Is this the end of water fluoridation?

NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 Exposure to fluoride may lower children's intelligence says a study pre-published in Environmental Health Perspectives, a publication of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (online December 17, 2010).

According to Paul Connett, Ph.D., director of the Fluoride Action Network, "This is the 24th study that has found this association, but this study is stronger than the rest because the authors have controlled for key confounding variables and in addition to correlating lowered IQ with levels of fluoride in the water, the authors found a correlation between lowered IQ and fluoride levels in children's blood. This brings us closer to a cause and effect relationship between fluoride exposure and brain damage in children."

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24 human and animal tests have now confirmed this. How can Health Canada fight this anymore? Most of these studies show a lowering in IQ's when the fluoride levels are much higher then what we currently have in our water. So according to Health Canada, the amounts of fluoride in our water are safe, and will not cause these effects.

But at the same time, Health Canada says that they do not know how much fluoride Canadians are ingesting. Because of the many ways the public is exposed to the substance. There is fluoride in most bottled drinks, preserved and processed foods, Teflon cooking pans and many more other sources.

So we are being exposed to this hazardous waste not only in the water at so called "safe" limits, but from a variety of other sources, and there is no way to tell how much each individual is consuming. That makes it next to impossible for any municipality or Health Canada to verify that Canadians are not being over exposed to fluoride. Nor can they verify that fluoride is having no negative side effects on us or our children.

Even with the levels of fluoride in the water, every one consumes different amounts on a daily basis. Think if some one is working out or physically training everyday. How much more water are they drinking compared to some one who is not.

I sincerely hope that this is another nail in the coffin for water fluoridation! And we can make it that. If you live in a fluoridated city, please send this story, the rest of the stories on this site, and many more from fluoridealert.org to your city councilors and mayor. Give it to your doctor and your dentist as well.

Together we can be the change we wish to see in the world!