Your drinking water causing depression?
Other impacts of fluoridation: 'Constipation, fuzzy thinking'
World Net Daily
May 22, 2008
A New York organization whose members are raising alarms about the damage from fluoride in America's water supplies says a government study available online suggests the additive can be blamed for a multitude of problems stemming from thyroid imbalances including cardiac disease, depression, constipation, fuzzy thinking and fluid retention.
The New York State Coalition opposed to Fluoridation, Inc., said, "There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland."
It cited the study by the National Research Council which reviewed fluoride-thyroid research and literature.
"Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency," Kathleen Thiessen, Ph.D. and co-author of the government-sponsored NRC report, wrote.
"A low level of thyroid hormone can increase the risk of cardiac disease, high cholesterol, depression and, in pregnant woman, decreased intelligence of offspring," she continued.
The statement said other common thyroid symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, fuzzy thinking, low blood pressure, fluid retention, depression, body pain and slow reflexes.
The New York group said fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, is added to public water supplies across about two-thirds of the United States. The program dates back decades and was "ostensibly to reduce tooth decay, [but] was never safety-tested," the group said.
Robert Carton, Ph.D., an environmental scientist who worked for more than 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, told the New York organization, "Fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male."
The report also cites studies documenting fluoride concentrations in thyroids exceeding that found in other soft tissues except kidney, an association between endemic goiter and fluoride exposure or enamel fluorosis in human populations and how fluoride adversely affects thyroid and parathyroid hormones, which affect bone health.
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Other impacts of fluoridation: 'Constipation, fuzzy thinking'
World Net Daily
May 22, 2008
A New York organization whose members are raising alarms about the damage from fluoride in America's water supplies says a government study available online suggests the additive can be blamed for a multitude of problems stemming from thyroid imbalances including cardiac disease, depression, constipation, fuzzy thinking and fluid retention.
The New York State Coalition opposed to Fluoridation, Inc., said, "There is clear evidence that small amounts of fluoride, at or near levels added to U.S. water supplies, present potential risks to the thyroid gland."
It cited the study by the National Research Council which reviewed fluoride-thyroid research and literature.
"Many Americans are exposed to fluoride in the ranges associated with thyroid effects, especially for people with iodine deficiency," Kathleen Thiessen, Ph.D. and co-author of the government-sponsored NRC report, wrote.
"A low level of thyroid hormone can increase the risk of cardiac disease, high cholesterol, depression and, in pregnant woman, decreased intelligence of offspring," she continued.
The statement said other common thyroid symptoms include fatigue, weight gain, constipation, fuzzy thinking, low blood pressure, fluid retention, depression, body pain and slow reflexes.
The New York group said fluoride, in the form of silicofluorides, is added to public water supplies across about two-thirds of the United States. The program dates back decades and was "ostensibly to reduce tooth decay, [but] was never safety-tested," the group said.
Robert Carton, Ph.D., an environmental scientist who worked for more than 30 years for the U.S. government including managing risk assessments on high priority toxic chemicals, told the New York organization, "Fluoride has detrimental effects on the thyroid gland of healthy males at 3.5 mg a day. With iodine deficiency, the effect level drops to 0.7 milligrams/day for an average male."
The report also cites studies documenting fluoride concentrations in thyroids exceeding that found in other soft tissues except kidney, an association between endemic goiter and fluoride exposure or enamel fluorosis in human populations and how fluoride adversely affects thyroid and parathyroid hormones, which affect bone health.
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