Brittle Bones and fluoride?  Is it the water?  When I was growing up in the 1950s, the government added fluoride to our drinking water.  That was supposed to be the end of tooth decay.

But when I was 8 years old my dentist told me I had more cavities than teeth!  So I guess the fluoride didn’t work for me.

But I’m not alone.  A National Institute of Dental Research study of 39,000 U.S. school children found 1 part-per-million (ppm) of fluoride in the water supply increased tooth decay 5.4%.[i]  A study of 400,000 Chinese students showed it increased tooth decay by 27%.[ii] (more…)