The Indian village fighting fluoride poisoning with vitamins and clean water

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A pioneering project to cure children crippled by fluoride poisoning holds hope for tens of millions of people

For years the people of Tapatjuri, a remote village in northeast India, thought evil spirits were tormenting them. It was the only way they could explain why hundreds of people in their community were crippled, with bones bent so badly out of shape that many could not wash, eat, or leave their houses without help.

The disease struck all three of Taramiya Uddin?s children, starting in the late 1990s when his eldest son was a small boy. One day a roaming witchdoctor known as a kabiraj arrived offering to cure his son.

The kabiraj chanted an incantation into a bottle of mustard oil and told Taramiya to rub it on his son?s legs, which splayed outwards from the knees, making walking painful. The cure didn?t work, but witchdoctors continued to arrive in the village with their elixirs, charging desperate parents more than a thousand rupees, roughly £10 ? several times the average daily income of £1.35.

The problem was the water, contaminated with naturally occurring fluoride. Most people in the village in Assam state, like millions across India, had been drinking from pumps that drew water from deep below ground, where it had absorbed dangerous levels of the chemical from fluoride-bearing rocks.

Skeletal fluorosis is a major public health problem in at least 25 countries, but India and China are believed to be the worst-affected, with tens of millions suffering from either bent bones, or less severe dental and non-skeletal fluorosis. In the UK the chemical is associated with healthy teeth, and is even added to drinking water by some local councils. But when it accumulates in the body at excessive levels it begins to mottle teeth and calcify joints.

Continued The Indian village fighting fluoride poisoning with vitamins and clean water | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian

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Flour = bone cancer

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Originally Posted by wehateporn

A pioneering project to cure children crippled by fluoride poisoning holds hope for tens of millions of people
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For years the people of Tapatjuri, a remote village in northeast India, thought evil spirits were tormenting them. It was the only way they could explain why hundreds of people in their community were crippled, with bones bent so badly out of shape that many could not wash, eat, or leave their houses without help.

The disease struck all three of Taramiya Uddin’s children, starting in the late 1990s when his eldest son was a small boy. One day a roaming witchdoctor known as a kabiraj arrived offering to cure his son.

The kabiraj chanted an incantation into a bottle of mustard oil and told Taramiya to rub it on his son’s legs, which splayed outwards from the knees, making walking painful. The cure didn’t work, but witchdoctors continued to arrive in the village with their elixirs, charging desperate parents more than a thousand rupees, roughly £10 – several times the average daily income of £1.35.

The problem was the water, contaminated with naturally occurring fluoride. Most people in the village in Assam state, like millions across India, had been drinking from pumps that drew water from deep below ground, where it had absorbed dangerous levels of the chemical from fluoride-bearing rocks.

Skeletal fluorosis is a major public health problem in at least 25 countries, but India and China are believed to be the worst-affected, with tens of millions suffering from either bent bones, or less severe dental and non-skeletal fluorosis. In the UK the chemical is associated with healthy teeth, and is even added to drinking water by some local councils. But when it accumulates in the body at excessive levels it begins to mottle teeth and calcify joints.

Continued The Indian village fighting fluoride poisoning with vitamins and clean water | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian

Thought I would highlight the relevant points...

Stick to therapeutic intake levels and you will be fine.....