DeForest Village Board discusses potential fluoride removal from water

Village of DeForest residents could potentially lose the fluoride from their public water supply depending on future actions by the village board. The Village of DeForest Board began discussing removing fluoride at their meeting on Nov. 18. Municipalities around Wisconsin and the nation have been debating or already taken such steps. The DeForest Board has […]

What Is MAHA? How wellness culture with legitimate concerns (and some conspiratorial beliefs) became a movement poised to take Washington.

In May 2016, in the middle of Donald Trump’s first run for president, the salad chain Sweetgreen announced a cheerful clean-eating campaign called “Make America HealthyAgain” centered on the removal of bacon and Sriracha from its menus. The slogan went into disuse — it was briefly resurrected by a radiologist and Fox News contributor who […]

Florida City Votes to Remove Fluoride From Water

What’s New The city of Tavares has voted to remove fluoride from water, after Donald Trump‘s pick for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke out against keeping the chemical in public water. Newsweek has contacted Florida’s Department of Health, via email, for comment. Why It Matters Multiple places in the U.S. are voting on […]

Fluoride-free water supply for Tauranga a ‘waste of time’

Tauranga residents will not have access to a public supply of non-fluoridated water for at least another few months, but a fluoride-free advocate says the move would now be a waste of time. The city’s water has been fluoridated since 24 October this year following an order from the director general of health. If Tauranga […]

Many west-central Illinois water systems would comply with possible fluoride removal

Some west-central Illinois water system operators say they would comply with the possible removal of fluoride that could come from the next presidential administration. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.— President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services — has indicated that he wants to end the practice of water fluoridation in the United States. […]

The impact of early childhood exposure to fluoride on cognitive neurodevelopment

The International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) and the American Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR) has announced the publication of a new study in the Journal of Dental Researchthat examines how cognitive development among young children is affected by early exposure to fluoride. It is important to maintain confidence […]

Health group concerned with NH legislative proposals

Proposed state legislation could end public school vaccination requirements, prohibit public water systems from fluoridating water and add work requirements for Medicaid recipients. Some health policy leaders are concerned about such measures particularly as they look forward to a tight budget year in which spending cutbacks are possible. “Policymakers in our state are going to […]