1st September 2015
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
After decades of toxic fluoride being added to public water supplies without the public’s consent, we now have significant validation that this practice needs to be stopped.
The Cochrane Collaboration (an
international not-for-profit organisation preparing, maintaining and
promoting systematic reviews of the effects of health care) has released
a comprehensive review of the science of fluoridation, with points that
are nearly impossible to dispute. In short, fluoride doesn’t work to prevent cavities and has been proven to cause harm — in the form of dental fluorosis.
Fluorosis – mottled discolorations on
teeth – is not purely aesthetic. It’s a visible sign that you’ve been
exposed to this known developmental neurotoxin at excessive levels.
The Cochrane Collaboration is considered to be the gold standard in evidence-based reviews, and only three
studies conducted since 1975 had enough merit to be included. None
showed that ingesting fluoride prevents cavities while it was clear that
it causes harm (dental fluorosis).
Worse still, even the “best” studies
were not considered to be high quality and nearly all were flawed, for
instance failing to control for other contributing factors, such as
dietary sources of fluoride aside from tap water, diet and ethnicity.
Who Are the Real ‘Conspiracy Theorists’?
Earlier this year, even National
Geographic stooped so low as to suggest anyone who questions water
fluoridation is a conspiracy theorist.1 Yet, just last year Lancet Neurology released a study, authored by a Harvard doctor, among others, that classified fluoride as a developmental neurotoxin.2
The meta-analysis clearly showed that children exposed to fluoride in drinking water had lower IQ, by an average of seven points, in areas with raised concentrations.
And the majority of the studies had fluoride levels of less than four milligrams (mg) per liter, which is under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) allowable level…
Meanwhile, we have visible evidence
(dental fluorosis) that US children are being overexposed to fluoride.
That fluoride doesn’t just stop at the teeth; it’s being taken
internally. It’s no conspiracy theory; it’s a fact that deserves urgent
attention and immediate policy review.
Who are the real denialists about
fluoride? The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and
the American Dental Association (ADA), which continue to tout water
fluoridation as “safe and effective” even as evidence to the contrary
pours in around them.
Eventually, and it appears sooner rather
than later, they are going to have to face the damage they have caused
to so many children by demanding water fluoridation for all – and
continuing to do so rather than admitting their mistake.
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