I love the New York Times but not when they bury their heads in outdated opinion...
In a letter dated 2015 the response to a valid query regarding recent research questioning the validity, efficacy and safety of delivering fluorides via our water supply, the Revered Science Correspondent Donald McNeil Jn. basically admitted that he relied on data published 50 years ago... "I think it's fair that most members of the science staff of the New York Times consider this debate have been decided ... 50 years ago" 50 years ago we were still debating the safety of ci
ADA admits to lack of safety evidence regarding drinking fluoridation chemicals
Several years ago the ADA recommended that the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research "carry out three new studies related to fluoridated water" The three studies main focus? how fluoride metabolism is influenced by demographics, how those with kidney function and/or diabetes are effected by drinking water and total fluoride intake from all sources. Did the NIDCR do any of their own research? A search reveals no studies on the above but it did come up with the
The National Academies of Science Report 2006 labels fluoride as an endocrine disrupter, regardless
The National Academies of Science 2006 Fluoride in Drinking Water published their concerns over 10 years ago, however health officials are still dragging their feet to respond. The "fluoride" used in drinking water contains the element fluorine. Most water supplies use hexafluorosililic acid a waste product from the phosphate industry in a failed attempt to reduce tooth decay in poorer communities. Despite widespread use and 70 years of use, tooth decay is still considered a
Tally Children’s Fluoride Intake Before Starting Fluoridation, Researchers Advise
Often advised but always ignored are dental researchers’ recommendations to tally children’s total fluoride intake before beginning water fluoridation. Zohoori and Maguire are the latest dental researchers to report, “It is important to monitor systemic fluoride intake from foods, drinks and inadvertent toothpaste ingestion in order to minimize the risk of dental fluorosis” (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth) (Caries Research, “Development of a Database of the
US: Richest Nation on Earth. We spend more money per person on health yet we have shorter lives and
For many years, Americans have been dying at younger ages than people in almost all other high-income countries according to the IOM report on the state of US health as compared to other wealthy countries. "This disadvantage has been getting worse for three decades, especially among women. "Not only are their lives shorter, but Americans also have a longstanding pattern of poorer health that is strikingly consistent and pervasive over the life course—at birth, during childhoo
Medicaid Redesign Team Redesigns the Scientific Method
I am outraged that there are people who want to use precious Medicaid funds to fund an unproven, ill advised fluoridation program, that ends up hurting the very people it is supposed to help. According to the National Academies of Science 2006 we should be lowering the maximum safe limit of fluoride due to legitimate concerns around adverse health effects. According to the Cochrane Review, 2015, there is insufficient evidence to show that water fluoride actually reduces tooth
NYC Water with Lead and Arsenic Contaminants
The Certificate of Analysis recently obtained for the fluorosilicic acid used in NYC water has small levels of arsenic and lead. What is confusing is that scientists agree that there is no safe level of arsenic or lead as they are both neurotoxins, chemicals that damage brain cells. Fluoride is also a neurotoxin, so together, it's seems that in NYC water we have a lovely cocktail of brain-cell killing chemicals that taste great. #arsenic #fluoride #leadinwater
Fluoride is a known endocrine disruptor
The National Academies of Science published the results of their review of water fluoridation and they found that fluoride effects the thyroid and possible timing of sexual maturity. #fluoride #endocrine #hypothyroidism
Finally, a long-term study reports a finding that we all knew was true - that despite the use of flu
Bruce Lee Pihlstrom, DDS, MS, discusses the new study, reporting that "no prior prospective study has followed children from early childhood to early adulthood to investigate the role of sugar intake in dental caries. The purpose of this study was to assess whether various amounts of sugar intake affected the occurrence of dental caries from ages 6 through 18 years." With no surprise to us, they found that the more sugar you ingested, the more dental caries or tooth decay you
EDUCATION! Not FLUORIDATION! Water Fluoridation Does Not Work in NYS or in NYC.
NYS Dept of Health publishes the ER visit rates for Tooth Decay for different counties in NYS and in NYC. There is no correlation between fluoridation and reduce ER visits. Water fluoridation does not reduce the costs of tooth decay. The only trend that can be seen from these results is that expensive visits to the ER for tooth decay is on the increase, across all counties, regardless of levels of fluoridation. When are we going to stop this waste of resources? We need Educat
