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• Sorry, this won’t fix our health crisis

  ‘What about getting kids to exercise?’ THE long-awaited, secretly edited Forster Report with recommendations to fix the disaster called Queensland Health has now been delivered — and the dramatic solution to this mess is (surprise, surprise) to fluoridate your drinking water. This will supposedly save $1 billion a year in dental costs. Come on, mass […]

• Fluoride fixation

  What a miracle modern water systems are. With a gentle flick of a finger or twist of a wrist, cool, clear, life-giving water comes rushing out of the faucet without a moment’s delay. Oh, sure, a faint whiff of chlorine reminds us someone’s treating that water for impurities. But as we dutifully swallow our eight […]

• Hamilton: To Add Fluoride or Not?

  Water is essential to our existence. We guzzle it down when exercising, mix it into our baby’s cereal and cook our family’s meals with it. It makes up 60 per cent of our bodies, 95 per cent of our blood and 22 per cent of our bones. Without fresh drinking water, we’d die within days. […]

• Local fight led to metal-smelting controls

  All Christy Carton wanted to do was prevent her town’s ground water from being contaminated with cyanide. (and fluoride) She ended up doing a bit more than that. The Frederick County mother and environmental champion won a court battle that will change how dozens of U.S. companies dispose of the wastes from smelting metals. The […]

• Poison cloud fears grow as Allies bomb chemical sites

  NATO’S sustained destruction of Serbian oil dumps and chemical depots has increased fears of an environmental disaster in the Balkans. In northern Greece, people are stockpiling bottled water and canned food after warnings that the bombardment had released poisonous dioxins into the atmosphere. ‘Many wondered whether the entire province should be evacuated en masse,’ a […]

• Bangalore: A cocktail of toxins

  Chemical analysis of water samples collected as a part of ground water monitoring, carried out by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), has thrown up worrying results. Besides nitrate, fluoride, salinity being above normal levels, fluoride and radon gas have emerged as the new ingredients in the city’s ground water above permissible levels. “We have […]

• FAN in the News: 2001 – 2006

  FAN in the News: 2007-2010 2011-2012 2006: Health dept. issues fluoridation warning – Bratteboro Reformer (Vermont, USA), December 19, 2006 “But Michael Connett, an anti-fluoride activist who works for the Fluoride Action Network, said the health department warning is an important wake-up call and should not be taken lightly. For years, Connett said, both the […]

• The Timeline

  Douglass’ research on fluoride and osteosarcoma comprises two separate studies. The first study — a “retrospective study” — was initiated in 1992 and completed by 1995, while the second study — a “prospective study” — began soon thereafter. Douglass’ graduate student, Elise Bassin, conducted her analysis on Douglass’ first study. The following discussion focuses on […]

• United States

  Acronym AAP – American Academy of Pediatrics AAPHD – American Association of Public Health Dentistry ACS – American Cancer Society ADA – American Dental Association AWWA – American Water Works Association ASTDD – Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors ATSDR  –  Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry CA EPA  –  California Environmental Protection […]

• Melatonin & Breast Cancer

  I have just received a fascinating piece of snail mail from June Allen, who with her husband Dr. Phillip Allen,  runs a group called Enviro-Health Concerns. She has pulled out some quotes which point to a possible connection between melatonin levels and breast cancer, and ties this back to the important work of Dr. Jennifer […]