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Fluoridation hasn’t brushed away tooth decay
Regarding your editorial, “Fluoridation takes bite out of tooth decay”: It’s a fallacy that fluoridation has reduced tooth decay in the United States. After almost seven decades of water fluoridation, six decades of fluoridated toothpaste, a glut of fluoridated dental products, a fluoride saturated food supply, fluoridated pharmaceuticals and air emissions, the CDC reports up […]
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Valpo fluoride commission tours Flint Lake water treatment plant
… Members of the Valparaiso City Utilities Fluoride Commission saw this Wednesday as they toured the Flint Lake water treatment plant, collecting data to produce a report by Sept. 30 on whether Valparaiso should continue fluoridating its water. … Fluoridation began in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1945 and came to Indiana at South Bend, Huntington […]
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Valparaiso. Editorial: Fluoridation takes bite out of tooth decay
Valparaiso is looking at whether to continue fluoridating the city’s drinking water. The answer should be easy. There are people who say fluoridation is bad for health. That’s true, if not done correctly. But don’t discount the good that has been done by fluoridating water for Valparaiso’s past 60 years or so. The Centers for […]
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Valparaiso group weighs continued fluoridation of water supply
A seven-member Fluoride Commission will begin considering whether to continue adding fluoride to the city’s water supply. Led by facilitator Stuart G. Walesh, the group will meet at 4 p.m Wednesday in the Valparaiso City Utilities room, 205 Billings St. The commission should provide an answer by September… They’ll look at the potential for harm […]
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Valpo committee to look for holes in fluoridation issue
VALPARAISO | The city’s water has been fluoridated for about 60 years, but a committee has been formed to help determine whether that should continue to be the case. Utility Director Steve Poulos announced at Tuesday’s meeting of the city’s Utilities Board that Board President Dave Bengs will serve as chairman of the fluoride committee, […]
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Fipronil: State finds dangerous chemicals being applied illegally
Molecular structure of Fipronil: INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Dangerous chemicals are being found inside Indiana restaurants, nursing homes, hotels and health clinics. They may even be inside your home. The substances were put there purposely to control pests. But, I-Team 8 discovered the residue they leave behind could be harming your health. I-Team 8 dug through […]
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Health officials: Put fluoride back in drinking water. Lakeville, North Liberty, Walkerton stopped adding it.
SOUTH BEND — Noting that adding fluoride to drinking water helps prevent tooth decay in both children and adults, the county Health Department is asking that the towns of Lakeville, North Liberty, and Walkerton start doing so again, and soon. In a press release issued Thursday, the department noted that fluoride “has been shown to […]
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Water wars: There’s more in that clear drink than you might think
SOUTHERN INDIANA — You must drink water to stay healthy, but how healthy is the water you’re drinking? You can’t drink bottled water because chemicals from the plastic bottle might leech into the water. The carbon footprint created by manufacturing and transporting bottled water is huge and bad for the environment and most of it […]
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Argos stops adding fluoride to town water
Argos joined the ranks of other local communities Bourbon, North Liberty, and Walkerton Wednesday night when town council members voted to stop adding fluoride to the town’s water supply. “The council had been given information, both pro and con (on adding fluoride to public water) about a week before (the meeting),” said Nick Wood, Argos […]
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Bourbon ends water fluoridation
The latest community to stop poisoning its water supply with toxic fluoride chemicals is Bourbon, Indiana. According to The Pilot News, the town council recently voted unanimously to stop lacing the water supply with the known neurotoxin after conducting much research on the subject, and after learning that water fluoridation is not mandatory in the […]
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