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Topline Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a law to prohibit fluoride in public drinking water amid a recent surge of concern over the mineral additive—despite decades of backing by public health officials—fueled in part by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims of its potential …
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A study just published in JAMA Pediatrics found an association between mothers drinking fluoridated… [+] water during pregnancy and the child’s subsequent IQ scores. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty Many communities have long put fluoride in drinking water to prevent tooth decay. But if you Google …
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An influential medical journal published a study Monday that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs—a finding that could undermine decades of public-health messaging, fire up conspiracy theorists, and alarm mothers-to-be.The research was expected to be so controversial …
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Dozens of cities in the United States and Canada, such as Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, do not add fluoride to city water. Elsewhere in the United States, fluoridation is the norm. As of 2014, per CDC data, two-thirds of people in the United States had fluoride in their drinking water. In 2015, to …
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(CNN) — Water fluoridation has been hailed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as one of the top great public health achievements of the 20th century, but a new study raises questions about its role as a potential neurotoxin in utero. The study, published in the journal JAMA …
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Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there’s a conspiracy involving drinking water. Didn’t you know that fluoride, which is added to our drinking water to keep our teeth healthy (and is considered one of the greatest public health triumphs of all time), is actually …
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A new study links fluoride consumption during pregnancy to lower IQ in children, but experts are saying it’s not time to rush out and filter your H2O just yet. Key points: Study hints at an association between fluoride exposure in pregnancy and lower IQ scores in children Results are not conclusive …
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Effie Greathouse, PhDMuch confusion and misinformation floats around out there about fluoride and fluoridation—and a significant amount of that confusion is environmentally minded. Lots of people are scared about fluoride being toxic. Memes characterizing fluoridation and fluoride products as …
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It was perhaps the last thing Burt Ernest Dawes expected when he pushed for fluoride in his city’s water supply more than 50 years ago. It was 1964, to be precise, and the people of Grafton in northern New South Wales were gearing up for the annual Jacaranda Festival. But what should have been a …
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A post on Facebook makes a number of claims about the chemical fluoride. The NHS describes fluoride as “a naturally occurring mineral found in water in varying amounts, depending on where in the UK you live.” It also says it’s added to many brands of toothpaste and to the water supply in some areas …
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