Adverse Effects of Fluoride Consumption

The experimental group avoided fluoride in water, food and other sources and ate a nutritious diet per instruction.
17/09/2010 Ámbito: América (Noticia leida 212 veces)

EWP.-Fluoride avoidance reduced anaemia in pregnant women, decreased pre-term births and enhanced babies' birth-weight according to a study published in Current Science in May. The study by AK Susheela and colleagues is the first examination of fluoride as an additional risk factor for anaemia and low-birth-weight babies.

Susheela's team explains that anaemia in pregnancy, which can lead to maternal and infant mortality, continues to plague many countries despite nutritional counselling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation. Anaemic pregnant women living in India, whose urine contained 1 mg/l fluoride or more, were separated into two groups. The experimental group avoided fluoride in water, food and other sources and ate a nutritious diet per instruction. The control group received no instructions. Both groups were supplemented with iron and folic acid.

Results reveal that anaemia was reduced and pre-term and low-birth-weight babies were considerably fewer in the fluoride-avoidance group as compared to the control. Two stillbirths occurred in the control group; none occurred in the experimental group.

The authors state that "Maternal and child under-nutrition and anemia is not necessarily due to insufficient food intake but because of the derangement of nutrient absorption due to damage caused to GI (gastrointestinal) mucosa by ingestion of undesired chemical substances, viz. fluoride through food, water and other sources."

Fluoride avoidance regenerated the intestinal lining which enhanced the absorption of nutrients as evidenced by the reduction in urinary fluoride followed by a rise in haemoglobin levels, they report.

The authors query if the same thing could be happening in the US. State University of New York researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.

Previous published research shows fluoride can interfere with the reproductive system. Current Science reports that adverse reactions of fluoride consumption are known to occur including reducing red blood cells, reducing blood folic acid activity, inhibiting vitamin B12 production and the non-absorption of nutrients for haemoglobin biosynthesis.

"Citizens must demand that water fluoridation be stopped", says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. "It's disturbing that public-health officials and organised dentistry continue to ignore the overwhelming evidence revealing fluoride to be non-nutritive, unnecessary and unsafe", says Beeber.