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Melton and Moorabool: Come clean on fluoride, Western Water urged
WESTERN Water has defended the absence of fluoride in Melton and Moorabool’s drinking water for the past seven months. Early last year, Western Water said it decided to progressively switch its drinking water supply in these areas from Melbourne to Merrimu Reservoir. Customers were informed about the change in February, but were not told about […]
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Sweet tooth can leave a sour taste by proving to be a dental disaster
Alison Lowe explains how we can prevent ourselves falling victim to the most common disease in Western society – dental caries ASK anybody what they think the most common disease in Western society is and I bet the last thing they’d come up with would be dental caries. But sadly tooth decay is a very […]
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Springfield, Ozarks will face critical issues in 2012
Happy New Year! As we reflect on the past year and look ahead to 2012, we have identified a set of critical issues that deserve the community’s attention. Our five-member News-Leader Editorial Board has endorsed this agenda as our vision for Springfield and the Ozarks in the year ahead. Three of the items are broad: […]
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Louth County Council: Fluoride question will ‘come back to haunt us’
‘ THIS WILL come back to haunt us. We are burying our head in the sand,’ Cllr Jim Loughran warned at the monthly meeting of Louth County Council. He had tabled a question asking ‘for what purpose is fluoride being added to the domestic water supply in the country,’ and said that while he noted […]
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Muskoka: District fluoride debate ends … sort of
MUSKOKA – Water wars raged in the district council chamber this past year. The fluoridation of municipal water was one of the most heated topics within the District Municipality of Muskoka in 2011. The battle began when Huntsville resident and dentist Jim Bjork told district council fluoride was a health hazard and that its addition […]
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Oakville/Halton: Sheldon Thomas of Clear Water Legacy responds to Dr. Sigal’s letter
Re: Letter to the editor, Monday, Dec. 26, 2010 [sic] UTM weighs in on debate on fluoride. Dr. Sigal, I, too, reside in Halton, and I agree with you that the fluoridation debate is all about the health of the future children of Halton and its communities. Fluoride has the capacity to injure children, in […]
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Fluoride for Howlong and Corowa
FLUORIDE should be introduced at Corowa and Howlong by July, more than five years after a divided shire council voted tentatively in favour of adding the chemical. Mulwala township is also scheduled to get fluoridated water but the council is still waiting for Thales to determine how its explosives factory can receive a non-fluoridated supply […]
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The Top Ten Unfounded Health Scares of 2011
I. Introduction Some old scares refuse to die. This year finds us with revivals of more than a few stories that we had hoped would stay in the junk scares graveyard, where they belong. But from phthalates to genetically modified fish, consumers continue to be needlessly frightened about safe products. Still, we’ve also been kept […]
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Scottish children’s teeth ‘best on record’
Children in Scotland today have the best dental health since records began, the Scottish government has said. Almost 70% of P7 pupils have no obvious sign of tooth decay, beating a 60% target previously set by ministers. The figures were released as part of a report by the National Dental Inspection Programme. At the same […]
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Durham: Council mulls fluoride in water
Bemused City Council members have deflected a resident’s demand that the Water Management Department stop adding fluoride to Durham’s drinking water. “Obviously, the suggestion would be a dramatic change from the way we presently operate,” Mayor Bill Bell told the resident, Corey Sturmer. “I’m sure the manager and his staff will take it under advisement […]
United States, North Carolina