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Queensland: Minister backs CHO on fluoride advice
Queensland Health Minister Lawrence Springborg has defended his department’s decision to write to councils touting the benefits of water fluoridation. The State Government has recently given councils the power to stop putting fluoride in the water. However, the state’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young has implored councils not to be swayed by the anti-fluoride […]
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Queensland’s Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young cops flak for fluoride call
QUEENSLAND’S Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has stepped into a political minefield, imploring local governments to fluoridate their water supplies. She says the move by councils would be for the benefit of ratepayers’ health. Under the Bligh Government, 87 per cent of the state had fluoride in its water supply and plans were under way […]
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Flouridate Sonoma County Water Supply? Petition for your Opinion
The County has taken steps to move forward on the fluoridation of the Sonoma County Water Agency’s water supply serving about 600,000 people in Sonoma County and Marin. One Sonoma County Supervisor has stated that she feels so strongly about fluoridation of the water supply that she will not read any materials in opposition. All […]
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Goldcorp’s mine in El Salvador a ‘threat’ to human rights: government
The government of El Salvador has asked the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) to help the country push for a halt of Vancouver-based Goldcorp’s (TSX: G), (NYSE: GG) Cerro Blanco gold-silver project in southern Guatemala, reports La Información (in Spanish). The article says El Salvador’s human rights defense attorney general (PDDH), Oscar Luna, claims […]
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Iconoclastic sources of influences
Selecting one book is a too much of a challenge, so the field is narrowed to the two I feel have most to add to the conversations that need to occur in Australia. These are The Source by James Michener and The Flouride Deception by Christopher Bryson. Pipped at the post is To Kill a […]
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Other councils may force Moreton Bay region’s hand on fluoride
The Caboolture region could be stuck with fluoridated water whether it likes it or not. Last month Moreton Bay Regional Council (MBRC) called for an report into using non-fluoridated water after Councillor James Houghton raised concerns about fluoride‘s health impacts. But since then, the Brisbane City and Somerset Regional councils have decided they wanted to […]
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Letter: Fluoride opponents should offer option
To the Editor: Marnie Eisenstadt wrote a well-researched article Dec. 9: ”Why Pulaski Pulled the Plug on Fluoride.” Pulaski Mayor Karl Hax said the fluoride was corroding the pipes. Michael Sacco, chairman of the Pulaski Water Board and others are professed disciples of Paul Connett, a retired chemistry professor from St. Lawrence University and head […]
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Environmental changes have cascading effects
Excerpt … Environmentalist G N S Reddy said depleting groundwater levels have forced people to dig deeper borewells. “Consuming fluoride present in deeper groundwater influences aging process. A 30-year-old person looks like 60-year-old. Such a phenomenon has been observed in Karnataka,” he said.
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The Few. The Fluoridated: Only 6 Municipalities in Upper Valley Treat Water to Prevent Tooth Decay
Oral hygiene is not something taken lightly in Brenna Ordway’s household. The 28-year-old Cornish resident has two young children, ages 6 and 4, in whom she has instilled a devotion to dental care that she calls “religious.” “If I forget, they remind me they need to brush their teeth,” she said. It was the way […]
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The next Allentown water issue could be fluoridation
As long as passions are running hot and heavy in Allentown over whether to hock the city’s water system decades into the future, it may be a good time to consider whether to continue injecting poison into that system’s drinking water. A little bit of poison won’t hurt anybody, it has been argued since the […]
United States, Pennsylvania