Category: Fluoride
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Fluoridation More Harmful to African Americans
Fluoridegate: Documents Show Officials’ Efforts to Control News of Water Fluoridation Harm to African Americans Release from Daniel Stockin Ellijay, Georgia: May 20, 2015: Federal health officials, in close communication with dental industry representatives, worked feverishly to blunt spread of news that African Americans are disproportionately harmed by drinking fluoridated water, according to recently obtained…
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CDC’s Statistics Prove Fluoridation is Futile
New York – May 19, 2015 –The CDC reports that almost all adults have cavities and significant oral health disparities by race still persist. This After 7 decades of fluoridation reaching record numbers of Americans via the water and food supply, reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc. (NYSCOF). Fluoride added to public…
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Oenida, NY Council Rejects Fluoridation
Oneida, NY rejects well-orchestrated fluoridation push by NYS Dep’t of Health’s Dentist J Kumar and Dentist Sam Barr, of the Madison County Health Department, who organized pediatricians, dentists, school board members, hospital employees and more, to no avail Oneida Common Council votes ‘no’ for fluoridation of city water in a 5-1 vote.
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Whatever Happened to Clean Water Portland?
Clean Water Clarion The Voice of Clean Water Oregon Donna — Whatever happened to Clean Water Portland? We have transitioned! Clean Water Portland was a political action committee, and as such, needed to be disbanded after the history-making 2013 vote that stopped water fluoridation in Portland. Should another fluoridation vote ever loom, the political action…
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More BS from Dept. of Health & Human Services
Press Release Dated 4/27/15 HHS issues final recommendation for community water fluoridation Adjusted level seeks to maintain dental health benefits of fluoride The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today released the final Public Health Service (PHS) recommendation for the optimal fluoride level in drinking water to prevent tooth decay. The new recommendation is…
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Erin Brockovich on Fluoride
NOTE BY EDITOR, Donna Westfall: In 2000, Julia Roberts starred as Erin Brockovich, a single mother, unemployed, who helped bring down a California power company accused of polluting the water supply. Today she’s a consumer advocate. On November 6, 2012, Crescent City voted in a moratorium to stop water fluoridation. Here’s what Erin has to…
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Fluoride Updates
Submitted by Fluoride Action Network APRIL 17, 2015 Dear Donna: Another Community Ends Fluoridation Councilors in Carl Junction, Missouri voted to end fluoridation this past week after considering a number of concerns they had regarding the effectiveness and safety of the practice. The community, which is home to approximately 8,000 residents, started fluoridating the water…
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Carl Junction, Mo. Will Discontinue the Use of Fluoride
Credit to Front States Homepage.com CARL JUNCTION, MO.— The Carl Junction City Council has given final approval to discontinue the fluoride additive in the public water system once the current supply runs out. Carl Junction voters supported a ballot question to start fluoridating back in 2005. City council members cite more recent studies questioning the…
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Dentistry must embrace evidence, not CDC report flaws
By Jason L. Hirsch, DMD, MPH, Credit to DrBicuspid.com where Dr. Hirsch is a contributing writer April 8, 2015 — I write this article so that my profession can take an introspective look at what exactly we are doing. I’ve practiced since 2002, mainly in pediatric dentistry, but before dental school I studied public health. Public health is a…
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Collusion Between the Sugar Industry & the National Institutes of Health
SUBMITTED BY FLUORIDEALERT.ORG (Fluoride Action Network) A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS Medicine reveals that recently uncovered internal documents from 1959 to 1971 show that the sugar industry successfully manipulated the research on dental decay conducted by the U.S. National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR), a branch of the National Institutes of…