There are places in India where the groundwater is naturally over-fluoridated, with pretty horrific consequences for children due to skeletal fluorosis.

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Gotta love it, no redress possible at all, whether the EPA or NAS ever know what they're talking about.

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must...not...mention...dr. strangelove...

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The report you are referring to tells us that anyone consuming 8 milligrams of fluoride a day risks bone fractures and stage II skeletal fluorosis (joint pain, bone loss) Their focus is on the maximum contaminant level of fluoride allowed in water. Assuming adults drink two liters of water fluoridated to 4 mg/L, that poses adverse health effects. In children, it recreates severe dental fluorosis - which can actually make teeth fall apart. So the committee decided that 4 mg/L maximum contaminant level of fluoride must be lowered - but didn't tell us to what.

The report tells us that some adults who drink more water than the average person consume over 8 milligrams even when their water supplies are optimally or purposely fluoridated at about 1 mg/L.

The report tells us babies exceed the adequate intake of fluoride just from drinking "optimally" fluoridated water.

Actually what the report is telling us and the committee members are afraid to say out loug is that the fluoride added to water supplies on purpose is hurting subsets of the population which have thyroid or kidney disease, are diabetics, high water drinkers and more.

It also found the studies linking fluoride to cancer and IQ deficits plausible; but want to use the American public as guinea pigs to do more study.

After 60 years of water fluoridation, tooth decay is a growing epidemic and at crisis levels in most of our major U.S. Cites.

Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth.

Fluoride is not required for cavity-free teeth, not required to purify the water but when consumed in excess causes a host of diseases.

Water is optimally fluoridated at about 0.7 - 1.2 mg/L. The NRC says fluoride is a contaminant at levels above 1.3 mg/L. Not too much of a leeway there.



It's a no-brainer, demand that the stuff be removed from all of the nation's water supply. In most places it just means turning off the spigot and saving tax dollars and improving water quality.

Even if you don't drink tap water, you still consume lots of fluoride. The report tells us that fluoride is in food, beverages (yes, even beer and wine), pharmaceuticals, pesticide residues, air emissions, cigarette smoke, as well as in dental products.

So how much fluoride did you ingest today. Was it high enough to mess up your bones and teeth?

New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

Fluoridation News Releases
http://tinyurl.com/6kqtu


Fluoride Action Network
http://www.FluorideAction.Net

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Worcester, Ma where I live has been fighting fluoridation for years. We still do not add fluoride to the water.

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