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Dental Experts: Too Much Fluoride Is Bad For Babies
BOSTON — Dental experts are warning that too much fluoride could be a bad thing for babies. NewsCenter 5’s Liz Brunner reported Wednesday that if you’re a parent, you may have noticed Nursery Water. It’s fluoridated water and bottled for babies. It’s marketed as a way to help prevent tooth decay. Dental experts said there’s […]
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Acushnet health chief to address fluoride concerns
ACUSHNET — Health Board Chairman Thomas Fortin hopes to meet with New Bedford Mayor Scott Lang today or tomorrow to discuss the city’s pending fluoridation of its water supply, which also serves the town. “We’re most definitely still opposed to the fluoride,” Mr. Fortin said last night. “We haven’t changed our minds, and we’ve told […]
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Black salt, black tea may cause flurosis poisoning
New Delhi, Dec 31: If you thought unsafe water alone caused fluorosis poisoning, think again. Black salt and black tea are equally dangerous, an ongoing study has shown. Consuming them means not only bone and joint pain, anaemia, fatigue and blockage of blood vessels but also destruction of the stomach and intestinal lining. For pregnant […]
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The case against fluoride in water
Northern Kentucky University sociology professor Joan Ferrante buys copies of the book “The Fluoride Deception” by Christopher Bryson and gives them to people she meets. “I think it is the most well-researched book that I have ever come across in my career,” said Ferrante, who loves research and prefers it to two other main sources […]
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High amounts of fluoride reported in water at Eastalco
ADAMSTOWN — The amount of fluoride in the water moving underground off Alcoa Eastalco Works’ property and onto William Renn’s farm in the 5500 block of Mountville Road may contain concentrations of fluoride in excess of what would be safe to drink, environmental and health experts at Johns Hopkins University said. Right near the property […]
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More Communities Throw out Fluoridation
New York – December 21 — Legislators and officials are responding to newly published evidence of fluoride‘s adverse effects and rejecting fluoridation. This December, Juneau, Alaska and Martin County, Florida voted fluoride out of their drinking water. A Tennessee state legislator urged water companies to stop fluoridation. And the Vermont Department of Health sent a […]
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Martin County won’t add fluoride to water supply
STUART — On one side were the blue-shirted activists, those convinced that fluoride is hazardous to the health of most anyone who drinks it out of the tap. On the other side were those dressed in white: dentists and nurses who desperately wanted the chemical compound added to Martin County’s water supply to help strengthen […]
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Fluoride to flow in Dorval again
Fluoridated drinking water will return to Dorval as early as next summer, now that Montreal has been washed out of the picture, Mayor Edgar Rouleau announced Monday afternoon. The city began adding fluoride to potable water in the 1950s. But in 2003, Dorval shut down the filtration plant’s decaying fluoridation equipment. A $400,000 upgrade was […]
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Cavities in the fluoride push
THOSE advocating the addition of fluoride to Queensland’s public water supply prefer to denigrate opponents than engage in substantive debate. For instance, the Australian Dental Association’s Robert McCray dismisses opponents’ arguments and says people who don’t want fluoride can take it out of the water themselves – at significant expense. This is a medical treatment […]
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DOE completes transfer of uranium hexafluoride to Ohio
The government has transferred nearly 120 million pounds of depleted uranium from a processing plant in Tennessee to a southern Ohio facility, three years ahead of schedule and within budget. The uranium hexafluoride was left over from the government’s uranium enrichment process for nuclear weapons and fuel at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Operations ended […]
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