By midday Friday, water consumed by more than 450,000 customers served by the Palm Beach County Water Utility will contain fluoride. The final OK came Tuesday morning from the Palm County Commission. Flipping the fluoride switch comes after years of contentious debate by county commissioners. It wasn’t until the summer of 2003, after County Commissioner […]
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Excessive Fluoride Levels in Lubbock Cooper School Wate
You’ve heard of fluoride, it can be found in your toothpaste and sometimes in your water. But, too much of it can cause cosmetic problems like brown stains on your teeth or health problems like bone disorders. Right now the water at Lubbock Cooper Schools are testing at a level that the Environmental Protection Agency […]
In Shadows Of Coronet, Questions On Health Persist
PLANT CITY – Juanita Burnett shuffled from the parking lot to the recreation center, her stooped frame supported by a stout wooden cane. She paused every now and then to catch her breath, which has grown short and becomes shorter with each passing year. “For a long time they thought it was my heart,” she […]
South Blount Utility asks company for fluoride information
Months after the construction of a new state-of-the-art treatment plant, board officers for the South Blount Utility District still wrestle with the issue of fluoridating the system’s water. At the district’s Tuesday board meeting, board officers asked an engineering company, now working with the district on a grant for water lines, to put together a […]
Fort Collins’ voters to decide fluoride issue
Thought the issue of fluoride in Fort Collins had been deliberated, debated and decided? Think again. The question will appear on the April municipal ballot in the form of a proposal to do away with the long-standing practice of fluoridating the city’s water supply. A group devoted to ending the practice – Clean Water Advocates […]
Juneau: Panel finds no middle ground on fluoridation
There seems no middle ground on the issue of Juneau’s fluoridation. The Juneau Fluoride Study Commission invited six professionals to sit on a panel at its public hearing Thursday. The panelists’ expertise ranges from pediatrics to public health to dentistry. Three of the experts supported fluoridation; two opposed it; one remained neutral. The commission was […]
Arkansas wrong to mandate fluoridation of water
When given an opportunity to make an electoral decision about fluoridating the city’s drinking water, voters in Texarkana, Ark., decided they didn’t want to risk potential physical health problems for the promise of better dental health. Regardless of what proponents and opponents may have thought of the issue, it was disposed of in the correct […]
Few Americans Are Aware They Have Chronic Kidney Disease
Ten to 20 million people in the United States have kidney disease but most don’t know it, according to researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at […]
Fluoride debate renewed in Central Oregon
REDMOND, Ore. (AP) – Dentist Mark Jensen of Bend can always tell when someone is not from these parts. It’s all in the smile. “When people move here, you can look at their teeth and tell that they’ve come from fluoridated areas,” said Jensen of Bend, the past president of the Oregon Dental Association. “It’s […]
Fluoridated water not favored in Willamina poll
Willamina’s city council Dec. 9 took action on two water issues that could affect the city’s water availability and quality for years to come. The council launched an investigation into connecting Sheridan and Willamina’s water supplies, and it voted against adding fluoride to the water supply. Willamina dentist Gary Brooks, who has supported adding fluoride […]