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I noticed that there are several people here with kidney issues and others

that have diabetes with potential kidney issues, so thought to post this .

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in the article.

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Shan

June 3, 2008

Kidney Foundation Admits: Kidney Patients Should be Notified of Potential

Risk from Fluorides and Fluoridated Drinking Water

Ellijay, GA: June 3, 2008 – A new position paper from the National Kidney

Foundation concludes that individuals with chronic kidney disease should be

notified of the potential risk from exposure to fluorides. The document

acknowledges gaping holes in research concerning kidney impacts from

fluorides, lending new ammunition to the growing numbers of cities, health

professionals, water agencies, and citizens who question industry and government

assertions that water fluoridation has been proven safe.

The statement formally cancels NKF’s previous position paper on water

fluoridation and recommends that kidney patients be notified of the risks via

the organization’s web site.

Opponents of fluoridation believe the statement is a step in the right

direction, but say that the document still does not go far enough and is not

reaching the millions of average kidney patients – perhaps due to an

apparent conflict of interest the National Kidney Foundation has in receiving

grant funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the federal

government’s largest promoter of water fluoridation.

NKF has issued no press release about the April 15th statement and has

offered no direct link to the new information on its web site except when a

search for the term “fluoride†is entered.

Stockin is a career public health professional now at The Lillie

Center, Inc, a Georgia-based public health training firm that is working to

end water fluoridation. He observes, “If you read the statement, it appears

the Kidney Foundation wants to have its cake and eat it too. NKF apparently

recognizes that it stands to be sued by thousands of its own kidney

patients and doctors for negligent misrepresentation and failure to warn, but

doesn’t have the stomach to oppose the CDC who has been a funder of NKF. So

NKF

has told some of the story of fluoride’s toxicity, but not all, and

quietly put the news on a difficult-to-find web page. Lawyers and fluoride

opponents are going to have a field day with the inconsistent statements in the

paper.â€

Opponents of fluoridation do appreciate that the new paper strikes a blow

to organizations such as the American Dental Association that list NKF as

supporting, endorsing, or recognizing the public health benefits of

fluoridation. In bold-faced type the paper states, “The NKF has no position on

the

optimal fluoridation of water.†This statement appears to require the

American Dental Association to remove the National Kidney Foundation’s name

from

ADA’s list of organizations recognizing fluoridation’s benefits at

_http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/compendium.asp_

(http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/compendium.asp)

Fluoridated water is acknowledged to be potentially harmful to patients on

dialysis machines. The position paper lists cases where dialysis patients

died or were fluoride-poisoned when filtration systems on the machines

allowed fluoride into the bodies of the patients.

Stockin points out, “Fluoride must be removed from water used for

dialysis, but people with kidney stones, transplants, or other kidney issues

ingest

it in drinking water, foods, drugs, and from other sources without anyone

knowing their total fluoride dose. Sounds a little like someone’s not

telling the whole story of Fluoride-Gate,†he says.

“The kidneys are exposed to significant amounts of toxic fluoride as they

try to eliminate it from the body,†he continues. “How many kidney

patients could have avoided dialysis – or perhaps sadly even death from

chronic

kidney disease – if they had been told the whole story about fluoride

toxicity?â€

The revised fluoride statement from the National Kidney Foundation can be

viewed at: _http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/Fluoride_Intake_in_CKD.pdf_

(http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/Fluoride_Intake_in_CKD.pdf) and the

attorney’s

letter sent to NKF that initiated NKF’s re-look at fluoridation can be

found at: _http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf_

(http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf) .

For more information, contact:

G. Stockin, MPH

The Lillie Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 839 Ellijay GA 30540

Ph: 706.669.0786 // Fax: 706.635.8170

Email: stockin2@...

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NOTES FROM FAN:

• _The print version of the National Kidney Foundations's April 15, 2008,

statement_ (http://fluoridealert.org/kidney.nkf.2008.html)

_http://fluoridealert.org/kidney.nkf.2008.html_

(http://fluoridealert.org/kidney.nkf.2008.html)

• June 2, 2008, Press Release: _Kidney Foundation Admits: Kidney Patients

Should be Notified of Potential Risk from Fluorides and Fluoridated Drinking

Water_ (http://fluoridealert.org/press/nfk2.html)

_http://fluoridealert.org/press/nfk2.html_

(http://fluoridealert.org/press/nfk2.html)

• September 18, 2007: The attorney’s letter sent to National Kidney

Foundation that initiated their re-examination of fluoridation:

_http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf_

(http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf)

• October 9, 2007, Press Release: _Did Kidney Foundation Leave Millions at

Risk by Failing to Warn about Fluorides and Fluoridated Drinking Water?_

(http://fluoridealert.org/press/nkf.htm)

_http://fluoridealert.org/press/nkf.htm_

(http://fluoridealert.org/press/nkf.htm)