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>recommends flouridating salt That is a scary recommendation. Would be very hard to avoid fluoride if restaurants, packaged food etc all used fluoridated salt
by hammock 3y ago
>recommends flouridating salt
That is a scary recommendation. Would be very hard to avoid fluoride if restaurants, packaged food etc all used fluoridated salt
- epgui 3y agoIt’s not particularly scary. In fact almost all salt has added iodine for public health reasons.
- hammock 3y agoIodine and fluoride aren’t really the same thing. Iodine is essential, you cannot survive without it, and it is added to supplement a deficiency. Fluoride is not essential, you can survive without it, and its addition is purely therapeutic, not due to some deficiency
- epgui 3y agoAs a biochemist, I know this perfectly well. But the motivation behind your “this is terrifying” was left as an exercise to the reader, so there was no way of distinguishing it from “omg the chemicals”.
- newZWhoDis 3y agoIt already is that way. Your steak came from a cow that drank fluoridated water, the salad was watered constantly with fluoride. Your bread was baked with fluoride water, same with your coffee/beer/tea. Your Mayonnaise even.
- hammock 3y agoDoubtful on the steak and salad. That water typically gets pulled from different kinds of wells, not municipal drinking water supply