Ballina Flouride Vote Has Experts Worried

[icyfroth]

Ballina will vote on Thursday on whether to reject fluoridation of its water supply. If it does, it will join nearby Lismore Council and 17 Queensland councils that have voted no to fluoride this year.

Children living in parts of northern NSW without fluoridation already have the worst teeth in the state. They have nearly double the number of decayed, missing and filled teeth compared with other children, according to the most recent dental health survey.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/ballina-flouride-vote-has-experts-worried-20130821-2safg.html#ixzz2cfdzree...

Some anti-fluoride activists, such as Merilyn Haines, the president of Queenslanders for Safe Water Air and Food, argue that fluoride is a poison that is used as an insectide to kill roaches and ants.

But Ballina Council member Keith Williams, who proposed the motion, said he saw it as a human rights issue.

“I don't dispute the scientific evidence of dentistry that it prevents cavities, but I don't believe it is appropriate to add a medication to the water supply without everybody's consent.”

He does have a point there. There's something sinister about a government putting poison in your drinking water and telling the public it's for their own good.

 Still, I've been drinking flourodised water here in Sydney for years and it hasn't done me any harm, and I still have my own teeth, albeit with lots of fillings, lol.

Surely the rise in tooth decay in children in the last few decades can't be solely due to unflourodised bottled water!?

Are we taking into account that children are drinking more soft drinks and juices and less water than ever before? 

Should councils flourodise drinking water?

[cherry*135]

Some anti- fluroide posters in this thread say they don't want faceless Govt's decding whether they have fluroidation in their water supply. In Australia, at present, it is the local councils that decide... the majority of citizens are OK with that process.

The tooth hurts: dental expert is eager to expose the cavities in fluoride conspiracy theories 

Sept. 8, 2013, 3 a.m.

 http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1760929/the-tooth-hurts-dental-expert-is-eager-to-expose-th...

[***super_nova***]

''Fluoridation costs less than $1 per person - and in a big city like Sydney, it is less than 50¢ - a year,'' he says.

[icyfroth]

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@am*3 wrote:

Some anti- fluroide posters in this thread say they don't want faceless Govt's decding whether they have fluroidation in their water supply. In Australia, at present, it is the local councils that decide... the majority of citizens are OK with that process.

The tooth hurts: dental expert is eager to expose the cavities in fluoride conspiracy theories 

Sept. 8, 2013, 3 a.m.

 http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1760929/the-tooth-hurts-dental-expert-is-eager-to-expose-th...

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Because they're sold on the benefits of flouride without realising it doesn't have to be in the drinking water to be effective. That in fact swallowing flouride can have harmful side-effects.

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

''Fluoridation costs less than $1 per person - and in a big city like Sydney, it is less than 50¢ - a year,'' he says.

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Yes. Your point?

[twinkles**stars]

Costing is not the issue. Health is the issue, not teeth but health

[twinkles**stars]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=420972744675775&set=a.133294666776919.22143.129086560531063&...

Read how many believe fluoride in our water is to blame for many things. Pure water is all we need 🙂

[small_creeps_friend]

I find it painful to eat when my top row of teeth have broken off.   I wish the children well.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

Some anti- fluroide posters in this thread say they don't want faceless Govt's decding whether they have fluroidation in their water supply. In Australia, at present, it is the local councils that decide... the majority of citizens are OK with that process.

The tooth hurts: dental expert is eager to expose the cavities in fluoride conspiracy theories 

Sept. 8, 2013, 3 a.m.

 http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1760929/the-tooth-hurts-dental-expert-is-eager-to-expose-th...

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Because they're sold on the benefits of flouride without realising it doesn't have to be in the drinking water to be effective. That in fact swallowing flouride can have harmful side-effects.

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Icy, the man in the article is

Professor Wendell Evans

 Head of Discipline
Community Oral Health and Epidemiology
Faculty of Dentistry

Don't you think it is just possible that he might know a lot more about the properties, benefits and possible dangers of fluoride  than you do.

[icyfroth]

Absolutely! I'm sure he does, She-el.

And of course he is right in lauding the benefits of flouride to prevent tooth decay. No contest. That's a proven fact.

As long as it's applied to the teeth and not swallowed. 

"Fluoridation advocates have long claimed that the safety of fluoridation is beyond scientific debate.

However, according to the well-known toxicologist, Dr. John Doull, who chaired the National Academy of Science’s review on fluoride, the safety of fluoridation remains “unsettled” and “we have much less information than we should, considering how long it has been going on.”

In 2006, Doull’s committee at the NAS published an exhaustive 500-page review of fluoride’s toxicity. The report concludes that fluoride is an “endocrine disruptor” and can affect many things in the body, including the bones, the brain, the thyroid gland, the pineal gland, and even blood sugar levels.

In extreme doses it can kill.

Governments have no business putting known toxins in a population's drinking water

gotta go.

[icyfroth]

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@***super_nova*** wrote:

''Fluoridation costs less than $1 per person - and in a big city like Sydney, it is less than 50¢ - a year,'' he says.

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Try factoring in the cost of the health problems caused by flouride in the drinking water.

gotta go be back later.