Comment by A_D_E_P_T
1 year ago
These concerns are not limited to fluoride in municipal water, but also excessive fluoride consumption via tea, see. e.g.: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14034948219902...
One wonders, therefore, whether the Victorian British (who consumed an annual average of 6 pounds of tea per person in 1900) suffered from hyperfluoridation, and what its downstream effects might have been... In fairness, and what needs to be noted, the intellectual output of that place and era was highly superior.
This is an interesting point. I know the British are really into tea, but I assume they don’t let kids drink it due to the caffeine?
Not unheard of for 10 year olds to drink milky tea when I was growing up.
Why would that be? When I was growing up it was not uncommon for kids to drink coffee. I used to brew my own (bad and sweet) coffee before I was old enough for school.
England didn't start adding it until 1964
I believe they mean the naturally occurring fluoride in tea:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4808922/
TFA: "Among beverages, tea has the highest potential for increasing daily fluoride intake [17], as the tea plant, Camellia sinensis, accumulates fluoride that is released into tea infusions"
The paper is referring to the flouride content of tea itself, which seems to be much greater than that of fluoridated water systems.