From Ann

A Wills via outbound.mailhop.org	17:47 (46 minutes ago)
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“What Doctors Don’t Tell You”  Dec 2019.  “FLUORIDE IN OUR WATER:  TOO MUCH FOR TOO LONG?  (shortened)

Fluoride Facts:  Small children often swallow 50% of toothpaste on their brush, ingesting up to 1.5mg of fluoride.

All fluoride toothpaste is supposed to carry a poison warning in US.

Fluoride raises the chance of bone fracture.

By 2004, fluorosis - discoloured teeth from too much fluoride - affected 41% of US adolescents.

Almost all research into water fluoridation was done before 1980.   2 new studies conclude that fluoride is a neurotoxin (nerve poison) that affects children’s IQ & ability to learn - even when it’s the mother who drank the fluoridated water while pregnant. Even the lower fluoride level introduced by US of 0.7 ppm of fluoride is still too high, say researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York.  This shows it crosses the placenta.  (UK still uses the higher amount of 1ppm.)  A Canadian study at York Uni, Toronto, also found fluoride causes lower IQ but might have been ignored were it not for many other studies coming to the same conclusion.  Eg research from Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical Uni in China looked at 26 studies of 7,258 children & found high fluoride exposure in water is strongly linked to lower intelligence.  Researchers from Kent University in UK concluded: “Fluoride has the potential to cause major adverse human health problems….The fluoridation of public water should be reconsidered.”   (My comment:  the full 3-page article has references. The journal is sold in some WH Smiths & some newsagents. It has a “Letters” page -  letters@wddty.co.uk )

Ann