Mike Del Grande loves cavities (and possibly conspiracy theories)
At yesterday’s budget committee meeting, Mike Del Grande presented a motion—he called it a “grenade”—in favour of eliminating fluoride from the city’s drinking water. Del Grande argued that fluoride is unnecessary and expensive in an era of good dentists and fancy toothpaste (the city forks out $2 million annually for fluoridation). While Del Grande’s argument is predicated on fiscal conservatism, there are some more conspiratorial arguments against the practice—including that it’s state-sanctioned poison, mind-control serum and a sterilization toxin. Maybe Del Grande knows something that we don’t, and if that’s the case, we have some pamphlets on the moon landing that will blow his mind. Read the entire story [National Post] »
The pushers of fluoride always have to refer to name-calling and accusations of “conspiracy theorists,” because they do not know one thing about fluoride, and they do not know that “conspiracy” is the biggest and most frequently charged crime in the US. Hollywood helped to establish this nonsense. Do some homework.
It is truly sad when the politicains align with the big money, derived from selling this toxic waste fluoride to communities, and ignore the people they are supposed to be representing.
Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. It is one of the most poisonous substances on Earth. It cures nothing and heals nothing and has never been tested or approved by FDA (in the USA) as safe and effective for human ingestion.
Read the truth produced in the best scientific information on fluoridation here: (www.fluoridealert.org). You will see a petition signed by almost 4000 professionals, including hundreds of dentists, hundreds of doctors, and other medical researchers calling on governments everywhere to stop fluoridation.
There are many large scientific studies there to show that drinking fluoridated water has no positive effect on cavity reduction and to show that it causes cancer, thyroid damage, broken hips from brittle bones, lowered IQ and other health problems.
In 2006, the American Dental Association recommended mothers not use fluoridated water for baby formula over concerns linking fluoride to neurological and development damage.
(2006). Interim guidance on reconstituted infant formula. American Dental Association, 1-2.
To make matters worse, the fluoride in tap water is absorbed through the skin when bathing or swimming in a fluoridated swimming pool. The skin is the largest organ of the human body. Fluoride is also absorbed through the tissues of the mouth when brushing with fluoridated toothpaste. It is absorbed through the lungs in a hot shower or from polluted air. It is more toxic than lead and only slightly less toxic than arsenic. It is a carcinogenic neurotoxin. There are over 500 peer-reviewed studies showing the adverse effects of fluoride and not ONE double-blind peer-reviewed study showing its benefits or safety. The so-called “benefits” of fluoride are nothing but a “statistical illusion” due to the fact that fluoride delays the eruption of children’s teeth by up to two years due to its hypothyroid effects. At best, fluoride only delays cavities.
Thank you nutjobs for uncovering this vast anti-child conspiracy of all levels of government and academia, Hollywood, and the medical community.
There is a reason that the Canadian and American Dental Associations, Health Canada, and the US Dept of Health and have recommended fluoride for generations and continue to do so: study after study have shown it safely reduces cavities and thus the time your kid spends in the dentist chair.
Del Grande was looking at it as a money issue, but the rest of the committee knew that it was a non-starter on the grounds that we should try to avoid punishing children for our budget mess.
In your article (Nov 12, 2011) on Michael Del Grande’s sensible motion to halt water fluoridation your journalist takes some cheap shots at both Del Grande and all those opposed to fluoridation. This kind of mindless nonsense is embarrassing for any one who knows anything about this subject. The evidence that fluoridation works is very weak and the evidence fluoridation causes harm is growing. For example, after over 60 years of fluoridation proponents have failed to produce one single randomized clinical trial demonstrating that swallowing fluoride reduces tooth decay. This is not surprising now that even proponents of fluoridation concede that fluoride’s benefit is largely TOPICAL not systemic (CDC, 1999,2001). In other words it works on the outside of the tooth not from inside the body. Only harm can come from swallowing fluoride. Today 41% of US children aged between 12-15 have a condition called dental fluorosis, an indicator that they have been over-exposed to fluoride before their permanent teeth have erupted.
One of the facts that shocked me 15 years ago when I began researching this issue as a professor of environmental chemistry and toxicology at St. Lawrence University, in Canton, NY, is that the level of fluoride in mothers’ milk is extremely low (0.004 ppm, NRC, 2006). This means that a bottle-fed baby in fluoridated Toronto is getting nearly 200 times the dose of a breast-fed baby. That is not a wise thing to do. More worrying than dental fluorosis is the possibility that swallowing fluoride might be causing less visible harm. For example, there are 25 studies from India, China, Mexico and Iran which have found an association between moderate exposure to fluoride and lowered IQ. Like all the other evidence of harm (see the 507-page review by the US National Research Council on the toxicity of fluoride in water, NRC, 2006) health agencies in Canada are largely ignoring this scientific evidence.
I am afraid that fluoridation is more of a religious crusade than it is a scientific exercise. For those who think I am exaggerating please read a book I co-authored on this subject with two other scientists, “The Case Against Fluoride” ( Chelsea Green, 2010).
Paul Connett, PhD, director of the Fluoride Action Network ,www.FluorideAler.org
82 Judson Street,
Canton, NY 13617
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Sorry I got web address for the Fluoride Action Network wrong it should be http://www.FluorideAlert.org
Paul Connett, PhD
The government only pushes fluoride because it’s a cheap substitute to natural toothpaste. They are paid big time by lobbyists of large companies that use fluoride. The guy who wrote this article has not done any research except for the “research” done by these large corporations that could care less if they poison your body as long as they save a few bucks.