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Saturday, November 14, 2009
UK - Here to defend Dennis over fluoride
Here to defend Dennis over fluoride
Dulverton Road
Ruislip
Middlesex
Politicial leader David Cameron is calling for less "Big Government" and more emphasis on the individual.
One place to start would be to stop the prime example of Nanny State interference where the authorities add fluoride to tap water.
This chemical is not added to make the water safe to drink, but to bring about changes in the human body – a dangerous precedent. One size does not fit all, as some people may react badly to this chemical.
No sensible doctor would prescribe medication for a patient he's never met, whose medical history he doesn't know, in a dosage over which there is no control. The countries with the biggest drop in child tooth decay are Sweden, Netherlands, Finland & Denmark – who do not fluoridate!
May I defend local resident Dennis Edmondson. Some may not always agree with him, but he is an old soldier who fought for Britain and a few months ago won an award for bravely putting himself at risk to help a lady who was being attacked at night by a man.
His heart is definitely in the right place!
A Wills
Dulverton Road
Ruislip
Middlesex
Politicial leader David Cameron is calling for less "Big Government" and more emphasis on the individual.
One place to start would be to stop the prime example of Nanny State interference where the authorities add fluoride to tap water.
This chemical is not added to make the water safe to drink, but to bring about changes in the human body – a dangerous precedent. One size does not fit all, as some people may react badly to this chemical.
No sensible doctor would prescribe medication for a patient he's never met, whose medical history he doesn't know, in a dosage over which there is no control. The countries with the biggest drop in child tooth decay are Sweden, Netherlands, Finland & Denmark – who do not fluoridate!
May I defend local resident Dennis Edmondson. Some may not always agree with him, but he is an old soldier who fought for Britain and a few months ago won an award for bravely putting himself at risk to help a lady who was being attacked at night by a man.
His heart is definitely in the right place!
A Wills
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UK - God gave us skill to move forward
God gave us skill to move forward
Date: 14 November 2009
Savile Park Road
Halifax
GRAHAM RIGBY, Your say November 7, I'm with him, says "If God had wanted fluoride in our water it would be there."
Down the centuries religion has opposed medical advances, saying as Graham Rigby does, that it's against God's will.
The most recent example was religious opposition to organ transplant surgery but I don't see any Graham Rigbys refusing organ transplant surgery when it's their own lives in danger.
So let's turn Graham Rigby's statement round.
If God hadn't wanted us to make these medical advances, including fluoride, he wouldn't have given us the intelligence to do so.
But he did, so that's God's will.
John Crabtree
RFH,14/11/2009 08:18:29
You’ve shot your own argument down in flames, Mr Crabtree, with your words, “when it's their own lives in danger.”
Few people would refuse heart surgery if their condition required it, but I suspect every sane person WOULD refuse it if they were told they had to have it without their consent because a minority of people in the area were possibly in danger of developing heart problems if they didn’t make slight changes to their lifestyle.
Furthermore, fluoride is NOT a medical advance. It is an industrial waste product.
Date: 14 November 2009
Savile Park Road
Halifax
GRAHAM RIGBY, Your say November 7, I'm with him, says "If God had wanted fluoride in our water it would be there."
Down the centuries religion has opposed medical advances, saying as Graham Rigby does, that it's against God's will.
The most recent example was religious opposition to organ transplant surgery but I don't see any Graham Rigbys refusing organ transplant surgery when it's their own lives in danger.
So let's turn Graham Rigby's statement round.
If God hadn't wanted us to make these medical advances, including fluoride, he wouldn't have given us the intelligence to do so.
But he did, so that's God's will.
John Crabtree
RFH,14/11/2009 08:18:29
You’ve shot your own argument down in flames, Mr Crabtree, with your words, “when it's their own lives in danger.”
Few people would refuse heart surgery if their condition required it, but I suspect every sane person WOULD refuse it if they were told they had to have it without their consent because a minority of people in the area were possibly in danger of developing heart problems if they didn’t make slight changes to their lifestyle.
Furthermore, fluoride is NOT a medical advance. It is an industrial waste product.
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USA - Early Childhood Caries are a serious problem in Virginia
NYSCOF: Virginia is 95% fluoridated. Yet, "Early Childhood Caries are a serious problem in Virginia"
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Friday, November 13, 2009
UK - Lymington Times letter
SIR, — Regarding fluoridation and the 'A&T' story revealing improved dental statistics relating to Southampton flve-year-olds:
The most recent survey suggested that the teeth of the city's children now have average levels of decay, and not much worse than average — h.s previously claimed by the NHS.
The .strategic health authority (SHA) said comparing this year's statistics with previous data would give the false impression of an improvement in dental health because the new research was done • differently.
There are two problems with this response. First, an analysis of the statistics shows that the teeth of those who were omitted from the survey would have had to be really bad to have increased the Southampton decay rate to the level of earlier surveys.
Secondly, the same revised means of research indicated that the dental health of (unfluoridated) Southampton five-year-olds was now considerably better than those who live in (fluoridated) central Birmingham. How does the SHA explain that?
Jason Merrit
Glenwood Avenue,
Bassett.
The most recent survey suggested that the teeth of the city's children now have average levels of decay, and not much worse than average — h.s previously claimed by the NHS.
The .strategic health authority (SHA) said comparing this year's statistics with previous data would give the false impression of an improvement in dental health because the new research was done • differently.
There are two problems with this response. First, an analysis of the statistics shows that the teeth of those who were omitted from the survey would have had to be really bad to have increased the Southampton decay rate to the level of earlier surveys.
Secondly, the same revised means of research indicated that the dental health of (unfluoridated) Southampton five-year-olds was now considerably better than those who live in (fluoridated) central Birmingham. How does the SHA explain that?
Jason Merrit
Glenwood Avenue,
Bassett.
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Andy Burnham, fluoride and the fabians.
Do we believe any of this? Are the Freemason's so evil when they all have to believe in a God to join?
Andy did resign of course from the BFS when he was made a minister and it is not sodium fluoride, it is worse, hexafluorosilicic acid.
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USA - Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births (press release)
Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births (press release)
News Release
Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births
New York -- November 12, 2009 -- State University of New York (SUNY) researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia. (1)
Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay. Many groups oppose fluoridation because of its scientifically-documented health risks. (2)
Human pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks or just more than 9 months. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered a preterm (or premature) birth. About 12 percent of US pregnancies are preterm and this is one of the top causes of infant death in the US, according to the US National Institutes of Health. (3)
The SUNY researchers used 1993-2002 data from the NY Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS), which collects patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient and emergency department admission in New York State. They recorded fluoridation residence status (under or over 1 milligram fluoride per Liter of water) and adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, neighborhood poverty level, hypertension and diabetes.
“Domestic water fluoridation was associated with an increased risk of PTB [preterm birth]. This relationship was most pronounced among women in the lowest SES [socio-economic-status] groups (>10% poverty) and those of non-white racial origin,” write Rachel Hart, et al. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, SUNY School of Public Health.
Previous published research by others has shown that fluoride can interfere with the reproductive system. (4)
“It would be wise to follow the lead of the 7,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists and public health professionals (5) who asked Congress to place a moratorium on fluoridation until definitive studies are conducted to prove fluoridation is safe for every human consuming it,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “Clearly fluoridation is not safe for everyone," says Beeber.
At the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a National Research Council (NRC) panel of experts reviewed current fluoride toxicology. In 2006 they concluded that the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water is too high to be protective of health. At least three NRC panel members believe water fluoride levels should be as close to zero as possible. The EPA has yet to perform a fluoride risk assessment based on the NRC's findings leaving millions of Americans at risk of fluoride's adverse health effects.
According to Dr. Bill Hirzy, Chair of American University’s Chemistry Department and former EPA scientist from 1981 to 2008, the EPA fears “setting a maximum contaminant level goal of zero because that would mean the EPA is going to be responsible for the end of the water fluoridation program. EPA knows that there will be enormous political flak for doing that.” (6)
Contact: Paul Beeber, JD
President
NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. 516-433-8882
nyscof@aol.com
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Study Links Fluoride to Premature Births
New York -- November 12, 2009 -- State University of New York (SUNY) researchers found more premature births in fluoridated than non-fluoridated upstate New York communities, according to a presentation made at the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting on November 9, 2009 in Philadelphia. (1)
Fluoridation is the addition of fluoride chemicals into public water supplies ostensibly to prevent tooth decay. Many groups oppose fluoridation because of its scientifically-documented health risks. (2)
Human pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks or just more than 9 months. A baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered a preterm (or premature) birth. About 12 percent of US pregnancies are preterm and this is one of the top causes of infant death in the US, according to the US National Institutes of Health. (3)
The SUNY researchers used 1993-2002 data from the NY Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS), which collects patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient and emergency department admission in New York State. They recorded fluoridation residence status (under or over 1 milligram fluoride per Liter of water) and adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, neighborhood poverty level, hypertension and diabetes.
“Domestic water fluoridation was associated with an increased risk of PTB [preterm birth]. This relationship was most pronounced among women in the lowest SES [socio-economic-status] groups (>10% poverty) and those of non-white racial origin,” write Rachel Hart, et al. Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, SUNY School of Public Health.
Previous published research by others has shown that fluoride can interfere with the reproductive system. (4)
“It would be wise to follow the lead of the 7,000 Environmental Protection Agency scientists and public health professionals (5) who asked Congress to place a moratorium on fluoridation until definitive studies are conducted to prove fluoridation is safe for every human consuming it,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. “Clearly fluoridation is not safe for everyone," says Beeber.
At the request of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a National Research Council (NRC) panel of experts reviewed current fluoride toxicology. In 2006 they concluded that the maximum amount of fluoride allowed in drinking water is too high to be protective of health. At least three NRC panel members believe water fluoride levels should be as close to zero as possible. The EPA has yet to perform a fluoride risk assessment based on the NRC's findings leaving millions of Americans at risk of fluoride's adverse health effects.
According to Dr. Bill Hirzy, Chair of American University’s Chemistry Department and former EPA scientist from 1981 to 2008, the EPA fears “setting a maximum contaminant level goal of zero because that would mean the EPA is going to be responsible for the end of the water fluoridation program. EPA knows that there will be enormous political flak for doing that.” (6)
Contact: Paul Beeber, JD
President
NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. 516-433-8882
nyscof@aol.com
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USA - Wisner voters reject flouride
Wisner voters reject flouride
WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
WISNER, Neb. -- Voters in this community, which approved adding fluoride to the water system in 2008, voted Tuesday not to add it.
Results of Wisner's first all-mail election indicated 98 were in favor and 285 were against adding fluoride.
Tuesday was the final day in which voters could mail or return in person their ballots to the Cuming County Courthouse in West Point.
The result was the opposite of last year when 265 voted for it and 242 voted against it.
Part of the reason the issue was considered again was the wording of the original ballot language, which some called confusing.
Wisner is at least the second community in Northeast Nebraska that has voted on fluoride a second time.
Voters in Wakefield in September rejected adding fluoride to their town's water supply. During that special election, 135 votes were cast in favor of prohibiting fluoride while only eight votes supported it.
The previous November, 255 Wakefield residents voted in favor of adding fluoride while 216 voted against it. In Wakefield as well, many voters said they found the ballot language confusing.
WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
WISNER, Neb. -- Voters in this community, which approved adding fluoride to the water system in 2008, voted Tuesday not to add it.
Results of Wisner's first all-mail election indicated 98 were in favor and 285 were against adding fluoride.
Tuesday was the final day in which voters could mail or return in person their ballots to the Cuming County Courthouse in West Point.
The result was the opposite of last year when 265 voted for it and 242 voted against it.
Part of the reason the issue was considered again was the wording of the original ballot language, which some called confusing.
Wisner is at least the second community in Northeast Nebraska that has voted on fluoride a second time.
Voters in Wakefield in September rejected adding fluoride to their town's water supply. During that special election, 135 votes were cast in favor of prohibiting fluoride while only eight votes supported it.
The previous November, 255 Wakefield residents voted in favor of adding fluoride while 216 voted against it. In Wakefield as well, many voters said they found the ballot language confusing.
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FAN Bulletin 1098: More important news
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FAN Bulletin 1098: More important news
November 12, 2009
We have a number of important news items to report today.
1) Three more victories in Nebraska.
2) Researchers find an association between fluoridation and premature births in NY
3) Health Canada's extraordinary translation mistake.
4) My response to Health Canada's new report: Fluoride in Drinking Water
5) A link to the Dr. Peter Cooney presentation in Dryden, Ontario, re-found.
1) Three more victories in Nebraska.
In 2008 the communities of Yutan and Wisner voted for fluoridation. Residents complained that the wording of the 2008 referendum was confusing and they got the right for a second vote. Both communities reversed their vote this week and voted NO to fluoridation. Go to Fluoride Alert
FAN Bulletin 1098: More important news
November 12, 2009
We have a number of important news items to report today.
1) Three more victories in Nebraska.
2) Researchers find an association between fluoridation and premature births in NY
3) Health Canada's extraordinary translation mistake.
4) My response to Health Canada's new report: Fluoride in Drinking Water
5) A link to the Dr. Peter Cooney presentation in Dryden, Ontario, re-found.
1) Three more victories in Nebraska.
In 2008 the communities of Yutan and Wisner voted for fluoridation. Residents complained that the wording of the 2008 referendum was confusing and they got the right for a second vote. Both communities reversed their vote this week and voted NO to fluoridation. Go to Fluoride Alert
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Change Player Size Watch this video in a new windowFluoride Fury. Can Port Macquarie stop the inevitable? Part 5 of 5.
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Brunei - Do Not Put Fluoride In Your Water System!
Do Not Put Fluoride In Your Water System!
Written by Jwillie6
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:47
This article contains some good suggestions, but please do not put fluoride in your water system. When the fertilitzer companies, and others, clean their smokestacks, they bag the waste fluoride chemical, (Hydrofluorosilicic Acid), which contains lead, mercury, arsenic, etc. and sell it to communities to add to our water systems.
The Government tries to convince us that it does not harm us if it is diluted enough. It is a hoax on the public. Follow the money! Those promoting fluoridation simply refuse to read the current research showing it is ineffective and dangerous to health. Go to (www.fluoridealert.org) and read several scientific articles.
Read the letter from Dr. Hardy Limeback (DDS, PhD Biochemistry) --- Head, Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto entitled "Why I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water" He was the principal research advisor to the Canadian Dental Asociation for over 10 years in promoting fluoridation. His letter is an apology to other dentists and the public. Over 140 Research studies listed, including: Increased risk of bone cancer -- 13 studies Lead, arsenic, radium contaminants causing toxic water -- 10 studies Link with fluoride and other cancer -- 12 Fluoride causes birth defects -- 5 Fluoride affects the immune systems -- 12 Fluoride is neurotoxic (brain, nerves, lowering IQ) -- 11 Etc.
Also see the petition signed by over 2600 professionals opposing fluoridation.
Written by Jwillie6
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 16:47
This article contains some good suggestions, but please do not put fluoride in your water system. When the fertilitzer companies, and others, clean their smokestacks, they bag the waste fluoride chemical, (Hydrofluorosilicic Acid), which contains lead, mercury, arsenic, etc. and sell it to communities to add to our water systems.
The Government tries to convince us that it does not harm us if it is diluted enough. It is a hoax on the public. Follow the money! Those promoting fluoridation simply refuse to read the current research showing it is ineffective and dangerous to health. Go to (www.fluoridealert.org) and read several scientific articles.
Read the letter from Dr. Hardy Limeback (DDS, PhD Biochemistry) --- Head, Preventive Dentistry, University of Toronto entitled "Why I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water" He was the principal research advisor to the Canadian Dental Asociation for over 10 years in promoting fluoridation. His letter is an apology to other dentists and the public. Over 140 Research studies listed, including: Increased risk of bone cancer -- 13 studies Lead, arsenic, radium contaminants causing toxic water -- 10 studies Link with fluoride and other cancer -- 12 Fluoride causes birth defects -- 5 Fluoride affects the immune systems -- 12 Fluoride is neurotoxic (brain, nerves, lowering IQ) -- 11 Etc.
Also see the petition signed by over 2600 professionals opposing fluoridation.
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UK - Daily Echo - Reverse decision to prove integrity
Reverse decision to prove integrity
OFFICIAL statistics now prove that the Strategic Health Authority's (SHA's) justification for fluoridation in Southampton is baseless.
So not only is the policy unethical, undemocratic and unsafe, but we now learn it was never needed in the first place.
This was just what Hampshire Against Fluoride (HAF) experts told the SHA long before they made their decision - and they were given the data proving it.
Yet despite everything, they stubbornly determined to force
fluoridation through.
There is no logical explanation for their behaviour, and it is this that prompts accusations of submitting to pressure for personal advancement, of extreme dereliction of duty, and of public betrayal.
They only have themselves to blame - and all they have to do to prove their integrity is reverse their decision.
Public opinion and virtually every local elected authority, opposes fluoridation, but they have all been overpowered by
this unelected quango.
This is dictatorship - a word not used lightly or rhetorically, but as absolute, irrefutable fact.
If they continue to ignore the voice of the people, the demand that board members face a jury, will become overwhelming.
The Judicial Review will make a judgement on the process.
The people who abused the process should also be examined, lest this abuse be repeated nationwide.
JENNIFER GODSCHALL JOHNSON (HAF member)
OFFICIAL statistics now prove that the Strategic Health Authority's (SHA's) justification for fluoridation in Southampton is baseless.
So not only is the policy unethical, undemocratic and unsafe, but we now learn it was never needed in the first place.
This was just what Hampshire Against Fluoride (HAF) experts told the SHA long before they made their decision - and they were given the data proving it.
Yet despite everything, they stubbornly determined to force
fluoridation through.
There is no logical explanation for their behaviour, and it is this that prompts accusations of submitting to pressure for personal advancement, of extreme dereliction of duty, and of public betrayal.
They only have themselves to blame - and all they have to do to prove their integrity is reverse their decision.
Public opinion and virtually every local elected authority, opposes fluoridation, but they have all been overpowered by
this unelected quango.
This is dictatorship - a word not used lightly or rhetorically, but as absolute, irrefutable fact.
If they continue to ignore the voice of the people, the demand that board members face a jury, will become overwhelming.
The Judicial Review will make a judgement on the process.
The people who abused the process should also be examined, lest this abuse be repeated nationwide.
JENNIFER GODSCHALL JOHNSON (HAF member)
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
Newsletter
FAN Bulletin 1097: Health Canada's embarrassing report
November 11, 2009
Newsletter
FAN Bulletin 1097: Health Canada's embarrassing report
November 11, 2009
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Fluoride Fury. Can Port Macquarie stop the inevitable? Part 4 of 5.
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UK - Daily Echo - Don't sacrifice our democratic freedom
Don't sacrifice our democratic freedom
HOW right was the correspondent who wrote regarding fluoride in our water.
We have said, absolutely, positively and definitely, we do not wish to be guinea pigs for this experiment. What doesn't the SHA understand? Plain English?
Armistice Day will (I hope) cause them to remember with all due, the millions of lives sacrificed in two wars and the cream of today's young men who gave their lives in the precious name of
democracy and give thanks they enjoy this freedom.
I very much object (having done my bit) to being told at my age what I need for my health, having a good doctor, and dentist who has been doing this quite happily for years.
How dare a handful of people who were not even there, throw up the sacrifices of so many heroes J away on a whim! Step down now with grace.
J BAILEY, Southampton.
HOW right was the correspondent who wrote regarding fluoride in our water.
We have said, absolutely, positively and definitely, we do not wish to be guinea pigs for this experiment. What doesn't the SHA understand? Plain English?
Armistice Day will (I hope) cause them to remember with all due, the millions of lives sacrificed in two wars and the cream of today's young men who gave their lives in the precious name of
democracy and give thanks they enjoy this freedom.
I very much object (having done my bit) to being told at my age what I need for my health, having a good doctor, and dentist who has been doing this quite happily for years.
How dare a handful of people who were not even there, throw up the sacrifices of so many heroes J away on a whim! Step down now with grace.
J BAILEY, Southampton.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Australia - Fluoride Fury. Can Port Macquarie stop the inevitable? Part 3 of 5.
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Monday, November 09, 2009
Australia - Fluoride Fury. Can Port Macquarie stop the inevitable? Part 2 of 5.
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluoridnew.htm
What the 'York Review' on the fluoridation of drinking water really found
28 October 2003
For immediate release
A statement from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD)
In 1999, the Department of Health commissioned CRD to conduct a systematic review into the efficacy and safety of the fluoridation of drinking water. The review specifically looked at the effects on dental caries/decay, social inequalities and any harmful effects. The review was published on the web and in the BMJ in October 2000.
We are concerned about the continuing misinterpretations of the evidence and think it is important that decision makers are aware of what the review really found. As such, we urge interested parties to read the review conclusions in full at http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/summary.pdf.
We were unable to discover any reliable good-quality evidence in the fluoridation literature world-wide.
What evidence we found suggested that water fluoridation was likely to have a beneficial effect, but that the range could be anywhere from a substantial benefit to a slight disbenefit to children's teeth.
This beneficial effect comes at the expense of an increase in the prevalence of fluorosis (mottled teeth). The quality of this evidence was poor.
An association with water fluoride and other adverse effects such as cancer, bone fracture and Down's syndrome was not found. However, we felt that not enough was known because the quality of the evidence was poor.
The evidence about reducing inequalities in dental health was of poor quality, contradictory and unreliable.
Since the report was published in October 2000 there has been no other scientifically defensible review that would alter the findings of the York review. As emphasised in the report, only high-quality studies can fill in the gaps in knowledge about these and other aspects of fluoridation. Recourse to other evidence of a similar or lower level than that included in the York review, no matter how copious, cannot do this.
The full report is available via the CRD Fluoridation Review web site (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/fluorid.htm). For more
information, please contact Paul Wilson (01904 434571).
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USA - Consider the Cause of Alzheimer's Disease (Opinion)
Consider the Cause of Alzheimer's Disease (Opinion)
Monday, November 09, 2009 by: Hesh Goldstein, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) We, Americans, are losing our minds to Alzheimer`s disease. It is an epidemic and it is not typical of what`s going on in the rest of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 18 million people with Alzheimer`s. Over 4 and1/2 million Americans have the disease. We account for 25% of all Alzheimer`s cases, even though we represent only 4.6% of the world`s population. Europe is experiencing half our rate of disease. For Americans over 85 years of age, 50% are thought to have Alzheimer`s. The question is: Why?
Alzheimer`s was first discovered in 1906, about 20 years after aluminum cookware was introduced. It is not a part of normal aging says the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH contends that the cause of Alzheimer`s is not known. They say, "Prior theories regarding the accumulation of aluminum, lead, mercury, and other substances in the brain have been disproved".
Do not believe that?! Federal agencies have a talent for not finding environmental causes for many diseases. They live by the motto, "Do not seek and thou shall not find". Kind of like their outlook about mad cow disease. Genetic triggers and lifestyle choices get the research dollars for pretty obvious reasons: Their findings don`t hurt polluters` profits.
Initially, it was thought that aluminum might be the sole cause of Alzheimer`s. Persons with Alzheimer`s have been found to experience increased absorption of aluminum in the brain, as well as to exhibit densities of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. However, there are no reports that suggest plaques and tangles do not always signify Alzheimer`s, and vice versa.
Further clouding the issue are patients on kidney dialysis machines. They are unable to excrete aluminum, plus they may also be treated with medicines that include aluminum. However, reports say that dialysis patients don`t develop Alzheimer`s, although they can develop dialysis dementia if the equipment doesn`t filter out aluminum. And therein lies the problem. The process of kidney dialysis requires very purified, non-fluoridated water. Do you get the feeling that fluoride is aluminum`s partner-in-crime?
Aluminum, along with fluoride, is in our drinking water, foods, beverages, processed foods, and consumer products. Europe, which is largely unfluoridated (the U.S. is over 60% fluoridated), has half our Alzheimer`s rate. It doesn`t take rocket science to see a definite correlation.
There are other intriguing issues as well. Why do people with thyroid disease have an increased risk for Alzheimer`s? In the U.S., thyroid disease has reached even greater epidemic levels than Alzheimer`s, with as many as 20 million American victims. Besides problems with iodine intake, a common cause of thyroid disease is radiation.
There are also unbelievable similarities between Alzheimer`s and Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) aka mad cow disease. Mad cow disease is linked to feeding animal parts back to vegetarian animals through livestock feed and fertilizer. So what do radiation, livestock feed, fluoride, and fertilizer have in common which may have led to the emergence of the Alzheimer`s epidemic? The phosphate fertilizer industry!
Fertilizer use was not a common practice in the U.S. until after 1870, when phosphate and lime were applied to crops like cotton and tobacco. By the end of World War II, an era of intensive agriculture began. Of the phosphate produced in Florida, about 95% is used in agriculture (90% goes into fertilizer and 5% into livestock feed supplements). The remaining 5% is used in a variety of foods and beverages, plus personal care, consumer and industrial products - so says the Cargill Fertilizer Company, the largest producer of phosphate fertilizer in the country and the largest source for the fluoride products, which are added to the water supplies in the country.
George Glasser writes in the Earth Island Journal, "Radium wastes from filtration systems at phosphate fertilizer facilities are among the most radioactive types of naturally occurring radioactive material wastes. Uranium and all of its decay-rate products are found in phosphate rock, fluorosilicic acid (fluoride) and phosphate fertilizers".
The Florida Institute of Phosphate research says, "Removal of uranium as a product is no longer profitable and all of the extraction facilities have been dismantled. The uranium that remains in the phosphoric acid and fertilizer products is at a low enough level that it is safe for use". Hello! This is not very reassuring as chronic exposure to low levels of contamination can be as dangerous, or more so, than chronic high levels of exposure or acute occurrences.
Of particular interest is calcium silicate, another by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry used as an anti-caking agent in iodized table salt. Is calcium silicate also radioactive? Would that have a significant impact on the thyroid? Given the relationship between Alzheimer`s and thyroid disease, Alzheimer`s may be destined to increase exponentially.
The phosphate fertilizer industry seems to be the common thread in Alzheimer`s and maybe also in thyroid and mad cow type diseases. Aluminum by itself may not cause Alzheimer`s, but in combination with the radioactive products of the phosphate fertilizer industry, it could be wreaking havoc on our health. Ponder this: flu vaccines contain enormous amounts of mercury and aluminum - two substances that do wonders for the brain. Guess who the "powers" scare into taking flu vaccines? The elderly. Guess which section of the population is succumbing to Alzheimer`s type symptoms? The elderly. Draw your own conclusions.
Whatever the cause, we deserve real answers to the Alzheimer`s epidemic, not the red herrings of research on genetics and lifestyle. The number of American victims is totally out of proportion to the incidence of Alzheimer`s worldwide. Yet, organic sulfur crystals have been proven to reverse Alzheimer`s. Why doesn`t anyone tell us that?
Something truly has gone terribly wrong when the Almighty Sign ($$) takes precedence over health!
Aloha!
Monday, November 09, 2009 by: Hesh Goldstein, citizen journalist
(NaturalNews) We, Americans, are losing our minds to Alzheimer`s disease. It is an epidemic and it is not typical of what`s going on in the rest of the world. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 18 million people with Alzheimer`s. Over 4 and1/2 million Americans have the disease. We account for 25% of all Alzheimer`s cases, even though we represent only 4.6% of the world`s population. Europe is experiencing half our rate of disease. For Americans over 85 years of age, 50% are thought to have Alzheimer`s. The question is: Why?
Alzheimer`s was first discovered in 1906, about 20 years after aluminum cookware was introduced. It is not a part of normal aging says the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH contends that the cause of Alzheimer`s is not known. They say, "Prior theories regarding the accumulation of aluminum, lead, mercury, and other substances in the brain have been disproved".
Do not believe that?! Federal agencies have a talent for not finding environmental causes for many diseases. They live by the motto, "Do not seek and thou shall not find". Kind of like their outlook about mad cow disease. Genetic triggers and lifestyle choices get the research dollars for pretty obvious reasons: Their findings don`t hurt polluters` profits.
Initially, it was thought that aluminum might be the sole cause of Alzheimer`s. Persons with Alzheimer`s have been found to experience increased absorption of aluminum in the brain, as well as to exhibit densities of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. However, there are no reports that suggest plaques and tangles do not always signify Alzheimer`s, and vice versa.
Further clouding the issue are patients on kidney dialysis machines. They are unable to excrete aluminum, plus they may also be treated with medicines that include aluminum. However, reports say that dialysis patients don`t develop Alzheimer`s, although they can develop dialysis dementia if the equipment doesn`t filter out aluminum. And therein lies the problem. The process of kidney dialysis requires very purified, non-fluoridated water. Do you get the feeling that fluoride is aluminum`s partner-in-crime?
Aluminum, along with fluoride, is in our drinking water, foods, beverages, processed foods, and consumer products. Europe, which is largely unfluoridated (the U.S. is over 60% fluoridated), has half our Alzheimer`s rate. It doesn`t take rocket science to see a definite correlation.
There are other intriguing issues as well. Why do people with thyroid disease have an increased risk for Alzheimer`s? In the U.S., thyroid disease has reached even greater epidemic levels than Alzheimer`s, with as many as 20 million American victims. Besides problems with iodine intake, a common cause of thyroid disease is radiation.
There are also unbelievable similarities between Alzheimer`s and Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) aka mad cow disease. Mad cow disease is linked to feeding animal parts back to vegetarian animals through livestock feed and fertilizer. So what do radiation, livestock feed, fluoride, and fertilizer have in common which may have led to the emergence of the Alzheimer`s epidemic? The phosphate fertilizer industry!
Fertilizer use was not a common practice in the U.S. until after 1870, when phosphate and lime were applied to crops like cotton and tobacco. By the end of World War II, an era of intensive agriculture began. Of the phosphate produced in Florida, about 95% is used in agriculture (90% goes into fertilizer and 5% into livestock feed supplements). The remaining 5% is used in a variety of foods and beverages, plus personal care, consumer and industrial products - so says the Cargill Fertilizer Company, the largest producer of phosphate fertilizer in the country and the largest source for the fluoride products, which are added to the water supplies in the country.
George Glasser writes in the Earth Island Journal, "Radium wastes from filtration systems at phosphate fertilizer facilities are among the most radioactive types of naturally occurring radioactive material wastes. Uranium and all of its decay-rate products are found in phosphate rock, fluorosilicic acid (fluoride) and phosphate fertilizers".
The Florida Institute of Phosphate research says, "Removal of uranium as a product is no longer profitable and all of the extraction facilities have been dismantled. The uranium that remains in the phosphoric acid and fertilizer products is at a low enough level that it is safe for use". Hello! This is not very reassuring as chronic exposure to low levels of contamination can be as dangerous, or more so, than chronic high levels of exposure or acute occurrences.
Of particular interest is calcium silicate, another by-product of the phosphate fertilizer industry used as an anti-caking agent in iodized table salt. Is calcium silicate also radioactive? Would that have a significant impact on the thyroid? Given the relationship between Alzheimer`s and thyroid disease, Alzheimer`s may be destined to increase exponentially.
The phosphate fertilizer industry seems to be the common thread in Alzheimer`s and maybe also in thyroid and mad cow type diseases. Aluminum by itself may not cause Alzheimer`s, but in combination with the radioactive products of the phosphate fertilizer industry, it could be wreaking havoc on our health. Ponder this: flu vaccines contain enormous amounts of mercury and aluminum - two substances that do wonders for the brain. Guess who the "powers" scare into taking flu vaccines? The elderly. Guess which section of the population is succumbing to Alzheimer`s type symptoms? The elderly. Draw your own conclusions.
Whatever the cause, we deserve real answers to the Alzheimer`s epidemic, not the red herrings of research on genetics and lifestyle. The number of American victims is totally out of proportion to the incidence of Alzheimer`s worldwide. Yet, organic sulfur crystals have been proven to reverse Alzheimer`s. Why doesn`t anyone tell us that?
Something truly has gone terribly wrong when the Almighty Sign ($$) takes precedence over health!
Aloha!
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Fluoride Fury. Can Port Macquarie stop the inevitable? Part 1 of 5.
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USA - Barrow dentist wins national award
Barrow dentist wins national award
By DEBRA McKINNEY
..........."I have traveled all 50 states, and I can't recall a place that had greater dental needs."Although it varies family to family, like in many rural Alaska communities, not enough brushing was going on. And too many kids were growing up on soda, with the equivalent of 10 sugar cubes in each 12-ounce can. Oral health care was even more scarce in the villages, which were lucky if a dentist dropped in once or twice a year...............
Governments can force fluoridation on citizens yet they can't legislate to stop manufacturers from damaging the young.
By DEBRA McKINNEY
..........."I have traveled all 50 states, and I can't recall a place that had greater dental needs."Although it varies family to family, like in many rural Alaska communities, not enough brushing was going on. And too many kids were growing up on soda, with the equivalent of 10 sugar cubes in each 12-ounce can. Oral health care was even more scarce in the villages, which were lucky if a dentist dropped in once or twice a year...............
Governments can force fluoridation on citizens yet they can't legislate to stop manufacturers from damaging the young.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Dr Deagle Show 110109 4/4-DIANA SPINGOLA -- ANALYSIS OF GENOCIDE TO MODERN TIMES
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UK - Letter
Date: 07 November 2009
Jubilee Road
Siddal
I'm with him
Further to the letter from Dennis Edmondson "I know I'm right about fluoride" (Your say, October 27), and the other letters on this subject, regardless of any scientific evidence, I believe it is wrong to mass medicate our water.
If God had wanted fluoride in our water, it would be there. Therefore in this area its addition is not necessary.
If people want healthy teeth, then the avoidance of all those substances which cause tooth decay is to be highly recommended. If people want to clean their teeth in fluoride, many toothpastes containing fluoride are available, the difference being we all have, to date, free choice in the matter.
So-called experts have been proved wrong so often in the past that their advice is probably best taken with a large pinch of salt, although too much of this is considered unhealthy!
With very little knowledge on this subject, my gut feeling is with Dennis Edmondson.
Graham Rigby
Jubilee Road
Siddal
I'm with him
Further to the letter from Dennis Edmondson "I know I'm right about fluoride" (Your say, October 27), and the other letters on this subject, regardless of any scientific evidence, I believe it is wrong to mass medicate our water.
If God had wanted fluoride in our water, it would be there. Therefore in this area its addition is not necessary.
If people want healthy teeth, then the avoidance of all those substances which cause tooth decay is to be highly recommended. If people want to clean their teeth in fluoride, many toothpastes containing fluoride are available, the difference being we all have, to date, free choice in the matter.
So-called experts have been proved wrong so often in the past that their advice is probably best taken with a large pinch of salt, although too much of this is considered unhealthy!
With very little knowledge on this subject, my gut feeling is with Dennis Edmondson.
Graham Rigby
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Nine out of ten children have cavities
Nine out of ten children have cavities who were examined in a Green Bay Wisconsin school which is fluoridated.NYSCOF
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UK - Daily Echo letter - Fluoride findings on the Internet
Fluoride findings on the Internet
Whilst speaking on the phone to a friend on the possible numbers of people injured by fluoride poisoning I put up "Fluoride Poisoning Cases" on an Internet search.
I was able to tell him I got about 171,000 Internet entries for this in seconds.
I clicked on the 4th of these 171,000 listed sites and found under Search Medica, a professional medical site, references to 60 medical papers on fluoride poisoning cases. The first of these 60 came up with a report from The New England Medical Journal on January 13 1994 on a case of excess fluoride in public water supplies in Alaska in 1992 causing fluoride poisoning in 47 people who drank the water May 21, 22 and 23,1992. One of these died. What this shows is that there are countless thousands of documented cases of fluoride poisoning in medical journals and media reports from Government labs and similar organisations worldwide available on the Internet.
The French proved the dangers of fluoride poisoning when they used sheep, injecting them with different amounts of fluoride. France does not fluoridate its public water supplies and has no particular problem with tooth decay
This begs the question have those promoting water fluoridation bothered looking for themselves at the available scientific evidence?
Edward Priestley, Les Granges, France.
Whilst speaking on the phone to a friend on the possible numbers of people injured by fluoride poisoning I put up "Fluoride Poisoning Cases" on an Internet search.
I was able to tell him I got about 171,000 Internet entries for this in seconds.
I clicked on the 4th of these 171,000 listed sites and found under Search Medica, a professional medical site, references to 60 medical papers on fluoride poisoning cases. The first of these 60 came up with a report from The New England Medical Journal on January 13 1994 on a case of excess fluoride in public water supplies in Alaska in 1992 causing fluoride poisoning in 47 people who drank the water May 21, 22 and 23,1992. One of these died. What this shows is that there are countless thousands of documented cases of fluoride poisoning in medical journals and media reports from Government labs and similar organisations worldwide available on the Internet.
The French proved the dangers of fluoride poisoning when they used sheep, injecting them with different amounts of fluoride. France does not fluoridate its public water supplies and has no particular problem with tooth decay
This begs the question have those promoting water fluoridation bothered looking for themselves at the available scientific evidence?
Edward Priestley, Les Granges, France.
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Dr Deagle Show 110109 3/4-DIANA SPINGOLA -- ANALYSIS OF GENOCIDE TO MODERN TIMES
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UK - Sensible to wait for report on fluoridePremium Article !Your account has been
Sensible to wait for report on fluoride
Date: 04 November 2009
Garden Road
Brighouse
I HAVE been following the debate in Your say regarding fluoride, both back in 2007 and now.
I clearly remember in 2007 both Dennis Edmondson and Edward Priestley claiming that fluoride is a weedkiller and another correspondent to Your say expressing concern at this with the headline to the letter "Fluoride: It's a Weedkiller."
Barbara Sutcliffe (Your say, October 12) is correct when she says that botanically there is no such thing as a weed. For example dandelions can be a crop grown for making tea, soups, salad or dandelion and burdock fizzy drink, but when dandelions grow in our vegetable patch or flowerbeds we call them weeds. As she says plants are plants.
So Dennis Edmondson's claims that fluoride is a weedkiller while making crops such as cabbages grow exceedingly well and is contained in the fruit and vegetables we buy without killing them, but deadly to consume, is a contradiction of mammoth proportions exposed by Barbara Sutcliffe.
Dennis Edmo-ndson keeps accusing others, including Barbara Sutcliffe, of being ill-informed. It is now obvious he is the one who is ill-informed and has lost all credibility.
It makes you wonder, if the truth were known, how much more misinformation is being put out by the lobby groups.
It also makes you realise how sensible George Simpson's suggestion was ("Fluoride: let's wait for the unemotive facts") that any petition against fluoride should be made after the Calderdale NHS report next spring, not now.
Stuart Jones
Date: 04 November 2009
Garden Road
Brighouse
I HAVE been following the debate in Your say regarding fluoride, both back in 2007 and now.
I clearly remember in 2007 both Dennis Edmondson and Edward Priestley claiming that fluoride is a weedkiller and another correspondent to Your say expressing concern at this with the headline to the letter "Fluoride: It's a Weedkiller."
Barbara Sutcliffe (Your say, October 12) is correct when she says that botanically there is no such thing as a weed. For example dandelions can be a crop grown for making tea, soups, salad or dandelion and burdock fizzy drink, but when dandelions grow in our vegetable patch or flowerbeds we call them weeds. As she says plants are plants.
So Dennis Edmondson's claims that fluoride is a weedkiller while making crops such as cabbages grow exceedingly well and is contained in the fruit and vegetables we buy without killing them, but deadly to consume, is a contradiction of mammoth proportions exposed by Barbara Sutcliffe.
Dennis Edmo-ndson keeps accusing others, including Barbara Sutcliffe, of being ill-informed. It is now obvious he is the one who is ill-informed and has lost all credibility.
It makes you wonder, if the truth were known, how much more misinformation is being put out by the lobby groups.
It also makes you realise how sensible George Simpson's suggestion was ("Fluoride: let's wait for the unemotive facts") that any petition against fluoride should be made after the Calderdale NHS report next spring, not now.
Stuart Jones
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UK - Lymington Times letter
Fluoridation
SIR,—It is good to see cross-party support in the New Forest East over the need to get the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to change its approach over fluoridation. An education based approach, delivered in nurseries and schools, is the most effective way of achieving this and Coun. David Harrison, supports this way forward. (Letters, October 31st).
I am sorry to remind David Harrison that when he writes "the answer lies in the hands of the Labour Government", and perhaps I could "press upon the likes of John Denham MP to step in", that he is asking me to ask an MP to ride roughshod over the body of public servants, who have the right, in law, to make decisions regarding local strategic health issues.
Much as I would like to see the SHA be persuaded to change their approach on this issue, they cannot actually be stepped on, or replaced for pressing ahead with what they think is needed, despite it looking like they have totally misjudged the situation and have over egged the local statistics on dental decay in children.
Representation and persuasion is ' expected of an MP, stepping in and trampling on is not. For the record, John Denham MP has expressed the view that the SHA have "clearly not won the debate" and wants them to rethink.
David Harrison asks if "a cabinet member can't do it — who can?" The answer lies with all the people who do not wish to have fluoride added to their water; they need to organise and work together even harder to get the SHA to take more notice. As for asking MP's from any party to "step in", they cannot, as the law is the law, but poor decisions can and must be challenged.
Peter Sopowsk
SIR,—It is good to see cross-party support in the New Forest East over the need to get the Strategic Health Authority (SHA) to change its approach over fluoridation. An education based approach, delivered in nurseries and schools, is the most effective way of achieving this and Coun. David Harrison, supports this way forward. (Letters, October 31st).
I am sorry to remind David Harrison that when he writes "the answer lies in the hands of the Labour Government", and perhaps I could "press upon the likes of John Denham MP to step in", that he is asking me to ask an MP to ride roughshod over the body of public servants, who have the right, in law, to make decisions regarding local strategic health issues.
Much as I would like to see the SHA be persuaded to change their approach on this issue, they cannot actually be stepped on, or replaced for pressing ahead with what they think is needed, despite it looking like they have totally misjudged the situation and have over egged the local statistics on dental decay in children.
Representation and persuasion is ' expected of an MP, stepping in and trampling on is not. For the record, John Denham MP has expressed the view that the SHA have "clearly not won the debate" and wants them to rethink.
David Harrison asks if "a cabinet member can't do it — who can?" The answer lies with all the people who do not wish to have fluoride added to their water; they need to organise and work together even harder to get the SHA to take more notice. As for asking MP's from any party to "step in", they cannot, as the law is the law, but poor decisions can and must be challenged.
Peter Sopowsk
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Lymington Times - Fluoride opponents 'misreading' tooth decay research, warns NHS
Fluoride opponents 'misreading' tooth decay research, warns NHS
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners claiming the state of children's teeth is improving without the controversial chemical are misinterpreting the figures, according to NHS chiefs.
Higher than average child, tooth decay was key to the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) approving Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposals in February to fluoridate the city — including 8,000 people living in Totton.
However, latest research shows 31% of the city's five-year-olds had obviously decayed, .missing and filled teeth: almost equal to the 30.9% England average. The SHA has now been urged to reconsider its decision affecting up to 190,000 people in total.
Totton county councillor David Harrison said: "Good public health policy should always be guided by evidence. It is frankly inconceivable that the original decision to proceed with adding fluoride to tap water should not now be revisited. "If the main reason for undertaking this costly and unpopular step has now gone, logic demands that those responsible for deciding the issue should reconsider."
But the SHA said comparing this year's statistics with previous data would give the false impression of improving health because the new research was done differently.
For the first time parents had to expressly allow the children to be examined instead of, as before, having their consent presumed unless they objected — which the SHA said would lead to more children with better dental health being recorded.
Although pleased with the results, it said in a statement, the regional data hid "significant pockets of poor dental health in some of the big towns and cities in our region".
It added: "In this survey, for the first time, parents were required to give their consent in advance; this will have impacted on the results and therefore, as the authors state, these figures should not be compared with previous surveys.
"Tooth decay is entirely preventable and the local NHS is committed to giving children the best chance of good oral health by implementing a range of preventative programmes to combat the disease."
As reported in the 'A&T', a Moripoll carried out by the SHA showed 38% opposed fluoride against 32% in support. A 15,000-name petition was gathered by opponents who fear it has implications ranging from cancer to mottling of teeth — which is the only side-effect accepted by the NHS.
The SHA is also facing a High Court challenge to its fluoridation decision as well as a complaint to the health ombudsman about the way it consulted people.
ANTI-FLUORIDE campaigners claiming the state of children's teeth is improving without the controversial chemical are misinterpreting the figures, according to NHS chiefs.
Higher than average child, tooth decay was key to the South Central Strategic Health Authority (SHA) approving Southampton Primary Care Trust's proposals in February to fluoridate the city — including 8,000 people living in Totton.
However, latest research shows 31% of the city's five-year-olds had obviously decayed, .missing and filled teeth: almost equal to the 30.9% England average. The SHA has now been urged to reconsider its decision affecting up to 190,000 people in total.
Totton county councillor David Harrison said: "Good public health policy should always be guided by evidence. It is frankly inconceivable that the original decision to proceed with adding fluoride to tap water should not now be revisited. "If the main reason for undertaking this costly and unpopular step has now gone, logic demands that those responsible for deciding the issue should reconsider."
But the SHA said comparing this year's statistics with previous data would give the false impression of improving health because the new research was done differently.
For the first time parents had to expressly allow the children to be examined instead of, as before, having their consent presumed unless they objected — which the SHA said would lead to more children with better dental health being recorded.
Although pleased with the results, it said in a statement, the regional data hid "significant pockets of poor dental health in some of the big towns and cities in our region".
It added: "In this survey, for the first time, parents were required to give their consent in advance; this will have impacted on the results and therefore, as the authors state, these figures should not be compared with previous surveys.
"Tooth decay is entirely preventable and the local NHS is committed to giving children the best chance of good oral health by implementing a range of preventative programmes to combat the disease."
As reported in the 'A&T', a Moripoll carried out by the SHA showed 38% opposed fluoride against 32% in support. A 15,000-name petition was gathered by opponents who fear it has implications ranging from cancer to mottling of teeth — which is the only side-effect accepted by the NHS.
The SHA is also facing a High Court challenge to its fluoridation decision as well as a complaint to the health ombudsman about the way it consulted people.
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UK - Southampton - Daily Echo - We don't want fluoride
We don't want fluoride
IN reply to the Daily Echo's front page 'Fluoride case for in tatters'.
The Echo went on to explain that a new survey revealed dramatic improvements in Southampton children's dental health, even better than parts of the country with fluoridation. So how do the SHA explain this new survey and now that they have this evidence that it is not needed to put fluoride in our water we have to ask the question, why? They are still adamant that it is a good thing to go ahead. How much more proof do they need to stop such a crazy idea.
SHA I would like to say to you admit defeat and leave our water alone, we would all respect you more. You must have a clear message by now from the people who have written to this paper and the 15,000 signatures that were taken to 10 Downing Street for Mr Brown's attention. It is all very simple really: do you remember what we are saying or has it all slipped your minds? Well here it is again. 'We the public do not want toxic fluoride in our water supply'. It is such a simple message why don't you listen? (Name and address supplied).
IN reply to the Daily Echo's front page 'Fluoride case for in tatters'.
The Echo went on to explain that a new survey revealed dramatic improvements in Southampton children's dental health, even better than parts of the country with fluoridation. So how do the SHA explain this new survey and now that they have this evidence that it is not needed to put fluoride in our water we have to ask the question, why? They are still adamant that it is a good thing to go ahead. How much more proof do they need to stop such a crazy idea.
SHA I would like to say to you admit defeat and leave our water alone, we would all respect you more. You must have a clear message by now from the people who have written to this paper and the 15,000 signatures that were taken to 10 Downing Street for Mr Brown's attention. It is all very simple really: do you remember what we are saying or has it all slipped your minds? Well here it is again. 'We the public do not want toxic fluoride in our water supply'. It is such a simple message why don't you listen? (Name and address supplied).
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
UK - Dental study to change face of NHS dentistry
A dental school has scooped funding for its innovative research into preventive methods that may change the face of NHS dentistry.
The Oral Health Unit (OHU) based at the University of Manchester won significant funding to run a study which focuses on prevention rather than treatment.
The £1.7 million study will see if a prevention package, delivered by dentists in practice, can prevent tooth decay in children.
The trial outcomes could inform the development of NHS dental services and interventions in the UK.
The three-year multi-collaborative trial will take place in Northern Ireland, but will involve a team of dental experts led by Professor Martin Tickle of the OHU at Manchester.
The OHU has ‘an impressive track record of delivering high profile, policy-relevant dental research' and the unit was selected to run this three-year trial following their application to this open call.
Professor Tickle says: ‘This is hugely significant for dentistry as we were competing with all other areas of dental, health and health care research. It demonstrates our research reputation in being selected to deliver a study with such important potential outcomes.'
Recent studies have shown that prevention of decay in the primary teeth in NHS general dental practice is not very effective, and that over a three-year period, 35%of two to three year olds registered with a dentist develop tooth decay.
Northern Ireland has a particular problem as approximately 45% of five year olds have tooth decay.
In England, all NHS GDPs have been sent Delivering Better Oral Health An evidence-based toolkit for prevention which identifies best evidence for preventive care.
But research has yet to show whether these interventions are cost effective when used in everyday NHS practice.
Dental study to change face of NHS dentistry
4th Nov 2009
The trial will therefore test the cost effectiveness of fluoride varnish and family-strength fluoride toothpaste provided in general practice twice a year to help prevent decay.
Professor Tickle adds: ‘The aim of the trial is to see if we can keep a larger proportion of children free of decay by using a fluoride varnish and toothpaste. Hopefully, the findings will help to inform future policy on children's dental health and focus on proactively preventing tooth decay rather than treating the disease once it has started.'
The trial will be planned and managed by a partnership of General Dental Practitioners, Community Dental Service dentists, academics from the University of Manchester and Queen's University. It has the full and active backing of the CDO and the DH.
The Oral Health Unit (OHU) based at the University of Manchester won significant funding to run a study which focuses on prevention rather than treatment.
The £1.7 million study will see if a prevention package, delivered by dentists in practice, can prevent tooth decay in children.
The trial outcomes could inform the development of NHS dental services and interventions in the UK.
The three-year multi-collaborative trial will take place in Northern Ireland, but will involve a team of dental experts led by Professor Martin Tickle of the OHU at Manchester.
The OHU has ‘an impressive track record of delivering high profile, policy-relevant dental research' and the unit was selected to run this three-year trial following their application to this open call.
Professor Tickle says: ‘This is hugely significant for dentistry as we were competing with all other areas of dental, health and health care research. It demonstrates our research reputation in being selected to deliver a study with such important potential outcomes.'
Recent studies have shown that prevention of decay in the primary teeth in NHS general dental practice is not very effective, and that over a three-year period, 35%of two to three year olds registered with a dentist develop tooth decay.
Northern Ireland has a particular problem as approximately 45% of five year olds have tooth decay.
In England, all NHS GDPs have been sent Delivering Better Oral Health An evidence-based toolkit for prevention which identifies best evidence for preventive care.
But research has yet to show whether these interventions are cost effective when used in everyday NHS practice.
Dental study to change face of NHS dentistry
4th Nov 2009
The trial will therefore test the cost effectiveness of fluoride varnish and family-strength fluoride toothpaste provided in general practice twice a year to help prevent decay.
Professor Tickle adds: ‘The aim of the trial is to see if we can keep a larger proportion of children free of decay by using a fluoride varnish and toothpaste. Hopefully, the findings will help to inform future policy on children's dental health and focus on proactively preventing tooth decay rather than treating the disease once it has started.'
The trial will be planned and managed by a partnership of General Dental Practitioners, Community Dental Service dentists, academics from the University of Manchester and Queen's University. It has the full and active backing of the CDO and the DH.
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Australia - Dentists add bite in pro-fluoride debate
Dentists add bite in pro-fluoride debate
Zane Jackson | 5th November 2009
IPSWICH residents’ teeth are already showing the positive benefits of having fluoride in the drinking water according to local dentists.
With the one year anniversary of the fluoridation just weeks away on December 1, Australian Dental Association Queensland Ipswich president Dr Louise McLoughlin said fluoride had already improved teeth in the region.
Fluoridated water will strengthen teeth from the day it starts,” Dr McLoughlin said. The largest benefit will be for children who have grown up with fluoridated water, but adults also benefit from fluoridated water, even if their teeth have already fully erupted.
“Fluoridated water will begin to work immediately, but it will take a few years for a significant effect to be seen. But fluoridation is not a magic bullet.
“People should still brush and floss their teeth, maintain a healthy diet and see your dentist regularly.”
She said the full benefit of fluoridation would be more apparent when the first group of children in the fluoride generation were examined by the School Dental Service in around five years time.
Local dentist Dr Lesley Maclean said the introduction of fluoride brought Queensland and Ipswich back on track with other states, where some areas have had fluoridated water for up to 40 years.
“When someone comes into the practice with really good teeth, they are nearly always from interstate and have been drinking fluoridated water,” Dr Maclean said.
“As time goes on people here in Ipswich will have healthier teeth, and the introduction of fluoride will be seen as a great idea.”
The Mount Crosby water treatment plant was one of the first in the state to add fluoride to drinking water under a $35 million State Government plan to provide fluoridated water to the majority of Queenslanders by 2012.
However, the government was left red-faced when higher than usual levels of fluoride passed through the North Pine Water Treatment Plant for three hours on the morning of Friday, May 1.
Despite the mishap, Queensland Health’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the introduction of fluoride had been successful.
“This initiative is a vital element in Queensland’s oral health system, alongside oral hygiene and good nutrition. The benefits of fluoride will become evident quickly, and the real winners will be future generations,” Dr Young said.
“Fluoridation will address what has been an epidemic of tooth decay in Queensland, one of the most expensive challenges in our public health system. It will help to shift the focus from cure to prevention.”
Ipswich mother Angela Stevens said she was hopeful her two kids Olivia, 4, and Ben, 3, would benefit from the chemical additive.
“I’m not 100 per cent sure how it works, but if it helps their teeth it’s a good idea,” she said.
Amazing when the York review after examining thousands of studies could not find any convincing proof that fluoridation works.
Zane Jackson | 5th November 2009
IPSWICH residents’ teeth are already showing the positive benefits of having fluoride in the drinking water according to local dentists.
With the one year anniversary of the fluoridation just weeks away on December 1, Australian Dental Association Queensland Ipswich president Dr Louise McLoughlin said fluoride had already improved teeth in the region.
Fluoridated water will strengthen teeth from the day it starts,” Dr McLoughlin said. The largest benefit will be for children who have grown up with fluoridated water, but adults also benefit from fluoridated water, even if their teeth have already fully erupted.
“Fluoridated water will begin to work immediately, but it will take a few years for a significant effect to be seen. But fluoridation is not a magic bullet.
“People should still brush and floss their teeth, maintain a healthy diet and see your dentist regularly.”
She said the full benefit of fluoridation would be more apparent when the first group of children in the fluoride generation were examined by the School Dental Service in around five years time.
Local dentist Dr Lesley Maclean said the introduction of fluoride brought Queensland and Ipswich back on track with other states, where some areas have had fluoridated water for up to 40 years.
“When someone comes into the practice with really good teeth, they are nearly always from interstate and have been drinking fluoridated water,” Dr Maclean said.
“As time goes on people here in Ipswich will have healthier teeth, and the introduction of fluoride will be seen as a great idea.”
The Mount Crosby water treatment plant was one of the first in the state to add fluoride to drinking water under a $35 million State Government plan to provide fluoridated water to the majority of Queenslanders by 2012.
However, the government was left red-faced when higher than usual levels of fluoride passed through the North Pine Water Treatment Plant for three hours on the morning of Friday, May 1.
Despite the mishap, Queensland Health’s Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young said the introduction of fluoride had been successful.
“This initiative is a vital element in Queensland’s oral health system, alongside oral hygiene and good nutrition. The benefits of fluoride will become evident quickly, and the real winners will be future generations,” Dr Young said.
“Fluoridation will address what has been an epidemic of tooth decay in Queensland, one of the most expensive challenges in our public health system. It will help to shift the focus from cure to prevention.”
Ipswich mother Angela Stevens said she was hopeful her two kids Olivia, 4, and Ben, 3, would benefit from the chemical additive.
“I’m not 100 per cent sure how it works, but if it helps their teeth it’s a good idea,” she said.
Amazing when the York review after examining thousands of studies could not find any convincing proof that fluoridation works.
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Dr Deagle Show 110109 2/4-DIANA SPINGOLA -- ANALYSIS OF GENOCIDE TO MODERN TIMES
Bit extreme but worth listening to. There are more and more who do think this way.
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UK - Daily Echo letter - Logic is demanding we reconsider fluoride
Logic is demanding we reconsider fluoride
THE news that children in Southampton suffer no more tooth decay than the national average is very welcome. I am sure the bosses at the South Central Strategic Health Authority are as pleased as I am at this news.
Good public health policy should always be guided by evidence. It is frankly inconceivable that the original decision to proceed with adding fluoride to tap water should not now be revisited.
If the main reason for undertaking this costly and unpopular step has now gone, logic demands that those responsible for deciding the issue should reconsider.
I am writing to the chief executive of the South Central Strategic Health Authority demanding that the matter be formally reconsidered.
They should not forget that the vast majority of us will derive no benefit from mass medication and as taxpayers we are footing the bill,
Cllr DAVID HARRISON, Totton,
THE news that children in Southampton suffer no more tooth decay than the national average is very welcome. I am sure the bosses at the South Central Strategic Health Authority are as pleased as I am at this news.
Good public health policy should always be guided by evidence. It is frankly inconceivable that the original decision to proceed with adding fluoride to tap water should not now be revisited.
If the main reason for undertaking this costly and unpopular step has now gone, logic demands that those responsible for deciding the issue should reconsider.
I am writing to the chief executive of the South Central Strategic Health Authority demanding that the matter be formally reconsidered.
They should not forget that the vast majority of us will derive no benefit from mass medication and as taxpayers we are footing the bill,
Cllr DAVID HARRISON, Totton,
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
Dr Deagle Show 110109 1/4-DIANA SPINGOLA -- ANALYSIS OF GENOCIDE TO MODERN TIMES
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Cavity Prevention Systems
Cavity Prevention Systems
Sunday, November 01, 2009
By Margot KimFresno, CA (KFSN) -- While we're on alert about spreading the flu virus, there's another health condition that's contagious. Did you know, you could "get and give" cavities?
Nikki Johnson of Fresno starts and finishes her day like most people, brushing her teeth. But her good dental habit hasn't always been rewarded.
"I brush 3 times a day, I floss three times a day after every meal but I still get cavities," said Johnson.
It's a frustrating problem for patients and dentists, alike.
"They can be doing everything we've asked them to do, brushing, flossing, using fluoride rinses, really watching what they eat and they still come in and they still have a cavity," said Dr. Treva Lee, DDS.
But Fresno dentist Dr. Treva Lee hopes to end that dental dilemma with a new treatment, designed to stop tooth decay before it starts.
It sounded like the perfect prescription for Nikki.
"I have a really bad habit of drinking sodas so I hope this new stuff will kind of help me out," said Johnson.
Nikki hopes to prevent cavities to protect her children, because she was surprised to find out...
"Cavities are contagious. They can be transmitted from family member to family member."
Dr. Lee said family members can pass along bad bacteria in the mouth, giving each other the material that creates cavities.
So Dr. Lee has started using a new prevention system called "Cari-free", on many of her patients.
The process begins with an assessment of the patient's bacteria level. "We have good bacteria and bad bacteria that create a lot of acids which create a lot of cavities so when it gets out of balance, some people have more of the bacteria that create the acids and they're more susceptible to getting cavities."
A swab sample is taken in the mouth and placed inside a special meter that gives a reading. Dr. Lee shows Nikki her cavity risk number: 723, which is good. Any number above 1500 would be considered high risk.
Once patients to through the evaluation and initial treatment, they're then put on a simple maintenance rinse to stop cavities before they start. It's all in an effort to keep patients from the dreaded drill.
"I've had fillings and a couple crowns so I want to avoid any more work that needs to be done," said Nikki Johnson.
Dr. Lee said the "Cari-free" system doesn't just wash out bacteria but actually disrupts its life-cycle, with the ingredient, xylotol. "It goes in there like of your lawn has a lot of weeds in it...it kind of goes out and tries to get rid of all those weeds in there, that's like the bad bacteria."
The assessment and the kit costs $70 to $120 dollars, depending on the patients needs.
Dr, Lee says that's a savings considering the much higher cost of a couple hundred dollars to fill a cavity.
Nikki Johnson hopes "Cari-free" save money out of her pocket and time in the dental chair.
Dentists say a variety of factors influence the bacteria level in the mouth and some can be controlled, such as eating habits and soda-drinking. But some people are more susceptible to cavities because of the natural conditions in their mouth.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
By Margot KimFresno, CA (KFSN) -- While we're on alert about spreading the flu virus, there's another health condition that's contagious. Did you know, you could "get and give" cavities?
Nikki Johnson of Fresno starts and finishes her day like most people, brushing her teeth. But her good dental habit hasn't always been rewarded.
"I brush 3 times a day, I floss three times a day after every meal but I still get cavities," said Johnson.
It's a frustrating problem for patients and dentists, alike.
"They can be doing everything we've asked them to do, brushing, flossing, using fluoride rinses, really watching what they eat and they still come in and they still have a cavity," said Dr. Treva Lee, DDS.
But Fresno dentist Dr. Treva Lee hopes to end that dental dilemma with a new treatment, designed to stop tooth decay before it starts.
It sounded like the perfect prescription for Nikki.
"I have a really bad habit of drinking sodas so I hope this new stuff will kind of help me out," said Johnson.
Nikki hopes to prevent cavities to protect her children, because she was surprised to find out...
"Cavities are contagious. They can be transmitted from family member to family member."
Dr. Lee said family members can pass along bad bacteria in the mouth, giving each other the material that creates cavities.
So Dr. Lee has started using a new prevention system called "Cari-free", on many of her patients.
The process begins with an assessment of the patient's bacteria level. "We have good bacteria and bad bacteria that create a lot of acids which create a lot of cavities so when it gets out of balance, some people have more of the bacteria that create the acids and they're more susceptible to getting cavities."
A swab sample is taken in the mouth and placed inside a special meter that gives a reading. Dr. Lee shows Nikki her cavity risk number: 723, which is good. Any number above 1500 would be considered high risk.
Once patients to through the evaluation and initial treatment, they're then put on a simple maintenance rinse to stop cavities before they start. It's all in an effort to keep patients from the dreaded drill.
"I've had fillings and a couple crowns so I want to avoid any more work that needs to be done," said Nikki Johnson.
Dr. Lee said the "Cari-free" system doesn't just wash out bacteria but actually disrupts its life-cycle, with the ingredient, xylotol. "It goes in there like of your lawn has a lot of weeds in it...it kind of goes out and tries to get rid of all those weeds in there, that's like the bad bacteria."
The assessment and the kit costs $70 to $120 dollars, depending on the patients needs.
Dr, Lee says that's a savings considering the much higher cost of a couple hundred dollars to fill a cavity.
Nikki Johnson hopes "Cari-free" save money out of her pocket and time in the dental chair.
Dentists say a variety of factors influence the bacteria level in the mouth and some can be controlled, such as eating habits and soda-drinking. But some people are more susceptible to cavities because of the natural conditions in their mouth.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
USA - Decaying Care: Loss of dental benefits leads to larger problems
Decaying Care: Loss of dental benefits leads to larger problems
"Everyone from poor adults to disabled people and low-income seniors were left with no access to dentists, unless they could scrape up enough money to pay the bills."
"It will cover emergency tooth extractions for adults, so some people are waiting for excruciating toothaches to be deemed an emergency.
Once the tooth is taken out, Medi-Cal doesn't pay for a bridge to replace it, potentially exposing the patient to more tooth decay or gum disease."
In California where almost a billion dollars is being spent to add fluoride chemicals into public water supplies with taxpayer money derived from cigarette taxes that is "laundered" through tax-exempt, well-meaning but misguided child advocacy groups:NYSCOF
"Everyone from poor adults to disabled people and low-income seniors were left with no access to dentists, unless they could scrape up enough money to pay the bills."
"It will cover emergency tooth extractions for adults, so some people are waiting for excruciating toothaches to be deemed an emergency.
Once the tooth is taken out, Medi-Cal doesn't pay for a bridge to replace it, potentially exposing the patient to more tooth decay or gum disease."
In California where almost a billion dollars is being spent to add fluoride chemicals into public water supplies with taxpayer money derived from cigarette taxes that is "laundered" through tax-exempt, well-meaning but misguided child advocacy groups:NYSCOF
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Sunday, November 01, 2009
Good natural, bad natural, unnatural
Good natural, bad natural, unnatural
The New England Confectionary Company colors Necco candy wafers with natural cabbage and beet ingredients. For far too long, junior chemists synthesized chemicals for coloring and other uses, believing they're harmless after ingestion. Artificial compounds labeled "organic" often have nothing to do with natural products chemistry. Even purified or synthetic clinical chemicals can cause harm, such as synthetic pure thyroxine, first thought to be a great achievement, but which had side effects because two forms of the natural hormone are always needed for normal thyroid function.
Synthetic vitamins, separate from other ingredients in foods containing them, are easily overdosed or cause allergic reactions. It would help if Metropolitan Water understood this and used natural calcium fluoride, which is not recognized as toxic, in their false quest to "fluoridate" people through drinking water, instead of the diluted hazardous waste unnatural synthetic fluosilicic acid.
And just because something's natural doesn't mean it's "harmless," such as arsenic, castor bean poison or venoms. All fluosilicic acid drugged water should be consumed by animals and people only if other water is unavailable. Chile banned it because it increases infant mortality, which afterward subsided. The U.S. is now 33rd in infant mortality worldwide, even worse than non-fluoridated Cuba (fluoridealert.org).
Richard Sauerheber
San Marcos
The New England Confectionary Company colors Necco candy wafers with natural cabbage and beet ingredients. For far too long, junior chemists synthesized chemicals for coloring and other uses, believing they're harmless after ingestion. Artificial compounds labeled "organic" often have nothing to do with natural products chemistry. Even purified or synthetic clinical chemicals can cause harm, such as synthetic pure thyroxine, first thought to be a great achievement, but which had side effects because two forms of the natural hormone are always needed for normal thyroid function.
Synthetic vitamins, separate from other ingredients in foods containing them, are easily overdosed or cause allergic reactions. It would help if Metropolitan Water understood this and used natural calcium fluoride, which is not recognized as toxic, in their false quest to "fluoridate" people through drinking water, instead of the diluted hazardous waste unnatural synthetic fluosilicic acid.
And just because something's natural doesn't mean it's "harmless," such as arsenic, castor bean poison or venoms. All fluosilicic acid drugged water should be consumed by animals and people only if other water is unavailable. Chile banned it because it increases infant mortality, which afterward subsided. The U.S. is now 33rd in infant mortality worldwide, even worse than non-fluoridated Cuba (fluoridealert.org).
Richard Sauerheber
San Marcos
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