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Lies, damned lies and fluoridation : Comments
By David McRae, published 8/3/2005David McRae argues that the public has been misinformed over the benefits and risks of fluoridation.
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Besides, Dizzy's claim about calcium uptake is at direct odds with the UK Environment Agency (sorry another organisation missing the bleeding obvious) which states " The fluoride ion itself is highly toxic to living organisms. It binds strongly with calcium and magnesium and prevents these essential nutrient elements from carrying out their biochemical functions. This is the basis of the toxicity of inorganic fluorides".
Worse still, the noted Indian academic and expert on fluorosis Dr Susheela has demonstrated that fluoride replaces calcium in teeth and presented this evidence to the UK parliament. Maybe here again one of the world's leading experts in fluorosis must be missing the bleeding obvious.
What has always been obvious to those who look at the policy from a rsponsible public health perspective, is that once fluoride or anything else is added to the food chain -- yes water is a food -- the dosage can not be controlled. This was the reason why France rejected fluoridation as a public health measure in the early 1990s.