Fluoride Free New Zealand and New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science take legal action against Hastings District Council over Fluoridation.
The O’Brien Institute for Public Health at Calgary University has just released their report
on fluoridation. This institute has, up to now, been staunchly in
favour of fluoridation. However, yesterday, with regards to fluoride’s
effect on the brain, they say “The new emerging studies in this domain
need to be tracked very closely, and carefully evaluated as they appear.
We expect that health agencies at local, national, and international
levels will confer and compare notes as they iteratively review, and
re-review, this evidence”.
It certainly sounds like alarm bells have been ringing at the O’Brien Institute and a far cry from “the science is settled”.
Their report covers the major research that has been undertaken in this
area which is showing fluoride exposure linked to cognitive impairment.
“Of great relevance to the evolving evidence in this domain, another
MIREC [Maternal-Infant Research on Environmental Studies] study focusing
on cognition also examined the association between fluoride exposure
and childhood IQ”. This study was carried out in fluoridated Canada and
links increased fluoride exposure during pregnancy to lowered IQ in
their offspring.
In other words, the O’Brien Institute is telling us that there is a
Canadian study in the works that has essentially reproduced the Bashash study
findings from 2017: the more fluoride a pregnant woman is exposed to
the lower the IQ of her baby. This must be the torpedo that sinks this
battleship.
It is hard to imagine a parent that would willingly sacrifice some of
their child’s IQ for the possibility of saving a filling or two over a
lifetime. Brain function affects every part of our lives. Obviously, our
work opportunities and income, but also our relationships and our
ability to look after ourselves. The cost to society is also huge. A
drop of 5 IQ points across the population, halves the number of geniuses
and increases by 50% the number of mentally impaired.
Our health authorities have to accept that there is now science that
tells us that fluoride is harming children’s brains and they have to put
that above any possible reduction in dental decay and above the
embarrassment of admitting they were wrong. They must act to protect the
children.
Most of the world does not fluoridate their water supply, including
Japan and 98% of Europe. Dental decay rates in these countries is just
as good, if not better, than the rates in New Zealand. Countries such as
Scotland, are implementing dental health programmes that primarily
involve school tooth brushing schemes
that have seen a huge reduction in dental decay rates, and a halving of
the number of general anaesthetics for severe decay. Apart from the
reduced suffering, this is saving millions of pounds every year. A
school tooth brushing scheme in Kaitaia has found the same astonishing
results. There is no need to force harmful fluoridation chemicals on the
entire population.
Currently, 22 councils out of 67 have any fluoridation amounting to around 50% of the population. There is a Bill in Parliament
awaiting Second Reading, that aims to shift decision making to the
district health boards. This would effectively make fluoridation
mandatory as the DHBs are required to carry out MoH policy and the
councils would be required to do what the DHB dictates.
It is time to kick not only the Mandatory Fluoridation Bill down the
road, but fluoridation itself. The science is clear – fluoride is
neurotoxic and should not be added to our water.
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