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How scientific
Written by Gary Kibsey
Prince George
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Let me get this straight. I monitor a city council meeting and listen to the pros and cons regarding fluoridation in the Prince George drinking water supply and I'm hearing from one dentist that there is indeed a risk of added fluoride and that statistics do not display solid evidence of cavity reduction with the use of fluoride anyway.
In retaliation I hear one councillor comment that he drank well water for many years and experienced five cavities while several of his grandchildren drank Prince George fluoridated water and experienced no cavities. How scientific.
This attitude is very similar to that displayed by our former mayor where he commented that the Prince George water was good enough for his family to drink and therefore was good enough for all of the residents of Prince George. Like I said, how scientific, and may I add, how irresponsible.
Perhaps we should all wake up and read the labels. Read your toothpaste label and note the caution - contains fluoride, poison, harmful if swallowed, etc.
I hear another councillor comment that we're dealing with minute quantities here and that the specialists in the Food and Drug Act department have ruled so many parts per million to be of no ill effect.
Have you done any homework and noted that fluoride ingestion is accumulative, meaning that it adds up in our liver over a period of time?
The bottom line is that, I would have thought that even the remotest possible risk of any fluoride ingestion/poisoning would far outweigh any possible benefits of it, at least to the degree of arbitrarily putting the stuff in the public's drinking water, but not so.
If the city of Prince George was really concerned about the tooth decay of those who can't afford fluoride toothpaste, etc., then give it to them for free. Perhaps give them a tax break even, but don't risk poisoning the rest of us.
Fluoride is an extra, an added chemical that has been supposedly added to discourage cavities for those who are unaware or irresponsible, or so the argument goes. Well thanks for your concern, Prince George, but no thanks. Water, unlike food or confectionaries, is not a choice but rather a true necessity and I'd like it to remain as pure and as safe as possible.
Gary Kibsey
Prince George
Written by Gary Kibsey
Prince George
Thursday, 27 August 2009
Let me get this straight. I monitor a city council meeting and listen to the pros and cons regarding fluoridation in the Prince George drinking water supply and I'm hearing from one dentist that there is indeed a risk of added fluoride and that statistics do not display solid evidence of cavity reduction with the use of fluoride anyway.
In retaliation I hear one councillor comment that he drank well water for many years and experienced five cavities while several of his grandchildren drank Prince George fluoridated water and experienced no cavities. How scientific.
This attitude is very similar to that displayed by our former mayor where he commented that the Prince George water was good enough for his family to drink and therefore was good enough for all of the residents of Prince George. Like I said, how scientific, and may I add, how irresponsible.
Perhaps we should all wake up and read the labels. Read your toothpaste label and note the caution - contains fluoride, poison, harmful if swallowed, etc.
I hear another councillor comment that we're dealing with minute quantities here and that the specialists in the Food and Drug Act department have ruled so many parts per million to be of no ill effect.
Have you done any homework and noted that fluoride ingestion is accumulative, meaning that it adds up in our liver over a period of time?
The bottom line is that, I would have thought that even the remotest possible risk of any fluoride ingestion/poisoning would far outweigh any possible benefits of it, at least to the degree of arbitrarily putting the stuff in the public's drinking water, but not so.
If the city of Prince George was really concerned about the tooth decay of those who can't afford fluoride toothpaste, etc., then give it to them for free. Perhaps give them a tax break even, but don't risk poisoning the rest of us.
Fluoride is an extra, an added chemical that has been supposedly added to discourage cavities for those who are unaware or irresponsible, or so the argument goes. Well thanks for your concern, Prince George, but no thanks. Water, unlike food or confectionaries, is not a choice but rather a true necessity and I'd like it to remain as pure and as safe as possible.
Gary Kibsey
Prince George
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