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Total tooth loss increased while Americans steadily receive more fluoridated water and food, according to recent government statistics. Fluoride, hailed as a cavity preventive is supposed to enhance tooth retention; but fails expectations. In 1999, 24.4% of Americans over 65 were reported edentulous(1) by the Centers for Disease Control, ranging from 14% in Hawaii (9% fluoridated) to 48% in West Virginia (87% fluoridated). However, the April 2003 Journal of the American Dental Association reports toothlessness averages 30.3% with poor seniors suffering the highest rates at 45.1%.(2) Yet 65.8% of Americans receive fluoridated tap water, up 3.7% since 1992 (3) and...

TORONTO, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- A new report indicates Canadian's growing penchant for bottled water may be leading to an increase in childhood cavities. Canada's National Post reports that as Canadian families increasingly opt for spring water, they are avoiding tap water that in many cities is supplemented with the decay-fighting chemical fluoride.

Lunatic Conspiracy Targets -- Tap Water? Posted On June 24, 2003 If you thought that a loony obsession with malevolent forces spiking our drinking water was limited to fictional characters from "Dr. Strangelove," think again. Such characters are very real -- and they belong to the extreme environmentalist movement. National Review reports that the same crowd who brought you the entirely unfounded hysteria over Alar on apples and falsely accused biotech corn of mass-murdering monarch butterflies is now warning of a deadly substance that nameless, faceless government officials are purposely putting in your tap water: fluoride. An enviro-coalition called the...

Why we should be worried about George W Bush29jun02THE world outside the US is now getting used to the fact Americans have a fraudulently elected nitwit as their president, but George W. Bush excelled himself this week with a "long-awaited" definitive speech on Middle East policies that stretched even the weirdest imaginations. BRUCE WILSON in London reports: US embassies around the world moved to "explain" the batty future Bush saw for Israel and Palestine, but nothing could disguise that the bedbug was running the White House and anything could happen next.Hey, look. Even Tom Cruise is worried. In London this...