Repost from UH School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene The Center for Integration of Primary Care and Oral Health (CIPCOH) 100 Million Mouths Campaign (100 MMC) is seeking to improve oral health nationwide by working with six pilot states to develop blueprints to rollout in other states. Hawaii was chosen due to its oral health needs. About […]
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Water fluoridation’s fraught history is focus of award-winning article
A University of Hawaii at Manoa associate professor of history received an esteemed environmental history national honor. Frank Zelko was awarded the 2019 Alice Hamilton Prize for best article by the American Society for Environmental History for his piece titled Optimizing nature: Invoking the “natural” in the struggle over water fluoridation in the journal […]
Opinion: Tackling Tooth Decay On The Cheap
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, Kudos to the editors of the Civil Beat for publishing this notably accurate article, especially after their recent editorial in praise of fluoridation. (EC) The received wisdom on fluoridation is highly distorted. Water fluoridation is catnip to American progressives, a category in which I include myself. In a country […]
Fear Of Fluoridation Ignores Science And Common Sense
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, This Editorial is frustrating because the Editorial Board put its trust in the promoters of fluoridation. They did not take into account the following: 1. Fluoride is an endocrine disruptor (2nd paragraph; NAS, 2006). 2. Over 60 studies have reported an association of fluoride exposure with reduced IQ in […]
Why Hawaii Continues To Keep Fluoride Out Of Its Drinking Water
Nearly 70% of the U.S.’s population receive fluoride through public water systems. Hawaii remains an outlier, thanks to long-standing opposition. This legislative session, two fluoride-related bills cycled through the Hawaii Senate, each with the opposite intention. The first was a proposal to fluoridate Hawaii’s public drinking water, something that has failed over and over in […]
Proposal to put fluoride in Hawaii water systems quickly dies
Lawmakers heard hours of testimony Wednesday on a proposal to add fluoride to Hawaii water systems to help prevent tooth decay, but the proposal quickly died when members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the idea. Water fluoridation has a long and controversial history in Hawaii, in large part because the state has very high […]
Hawaii Fluoridation Bill SB2997: Hearing this Wednesday, February 12th at 9 am
THE SENATE THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2020 COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY Kenekoa/Senator Karl Rhoads, Luna Ho‘omalu/Chair Kenekoa/Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Hope Luna Ho‘omalu/Vice Chair NOTICE OF HEARING DATE: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 TIME: 9:00 a.m. PLACE: Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street A G E N D A SB 2997 Status […]
Kilauea: Volcanic Pollution Probed During Eruption Pause
(BIVN) – Kilauea Volcano is not erupting, and the USGS Volcano Alert level is at NORMAL. As scientists and affiliates with the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory wrote in this week’s Volcano Watch article, its a great time to do some research. The end of Kilauea’s 2018 eruption this past September was accompanied by an enormous […]
Letter: Don’t let government put fluoride in water
For those who are not normally involved in the legislative process, what a great time to speak out with everything you have. This is thanks to (D) Sen. Karl Rhoads’ recent proposed legislation to fluoridate (poison) your water here in Hawaii. For anyone who is in doubt of how toxic fluoride is, simply look at […]
Fluoride proposal draws opposition
LIHUE — Legislators pushing a proposal to add fluoride to Hawaii’s public water systems say it would promote better dental health, but some on Kauai have concerns about cost and implications of fluoridating the water. The legislation would require major public water suppliers to fluoridate drinking water in Hawaii and for the Department of Health […]