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Mailbag: Fluoride down the drain
Did anybody ever think about fluoridating water being the most inefficient means of preventive dentistry?
Almost everyone drinking the water is over- or underdosing. They say a person needs eight glasses of water a day. (That assumes they don’t drink milk, soda, fruit or vegetable juice or eat moist food like spaghetti.) Eight glasses of water is about half a gallon a day per person.
When you flush a toilet you use a week’s dosage of fluoride. A shower uses three to four weeks, and a bath six or seven weeks’ worth.
I won’t guess how much for laundry or dish washing. And don’t forget we water our lawns with it in summer and the city parks department buys it for watering the many acres of parks we have.
Most of it goes into things that don’t even have teeth. I am not a chemist and don’t know how cumulative it is in the ground, but over the years there must have been some change in the chemical make-up of soil and plants watered with fluoride.
Forty years ago I bought a water distiller and still use it to avoid chlorine and fluoride. And I asked at my favorite restaurant if they were giving me city water and I was told they have an efficient filter on their water. It may be (and should be) required by state health inspectors.
Think of it like this. Fluoride is available in prescription doses in pills. The city buys you one of these pills every day and you take it and have great teeth. But for each pill they buy an undetermined number of the same pills (hundreds at least and some days thousands) which they dump on the ground or flush down the sewer every single day.
Ward Mackey, Albany (March 4)
Did anybody ever think about fluoridating water being the most inefficient means of preventive dentistry?
Almost everyone drinking the water is over- or underdosing. They say a person needs eight glasses of water a day. (That assumes they don’t drink milk, soda, fruit or vegetable juice or eat moist food like spaghetti.) Eight glasses of water is about half a gallon a day per person.
When you flush a toilet you use a week’s dosage of fluoride. A shower uses three to four weeks, and a bath six or seven weeks’ worth.
I won’t guess how much for laundry or dish washing. And don’t forget we water our lawns with it in summer and the city parks department buys it for watering the many acres of parks we have.
Most of it goes into things that don’t even have teeth. I am not a chemist and don’t know how cumulative it is in the ground, but over the years there must have been some change in the chemical make-up of soil and plants watered with fluoride.
Forty years ago I bought a water distiller and still use it to avoid chlorine and fluoride. And I asked at my favorite restaurant if they were giving me city water and I was told they have an efficient filter on their water. It may be (and should be) required by state health inspectors.
Think of it like this. Fluoride is available in prescription doses in pills. The city buys you one of these pills every day and you take it and have great teeth. But for each pill they buy an undetermined number of the same pills (hundreds at least and some days thousands) which they dump on the ground or flush down the sewer every single day.
Ward Mackey, Albany (March 4)
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