In the 1950s, conspiracy theorists oppose the introduction of fluoride To public water supplies they affirmed that the mineral was a real Communist chemical weapon Created by the Soviets to make American children stupid. Seven decades later, there is great evidence that supports the introduction of low levels of fluoride in public water supplies as an important Public Health Victory That has been great for everyone’s teeth. Unfortunately for the literal health of the Republic, the current Secretary of Human and Health Services is a theorist of the conspiracy he believes Vaccines cause autism And that fluoride reduces the intellectual coefficient of people.
On Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Kennedy Jr. He told Fox News That he really doesn’t care if his Plan delete Nation’s water supplies fluoride causes children and low -income Americans to develop more cavities or other dental ailments.
“It is a problem. It is a balance. You will probably see a little more cavities,” Kennedy acknowledged, claiming that “in Europe, they prohibited fluoride, they did not see an upick in the cavities.”
Fluoride is not prohibited in Europe, although fluoration is not a common practice. A 2018 Report found That the countries that previously had active fluoridation programs arrested them or with public security conerns, but because the eighth fluoride was naturally greed in their water supply, bottled water as products such as aggregate aggregates. Many countries also provide free dental checks and fluoride treatments as part of children’s routine care programs, a proposal that, if they float in the United States, would immediately be canceled as communist trollop.
Some studies have found that if consumed in excess of quantities for a prolonged period of time, fluoride can have negative effects on the body and brain. Typically, the threshold of such effects is several times greater than the Recommended limit In the United States or 0.7 mg per liter or water.
Kennedy on Thursday yielded A meta-reference If the studies issued by the National Toxicity Program earlier this year, that Kennedy said they had found that “there is a direct correlation between the amount of fluoride in their water and its loss of IQ. Therefore, the equally small increases of lost fluoride IQ”.
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“The determination on the lowest IQ in children was based mainly on epidemiology studies in non -American countries such as Canada, China, India, Iran, Pakistan and Mexico, where some pregnant women, babies, high hygdren with total fluoride of drinking water,” says the report. “The US Public Health Service currently recommends 0.7 mg/l, and the World Health Organization has established a safe limit for fluoride in drinking water or 1.5 mg/l”.
Other members of the scientific community Criticized the report As “employee methodological and unjustified statistical errors that invalidate their conclusion and demonstrate that the data cannot be analyzed as the authors affirm,” and recommended that the report be retracted.
Ash Previously reported by Rolling Stone, Eliminating fluoride from public water supplies could expand the health gap among Americans. Almost 70 million adults in the US. They do not have dental insurance and, such as Melissa Burroughs, director of Public Policies of the Carequest Institute for Oral Health, says: “The absence of fluoride in drinking water can lead to higher rates of cavities in severe cavities oral infections.”
If, as Kennedy states, he is committed to “making the United States again healthy,” prohibiting the fluoride of water supplies is a jump and a limit in the wrong direction.
