... BUT HEALTH RELATED.
Does anyone KNOW if there is a filter or other means to get this stuff
out of tap water? [see below] if you care to. Thanks
larry tankersley; Gainesville,Florida USA
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NEW YORK TOWN STOPS FLUORIDATION OF WATER, Spurred by College Faculty,
Staff and Students
Village trustees voted, on February 18, 2003, to halt fluoridation in
Canton, New York ( http://www.canton.ny.us/ ). One hundred and thirty
faculty and staff members of Canton's St. Lawrence University and 300
students petitioned the village trustees to ban fluoride from its water
supply.
The decision caps months of public discussion and research about whether
residents' best interests were served with fluoridation, the intentional
addition of cavity-preventing fluoride into water supplies. Trustee
Stephen Putnam, who voted against fluoridation, said he spent much of
December and January reading articles about fluoride and was concerned
that fluoride accumulates in the bones, particularly for menopausal
women who drink fluoridated water over many years, reported the
Watertown Daily Times.
Chemistry professor Paul Connett, PhD, who led the campaign to rid
fluoride from Canton's tap water said, "An independent review of the
literature finds that fluoridation is:
· unethical (medication without patient's informed consent)
· unnecessary (kids get too much fluoride from many sources)
· ineffective (at best, fluoridation saves less than one tooth surface
out of 128 in a child's mouth)
· unsafe (fluoride accumulation can make bones brittle and joints
painful)
· inequitable (the poor cannot afford to avoid it, if desired)
· unscientifically defended (proponents cannot defend the practice in
open debate)
· wasteful, literally pouring taxpayer money down the drain."
Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, Head of Preventive Dentistry, University of
Toronto, drove four hours by car, at his own expense, to give testimony.
Once an avid fluoridation promoter, Limeback turned fluoridation
opponent when he discovered the:
a) incidence of children's dental fluorosis (fluoride discolored teeth)
has risen sharply,
b) benefits of fluoridation are topical, not systemic (swallowed
fluoride does not prevent tooth decay),
c) chemical most used in fluoridation schemes is not pharmaceutical
grade, but an industrial waste-product, hexafluorosilicic acid, which
the US Environmental Protection Agency admits has never been safety
tested.
For more information, you can contact:
Dr. Paul Connett,
[email protected] , http://www.fluoridealert.org Dr. Hardy Limeback,
[email protected]
Attorney Paul Beeber [email protected]
(Reprinted with permission of the NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof )
My website offers these articles on fluoridation:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html
http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html
And on care of the teeth:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/teeth_tooth.html
There are many fluoridation links to be found on my LINKS page at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/links.html
larry tankersley; Gainesville,Florida USA
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