New science indicating fluoride’s dangers to the brain
and other organs will be presented by prominent fluoride research
scientists during back-to-back conferences of  the International
Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and the Fluoride Action Network
(FAN) in Toronto August  7-11, 2008.

                Fluoride, added to water supplies to prevent tooth
decay, is also in virtually all non-organic foods and   beverages.
Fluoride's brain effects were never examined prior  to water
fluoridation.

                Recently, because of health concerns, Health Canada
recommended that fluoride levels be lowered in Canadian  water
supplies (0.7 mg/L) , children's toothpaste and infant formula but
claims that “the weight of evidence does not support a link between
fluoride and intelligence quotient deficit.”

                “It is hard to believe that any "weight of evidence"
analysis could possibly dismiss fluoride's neurological impacts. There
have now been  over 40 animal studies which show that fluoride can
damage the brain, and no less than 18 studies which show that fluoride
lowers IQ in  children, and only 2 that don't. I look forward to
reading the full report when it is made available,” says Paul Connett,
PhD, FAN  Executive Director.

                 According to ISFR conference organizer, Dr. Hardy
Limeback, “Our conference features experts who researched the dangers
that fluoride poses to human health. Our keynote speaker, Dr. A.K.
Susheela, (Executive Director, Fluorosis Research and Rural
Development Foundation, India) probably knows more about fluoride's
toxic effects to the body than any other living scientist. It is
important that officials who promote water fluoridation hear what she
and others have to say," says Limeback.

                 Susheela can also explain to  Medical Doctors, often
untrained in fluoride toxicology, how to diagnose, treat and reverse
early symptoms of fluoride toxicity which mimic arthritis and
irritable bowel syndrome.

                 The latest issue of ISFR’s journal, Fluoride,
published 12 newly-translated Chinese studies, which report fluoride’s
effects on the brain, including the lowering of IQ in children. These
and other brain studies will be reviewed at both conferences.

                  Coupled with these conferences, the Toronto-based
Citizens for a Safe Environment (CSE) will host two public meetings
with FAN in downtown Toronto on Monday August 11.

                   According to CSE director Karen Buck, “These
meetings will give the public information they don’t get from our
government or dental organizations. In the afternoon, a panel will
address the question of whether Toronto should stop fluoridating its
water. In the evening experts will explain fluoride’s dangers to
health.”

                   After receiving an invitation to attend these
meetings, the  Ontario Dental Association sent out a news release
urging legislators and communities to stand up in support of
fluoridation; but they won't do so, themselves.

                "The best way that the ODA can get communities and
politicians to stand up for water fluoridation is to provide,  in
person, a cogent and scientifically-referenced defense of fluoridation
at the afternoon forum,"  says CSE President Karen
Buck.

                At all three events, Dr. Vyvyan Howard, an infant and
fetal pathologist, and president of the International Society of
Doctors for the Environment, will be presenting a major review of
studies on fluoride’s brain effects,  including the translated Chinese
studies.

                "The best way to lower children’s fluoride intake, as
Health Canada suggests, is to stop fluoridation," says  Connett. "It
makes no sense to prescribe fluoride drugs to children via the water
supply at levels which are between 150 and 250 times higher than the
level in mothers’ milk.”

For details on both conferences go to http://www.FluorideAlert.org

For the CSE/FAN public events go to http://fluoridealert.org/august.11.html

SOURCE:   Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net