Progress for Plattsburgh Blog - Mike Kelly

Remember that old poster: "War is not healthy for children and other living things!"

Ditto for fluoride. The American Dental Association issued this directive in 2006:

"Essentially, the ADA supports the pediatricians’ recommendations on the benefits of breast feeding and notes that using ready-to-feed formula for bottle-fed babies will keep their fluoride intake under IOM limits. If using a product that needs to be reconstituted, parents and caregivers should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride."

You can read their entire directive here.

What this is saying is that if you feed your infant powdered formula, don't use fluoridated tap water for mixing it. In another official publication from 2005 called Fluoridation Facts (p. 18), the ADA again recommends that infants have NO fluoride supplements, even if the amount of fluoride in public water supplies is 0 parts per million. You can read the entire publication here  - this publication has a ton of information, but some of it is questionable in light of recent research on fluoride. It seems the ADA is grasping at straws in this publication. It's fun to read it and see if you can find the faulty logic yourself.

The question I have is this: if the ADA, a huge supporter of fluoridation, recommends that infants shouldn't have fluoridated water, why are we giving it to them in our public water supply? There are many other people that should not have fluoride, yet we medicate EVERYONE. Why?

Someday, and it won't be too long, I predict, fluoride in drinking water will go the way of lead in paint and gasoline. What seemed like a good idea at the time will prove to be a mistake.