Fluoride In Water
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2013 5:08 amI know I touched base back in August with fluoride in the United States water supply. That topic is located here.
So, I've been doing research here and there, and I've decided to refresh this black line discussion. My opinion: fluoridated water is not necessary to dental health and causes too many negative effects to the human body when ingested. Crater provided a good (however, possibly inaccurate) timeline for that video on the other topic.
Take a look at this page: http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/ - This gives you 50 reasons as to why you should oppose adding fluoride into the water.
Some quick graphs to point out (on the website) and their meanings:
According to the graph, there is no difference whether a person drinks fluoridated water or not, the tooth decay numbers decrease as the years go forward.
"Modern research shows that decay rates were coming down before fluoridation was introduced in Australia and New Zealand and have
continued to decline even after its benefits would have been maximized."
Applying toothpaste will help to prevent cavities. But ingesting it will not. According to this, it has not been proven that fluoride in water helps prevent tooth decay (not my only source obviously).
Now, what I find most concerning, is that there is evidence that proves ingesting fluoridated water impacts the health of the organs. See Evidence of harm to other tissues area of 50 reasons page.
You only need fluoride within toothpaste. Why do we need to ingest it when it clearly does not help with tooth decay. I'm hoping that this will change some of the minds here.
Like I've said before, Distillation or Reverse Osmosis water filtration systems will remove fluoride from water, in addition to a lot of the other stuff in water supplies (lead, mercury, chlorine, copper, silver, etc.).
So, I've been doing research here and there, and I've decided to refresh this black line discussion. My opinion: fluoridated water is not necessary to dental health and causes too many negative effects to the human body when ingested. Crater provided a good (however, possibly inaccurate) timeline for that video on the other topic.
Take a look at this page: http://www.fluoridealert.org/articles/50-reasons/ - This gives you 50 reasons as to why you should oppose adding fluoride into the water.
Some quick graphs to point out (on the website) and their meanings:
According to the graph, there is no difference whether a person drinks fluoridated water or not, the tooth decay numbers decrease as the years go forward.
"Modern research shows that decay rates were coming down before fluoridation was introduced in Australia and New Zealand and have
continued to decline even after its benefits would have been maximized."
Applying toothpaste will help to prevent cavities. But ingesting it will not. According to this, it has not been proven that fluoride in water helps prevent tooth decay (not my only source obviously).
Now, what I find most concerning, is that there is evidence that proves ingesting fluoridated water impacts the health of the organs. See Evidence of harm to other tissues area of 50 reasons page.
You only need fluoride within toothpaste. Why do we need to ingest it when it clearly does not help with tooth decay. I'm hoping that this will change some of the minds here.
Like I've said before, Distillation or Reverse Osmosis water filtration systems will remove fluoride from water, in addition to a lot of the other stuff in water supplies (lead, mercury, chlorine, copper, silver, etc.).
