Sorry not to reply....
This research is in its seminal stages.
It is impossible to say with any measure of certainty that they will
'definitely not reach their full potential' - but I respect your right to
hold that opinion.

Might one consider that athletics injuries are increasing due to the
professionalisation of kids sports? In the UK we had similar problems with
football. The regulations were changed to reduce the training regimes and to
limit the numbers of games kids could play. Injuries of tendons and
cartilsges have diminished in correlation to the limits set....

If it crosses the placenta might not any harm already be done before birth?
If animal models were that good Thalidomide would not have been a problem
either.....

Just to annoy you may I mention dioxins in breast milk!!!

Tony Knox

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judy Ritchie" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:13 AM
Subject: Children are not fine on formula another reason


> My very first post to Dr. Jack Newman when I joined Lactent was
> "another reason to breastfeed is to avoid fluoridated formula."  Here in
> the US 65% of the population is now exposed to a fluoridated community
> water supply.  The UK is also fluoridated in various parts.
>
> Moms who mix up powdered formula are never told to buy bottled water
> without fluoride, except that now in Toronto, Canada a dental professor,
> Hardy Limeback, has sounded the warning.  In fact, water companies are
> deliberating marketing a .7ppm fluoridated baby water to mix with
> formula!
>
> This is in spite of a 15 year study published in 1995 in Teratology and
> Neurotoxicology on the neurotoxicity of sodium fluoride to the brain.
> This was the first ever toxicity study by the dental profession and they
> fired the woman Phd, a Harvard graduate, because she published it.
>
> In the rat model, this 15 year study proved ADD and ADHD symptoms
> depended on pre and/or postnatal exposure.  The Phd who did the study,
> Phyllis Mullenix took her own children off city water in Massachusetts
> and threw away fluoridated toothpaste due to concerns of years of
> overexposure in her own children.
>
> Then need we ask why the numbers of Rx of Ritalin here in the US!
>
> Babies raised on fluoridated formula purposefully or unintentionally
> will
> definitely not reach their full potential.  Some dentists speculate that
> Baby Bottle Tooth Decay is really primary teeth dental fluorosis and
> lack of enamel formation in susceptible children.
>
> The flurodiated city of Tacoma WA just had an article in their sports
> section this spring--about all the crack high school athletes having ACL
> tendon breaks--five in one school.  The coaches are asking "what is
> going on?" and have no idea that their 30-year history of fluoridation
> is taking a toll on their kids tendons and ligaments.  It has been put
> down into their bone and connective tissue since bottlefeeding age.
>
> Human breast milk has only 1/100th of the fluoride in formula.  The
> breast
> keeps it that low even if the mother is drinking it.  Unfortunately, it
> does cross the placenta during pregnancy to cause harm.
>
> Formula feeding creates a cascade of risk that we are just beginning
> to understand.
> Judy Ritchie
>

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