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C. Cooper et al showed a statistically significant
increase of hip fracture incidence in England relative to fluoride content of
drinking water ranging from 0 to 1 mg/L [ppm].
Conclusion:
All studies of fracture rates relative to long term fluoridation exposure
indicate a significant increase in fracture risk from fluoridation.
The increased fracture risk due to fluoridation appears to range from 40-100%,
depending on the age of the subjects studied.
For women in their seventh decade who have been exposed to life-long
fluoridation, the risk of hip fracture is approximately doubled. The risk
increases with increasing fluoride concentration at all levels over 0.11 ppm.
Increased bone and connective tissue injuries of US youngsters, reported to be
rising sharply, should alert us to the probability that our high fluoride
environment is adversely affecting our youngsters as well as our elderly.
Typical News Releases are as follows. NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE EXISTS TO DOCUMENT
THESE FALSE CLAIMS!
ATLANTA (AP) - Adding fluoride to the water supply
led to a sharp decline in cavities in children in the second half of the 20th
century, making it one of the century's most significant advances in public
health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. At the
beginning of the century, nearly everyone in every age group in the U.S. had
some sort of tooth decay. The most common treatment was to simply remove the
teeth. In fact, tooth decay was so rampant that the leading cause for rejection
from the military during both world wars was a shortage of teeth, the CDC said
in its latest report on the century's health advances. Adding fluoride to public
water supplies resulted in a 40% to 70% decline in cavities among children
during the second half of the century.
DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS TIDBIT CAME FROM - SOME
REFERENCE MATERIAL LISTED BELOW:
"...1990 the Chief Toxicologist of the Office of
Drinking Water, whose name is Dr. William Marcus, came out and claimed that the
results from the US Public Health Service clearly showed that fluoride caused
cancer."
"... Fluoride has an adverse effect on cells which
elaborate a protein called collagen or their type. For example, the
discoloration in teeth we see as a result of fluoride at 1 ppm in the drinking
water is due to its interference with the proper extrusion of collagen-like
proteins in the enamel part of the teeth, which results in over-calcification of
some parts of the tooth and under-calcification of other parts.
"We get the -same- thing in bone, which leads to
over-calcified brittle bone in some parts, in other parts totally un-calcified
bone. And ligaments and tendons (again made of collagen synthesized by
fibroblasts) which should not be calcified at all, become calcified, leading to
problems with ligaments and tendons -- and, in addition to that, even
[fluoride-affected] protein collagen that is not calcified, since it does not
appear to be normal to the body, elicits an immune response causing auto-immune
reactions, which in turn lead to rheumatoid arthritis -- this, in addition to
the osteoarthritis caused when ligaments and tendons become calcified."
"On an entirely separate issue, fluoride used to
be used at the turn of the century to depress thyroid activity; and those who
now live in fluoridated areas will suffer from Chronic Fatigue, which by the way
is listed in the PDR as one side effect of those people drinking the amount of
fluoride found in a quart of fluoridated water."
Shern et al. Enamel biopsy results of children
receiving fluoride tablets. J Am Dent Assoc; 95:310-14, Aug 1977.
Dental enamel fluoride concentrations of
un-fluoridated children; those receiving fluoride supplements show no
difference.
Waitrowski et al. Dietary fluoride intake of
infants. Pediatrics; 55:517, 1975. Placental transfer fluoridates newborn,
reduces available fluoride binding sites.
Colquhoun J. Fluorides and the decline in tooth
decay in New Zealand. Fluoride; 26:125-134, 1993. Decline in tooth decay
commenced before and independently of fluoridation or other uses of fluoride.
DePaola PF et al. Changes in caries prevalence of
Massachusetts children over thirty years. J Dental Res; 60:360, 1981. Reports a
decline in caries prevalence of 40-50%, both in fluoridated and in
un-fluoridated communities.
Douglas et al. Impact of water fluoridation on
dental practice and dental manpower. J Am Dent Assoc; 84:355-67, 1972. When
naturally fluoridated and un-fluoridated communities are compared, the cost and
nature of dental care are not significantly different; in fact, dentists' income
in fluoridated communities is higher. |
