Fluoridation Side Effects > Obesity Links to Source Documents: Obesity | Fluoridation "About $147 billion a year are spent directly related to obesity and the underlying health conditions related to that. That compares with all the cancers that people have across America, which cost a little under $100 billion a year." – Kathleen Sebelius Secretary of Health and Human Services CBS, Sunday Morning, July 18, 2010 (www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/25/sunday/main5419040.shtml) If artificial fluoridation were responsible for only 10 percent of our obesity epidemic, terminating water fluoridation would save Americans about $15 billion a year. August 2010: Obesity is reported to be a major factor in the increasing incidence of early puberty in girls. Is there a more direct connection to fluoride with early puberty? Animal research by Jennifer Luke suggests there is. See her PhD dissertation: "The Effect of Fluoride on the Physiology of the Pineal Gland." Water Fluoridation – Sales Pitch vs. Reality Check is a comprehensive 2008 report by John D. MacArthur whose recent comments to EPA summarize epidemiological data suggesting millions of Americans are suffering adverse health conditions resulting from the failure to properly regulate fluoride in drinking water. This page revised August 10, 2010.