfully not compulsory in Canada. Nor should they be. They are advisable but not compulsory. No one should have the right to force another person to put something inside of their or their minor children's bodies. In a free society that decision should and does belong to the individual or their legal guardian.
CHRISTOPHER SPOURDALAKIS, Windsor
Christopher Spourdalakis, The Windsor Star
Mar 01, 2013
Re: When the decision-making process goes off the rails,
I will respectfully have to disagree with Mr. Gord Henderson's assertions that the decision to take the fluoride out of Windsor's drinking water will "give tooth decay a new lease on life."
According to research papers in the British Medical Journal, the National Research Council, the Journal of the American Dental Association and others, the benefits that fluoride provides to dental health come from its topical application not from systemic supplementation or ingestion. Said in more layman terms, any good that fluoride may provide comes from using it with toothpaste to brush one's teeth. The benefits to dental health have not and do not come by ingesting or drinking fluoride that is in fact a waste product from the fertilizer industry.
A recent report from the U.S. National Research Council (NRC 2006) came to the conclusion "that adverse effects of high fluoride concentrations in drinking water may be of concern and that additional research is warranted. Fluoride may cause neurotoxicity in laboratory animals, including effects on learning and memory ..."
Additionally, researchers from both Harvard University's School of Public Health and China Medical University in Shenyang together studied the effects of fluoride on children by doing a meta analysis of 27 different fluoride studies. Their team found "strong indications" that fluoride exposure, especially among growing young children, may have negative effects on their neurodevelopment. Said another way, the researchers are concerned that ingested fluoride could reduce children's IQs. Harvard is one of the finest research universities in the world.
As for Mr. Henderson's assertions about people wanting to put "an end to compulsory vaccination for childhood diseases," first of all, vaccinations are thankfully not compulsory in Canada. Nor should they be. They are advisable but not compulsory. No one should have the right to force another person to put something inside of their or their minor children's bodies. In a free society that decision should and does belong to the individual or their legal guardian.
CHRISTOPHER SPOURDALAKIS, Windsor
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