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Перевод: fluoridation
[существительное] фторирование [существительное]
Тезаурус:
- Is artificial fluoridation really safe?
- Undoubtedly, the "fluoridation controversy" has entered a new phase in which genuine doubts are replacing previously held certainties.
- Many proponents of fluoridation insist that this cannot happen; to support their view they cite a well-known study, published in 1960, which purports to show that a physiological mechanism ensures that blood levels of ionic fluoride remain stable no matter what the intake (Journal of Applied Physiology , vol 15, p 508).
- So the crucial argument does not concern the fluoride level in a community water supply per se , but rather whether fluoridation increases the risk that certain people develop, even for a short time, levels of fluoride in the blood that can damage human cells and systems.
- Unlike chlorination, which is designed to treat the water and make it safe to drink, fluoridation is meant to influence a human physiological process - the mineralisation of tooth enamel.
- Today it is not so much fluoridation as nitrates and pesticides which generate international conflict over water quality.
- The reasons for the present re-think about fluoridation are twofold.
- First, fluoridation will raise the average steady state or plateau level of ionic fluoride in the blood throughout the total population.
- Fluoridation - are the dangers resolved?
- Nevertheless, the artificial fluoridation of a community water supply does have certain predictable consequences.
- Back in 1945, when the first experimental fluoridation projects got under way in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Newburgh, New York, it was envisaged that drinking about 1 litre of fluoridated water a day would provide 1 milligram of fluoride .
- The fictional General Ripper was obsessed with fluoridation.
- For more than three decades health authorities in the United States, Britain and Australia insisted that only a lunatic fringe of cranks, flat-Earthers and right-wing reactionaries opposed fluoridation.
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