Do you know why most Americans drink fluoride in their drinking water?<\/b><\/p>\n
If you thought it was because the government is concerned about people’s dental <\/span>health<\/span><\/a>, think again. The truth about how the practice started is surprising, and the source of fluoride so many of us are drinking is even more shocking.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, many people don’t know much about it, so Children’s <\/span>Health<\/span><\/a> Defense is trying to raise awareness of the issue. The group has decried water fluoridation as a bad medical experiment on humanity that must be stopped — and it’s easy to see why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fluoride was produced on a wide scale during World War II. When Manhattan Project scientists found that it was a <\/span>health<\/span><\/a> hazard to workers in their bomb program and those in the surrounding communities, government scientists came up with a solution: They would try to calm any social panic about fluoride and stave off potential lawsuits by promoting it as a useful tool for preventing <\/span>tooth decay<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Their claims were exaggerated, and many of the studies they used to show it <\/span>reduces tooth decay<\/span><\/a> were later found to be seriously flawed. In the meantime, however, the U.S. Public Health Service has given water fluoridation its full support as an official public health policy, urging communities around the nation to start adopting it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n These days, the fluoride in water comes from one of two sources, and it’s hard to decide which one is worse: pollutants captured from the phosphate fertilizer industry or unregulated chemical imports from pollution-ridden China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n