Fluoride Action Network

How Big Sugar pushed fluoride — new study alleges a century of spin The sugar industry and companies that make sweet drinks and foods have spent nearly a century downplaying sugar’s role in health problems and distorting the science around fluoride — and the practice ...

In the 1940s, the sugar industry faced a crisis. Research was mounting that sugar was driving the epidemic of tooth decay, but reducing sugar consumption was unthinkable for an industry built on sales. So industry leaders pulled off a sleight of hand worthy of Big Tobacco.

"For decades, fluoride was treated as the only tool we needed. The evidence has shifted. The benefits of drinking fluoridated water are smaller than we once believed. The risks—especially to the developing brain—are now impossible to ignore. It’s time for a re-evaluation." - @blanphear.bsky.social