Full Thanks & Credit goes to Dr Paul Connett, PhD, who so graciously shared his years of research with us.
In Europe, only Ireland (73%), Poland (1%), Serbia (3%), Spain (11%), and the U.K. (11%) fluoridate any of their water. Most developed countries, including Japan and 97% of the western European population, do not consume fluoridated water. In September 2001 the Department of Health legislated regulations in respect of fluoridation of potable water in South Africa. This equates to approximately over 56 million people drinking artificially fluoridated water in South Africa.
Fluoride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies fluoride as a drug when used to prevent or mitigate disease (FDA 2000). Kennedy Jnr is trying to educate people and change the laws around fluoridating water in USA.
As a matter of basic logic, adding fluoride to water for the sole purpose of preventing tooth decay (a non-waterborne disease) is a form of medical treatment.
All other water treatment chemicals are added to improve the water’s quality or safety, which fluoride does not do.
If Fluoride is classified as a drug then administration ethically requires : Informed consent
Informed consent should be standard practice for all medication, and one of the key reasons why most of Western Europe has ruled against fluoridation.
The fluoride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability.
The dose cannot be controlled.
Once fluoride is put in the water it is impossible to control who drinks it or the dose each individual receives because people drink different amounts of water. Being able to control the dose of any substance, let alone a drug, a patient receives is critical.
In a review of the literature commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), fluoride has been listed among about 100 chemicals for which there is “substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Animal experiments show that fluoride accumulates in the brain and alters mental behavior in a manner consistent with a neurotoxic agent which impacts learning and behaviour (Mullenix 1995).
The highest doses of fluoride are going to bottle-fed babies.
Because of their sole reliance on liquids for their food intake, infants consuming formula made with fluoridated water have the highest exposure to fluoride, by bodyweight, in the population. The natural fluoride level in mothers’ milk is very low. (0.004 ppm, NRC, 2006). But, a bottle-fed baby using/consuming fluoridated water (0.6 – 1.2 ppm) to mix the formula into, can get up to 300 times more fluoride than a breast-fed baby.
Fluoride is not an essential nutrient.
No disease, not even tooth decay, is caused by a “fluoride deficiency.” Not a single biological process has been shown to require fluoride. On the contrary there is extensive evidence that fluoride can interfere with many important biological processes.
But what about the argument that it decreases tooth decay?
The largest survey ever conducted in the US (over 39,000 children from 84 communities) by the National Institute of Dental Research showed little difference in tooth decay among children in fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities (Hileman 1989).
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