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Is Fluoride in Water Actually Dangerous?
Food & Wine ^ | April 23, 2025 | Lauren Manaker MS, RDN, LD, CLEC

Posted on 04/23/2025 1:07:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: the OlLine Rebel

How many Covid jabs did you get?


21 posted on 04/23/2025 1:26:34 PM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I think what you are getting at is that Republicans used to trust big corporations and Democrats were more likely to be skeptical of them. Now it has reversed, and many on the right side no longer trust big business. That may or may not be valid, but there you are.


22 posted on 04/23/2025 1:26:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

mRNA shots were also supposed to be safe and effective…


23 posted on 04/23/2025 1:27:44 PM PDT by delta7
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To: MayflowerMadam

Okay, I will look it up. I had just not heard him mention it before. The funny thing is, I had always heard that the anti-fluoride movement came from the right.


24 posted on 04/23/2025 1:28:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: DugwayDuke

Is that the only issue?


25 posted on 04/23/2025 1:28:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
"Is fluoride in water actually dangerous."

I'm reading this without my glasses, and I assume that Florida water is only dangerous when there are alligators nearby.
26 posted on 04/23/2025 1:29:42 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: nickcarraway

I’ve heard from dentists that it is not useful to the teeth after childhood and is demonstrably harmful to adults in studies.


27 posted on 04/23/2025 1:30:12 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (tried to invade )
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To: DugwayDuke

What about about processed and highly-processed foods? Even though we have many, many studies showing the how these foods impact of these on health, so you think people who want to limit the amount of processed foods they eat are evil or kooks?


28 posted on 04/23/2025 1:31:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

If anything, flouride should only be applied topically to the teeth.


29 posted on 04/23/2025 1:32:28 PM PDT by old-ager
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To: 9YearLurker

Had it all my life. 141.


30 posted on 04/23/2025 1:36:02 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

What could have been...


31 posted on 04/23/2025 1:37:31 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Well its not dangerous to us because we filter it out through our Berkey waterfilter.


32 posted on 04/23/2025 1:37:56 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: nickcarraway

They never defend “Big Corp” (well, except Pharm when they wanted the shots).

Things are very complex and yet simple, in an “open” society. Of course US goes for the cheapest. It’s not nefarious, it’s just making things more accessible for the most people - and then that gets pissed on by everyone as also being evil.

Tired of the communist arguments.

In truth, we are fascist - so many rules mandated on everyone, including “evil corp” that force some of these things. Sugar subsidies e.g. Dems largely make rules on everything even ordinary people do, and that is the definition of fascist. They do it because they don’t have full communist control yet.

So, the answer to your question is that something, somewhere, and likely a whole bunch of rules, made those corps survive by resorting to using things you think are bad (even if that’s not true). We are not as free as we should be. If we were, maybe things would be more to your liking.


33 posted on 04/23/2025 1:41:18 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Fluoride 1996 Nov 29(4): 190-192

Effect of a High Fluoride Water Supply on Children’s Intelligence

Zhao LB, Liang GH, Zhang DN, Wu XR

Lu-Liang Public Health Bureau, Shanxi 033000, China.

In Shanxi Province, China, children living in the endemic fluoride village of Sima (water supply F = 4.12 mg/L) located near Xiaoyi City had average IQ (97.69) significantly lower (p < 0.02) than children living to the north in the nonendemic village of Xinghua (F = 0.91 mg/L; average IQ = 105.21). These differences were not associated with gender, but the IQ scores were directly related to educational level of the parents.

Fluoride 2003; 36(2): 84-94

Effect of fluoride in drinking water on children’s intelligence.

Q Xiang (a), Y Liang (a), L Chen (b), C Wang (b), B Chen (a), X Chen (b), M Zhou (c)

(a) Department of Occupational Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University (Formerly Shanghai Medical University), Shanghai, 200032, China.
(b) Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Province, China.
(c) Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, China.

SUMMARY: The Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was measured in 512 children, aged 8-13 years, sliving in two villages in Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, China, differing in the level of fluoride in their drinking water. In the high-fluoride village of Wamiao (water-fluoride: 2.47+0.79 mg/L; range: 0.57-4.50 mg/L), the mean IQ of 222 children was significantly lower (92.02=13.00; range: 54-126) than in the low-fluoride village of Xinhuai (water fluoride: 0.36+0.15 mg/L; range: 0.18-0.76 mg/L), where the mean IQ of 290 children was higher (100.41+13.21; range 60-128). The children’s IQs were not related to urinary iodine, family income, or parent’s education level. Higher drinking water fluoride levels were significantly associated with higher rates of mental retardation (IQ <70) and borderline intelligence (IQ 70-79). The Benchmark Concentration (BMC) for the concentration-response relationship between IQ confidence limit (BMCL) of the BMC was 1.85 mg/L. Taking dental fluorosis and other sources of dietary fluoride into account, the reference value concentration (RfC) for fluoride was calculated to be 0.925 mg/L, which is very close to the current national Chinese standard of <1.0 mg/L. In endemic fluorosis areas, drinking water fluoride levels greater than 1.0 mg/L may adversely affect the development of children’s intelligence.


34 posted on 04/23/2025 1:41:31 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: JonPreston

These are the same kind of ‘scientiests’ who said if you got the shot you wouldn’t get COVID

Liberal liars.


35 posted on 04/23/2025 1:43:15 PM PDT by GOPJ (If 11 million illegals must have 'due process' to be deported - it'll bankrupt our court system.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Why is communist to be a patriot?


36 posted on 04/23/2025 1:45:48 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I chew on xylitol gum. the xylitol protects my teeth from tooth decay and even improves the teeth a bit.

xylitol is the active ingredient in birch bark that indians chewed on back in the great bye and bye.


37 posted on 04/23/2025 1:46:15 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: DugwayDuke

Yes I don’t like the rushed COVID vaccines (pushed by a certain someone). Biology should not be rushed, so I don’t trust them. 2nd, COVID was not proven to be a huge killer, so the importance was dubious anyway. Everyone acted so stupidly and tyrannically in those years, without any thoughtfulness, so it really should not have been activated in that insane environment anyway.


38 posted on 04/23/2025 1:46:55 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: GOPJ

💯


39 posted on 04/23/2025 1:49:01 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: nickcarraway

What does fluoride have to do with patriotism?

The communism is the hand-wring accusatory arguments against “evil corporations”. It happens, but it’s because they are people - some are good, some bad, many waver. Communists routinely demonize capitalist entities, which includes of course, those corps.

(I don’t even think “BigPharma” is evil - yet FR turned on them big time just because of COVID and got to sounding more like the thing they say they despise.)


40 posted on 04/23/2025 1:49:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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