Fluoride at twice the recommended limit is linked to lower IQ in kids
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It also does not address the effects to children (and/or adults) when exposed to additional neurotoxins.
What's often not mentioned in the context of Fluoride's "success" is how improved diets have contributed to oral health.
Depending on time, geography, and species, it might be a choice between canned and nothing at all. Getting an orange for Christmas was a rare treat, not simply a healthier filler to displace candy.
As both are relevant to the context of "famously bad for you": methamphetamine, or methyl alcohol?
The passive voice is always an accomplice in deception, have you noticed? "Diets" are not under-nourished. People choose to purchase unhealthy food. Progressives insist that food stamps should pay for sugar water, candy, chips, etc. Meanwhile in the real world, 10 pounds of rice costs less than a bag of Doritos. Four pounds of lentils costs less than a 12 pack of soda.
If progressives were interested in good outcomes for the poor, they could radically improve the lives of the poor overnight by enforcing healthy standards of food stamps spending. But outcomes aren't the point--the point is to buy votes--so don't expect it to change any time soon.
1) The ads for "Feed America" and other non-profits having to feed the under-fed.
2) Obesity. We're getting plenty of calories. However, calories !== nourishment. You can be overweight and yet not well fed.
The overall point is, giving fluoride credit for improved oral health is disingenuous.
Yeah, sort of. I’m immediately reminded of reports of health problems of people in countries that traditionally grow quinoa. The global demand for this amazingly nutritious food has priced it so high that many of the poorer in the regions that grow it have switched to cheaper, less nutritious foods.
I am also reminded that if I want to buy “peasant food”, I have to pay a huge premium over much cheaper, crappier, less nutritious processed food. That is to say, foods that were commonly cheap and readily available many centuries ago, are no longer cheap.
I find it slightly disengenuous to simply say that people choose to purchase unhealthy food without acknowledging that individuals are presented choices that are often suboptimal. I cannot reasonably buy bread without added sugar. That is not a choice I have made, that is the landcape I live in. I choose to buy less bread as a result. But I alone cannot change the economic landscape, even though you are absolutely correct that there are food which are cheaper and more nutritious than alternatives.
I would also be really cautious about “enforcing healthy standards”. I don’t know how old you are, but I’m old enough to have seen some pretty shitty “healthy standards” pushed en mass, and then codified through major lobbying by interested parties.
Ah yes. Freedom for me but not for thee.
I dunno what's worse, the excess fluoride or hexavalent chromium...
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The enamel of the teeth does not have blood vessels, so it cannot "grab fluoride" from blood. As far as it is known, the biomineralized calcium phosphate is always hydroxyapatite. When the hydroxyapatite of the enamel of the teeth is in contact with a solution containing fluoride ions, there is a passive ion exchange process (i.e. not mediated by biological enzymes) which results in partial replacement of the more soluble hydroxyapatite with the less soluble fluorapatite.
There is no doubt that using a tooth paste with fluoride or washing the mouth with a fluoride solution can prevent caries.
However there has never been any evidence whatsoever that drinking fluoride has any beneficial effect, beyond that of the teeth being washed by the fluoride solution before ingesting it. On the contrary, it is well known that too much fluoride in the drinking water interferes with bone growth, as it happens in some countries where the drinking water is naturally rich in fluoride.
Can't stop eating those carbs tho, too addictive!
What is different is that we cook — evolution still hasn't fully caught up with that, though it does seem to have resulted in our mouths being too small for all the teeth.