{"id":907,"date":"2016-01-11T10:18:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T10:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/?p=907"},"modified":"2016-01-11T10:38:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T10:38:46","slug":"evidence-of-potential-health-harmsbenefits-too-weak-to-justify-water-fluoridation-says-chss-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/01\/11\/evidence-of-potential-health-harmsbenefits-too-weak-to-justify-water-fluoridation-says-chss-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence of potential health harms\/benefits too weak to justify water fluoridation, says CHSS Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Professor of Health Policy Stephen Peckham recently led research investigating a possible link between fluoride in drinking water and underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism).<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A feature article in Boxing Day&#8217;s Guardian highlighted Stephen&#8217;s research, outlining his &#8211; and other experts&#8217; &#8211; call for a moratorium on fluoridation pending more robust evidence around its safety as well as its effectiveness as the major policy initiative in preventing dental decay in children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/dec\/25\/fluoride-water-supply-benefit-unproved-tooth-decay\">Read the Guardian article &gt;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Health Policy Stephen Peckham recently led research investigating a possible link between fluoride in drinking water and underactive thyroid (hypothyroidism).\u00a0 A feature article in Boxing Day&#8217;s Guardian highlighted Stephen&#8217;s research, outlining his &#8211; and other experts&#8217; &#8211; call for a moratorium on fluoridation pending more robust evidence around its safety as well as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/2016\/01\/11\/evidence-of-potential-health-harmsbenefits-too-weak-to-justify-water-fluoridation-says-chss-director\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35851,"featured_media":913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[10478,11263,11261,135301,11262,135302,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/chss-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}