Americans are Guinea Pigs in Fluoride Experiments

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New York -- May 2, 2010 -- Sixty-five years ago today, officials added
fluoride chemicals into Newburgh, NY's public water supply making
residents guinea pigs in a failed experiment to discover whether
fluoride could safely reduce tooth decay. It didn't. But political
pressure declared it a success. And now we are all guinea pigs in
this ongoing experiment

Ten years later, 1955, researchers reported that newly fluoridated
Newburgh children had more bone defects, anemia and earlier female
menstruation than never-fluoridated Kingston children, according to
the March 1956 Journal of the American Dental Association. Adults
weren't even examined.

This is the first and only comprehensive U.S. research into
fluoridation's effects to the human body and not just the teeth.

Newburgh's children were given complete physicals and x-rays, over the
course of the study, from birth to age nine in the first year and up
to age eighteen in the final year. “(R)outine laboratory studies were
omitted in the control group during most of the study, they were
included in the final examination,” report Schlesinger and colleagues,
in “Newburgh-Kingston caries-fluorine study XIII. Pediatric findings
after ten years.”

The researchers also report that:

-- “The average age at the menarche was 12 years among the girls
studied in Newburgh and 12 years 5 months among the girls in
Kingston.”

-- Hemoglobin (iron-containing part of a red blood cell): “a few more
children in the range below 12.9 grams per hundred milliliters in
Newburgh”

--- “…a slightly higher proportion of children in Newburgh were found
to have a total erythrocyte (red blood cell) count below 4,400,000 per
milliliter”

-- Knee X-rays of Newburgh children reveals more cortical bone
defects, and irregular mineralization of the thigh bone.

Only twenty-five Newburgh children had eye and ear exams. Two had
apparent hearing loss. Eight had abnormal vision. Even though
researchers discovered more adult cataracts in surveys conducted
before 1944 in communities with naturally high water fluoride
concentrations, Newburg and Kingston adults were never checked for
this defect.

Only two groups of twelve-year-old boys were tested for fluoride’s
toxic kidney effects.

“the University of Rochester conducted its own studies, measuring how
much fluoride Newburgh citizens retained in their blood and tissues.
Health Department personnel cooperated, shipping blood and placenta
samples to the Rochester scientists,” writes Christopher Bryson in
"The Fluoride Deception," Three times as much fluoride was found in
the placentas and blood samples gathered from Newburgh as from non-
fluoridated Rochester, reports Bryson.

Following back the scientific references in all current fluoridation
safety literature will invariably lead back to the Newburgh/Kingston
study which actually failed to prove fluoridation is safe.

After 65 years of fluoridation delivered to 70% of Americans on public
water supplies and virtually all Americans via the food supply, the
U.S. Surgeon General reports, tooth decay is a silent epidemic with
cavity crises occurring in fluoridated cities, states and countries.
See: http://www.FluorideNews.Blogspot.com

What about Newburgh? In 1998, it was reported that children in
Newburgh have more cavities and more fluoride-caused discolored teeth
(dental fluorosis) than children in never-fluoridated Kingston,
according to a New York State Department of Health study.

ALL AMERICANS ARE GUINEA PIGS IN THIS ONGOING EXPERIMENT CALLED
FLUORIDATION

The prestigious National Research Council says major gaps exist in the
fluoride toxicology literature and encourages more fluoride research,
e.g. fluoride's effects to bones, endocrine systems and brain
functions. See below.

It's time to retire fluoridation and take back our health and water
from special interest groups. Tell your legislators and water
companies to stop the unnecessary, health-robbing, money-wasting
addition of fluoride chemicals into your public water supplies,

END

According to the National Research Council's 2006 fluoride report,
"gaps in the information on fluoride prevented the committee from
making some judgments about the safety or the risks of fluoride ..."

Exposure assessment

— Improved assessment of exposure to fluoride from all sources is
needed for a variety of populations (e.g., different socioeconomic
conditions).

To the extent possible, exposures should be characterized for
individuals rather than communities, and epidemiologic studies should
group individuals by exposure level rather than by source of exposure,
location of residence, or fluoride concentration in drinking water.
Intakes or exposuresshould be characterized with and without
normalization for body weight.

Fluoride should be included in nationwide biomonitoring surveys and
nutritional studies; in particular, analysis of fluoride in blood and
urine samples taken in these surveys would be valuable.

• Pharmacokinetic studies

— The concentrations of fluoride in human bone as a function of
exposure concentration, exposure duration, age, sex, and health status
should be studied. Such studies would be greatly aided by noninvasive
means of measuring bone fluoride. Information is particularly needed
on fluoride plasma and bone concentrations in people with small-to-
moderate changes in renal function as well as in those with serious
renal deficiency.

— Improved and readily available pharmacokinetic models should be
developed. Additional cross-species pharmacokinetic comparisons would
help to validate such models.

• Studies of enamel fluorosis

— Additional studies, including longitudinal studies, should be done
in U.S. communities with water fluoride concentrations greater than 1
mg/L.

These studies should focus on moderate and severe enamel fluorosis in
relation to caries and in relation to psychological, behavioral, and
social effects among affected children, their parents, and affected
children after they become adults.

— Methods should be developed and validated to objectively assess
enamel fluorosis. Consideration should be given to distinguishing
between staining or mottling of the anterior teeth and of the
posterior teeth so that aesthetic consequences can be more easily
assessed.

— More research is needed on the relation between fluoride exposure
and dentin fluorosis and delayed tooth eruption patterns.

• Bone studies

— A systematic study of clinical stage II and stage III skeletal
fluorosis should be conducted to clarify the relationship between
fluoride ingestion, fluoride concentration in bone, and clinical
symptoms.

— More studies of communities with drinking water containing fluoride
at 2 mg/L or more are needed to assess potential bone fracture risk at
these higher concentrations. Quantitative measures of fracture, such
as radiologic assessment of vertebral body collapse, should be used
instead of self-reported fractures or hospital records. Moreover, if
possible, bonefluoride concentrations should be measured in long-term
residents.

Other health effects

Carefully conducted studies of exposure to fluoride and emerging
health parameters of interest (e.g., endocrine effects and brain
function) should be performed in populations in the United States
exposed to various concentrations of fluoride. It is important that
exposures be appropriately documented.

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