HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Reductionism, Precautionary Principle, Socioeconomic Status
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An advisory panel to the usa food and drug administration (fda) has recommended that the. Should we continue to have fluorinated water: toronto"s board of health voted on monday to continue adding fluoride to our city water. We would have to drink on average 67 glasses of fluoride water per day to be at risk of skeletal fluorosis: the opponents of fluoride water also raised the question of having lead. Government in ontario does not fund dental care for our teeth. In fact, we are more at risk of radiation that occurs naturally in the air or from the radon which we can get from cosmic rays in our atmosphere. There are foods that we eat everyday that have low levels of naturally occurring radioactive material: bananas, carrots, red meat. Here in canada, we are being reassured that even though they found radioactive iodine levels in seaweed in bc, does not pose a threat to health thus not to worry.
