Dear Readers,
This past April FAN told you about the call for a repeal of mandatory fluoridation laws in Georgia by former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor, Andrew Young, along with fellow civil rights leaders Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter and niece, Dr. Bernice King and Dr. Alveda King.
Well, the list of groups and prominent individuals now speaking out against the controversial practice of fluoridation has grown significantly again. This July, the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights organization in the United States, adopted a resolution opposing the practice of water fluoridation.
The resolution was passed on July 1st at the 2011 LULAC National Convention in Cincinnati, and demands to know why health agencies are "more protective of the public policy of fluoridation than they are of public health."
Henry Rodriguez, LULAC's Texas civil rights chairman stated:
"The Hispanic community is no longer going to be silent on this issue. This is about forcing us to be medicated through our drinking water without our consent or full disclosure of the risks. Fluoridation is a civil rights violation. Opposition to fluoridation is going to continue building and there is no stopping it. There are millions of Hispanic and other minorities in the U.S. who don't have the funds to avoid fluoridated water for making baby formula. And millions of families don't know they're being medicated in their drinking water, or about possible risks for kidney patients and diabetics"
Babies, diabetics, kidney patients, and other groups are listed by the National Research Council as susceptible groups especially vulnerable to harm from ingested fluorides. And after decades of water fluoridation, data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that 41% of American adolescents (12-15) have dental fluorosis, a side-effect of overexposure to fluoride. CDC data also indicates that minorities, including African-Americans and Hispanics havedisproportionately higher rates of fluorosis.
(Read the original Press release on the LULAC resolution from Dan Stockin of the Lillie Center Inc. )
While dentists want the public to believe that dental fluorosis is only a cosmetic issue, a new study out of India has found an association between dental fluorosis and lowered IQ, making it the 26th study to show a connection between fluoride exposure and lowered IQ. This is shocking news considering the above data (worth repeating), that 41% of American adolescentsALREADY HAVE dental fluorosis, and that the rates aredisproportionally higher in black and hispanic communities!
This raises the question, why aren't parents being warned about this? At the very least, they should be getting a warning on their water bills alerting them not to use fluoridated tap water when reconstituting baby formula, since this is how most children are overexposed to fluoride.
According to FAN Director, Dr. Paul Connett, "Better still, let's end this nonsense once and for all. Take the fluoride out of the drinking water! Protecting our children's brains is far more important than protecting their teeth - especially since there are actually better ways of protecting their teeth, as most of the industrialized world has demonstrated."
You can take action NOW to prevent dental fluorosis in your community by starting an Infant Warning Campaign, or acampaign to remove fluoride entirely from your local drinking water. We can't wait for the CDC or Department of Health and Human Services to act, they're too busy promoting water fluoridation without precaution, and trying to pass bills mandating state-wide fluoridation; only making the fluorosis epidemic worse. It's up to you to take action, and now is the time to act!
Sincerely,
Campaign Manager
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