A group in Georgia called The Lillie Center has been documenting
these fluoride/environmental racism connections and has been
advocating around it. [If this angle is new to you, see our
documentation on it here:
http://www.actionpa.org/fluoride/ej.html] They got the National
Kidney Foundation to withdraw their official support for water
fluoridation. The Kidney Foundation now states that chronic kidney
patients should be warned of fluoride exposure risks. In legal
terms, this established a new “standard of care” and other
professionals who don’t meet it may be liable for negligence. The
Lillie Center is trying to peel off other medical association
supporters of fluoridation from the long list of groups that have
been supporting this scientifically indefensible position for decades.
Currently, they’re working on the American Osteopathic Association
and the National Medical Association. The latter is the association
of black physicians (formed as an alternative to the American Medical
Association, which just last year, officially apologized to black
physicians for past discrimination). NMA is one of the supporters of
fluoridation, and if we can manage to turn them around on this, the
pressure on AMA to follow suit will be much greater.
The person I spoke with recently at The Lillie Center (Daniel
Stockin, MPH) would love to have people inquire with letters to these
associations and individual osteopaths about their position on this,
asking questions like:
1) are you currently informing anyone who has any kidney
impairment of the risks of F exposure, and
2) are you doing an assessment of past body burden of fluoride?
This could get the associations to think more about the legal
liabilities with failing to follow the higher standard of care set by
the Kidney Foundation. For further information be sure to read: http://www.cent4dent.com/html/treatment/fluorosis.html
See related documents —>
1. Dental fluorosis pics: see www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm and be sure to scroll all the way down. CDC believes that millions of blacks (who have 79% more than whites of the worst forms — moderate and severe dental fluorosis) should simply live with the disfigurement if they don’t have the funds for teeth repair caused by the fluoride damage. CDC refuses to openly show photos of dental fluorosis to the black community, and refuses to answer a formal ethics complaint received about this. Remember: if fluorides do this to the hardest surfaces in the body – the teeth – it’s not an illogical question to ask what fluorides do to soft tissues. It turns out that fluorides harm the thyroid, brain (per the Chinese, multiple studies), the kidneys, and also the bones.
2. The National Kidney Foundation has recently changed its position about fluoridated water safety for kidney patients, now stating that chronic kidney disease patients “should be notified of the potential risk” of fluoride ingestion. As a result of NKF’s changed position, the American Dental Assn has been forced to remove the National Kidney Foundation from ADA’s list of organizations supporting fluoridation. Here’s a couple of links from Forbes and a dental industry web portal (bear in mind that the dental industry is grudgingly acknowledging this): http://www.forbes.com/prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2008/06/09/prnewswire200806090956PR_NEWS_USPR_____DC24601.html
http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.aspx?sec=sup&sub=hyg&pag=dis&ItemID=300693&wf=34
Because blacks comprise nearly 30% of end stage renal disease patients, yet are only around 13% of the U.S. population, the black community deserves to hear about fluoride’s harm to kidneys, but the Amer. Dental Assn, CDC, and other health groups are petrified of the whole story about fluoride’s harm coming out. I find this deeply disturbing that blacks are once again getting left out – not being told the whole story. Black physicians are also not being told the facts.
3. The legal consequences of the hiding of the whole story about harm from fluoride are starting. Both sides of the political spectrum are now upset about fluoride.Here is an article you’ll want to see about the American Water Works Assn. I was quoted in this piece as follows: “Think about it: If a 230-pound man and a 15-pound baby each drink one glass of water, they each receive the same dose of fluoride,” he said. “Does it make any sense at all to give both of them the same amount, regardless of body size or health history, and to not know or monitor how much fluoride they’re drinking or ingesting from other sources?”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67360
4. Here is an article about “Fluoride-Gate” we wrote that was first published in the Juneau, Alaska newspaper, then subsequently picked up by US Water News, the Wall Street Journal of water publications, and sent to thousands of water districts across the U.S.: http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011508/opi_20080115024.shtml
5. Here is a video interview of 3 scientists about the general kidney-fluoride issue. Note the second lady who is a toxicologist and expert witness on fluoride issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utB94Jee0Os The first lady in the video, Dr. Kathleen Thiessen, was a member of the National Research Council’s panel that released a 500 page report on fluoride in 2006; she has also said this about fluoride and blacks:
“The NRC report indicated that kidney patients, diabetics, infants, and other groups are susceptible population groups. I am also personally concerned that black and other minority Americans are disproportionately harmed by fluoride, and I believe there is a potential risk of thyroid damage for overexposed Americans in general.”
In a January 2008 Scientific American article about fluorides, toxicologist John Doull, the chairman of the NRC panel, admitted, “The thyroid changes do worry me.”
6. Here’s a 3-minute news story about a physician-legislator who was a former fluoridation supporter until he looked at the data for himself, instead of simply believing the talking points provided by CDC and the Amer. Dental Assn. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4876909488212286065
7. Lastly, in case you haven’t seen CDC’s statement about infant milk formula and fluoride – that parents of newborns may wish to use unfluoridated water for baby’s milk formula — this affects economically disadvantaged families who do not have funds for bottled or unfluoridated water. Black physicians and millions of black families do not know this information, because CDC refused to issue even a press release. (CDC is trying to say “We told you about this, without really telling anyone – a legal strategy.) Here’s CDC’s statement:
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm#1
Here CDC says: “If tap water is fluoridated or has substantial natural fluoride (0.7 mg/L or higher), a parent may consider using a low-fluoride alternative water source.” CDC also says in this document: “Although formula itself has low amounts of fluoride, when infant formula concentrate is mixed with fluoridated water and used as the primary source of nutrition, it may introduce fluoride at levels above the amount recommended to minimize the risk for fluorosis. Infants consume little other than breast milk or formula during the first four to six months of life, and continue to have a high intake of liquids during the entire first year. Therefore, proportional to body weight, fluoride intake from liquids is generally higher for younger or smaller children than for older children, adolescents, or adults.”
The National Research Council says infants and children receive 3-4 times the amount of fluoride dose as do adults, on a body weight basis.
Daniel G. Stockin, MPH
The Lillie Center, Inc.
Ellijay, GA 706-669-0786