Thursday, June 24, 2010

drink your fluoride, america!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Blinded-by-tradition-and-fluoride-in-water/articleshow/6069488.cms

funny how people associate speaking ill of fluoride with a tinfoil hat. How many facts and studies does one need to wake up? I guess TV has rotted our brains. I dont watch tv, I am like plato coming back from the cave to give you enlightenment, yeppy, thats me.


Against specialist advice, India's Ministry of Health has decided not to make toothpaste manufacturers print a health warning, aimed at children, on each tube. The country's Drugs Technical Advisory Board recommended that tubes of toothpaste should carry the message 'Caution: children below seven years should not be allowed to use fluoride toothpaste'. But dentists lobbied against the recommendation, arguing that fluoride prevents tooth decay.
Thirteen of India's 32 states and territories have naturally high levels of fluoride in their water. An estimated 25 million people suffer from fluorosis - chronic fluoride poisoning which leads to deformities of bones and mottling of teeth. The National Technology Mission on Safe Drinking Water has already started large-scale programmes of defluoridation. But the mission also identified toothpaste as an extra, unnecessary source of fluoride.
India's soil is rich in minerals that contain fluoride. The fluoride washes into the water supply, which provides not only ...




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