The original letter is held by Brisbane Anti-Fluoridation Association.
FLUORIDE LINKED TO PRE-TERM BIRTH &
ANEMIA IN PREGNANCY
Study Links Fluoride To Pre-term Birth And Anemia In Pregnancy
Main Category: Pregnancy / Obstetrics
Also Included In: Blood / Hematology; Pediatrics / Children’s Health; Nutrition / Diet
Article Date: 03 Sep 2010 – 2:00 PDT
Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies’ birth-weight, concludes leading fluoride expert, A K Susheela and colleagues, in a study published in Current Science (May 2010).
Susheela’s team explains that anemia in pregnancy, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, continues to plague many countries despite nutritional counseling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation. This is the first examination of fluoride as an additional risk factor for anemia and low-birth-weight babies.
Anemic pregnant women living in India, whose urine contained 1 mg/L fluoride or more, were separated into two groups. The experimental group avoided fluoride in water, food and other sources and ate a nutritious diet per instruction. The control group received no instructions. Both groups supplemented with iron and folic acid.
Results reveal that anemia was reduced and pre-term and low-birth-weight babies were considerably fewer in the fluoride-avoidance group as compared to the control. Two stillbirths occurred in the control group, none in the experimental group.
Susheela et al. writes, “Maternal and child under-nutrition and anemia is not necessarily due to insufficient food intake but because of the derangement of nutrient absorption due to damage caused to GI (gastrointestinal) mucosa by ingestion of undesired chemical substances, viz. fluoride through food, water and other sources.”
Fluoride avoidance regenerated the intestinal lining which enhanced the absorption of nutrients as evidenced by the reduction in urinary fluoride followed by rise in hemoglobin levels, they report.
Could the same thing be happening in the United States? State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the 2009 American Public Health Association’s annual meeting.
Current Science reports that adverse reactions of fluoride consumption are known to occur including reducing red blood cells, reducing blood folic acid activity, inhibiting vitamin B12 production and the non-absorption of nutrients for hemoglobin biosynthesis.
“Citizens must demand that water fluoridation be stopped,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “It’s disturbing that public-health officials and organized dentistry continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence revealing fluoride to be non-nutritive, unnecessary and unsafe,” says Beeber.
Source: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc.
are still claiming after over a half a century of unproven experimentation that it is good for us.
BABIES ARE VULNERABLE INNOCENT VICTIMS
APOLOGIES TO THOSE WHO ALREADY SUBSCRIBE TO FAN (Fluoride Action Network)
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THE FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FAN Bulletin 708: At last ADA gives sound advice!
Nov 10, 2006
Dear All,
In an announcement that should spell trouble for fluoridation, the ADA has advised parents not to make up milk formula with fluoridated water. Their actual words in yesterday’s ADA e-gram (Nov 9, 2006) referring to baby formula were: “If using a product that needs to be reconstituted, parents and caregivers should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride.” Of course, this is very sensible advice – and should have been made years ago – as soon as scientists had found out how low fluoride was in mothers’ breast milk.
According to table 2-6 on page 23 of the NRC (2006) review, the level of fluoride in mothers milk in a non-fluoridated community is 0.004 ppm. This means a baby bottle fed with formula made up with fluoridated tap water (at 1 ppm) will get 250 times more fluoride than a breast fed baby. Unless one is prepared to say (like the Chief Health Officer in Victoria, Australia) that nature screwed up on these matters, it is abundantly clear that a new born baby does not NEED fluoride, and it is quite likely that such levels could be dangerous at these very early days in its life. One of the reasons that Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson gave for opposing fluoridation in Sweden in the 1970’s was his concern with what such excessive levels would do to the baby’s developing brain. The baby’s blood brain barrier is not fully developed at birth.
In yesterday’s announcement, the ADA still sticks to phrases like “exceeding optimal levels” thus blindly ignoring that as far as “optimal levels” are concerned nature has said that there are NONE. Fluoride is not a nutrient period. Even the CDC (1999, 2001) has conceded what most dental researchers have found, namely that whatever slight benefit fluoride might have on teeth is TOPICAL not SYSTEMIC, so it is very hard to see what an “optimal level” means to a newborn baby before its teeth have erupted! Giving tap water to a baby, or to an infant before its teeth have erupted, gives no TOPICAL benefit, only SYSTEMIC risks.
For the ADA the concern is largely focused on the one SYSTEMIC toxic effect that they cannot hide – or deny – dental fluorosis. With 32% of kids in the US now afflicted with this damaged enamel (CDC 2005) – it is abundantly clear that kids are being grossly over-exposed to fluoride in this country (as well as other fluoridated countries like Australia, New Zealand and Ireland). One contributing factor to this is bottle feeding with fluoridated water and correctly the ADA now advises against it.
LEAD POISONING AT MOUNT ISA
AND FLUORIDATION
A new study has suggested one child develops lead poisoning
every nine days in the northwest Queensland mining
city of Mount Isa.
“…There are about 400 children born every year in Mount Isa and about 11 per cent of those children, according to the last blood lead study, have a blood lead level in excess of the current acceptable guideline value…”
The Environmental Protection Agency states on their website that exposure to lead in water that is being consumed above the action level, or 15 parts per Billion, can result in delays in physical and mental development in children, anemia, and muscle problems. In adults, it can cause increases in blood pressure and, eventually with heavy exposure, the development of kidney problems or nerve disorders.
For every 17 micrograms of lead in your body, your IQ is reduced by 10 points!
More: http://www.naturalnews.com/033122_garden_hoses_lead.html#ixzz1TusKP1ey
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Earlier studies show that — controlling for socio-economic and demographic factors — environmental pollution with lead is a highly significant risk factor in predicting higher rates of crime, attention deficit disorder or hyperactivity, and learning disabilities. Exposure and uptake of lead has been associated with industrial pollution, leaded paint and plumbing systems in old housing, lead residues in soil, dietary habits (such as shortages of calcium and iron), and demographic factors (such as poverty, stress, and minority ethnicity). We report here on an additional “risk co-factor” making lead and other toxic metals in the environment more dangerous to local residents: the use of silicofluorides as agents in water treatment. The two chemicals in question — fluosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride — are toxins that, despite claims to the contrary, do not dissociate completely and change water chemistry when used under normal water treatment practices. As a result, water treatment with siliconfluorides apparently functions to increase the cellular uptake of lead. Data from lead screening of over 280,000 children in Massachusetts indicates that silicofluoride usage is associated with significant increases in average lead in children’s blood as well as percentage of children with blood lead in excess of 10μg/dL. Consistent with the hypothesized role of silicofluorides as enhancing uptake of lead whatever the source of exposure, children are especially at risk for higher blood lead in those communities with more old housing or lead in excess of 15 ppb in first draw water samples where silicofluorides are also in use. Preliminary findings from county-level data in Georgia confirm that silicofluoride usage is associated with higher levels of lead in children’s blood. In both Massachusetts and Georgia, moreover, behaviors associated with lead nurotoxicity are more frequent in communities using silicofluorides than in comparable localities that do not use these chemicals. Because there has been insufficient animal or human testing of silicofluoride treated water, further study of the effect of silicofluorides is needed to clarify the extent to which these chemicals are risk co-factors for lead uptake and the hazardous effects it produces.
Keywords: Lead; toxicity; pollution; children’s health; public water supplies
