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Fluoride Targets Blacks
The CDC is promoting a chemical that affects the body in many unknown
and dangerous ways, especially the brain, and that of the pineal gland
of which is a critical part of our perception. Adding chemicals to water
is total nonsense. Humans do not need chemicals created by man to help
our teeth from the onslaught of sugary drinks. It's like the chemicals
companies get you coming and going, and fluoride is only a
conscienceless agenda to make money and create more diseases to service
for more dollars. Ban it 100% and avoid toothpaste or mouthwash products
that contain it.
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Blacks Disproportionately Harmed by Fluorides and Fluoridated Water
02 October 2007 - 2news.tv
Fluoride, the controversial chemical added to city water
supplies to help prevent cavities, now has three strikes against it in
having harmful effects in African Americans.
Strike number one: A blue ribbon panel of scientists has identified
kidney patients and diabetics as being especially susceptible to harm
from ingested fluorides. Blacks suffer disproportionate amounts of
kidney disease and diabetes in America.
Strike number two: Information
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows blacks
disproportionately at risk for disfiguring teeth damage from fluoride,
compared to whites. (See photos of moderate and severe dental fluorosis at:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm
And
strike number three: The American Dental Association and the CDC are
now suggesting that parents of newborns may wish to consider using unfluoridated water when mixing infant milk formula for their babies
-- but they offer no outreach to tell black parents this information,
and no funds to pay for minority and other low-income families to
purchase other sources of water.
“I know the facts are embarrassing and potentially even lawsuit
material against CDC, but it’s not morally right
that CDC is not telling African Americans of their multiple,
intersecting risks for harm from fluoride,” says Daniel Stockin, a
public health professional of The Lillie Center, Inc., a firm working
to educate Americans about harm from ingested fluorides. “How does CDC
continue to say that fluoridated water is safe and effective ‘for
all’? Do African Americans not count?” he asks.
Stockin points to disturbing information in a report last year from
the National Research Council that acknowledged diabetics and kidney
patients to be “susceptible subpopulations” that are especially
vulnerable to harmful effects from fluoride ingestion. According to
the National Kidney Foundation, blacks comprise 28.4% of kidney
failure patients, but number only 13% of the U.S. population. The
American Diabetes Association states that African Americans are 1.8
times more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. Increased
risk from fluoride for kidney patients and diabetics logically points
towards increased risk for blacks, Stockin says.
Stockin also asks why a chart showing disproportionate harm to African
Americans from moderate and severe dental fluorosis, a staining and
pitting of teeth indicative of overexposure to fluoride as a child, is
buried at the very back of a review
published by CDC and has not been shared with the black community.
(See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm .) He also
notes that CDC this year quietly added
information on a little-noticed web page that mothers of newborns may
wish to use unfluoridated water when mixing powdered infant milk
formula. ( http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm#1
) CDC has not issued a press release about the subject. “Millions of
parents in minority, low-income, and limited-English communities are
affected by CDC’s change in policy, but these families have neither
the facts about fluoride nor the funds to pay for unfluoridated
bottled water or an expensive home water fluoride removal system,”
Stockin says.
The bad news about fluoride adds to a growing swell of sentiment
against use of the chemical. The influential Canadian city of Quebec
has voted to stop water fluoridation. In looking at fluoridation,
Alaska’s Juneau Empire newspaper recently wrote, “What about people
who are more sensitive to the damaging effects of fluoride than the
general population?” Eleven unions in EPA, representing 7,000 EPA lab
workers, scientists, and others have called for the immediate
nationwide halt to fluoridation. There are petitions now to end
fluoridation, and a call for congressional hearings (http://www.fluorideaction.net).
So why does CDC continue to promote fluoridation? Why has CDC not
responded to the ethics charges its ethics committees received in
August concerning fluoridation? And why aren’t black communities being
told of their increased risk for harm from fluorides? “Fair
questions,” Stockin says. “And disturbing.”
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