Fluoridated Water 'Causes Cancer', Damages Children's Bones - Study

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Fluoridated Water 'Causes Cancer',

Damages Children's Bones - Study

 

 

MORE DAMNING FLUORIDE DATA

 

Fluoridated Water 'Causes Cancer'

 

Fluoride Damages Children's Bones - Study

 

The increased cancer risks, identified in a newly available study

conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health, were found at

fluoride exposure levels common in both the US and Britain. It was the

first examination of the link between exposure to the chemical at the

critical period of a child's development and the age of onset of bone

cancer.

 

 

Fluoridated Water

'Causes Cancer'

 

Boys At Risk From Bone Tumors,

Shock Research Reveals

 

By Bob Woffinden

The Observer - UK

6-12-5

 

 

 

Fluoride in tap water can cause bone cancer in boys, a disturbing new

study indicates, although there is no evidence of a link for girls.

New American research suggests that boys exposed to fluoride between

the ages of five and 10 will suffer an increased rate of osteosarcoma

- bone cancer - between the ages of 10 and 19.

In the UK, fluoride is added to tap water on the advice of bodies such

as the British Dental Association. The Department of Health maintains

that it is a cost-effective public health measure that helps prevent

tooth decay in children.

About 10 per cent of the population, six million people, receive

fluoridated water, mainly in the Midlands and north-east, and the

government plans to extend this, with Manchester expected to be next.

About 170 million Americans live in areas with fluoridated water.

The increased cancer risks, identified in a newly available study

conducted at the Harvard School of Dental Health, were found at

fluoride exposure levels common in both the US and Britain. It was the

first examination of the link between exposure to the chemical at the

critical period of a child's development and the age of onset of bone

cancer.

Although osteosarcoma is rare, accounting for only about 3 per cent of

childhood cancers, it is especially dangerous. The mortality rate in

the first five years is about 50 per cent, and nearly all survivors

have limbs amputated, usually legs.

 

 

 

The research has been made available by the Environmental Working

Group (EWG), a respected Washington-based research organisation. The

group reports that it has assembled a 'strong body of peer-reviewed

evidence' and has asked that fluoride in tap water be added to the US

government's classified list of substances known or anticipated to

cause cancer in humans.

'This is a very specific cancer in a defined population of children,'

said Richard Wiles, the group's co-founder. 'When you focus in and

look for the incidence of tumours, you see the increase.

 

 

 

'We recognise the potential benefits of fluoride to dental health,'

added Wiles, 'but I've spent 20 years in public health, trying to

protect kids from toxic exposure. Even with DDT, you don't have the

consistently strong data that the compound can cause cancer as you now

have with fluoride.'

Half of all fluoride ingested is stored in the body, accumulating in

calcifying tissue such as teeth and bones and in the pineal gland in

the brain, although more than 90 per cent is taken into the bones.

 

 

 

MPs who have recently voted against fluoridation proposals in

Parliament include Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, and Michael

Howard, the Conservative leader.

Anti-fluoride campaigners argue that the whole issue has become highly

politically sensitive. If health scares about fluoride were to be

recognised in the courts, the litigation, especially in the US, could

be expected to run for decades. Consequently, scientists have been

inhibited from publicising any adverse findings.

 

 

 

The new evidence only emerged by a circuitous process. It was

contained in a Harvard dissertation by Dr Elise Bassin at the Harvard

School of Dental Medicine. The dissertation, completed in April 2001,

obviously had merit because Bassin was awarded her doctorate.

However it has not been published. Environmental organisations were

repeatedly denied access to it, and even bodies such as the US

National Academy of Sciences could not get hold of a copy. Eventually

two researchers from the Fluoride Action Network were allowed to read

it in the rare books and special collections room at Harvard medical

library.

 

 

 

Bassin told The Observer her work was still going through the

peer-review process, and she hopes that it will then be published.

 

More- http://rense.com/general66/fluo.htm

 

 

 

Fluoride Damages

Children's Bones - Study

NYS Coalition Opposed To Fluoridation

http://rense.com/general65/bones.htm

 

6-7-5

 

 

NEW YORK (PRNewswire) -- White-spotted or yellow splotched teeth may

reveal more than needed expensive cosmetic dentistry.

Children with fluoride-discolored teeth (dental fluorosis) are more

likely to have bone damage, according to a study published in the

journal " Fluoride. "

 

 

 

Despite living in a low-water-fluoride district, 132 Tibetan children,

aged 8 to 13-years-old, developed dental fluorosis from dietary

fluoride sources such as brick tea, a popular Asian drink, fed to

children as young as two years old. (1)

Wrist x-rays reveal that 96% of those children with dental fluorosis

had " developmental skeletal abnormalities " including carpal bone

hardening or thickening.

 

 

 

" Therefore, dental fluorosis in children should be viewed as more than

a matter of cosmetic concern, since it can also be a sign of

early-stage skeletal fluorosis that might lead to full-scale

debilitating skeletal fluorosis in adulthood, " write researchers Cao

and colleagues.

Skeletal fluorosis with pain, stiffness and/or deforming bone defects,

is common in Nalgonda, India (See: http://www.nalgonda.org/flourosis.php )

 

 

 

To avoid skeletal fluorosis in the U.S., the maximum-contaminant-level

of fluoride allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection

Agency is 4 parts per million (4 milligrams per liter).

But, some people exceed 4 milligrams daily from their diet, alone (2).

Up to 63% of children living in optimally fluoridated areas (0.7 - 1.2

ppm) have dental fluorosis (3). More studies show a link between

dental fluorosis and bone damage.

 

 

 

A British Medical Journal study reports that older white women from

fluoridated communities have a 32% higher rate of wrist fracture. (4)

A Mexican study links dental fluorosis to bone fractures. (5)

Polish pediatricians found abnormal bone changes in 11 to 15 year-olds

exhibiting dental fluorosis. (5a)

A Rheumatology International study links naturally fluoridated water

to knee osteoarthritis in amounts many Americans consume daily. (6)

 

 

 

Early fluorosis warning signs include joint pain, stomach pain,

excessive thirst and urination, muscle weakness, and/or anemia,

especially if accompanied by discoloration in the patient's front row

of teeth, according to Dr. A.K. Susheela, Director of India's

Fluorosis Research and Rural Development Foundation. (7)

 

 

 

A U.S. woman's spine pain alleviated when she avoided fluoride.(8)

" Americans are unaware that their arthritis or irritable bowel

syndrome could be fluoride-related, " says attorney Paul Beeber,

President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.

Additional bone/fluoride research can be found here:

http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/bone/index.html

References: http://rense.com/general65/bones.htm