Andreas Schuld of Vancouver BC has started a support group PFPC
Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children as his daughter was poisoned
by excessive fluoride in white grape juice. The thrust of his work
thyroid gland abnormalities and how fluoride affects the thyroid,
causing hypothyroidism and autoimmune disease.
http://www.bruha.com/fluoride/html/thyroid_page.html
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His latest newsletter: PFPC #6 "Fluoride in Cereals" has a segment
on soy formulas and the thyroid gland:
"Soy formula has long been associated with thyroid dysfunction,
especially
hypothyroidism, in children."
Here is one abstract:
Fort P, Moses N, Fasano M, Goldberg T, Lifshitz F - "Breast and
soy-formula
feedings in early infancy and the prevalence of autoimmune thyroid
disease
in children" J Am Coll Nutr 9(2):164-7 (1990)
"It has been suggested that feeding practices in infancy may affect the
development of various autoimmune diseases later in life. Since thyroid
alterations are among the most frequently encountered autoimmune
conditions
in children, we studied whether breast and soy-containing formula
feedings
in early life were associated with the subsequent development of
autoimmune
thyroid disease. A detailed history of feeding practices was obtained in
59
children with autoimmune thyroid disease, their 76 healthy siblings, and
54
healthy nonrelated control children. There was no difference in the
frequency and duration of breast feeding in early life among the three
groups of children. However, the frequency of feedings with soy-based
milk
formulas in early life was significantly higher in children with
autoimmune
thyroid disease (prevalence 31%) as compared with their siblings
(prevalence 12%; chi 2 = 7.22 with continuity factor; p less than 0.01),
and healthy nonrelated control children (prevalence 13%, chi 2 = 5.03
with
continuity factor; p less than 0.02). Therefore, this retrospective
analysis documents the association of soy formula feedings in infancy
and
autoimmune thyroid disease."
MEAD JOHNSON
Mead Johnson & Company, manufacturer of infant formulas (e.g. Pablum)
as
well as Vitamin-Fluoride preparations (Poly-Vi-Flor), also supplied
funding
for fluoride research. Pablum was the "first pre-cooked, fortified
cereal
for babies", first produced in 1933. A decade earlier Mead Johnson had
started the production of SOBEE formula. Nutritionists had recommended
that
soy-based baby-milks be on prescription only and that aluminum contents
should be labeled, but to no avail.
In 1942 and 1943 Williard F. Machle worked with Edward J. Largent
(Reynold's Metal advisor) on a fluoride project supported by Mead
Johnson.
Machle worked for Kettering Labs at the University of Cincinnati.
Kettering
Labs also worked for the Atomic Energy Commission. Machle´s first
fluoride-related researches were "supported in part" by Kinetic
Chemicals
Incorporated. Kinetic Chemicals Inc. once developed a method using
hydrogen
fluoride to prepare fluorinated hydrocarbons. However, Machle alleged
that
their interest in fluoride research ("Effects of inhalation of hydrogen
fluoride") arose when it was discovered that Freon (also known as F12)
decomposed "on passage through a flame" and thereby yields two molecules
of
hydrogen fluoride in addition to two molecules of hydrogen chloride for
each molecule of the compound. He was later (1940) joined by E. E.
Evans,
MD, of DuPont "studying a group of workmen exposed principally to
hydrogen
fluoride, and to a lesser degree to the dusts of calcium fluoride, in
the
manufacture of hydrofluoric acid. This plant has been in operation since
1931 at which time the clinical studies were begun."
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By the end of WWII the US was basically a formula-fed nation. Waldbott
writes about the high amount of fluoride in Pablum (18ppm): "When this
amount of fluoride was to be excessive - it produced mottled teeth -
manufacturers reduced the fluoride content of Pablum to between 1.33 and
2.12 ppm..."
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in
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