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  • Why is US Failing To Inform Pregnant Women to Limit Fluoride Ingestion

    NEW YORK, July 25, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — A recent government-funded study (Bashash et al. 2017) corroborates hundreds of previously published studies showing fluoride damages the brain. These shocking findings cannot be dismissed as “just one study” because they provide compelling evidence that pregnant women’s fluoride intake is linked to lower IQ in their offspring at […]

  • Fluoride in pregnant women shows water is the primary source

    A new study suggests fluoride levels in the urine of pregnant women are twice as high for those living in Canadian cities which add fluoride to the water. This matter is of concern since a Mexican study found an association between prenatal exposure to fluoride and a lower IQ in children. Some women had twice […]

  • Fluoridation still controversial after 40 years

    GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. — When Dr. Willard VerMeulen came here in 1924, this industrial city was filled with the penniless Dutch immigrants who turned out much of America’s furniture. As a dentist he had expected to see suffering, but even he was shocked by what he found. “Not one person in 10 had a mouth […]

  • Science says fluoride in water is good for kids. So why are these towns banning it?

    In the past five years, 74 cities have voted to remove fluoride from their drinking water, despite thousands of studies showing it prevents cavities. “Anti-fluoridationists” claim, without scientific evidence, that fluoride lowers IQ and causes everything from Alzheimer’s to cancer. Benedetto Cristofani / for NBC News It has been hailed by the Centers for Disease […]

  • Higher Levels of Fluoride Found To Be Linked With ADHD In Children

    There is overwhelming evidence that the prolonged ingestion of fluoride causes significant damage to health and particularly to the nervous system. According to University of Toronto and York University researchers, higher levels of fluoride during pregnancy have now been linked with more ADHD-like symptoms in school-age children. Fluoride can be toxic by ingesting one part […]

  • Maternal fluoride levels in pregnancy are related to cognitive problems of the child

    A woman’s higher fluoride levels during pregnancy are associated with some ADHD symptoms in school-aged children, according to researchers at the University of Toronto, York University and other universities. The study, published in the journal International Environment, analyzed data from 213 mother-child pairs in the city of Mexico. The monitoring started in 1994 and continued […]

  • Fluoride Exposure in Pregnancy Tied to ADHD Symptoms in Kids

    Pregnant women with higher levels of fluoride in their urine may be more likely to have school-age children with certain symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), such as inattentiveness and cognitive problems, according to a new Canadian study led by researchers at the University of Toronto and York University. The findings are published in the journal […]

  • Five More Fluoride-Condemning Studies are Published – When Is It Enough?

    NEW YORK, Oct. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Five new published studies support previous research linking fluoride to thyroid disease; ADHD; overdosing formula-fed infants and bias in government reports. Another reveals pregnant Canadians have higher urine fluoride levels in fluoridated vs. non-fluoridated areas which previous studies linked to offspring’s lower IQ, reports New York State Coalition Opposed […]

  • Canadian studies prompt researcher to voice grave concerns

    Last week three new studies were published on fluoride adding more weight to an already overwhelming body of evidence that fluoridation is not safe. “I have grave concerns about the health effects of fluoride” said Ashley Malin, lead author of the Canadian Fluoride-Thyroid study and a researcher at the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public […]

  • Arsenic and fluoride contamination in water: Loot of exchequer exposed

    GUWAHATI, Oct 14: Arsenic and fluoride contamination in water continues to be a nagging problem in Assam. But then, this problem was the cash cow for those at the helm of affairs in the PHE Department from 2011-16, allegedly making a section of them richer with ill-gotten money. The department had Gautam Roy as its […]