Study: Too Much Fluoride Can Be Bad

AP via Yahoo ^ | 3-22-06 | Anon

[Pharmboy]

The high levels of fluoride that occur naturally in some drinking water can cause tooth and bone damage and should be reduced, the National Research Council said Wednesday.

The study did not analyze the benefits or risks of adding fluoride to drinking water. Instead it looked at the current maximum limit of 4 milligrams per liter. Approximately 200,000 people live in communities where that level occurs naturally in water.

The Council suggested further studies to establish a new maximum level, but noted that the problems associated with exposure to fluoride are very small at 2 milligrams per liter and less. Approximately 1.4 million people have drinking water with natural fluoride levels of 2.0 to 3.9 milligrams per liter, said the Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences.

More than 160 million Americans live in communities with artificially fluoridated water, which contains between 0.7 and 1.2 milligrams of fluoride per liter.

Fluoride is added to water to help strengthen the teeth.

Drinking water with levels above the maximum can cause tooth discoloration and weaken the enamel, and long-term accumulation in the bones can result in an increase in fractures, the Council reported.

The National Academy of Sciences is an independent organization chartered by Congress to advise the government on scientific matters. The study was requested by the Environmental Protection Agency.

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[Pharmboy]

Ya mean the John Birch Society was right after all??

[RexBeach]

So was Brig. Gen Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Stranglove"!

[mnehring]

Ya mean the John Birch Society was right after all??

No, they claimed fluoride was a form of mind control, making people docile.

[ClearCase_guy]

Let me get this straight -- drinking high levels of rat poison is bad for me?

[edcoil]

"The high levels of fluoride that occur naturally in some drinking water can cause tooth and bone damage and should be reduced, the National Research Council said Wednesday."

Seems mankind is once again saying God you did it wrong. Not that what naturally occurs is now bad for us and we need to clean up nature.

[SF Republican]

But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[linear]

I'm starting to see more and more of these fluoride threads.

Maybe we need a "precious bodily fluids" ping list. lol.

[linear]

You beat me to it!!!

[dighton]

Too Much Fluoride Can Be Bad

© National Institute of Tautology.

[RexBeach]

This is really going to upset my dentist. He loves fluoride.

Hey! Who knew?

[Smedley]

Say what you will, but I predict a study within the next five years that reports that we need more arsenic in our drinking water.

[linear]

Perhaps he is part of the conspiracy...

Have you checked your fillings for RFID tags?

[numberonepal]

Not that what naturally occurs is now bad for us and we need to clean up nature.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you've said here and I don't mean disrespect, but flouride does not "naturally" occur in drinking water in the levels that come out of your tap. It is added.

[Diamond]

Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.

Gen. Jack D. Ripper:	Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake:	Well, no, I can't say I have, Jack.

[The Great RJ]

Hardly news as the effects of high naturally occuring flouride in drinking water has long been known. Too much fluoride actually causes tooth problems in the form of banding and yellow staining .. a few places out here on the tundra have this problem with their water and you can often tell where someone lived just by looking at their teeth.

There are also a few places with high level of lithium in their water ...now that tends to make people docile. Lithium carbonate is an effective treatment for certain kinds of mental illnesses like manic depression.

[pandoraou812]

My koi pond got a small hole in it and we used the town water with fluoride to keep it filled until we could patch it. Our well pump had broke so we had no choice but to use town water. We even used the additive that they sell to add to town water for ponds. Woke up one morning to find all 40 of the koi floating and most half dead. They all ended up dying except for one pond goldfish. We had some of those kio for over 6 yrs and they would come right up to your hand to be fed. Now we have a filter on our water. I dont want the fluoride in my water.

[dighton]

“Ice cream, Mandrake, children’s ice cream.”

[capt. norm]

A do it yourself headline kit.

Here is your skeleton phrase: "Too Much (insert just about anything here) Can be Bad".

[MeanWestTexan]

And Frank Burns, in MASH.

[GSlob]

Well, nothing to excess. Like the story of a politburo member who took the course of hypnosis treatment for his incontinence. The treatment was so successful that after it he wasn't able to urinate at all - and burst. ["Yawning Heights"]