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Fluoridation vote still up in air
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates of water fluoridation say obstacles in some Utah counties to put the issue on the November ballot are being made up by opponents. However, officials in Weber, Utah and Davis counties say water districts overlap county lines, and that could make the proposed vote invalid under language of legislation […]
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Utah a national leader by not fluoridating
Utahns consistently reject fluoride because we cut through the enormous endorsements and weigh the facts. We are not behind the times, but ahead of the 60 cities that bucked the system and rejected fluoride in the 1990s. We’re unique because we vote. Most cities are fluoridated by executive order. The task of unmasking this fluoride […]
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Fluoride without a fight
CORNISH — Debbie McKnight remembers boasting as a child to classmates in neighboring Lewiston that she had no cavities. “They thought that was pretty cool. I nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah’d them right to death,” says Mc- Knight, now 42 and the mother of three children who, like their mother, have nearly cavity-free teeth. McKnight believes there is a […]
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Floridation’s time has come in Cache Valley
What’s all the fuss about fluoridation? For a process that was embraced by the rest of the country 50 years ago, with no audible regrets, it’s stirring up a cauldron of controversy here in Utah. Opponents pin everything from hip fractures to cancer to brain damage on fluoride, but numerous studies since the 1950s reveal […]
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Speaker outlines fluoride hazards
LAYTON –Once the fluoride initiative is defeated here in Utah, those who worked hard to bring about its demise can’t go home and “sit on their laurels,” a California dentist who is against fluoridating water told a group of about 75 people here last week. Dr. David Kennedy, a retired dentist from San Diego, who […]
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What’s the big fuss about fluoridation?
OGDEN – Voting members of Weber, Davis and Utah counties should be pleased to find the issue of whether fluoride should be added to their community water supply will be on an upcoming ballot. Utah legislators have been working feverishly on this topic as they try to elevate Utah to the standards set by the […]
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Rivals debate fluoride
So what about fluoride? Both sides were presented Wednesday evening as a battle of words, coupled with conflicting research, characterized The Herald Journal’s forum on water fluoridation. An occasional heckler from the anti-fluoridation gallery taunted proponents Ariel Thomson and John Hubbard, but the setting was generally educational. But again, the question of to fluoridate or […]
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CDC: Fluoride safe, protects teeth
WOODS CROSS (AP) — The public debate about fluoridated water has nothing to do with science, according to an engineer with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Scientifically, (fluoridation) is absolutely safe,” David Apanian told water-system operators, elected leaders and public health officials from five Utah counties Tuesday. “It is effective. There are […]
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CDC Engineer Touts Fluoride’s Benefits
WOODS CROSS — The national debate about fluoridated water — like the one shaping up in Utah this year — is purely political and emotional, a federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention engineer said Tuesday. One thing it’s not, said David Apanian, is scientific. “Scientifically, [fluoridation] is absolutely safe. It is effective. There are […]
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