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Fluoride Concerns Surface Once Again
Despite decades of adding fluoride to drinking water to protect teeth from decay, there are growing concerns about the efficacy and the safety of this practice. Spurred by new research on fluoride’s health effects and at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Academies’ National Research Council (NRC) has begun another review of […]
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A debate in ‘Fluorida’?
Dear All, According to the article in today’s Sun-Sentinel which comes out of Palm Beach County, ‘Fluorida’ (the poison state), the “Officials plan for fluoride debate”. However there is one little snagg, we know that the officials have already made up their mind, and no matter what transpires in this “debate” they are going to […]
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Fluoride Linked to Low IQ, Studies Show
Children’s intelligence declines as their natural drinking water fluoride levels increase, concluded a Chinese study in the May 2003 journal, “Fluoride.” Children scored inferior IQ’s even when fluoride levels were similar to that added to U.S. water supplies to prevent tooth decay (1). “As the fluoride levels in drinking water increased, the IQ fell and […]
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Palm Beach County commissioners to vote on fluoridation
Patricia Moreell of Boca Raton has been fighting fluoride for a dozen years. Twelve years ago, she recalled, she appeared before the Palm Beach County Commission to speak against fluoridating the water supply that serves the unincorporated area – including West Boca Raton and West Delray Beach. Fluoride has long been considered beneficial to teeth. […]
United States, Florida -
For poor kids, few dentists means rampant tooth decay
SALISBURY — The chances of finding a dentist are slim for Lower Shore children who receive health insurance through the state, leading to tooth decay rates here that exceed both Maryland and national averages. Health specialists attribute the high rates of oral health disease to a shortage of dentists willing to accept the low reimbursement […]
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Green Party Urges Protest At Mass Fluoridation Plan
Swansea residents will be urged to stop paying their water rates if the Government presses ahead with plans to add fluoride to drinking water. That was the warning from the city’s Green Party if controversial plans to allow the mass fluoridation of water are given the go-ahead in the House of Commons next month. Mount […]
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Fluoridation: What’s Being Ignored
For fifty-five years, the promotion of water fluoridation was justified by the theory that fluoride, incorporated into tooth enamel during childhood, would result in teeth resistant to decay. This prior dogma was conclusively swept away three years ago by the same authorities that long declared the theory “scientifically undebatable.” Its import was barely noted in […]
United States, Florida -
Greens warn on water fluoridation
A proposal to fluoridate Britain’s drinking water would violate the European Convention on Human Rights, the Green Party has warned. In a report entitled "Truth Decay: Challenging New Labour’s propaganda on water fluoridation", the party argues the move would medicate consumers without their consent. The warning comes ahead of a parliamentary vote on the controversial […]
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Fluoride in water a health risk to babies, say Greens
FLUORIDATED water could pose a significant health risk to babies, campaigners warn today as the debate about the future of the nation’s drinking water intensifies. Organisations opposed to the compulsory fluoridation of drinking water believe more should be done to prevent children eating too much sugar instead of forcing medication on an unwilling nation. And […]
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Health Study may Include C8
A major federal health survey could include the first independent analysis of how widely a common but increasingly controversial chemical is affecting humans. The chemical, which is found in everything from stain-proof carpeting to water-resistant clothing, already is known to have contaminated public water supplies along the Ohio River and to have mysteriously accumulated in […]