People are beginning to vote. My wife and I cast our ballots by mail a few days back. For our local city council, I voted for Brigette Mansell, a high school teacher who got into the race for no other reason than to do some good. Somehow she won the endorsement of the Democratic Party, maybe because she's an independent thinker and has not run a typical campaign. She's a citizen, and she's beholden to no one, a rare candidate.
Healdsburg has a significant proposition on the ballot, Prop. P., which calls for a continuation of the 50-year-old project that lightly fluoridates the city water. At this point 70% of America has been drinking fluoridated water for generations, and the science is settled. Fluoridation helps poor people keep their teeth. Rgulated fluoridation is proved harmless and for a large percentage of poor children, fluoridated water is the only dental care they get. If you have any questions about fluoridation, ask your dentist, a scientist, what he or she thinks. The opposition to fluoridated water is based on paranoia and a few studies that have been misinterpreted or were imaginary to start with. Ending fluoridation, which some of my friends call for, is a form of unintended and ignorant child abuse. (Ask your dentist.)
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Fluoride Harms the Poor most of all
Over 4,600 professionals (including 366 dentists and 568 MD’s) urge that fluoridation be stopped because science shows fluoridation is ineffective and harmful. See statement: http://www.fluoridealert.org/researchers/professionals-statement/text/
Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Dr. Arvid Carlsson, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete.”
Fluoridation is an "unacceptable risk," says Public Health Professor Niyi Awofeso (Public Health Ethics, August 2012). He writes, "There is insufficient ethical justification for artificial water fluoridation" because no evidence supports the assertion that artificial fluoridation reduces social disparities in cavity incidence, fluoridation’s effectiveness is questionable, potential adverse effects of fluoride, such as hypothyroidism and bone fractures, have been reported in scholarly journals and fluoridation chemicals are contaminated with lead, arsenic and mercury.
In 2006, a National Research Council expert panel published a fluoride report which revealed that fluoride, even at low doses added to water supplies, can be especially harmful to the thyroid gland, kidney patients, babies, seniors and people who drink high amounts of water. They also revealed critical fluoride safety studies have never been done and studies linking fluoride to cancer and lower IQ are plausible.
EPA lists fluoride as having “Substantial Evidence of Developmental Neurotoxicity.”
Over 100 animal and 45+ human studies link fluoride to brain deficits. Thirty-eight human studies now link fluoride to lowered IQ, some at levels considered safe in the US. See: http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/iq-facts/
Fluoride is one of 213 known brain-toxic chemicals that may lower the intelligence of generations of children, reports renowned physician and 30-year brain researcher, Dr. Phillipe Grandjean in his new book, “Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development,” (2013)
Instead of spreading less tooth decay across the land, fluoridation spread dental fluorosis (fluoride-discolored teeth) into every nook and cranny of America. Even though the CDC reports up to 60% of adolescents are afflicted with dental fluorosis, 51% of them have cavities.
Opposite to predictions, since fluoridation began in 1945:
1) Tooth decay crises occur in all fluoridated cities.
2) New dental professionals were created, e.g. dental therapists.
3) New dental schools opened.
4) Dental expenditures have gone up substantially, higher than the inflation rate.
5) Poor children’s cavities are more prevalent, severe, occur earlier and more likely to be untreated.
6) Despite dental spending growth, 42% percent of adults and 4 million children with dental problems could not afford dental care.
7) More states had the need to hire new Dental Directors to stop the rot.
US Senator Bernie Sanders, in his 2012 report, “Dental Crisis in America,” says that 9,500 new dental providers are needed to meet the country’s current oral health needs
The comments againt fluoridation based on imaginary science and general flat earth nuttiness. Just ask your dentist.
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