Fluoride avoidance reduced anemia in pregnant women, and decreased preterm births, according to a new study.
Anemia in pregnancy can lead to maternal and infant mortality; it continues to be a problem despite nutritional counseling and maternal iron and folic acid supplementation.
Medical News Today reports:
“Anemic pregnant women living in India, whose urine contained 1 mg/L fluoride or more, were separated into two groups. The experimental group avoided fluoride in water, food and other sources …
Results reveal that anemia was reduced and pre-term and low-birth-weight babies were considerably fewer in the fluoride-avoidance group.”
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Resources:
Medical News Today September 3, 2010
Current Science May 25, 2010, Vol. 98, No. 10
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