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• Tea-drinking habit led to rare bone disease

  This is a tale of a Missouri woman, a mysterious bone disease, and too much of a good thing. The year was 1998. The 52-year-old suburban St. Louis woman with a stiff spine and aching back had already been to several doctors. Most told her she had disc disease. But Dr. Michael P. Whyte, a […]

• Crescent City. Coastal Voices: Myriad reasons to dump fluoride

  As a sponsor of Measure A that will appear on the Nov. 2 ballot, my first reaction in writing this article was to answer every one of the exaggerations and false claims that have been proposed by the so-called “health experts” who endorse the public policy. But the exaggerations are so unbelievable and the denials […]

• Fluoride in water may harm baby’s teeth

  Drinking fluoridated water may ruin your baby’s smile. That’s the latest warning handed down by the Environmental Working Group, a public interest and environmental watchdog whose research about the toxicity of Teflon got DuPont to agree to change the popular coating’s chemistry. EWG’s current campaign centers on the youngest of 18million customers of the Metropolitan […]

• ‘Unbreakable’ greenhouse gas meets its doom at last

  The war on climate change just got a chemical weapon: a way to destroy the carbon-fluorine bonds that make a class of widely used industrial gases so dangerous in the atmosphere. Gases made from carbon, fluorine and chlorine, called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), long used as refrigerants, were banned in the 1990s because they damage the ozone […]

• Fairbanks: Fluoride advocate too fast, misses evidence trail

  INTRO by Alaska Report: This opinion essay is part of a developing dialogue about fluoride in public drinking water in Alaska. It was written in response to a guest opinion favoring fluoride that appeared in the Fairbanks Daily New-Miner. However, Kelly Bostian, the paper’s managing editor, rejected this essay, saying his readers didn’t need the […]

• Teflon Pans

  In 1975, Full and Parkins reported in the Journal of Dental Research that boiling water in teflon plans produced a “pronounced increase” in fluoride levels. An excerpt from this study is reproduced below. Teflon is made from fluorinated chemical, and thus the relationship between Teflon use and fluoride contamination of food is plausible. The following is an […]

• Sources of Fluoride

  The problem with fluoride today is not under-exposure, but over-exposure. Over the past 60 years, a glut of fluoride products have entered the market, including fluoride toothpastes, fluoride drops/tablets, fluoride mouthrinses, processed foods & beverages, pesticides, commercial tea drinks, fluorinated pharmaceuticals, and teflon pans. Learn the various ways that you can be exposed to fluoride.

• Water fluoridation: a critical review of the physiological effects of ingested fluoride as a public health intervention.

• Effects of the fluoride on the central nervous system

• Judge Won’t Quit DuPont Lawsuit

  A judge in Parkersburg, W.Va., refused to step down from a class-action lawsuit filed by Ohio and West Virginia residents who claim that a DuPont plant contaminated water supplies. Wood County Circuit Judge George W. Hill lives in the area where the chemical was detected and could be a potential benefactor, DuPont said. A court […]