Issue No.3
WHAT EVERY MOTHER SHOULD KNOW
While dentists and doctors have been trained to accept the idea that fluoride is a safe and effective treatment to prevent tooth decay in children, it is important to note also that there have been and there now are an increasing number of dentists, doctors and scientists who advise caution; many strongly oppose the adding the dangerously toxic chemical fluoride to our water supplies. This practice is known as fluoridation ( adding 1part of fluoride to 1 million parts of water, 1p.p.m.).
The focus here is on the issue of finding what proponents consider to be the “SAFE” DOSAGE OF FLUORIDE when making up baby's formula using fluoridated tap water. Well-meaning advocates of fluoridation admit that it is dangerous to over-dose children on fluoride. Responsible caring parents need to know more precisely how to avoid over-dosing their babies and children should they choose to medicate them with fluoride. THAT is infinitely more important than winning any debate!
In matters of medication we (including our doctors and dentists) all need to rely on the latest information coming from qualified scientific researchers; not on commercial advertisers. Against the push by “Authorities” who claim that fluoridation is “safe and affective” the following sober information calls for caution…..
"Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste," he counseled. "Or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto (Fluoridated) tap water. Never."
- Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D in Biochemistry, D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, a former fluoride advocate and long-standing consultant to Canadian Dental Association
This is what Dr Paul Connett, Professor of Chemistry, St. Lawrence University NY, has to say on the issue of making up baby's milk formula with fluoridated water…
“For me the most telling point in this debate is the level of fluoride in mothers' milk. At 0.008 ppm it is miniscule. If nature intended the new born baby to have fluoride this is where you would expect to find it. It is not there in any significant amount. This also means
that a bottle fed baby gets over 100 times the level that nature intended. We don't always know why nature is right but it usually is. She's been at it far  longer than we have. I am particularly concerned about the impact of fluoride on the baby's developing brain and hormonal systems.”
In 1978, Dr. Arvid Carlsson (Nobel laureate in Medicine in 2000) offered as one of his key reasons for opposing
fluoridation in Sweden, was the concerns he had about the extra exposure to the developing brain
cells of a new born baby bottle fed with formula made up with fluoridated tap water.
Recent research involving fluoride indicates a substantial increase in a rare bone cancer in boys.
Long time researcher Glen Walker (Australian Fluoridation News) echoes the advice coming
from both those promoting fluoride medication and those opposed to it. He writes the following……
“Young children should never use fluoridated toothpaste because they have no control over the amount swallowed. In fact many children eat the stuff because it is enticingly flavoured.
Fluoridated toothpaste can contain up to 1500 p.p.m. of fluoride. There is enough in one tube to kill a child!”
Even the World Health Organisation is now saying that fluoride should be used topically, therefore it does not need to be put into water supplies. They are also very concerned about the effects of overdosing. In other words fluoride need not be swallowed!!
THE VITAL ISSUES ARE; CHOICE & HOW TO PRECICELY AVOID OVERDOSING WITH THE TOXIC CHEMICAL, FLUORIDE.
Issue No.4 - FLUORIDE'S LINK TO BONE DISEASES
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