A professional water newsletter alerts to a pre-study linking Exposure to fluoride to lower children's intelligence. This may be very important.
"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."
"What is also striking is that the levels of the fluoride in the community where the lowered IQs were recorded were lower than the EPA's so-called 'safe' drinking water standard for fluoride of 4 ppm and far too close for comfort to the levels used in artificial fluoridation programs (0.7 – 1.2 ppm)," says Connett.
About 28% of the children in the low-fluoride area scored as bright, normal or higher intelligence compared to only 8% in the "high" fluoride area. In the high-fluoride city, 15% had scores indicating mental retardation and only 6% in the low-fluoride city.
6 comments:
The fluoridation in the water where I was grew up, Saskwatchewan, Canada, was so strong that my teeth developed a yellow tinge of hardness.
When we moved my mother made us take fluoride pills every morning.
Her teeth had been so hopelessly soft as a young woman that she had dentures in her 20s.
Anyways, my brothers and I were always classified in the "bright" category. What could have been?
Russ
I am not sure that yellow teeth are a consequence of fluoridated water.
Regarding "brightness" and "IQ", they are always referred to the average. If everybody is affected, relative "brightness" is maintained.
The fact you are curious and react fast to blog entries means that you are not retarded. On the contrary! Dont worry!
Russ: I hope you sense my irony.
Russ: I hope you sense my irony.
The #'s in the study were far too low for statistical significance. Also high end of the fluoride levels in the "high" intelligence area (.76 ppm) were as high as the low end of the recommended level of water fluoridation (.7 ppm).
My children had a similar experience to Russ - although my wife and I have a mouthful of cavities, my children received fluoride treatments (applied directly to the teeth - the local water is not fluoridated) and neither one of them have ever had a cavity. Nor are they lacking in the brains dept.
K
Fortunately, in my infancy fluoridation was unknown in the Hungarian countryside. We drew water from a well.
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