Just check into who was the first Government to use fluoride in the drinking water. Also, if enough people demand that it be removed it will be. So 0/3.:thumbsup

not really. again critical thinking leads me to KNOW there will never by an uprising of the people to stop fluoridation.

never.

i am well aware fluoridation started in the u.s. around the turn of the century, that does not discount the fact that you think it's an attempt to dumb down the masses and that your country is in on the conspiracy.

You guys can argue back and forth about this all you want, but the US government says that people are getting too much fluoride. There is a Congressional Research Service report on the subject. It basically says there is not too much in any one source, but when you add them all together people get too much.

Fluoride is found in most water sources naturally, for sure those coming off mountains and in under ground rivers/lakes, ie: most drinking water. You could drink water from a stream that has higher fluoride in it that water from the tap. Most people with soft water from wells have higher counts of fluoride than those with city tap water.

Water treatment plants often remove fluoride... they regulate it, they don't have to add it in unless they have to take something else out first, which is rather common - however they put back less fluoride than what was taken out.

wait, i thought it was a well-planned out conspiracy orchestrated by the u.s. government over 100 years ago to keep us all dumbed down and on the government fluoride cheese.

why would they release such a report in light of the conspiracy.

Alex Jones might say it's because it's an internal congressional report that was not public until Wikileaks got a'hold of it :upsidedow

Quotes from the report:

Nothing in the report about it dumbing us down, but it does talk about how it can fuck up our teeth and bones and that most in the medical community do not think there is a link to cancer, but more studies need to be done.

This is what I found in regards to natural fluoride.

Fluoride, as such, is never added to the water. Only silicofluorides (a hazardous waste containing many toxic pollutants) are used to artificially fluoridate water, and studies have proven that they do not effectively prevent tooth decay, they only delay it. (See opposition's response to Question 4). Silicofluorides never occur naturally in nature, and they are 85 times more toxic than natural occurring calcium fluoride. Therefore, the effect on the entire body will be different.

This was proven in a study called, "Comparative Toxicity of Fluorine Compounds." After this study was completed, this statement was made: " ... this meant a daily intake of approximately 40 mg/kg of fluorine from sodium fluoride as compared with 3400 mg/kg from calcium fluoride. Therefore, from the standpoint of lethal concentrations and amount of fluorine necessary to cause growth inhibition, wide differences in toxicity of some of the compounds of fluoride were noted." (See 3-1: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. July 1934, page 797). In other words, industrial waste (sodium fluoride) is 85 times more toxic than natural calcium fluoride. Both of them contain fluoride, but they are totally different compounds. (Also see 3-2).

Calcium is a well-known antidote for fluoride poisoning. When an antidote accompanies a poison, it makes the poison far less toxic to the body. Soft waters to which fluoride is artificially added lack this calcium which is present in most waters that contain natural fluoride.

Check out Sodium lauryl sulfate Bad stuff and it is in most all toothpaste and many hair shampoos.

Change your toothpaste and never get a sore throat again. :2 cents:


http://www.tomsofmaine.com/products/...ree-toothpaste :thumbsup

mmmmm.... government fluoride cheese.......

50 lost teeth.

ok.. soo what are the facts.

Fact: Oral health of populations that drink fluoridated water > than not. 50 odd years of empirical data.

Non-fact: Unsubstantiated nut job conspiracy theory

Yea it's a nut job conspiracy theory to think drinking a toxic waste substance might not be good for you. My concerns are far from unsubstantiated. Been plenty of medical research done on this and lots of scientist, doctors and even dentist that have come out against water fluoridation. The risk/reward doesn't add up.

Yummmmmmmmmm..... Looks so tasty...:1orglaugh

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Interestingly enough, yesterday I read a report that 91% of canadians tested has bispheonal A in their urine/blood. And while many companies have stopped making products using it, paper receipts apparently have a bunch of it for some reason.

In regards to bottled water...yeah its not a good alternative but no matter if its coming from bottles or your tap, fact is the water travels through plastic no matter what. ANd of course, you need to recycle your plastics but I wish there was a better alternative. I know bottled water comes from tap most of the time but its the way its filtered, with reverse osmosis rather that chlorine.

I was doing some reading on floridation in Canada. The majority of Quebec and BC do not floridate their water, yet have some of the lowest tooth decay whereas Ontario, where every municipality floridates has the highest. Just in May Gatineau, Quebec (right across the river from me) turned down the opportunity to floridate the water believing the citizens did not want it.

The following documents why our union, formerly National Federation of Federal Employees Local 2050 and since April 1998 Chapter 280 of the National Treasury Employees Union, took the stand it did opposing fluoridation of drinking water supplies. Our union is comprised of and represents the approximately 1500 scientists, lawyers, engineers and other professional employees at EPA (ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY) Headquarters here in Washington, D.C.

http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluori...0-Fluoride.htm