Stop Harming Our Children58 Grosvenor Road, Swindon,, SN1 4LU, United Kingdom, 01793 341400, shoc.uk@ntlworld.comBreaking Newshttp://www.shocswindon.org21:35 04-Sep-2010Fluoride: Doctors 'struggling to cope' with upsurge in hip fractures. The Republic of Ireland is the only country in Europe with mandatory fluoridation and with more than 70% of its population, drinking fluoridated water. It is well above the next highest country (UK at 10%). Most European countries do not fluoridate their drinking water, and yet, according to the WHO figures, their teeth are no worse than countries that do. The Irish mandatory fluoridation law went into effect in 1963, and in the 14 years since the government has done NO (zero), health studies on the population-just endless studies on teeth and a review of the issue called the Fluoridation Forum (2002). Thus there is a strong chance that the increased rate of fractures (and maybe of arthritis rates as well) in the Irish Republic has something to do with the fact that those aged over 46 have had a lifetime of exposure to fluoride in their water. Professor Vyvyan Howard, of Ulster University's Molecular Biosciences Centre, says: "There is well-documented epidemiological literature associating hip and other fractures with drinking water fluoridation. It would be most illuminating to compare the reported hip fracture rates with those in unfluoridated Northern Ireland. This finding should be yet another nail in the coffin of this unwarranted mass medication. We certainly should not be extending the practice in the UK". |