centurys of leading scientists and ...

centurys of leading scientists and public health activists issued an international joint statement in succession September 2, 2003, urging an conclusion to what they call a cover-up of the public health risks pos from decades of adding fluoride to public drinking water.

Water fluoridation was introduced in the 1950 in an attempt to shape dental cavities. However, that was before the advent of fluoride toothpaste, and many studies now point to long-term hearth worries, including arthritis, hip fracture and accumulation in file pineal gland-side tenors that are not offset according to dental benefits.

Today, about 60 percent of Americans drink fluoridated water.

Swedish Nobel Laureate Arvid Carlsson, PhD added his name to a list of signatures of throughout 330 prominent researchers, including 80 PhD and 20 MD from 37 countries.

"Fluoride in tap water--used for mixing baby formula--is 100 times higher than in mothers' milk," said Carlsson. "I'm worried what this will do to file babies' developing brain cells"

In a September 2003 article in Australasian Science, Australia's Mark Diesendorf, PhD wrote that, "Instead of make open scientific forums, promoters are trying to maintain fluoridation by means of political power."

Hardy Limeback, PhD head of preventive dentistry at the University of Toronto and former president of the Canadian Association of Dental Research, forceed that fluoride's effect is strictly from direct contact with the tooth's exterior.

"The majority of dental researchers now believe there's little benefit in actually swallowing fluoride," said Limeback.

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