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Hardly but let's have fun! > The coffee, soda, beer, or kombucha you drink was made with fluoridated water. Your salad was grown with fluoridated fruit was washed in fluoridated water.
> How much flouride? And from what sources? Typically farms need wells because of how much water infrastructure they need can't generally be supported by municipal water. There are exceptions particularly in dense areas with vertical farms or urban farms but this doesn't align with your claim, that effectively everything we consume has some detectable level of flouride. I bet you've already read this though https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Fluoride-HealthProfessiona.... The only thing studied that contained more flouride than municipal water but still 3x less than the safe limit, is tea. And that was measured with distilled water to eliminate the water source as a variable. Most tea isn't grown in the USA. So your claims fall flat on their face here, but I'm not done. > Fluoride permeates modern supply chains because it’s literally in the water which is an input to countless things.
> How much? Making such a claim is fine if we want hand waved values. But when you want to be an Internet advocate for a specific policy, show up with receipts or don't show up at all. See previous link for current source of information on food supply. > Fluoride proponents have utterly failed to control dosage and harmed public health in doing so. Based on what evidence? You have utterly failed to show you have a solid grasp on the scientific method, public policy, and critical thinking. |
"On any given day, more than one half of the American population drinks tea. On a regional basis, the South and Northeast have the greatest concentration of tea drinkers."
Source: https://www.teausa.com/teausa/images/Tea_Fact_2021.pdf
Tea may easily contain 5 to 10 times as much fluoride as fluoridated water.
2. TOTAL intake is what determines fluoride toxicity. This has been established since the 1930s when fluoride was discovered to be the source of "mottled enamel" - dental fluorosis.
In 1991, total intake among adults in fluoridated areas in the US was estimated to be up to 6.6 mg/day. (US PHS, 1991)
"The daily intake of most adults is about equally divided among food, drinking water, beverages, and mouthrinses." (U.S. Dept. Health & Human Services, Report on fluoride benefits and risks. MMWR Recomm Rep. 1991 Jun 14;40(RR-7):1-8. PMID: 2051975.)