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Debate In MA Over Increasing Water Fluoridation
A proposal on Beacon Hill would vastly expand the fluoridation of drinking water across Massachusetts. This effort comes at a time when some people are increasingly concerned about fluoridating any water at all. Tony Vallentine is one of those people. His son Seth died in 1986 when he was just 17 years-old from a rare […]
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Mohawks seek deer jaws to help with fluoride monitoring
HOGANSBURG – The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s environmental division is trying to collect 75 lower jaws from deer killed by hunters on the reservation. They need the jaws to monitor the amount of fluoride in deer and to see if it has reached levels that forced the slaughtering of cattle on the reservation in the […]
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Supreme Court won’t hear Escondido fluoride lawsuit
NORTH COUNTY —- The city of Escondido will not have to change the way it adds fluoride to the water supply, according to a state Supreme Court decision Wednesday. The state’s highest court declined to review a 4-year-old lawsuit in which a group of Escondido residents alleged that the way the city fluoridates the water […]
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It’s official: Bellingham voters reject fluoridation
Whatcom County certified the results of its first vote-by-mail general election Tuesday afternoon, ending a count slowed by ink bleeding through ballots and write-in votes. One extremely close county race will be heading to a hand recount next week. Though it was an off-year election, an effort to add fluoride to Bellingham’s drinking water, a […]
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Editorial: Some second thoughts on fluoridation
It is one of the cardinal principles of pharmacology: “The poison is in the dose.” Thus, iodine is so important to health that tiny amounts are added to table salt, while a concentrated dose can kill you. The principle can also be applied to a topic that has stirred controversy for 60 years: the fluoridation […]
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Some oppose fluoride in water
Some public health advocates are saying, “Don’t drink the water” — if it’s supplemented with fluoride. Once viewed as a Communist conspiracy to brainwash America, fluoridated water has become a hot-button issue again. Anti-fluoridation Internet sites are flooding the Web and voters in some parts of the country have even rejected legislation introducing water fluoridation. […]
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The cost of no cavities
Is fluoridated water good for you? Or is it a poison that causes young boys to die of bone cancer? For 60 years, U.S. cities and towns have been adding fluoride to tap water, and for 60 years pro-fluoride advocates have been unable to forge a scientific consensus in favor of the practice. Those who […]
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Communities debate fluoride in tap water
MONTPELIER, Vt. –A letter to the editor in a newspaper describing fluoride as a poison prompted two local dental hygienists to shoot back. “Community water fluoridation is the number one way to prevent dental decay,” Terri Weinstein of Marshfield and Michele Feccia of Barre wrote. “Sixty years after the first community (Grand Rapids, MI) adjusted […]
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Fluoridation fight will go to state Supreme Court
WATSONVILLE — The city will take its nearly three-year fight against fluoridation to the state Supreme Court. The decision, made by the City Council in closed session at the end of a lengthy meeting, came after nearly an hour of public testimony on the issue earlier in the evening when the Council Chamber was packed […]
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Rockland: Fluoride free for 60 years
When most New Yorkers drink water from their faucets, they take part in a public health initiative that is marking its 60th anniversary this year. Fluoride, a naturally occurring element, is added in small amounts to 73 percent of the drinking water in New York state, including 90 percent of public water in Westchester. Nationwide, […]
United States, New York