EPA Reverses Itself on Fluoride

FoxNews.com ^ | February 22, 2011 | By Deirdre Imus

[DBCJR]

For decades, fluoride has been marketed and heralded as essential for good dental hygiene and used in most toothpastes and mouthwashes. In addition, parents have been routinely encouraged to give their kids cavity-fighting fluoride treatments when they visit the dentist. ...

But that was then and this is now. In a surprising reversal, last month EPA’s announced that it intends to lower the maximum amount of fluoride in drinking water because of growing evidence supporting the chemical’s possible deleterious effects to children’s health.

In 2006, the National Academy of Sciences report that found dental fluorosis – caused by too much fluoride – capable of putting children at risk of developing other dental problems including the breakdown of tooth enamel, discoloration and pitting. January’s EPA recommendation reversal was made following a revised risk assessment study that found 2 out of 5 adolescents had tooth streaking or spottiness and some pitting as a result of excessive fluoride. In addition, other studies have found excessive ingestion of fluoride capable of increasing the risk of brittle bones leading to fractures and debilitating bone abnormalities.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.nidcr.nih.gov/oralhealth/topics/fluoride/thestoryoffluoridation.htm

In 1945, Grand Rapids became the first city in the world to fluoridate its drinking water.The Grand Rapids water fluoridation study was originally sponsored by the U.S. Surgeon General, but was taken over by the NIDR shortly after the Institute’s inception in 1948. During the 15-year project, researchers monitored the rate of tooth decay among Grand Rapids’ almost 30,000 schoolchildren. After just 11 years, Dean- who was now director of the NIDR-announced an amazing finding. The cavities rate among Grand Rapids children born after fluoride was added to the water supply dropped more than 60 percent.

[The Antiyuppie]

Every single time I ever see a thread about fluoridation, that guy’s mug shows up...

“Mandrake...I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

As true today as when it was first spoken. :)

[TigersEye]

I will be trying it. They wanted me in 3X a year instead of two and that does pinch the pocketbook. The root planing just smash it with a hammer though.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

‘There are some studies that show that fluoride inhibits testosterone in males, also.’

Gen. Jack D Ripper was right about that too!

[Borax Queen]

That’s great, can’t wait to hear your great results in a few months :0)

Root planing, aghhhhh. I understand, I had gotten to that point last May where it was getting ludicrous what they needed to do (scaling, etc.) or thought they’d need to do (gum surgery, etc.), and I needed to do something.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Oh good God, people. I can’t believe people are so scared of minor things now - and willing to buy snake oil from the fools who know ZILCH about the products they push as “alternatives”. We’re putting ourselves back in the dark ages, without the help of government, even.

http://www.quackwatch.org/03HealthPromotion/fluoride.html

[dennisw]

Thyroid problems are rampant in this country>>>>

Fluorides, bromides and chlorine can displace iodine in the thyroid. Some are affected by this but some are immune to it

[TigersEye]

Yeah, why believe our lyin’ eyes? /s lol

[OneWingedShark]

Yep!

Floridation!

[djf]

Rat poison.

Doesn’t it basically destroy a persons thyroid also?

[Marty62]

Yeah those preg hormones are a nightmare.

[editor-surveyor]

The kind that is deliberately added to water does not occur naturally in water anywhere.

[OneWingedShark]

>did stop using toothpaste about a year ago, using herbal drops, and never had better dentist reports in my life, about how healthy my gums are, etc.

Herbal drops?

[freemama]

I had the prescription in hand 15 years ago and just didn’t fill it. None of my three kids have had a cavity. We are on well water.

[Atlas Sneezed]

This one is so good, it's worth the original script for that scene:

Cut to: int. General Turgidson's studio. Phone rings.

Miss Scott:

Shouting Buck, should I get it?

Turgidson:

Muffled, OF Yeah. You have to.

Miss Scott:

to phone Hello? Oh, yes, General Turgidson is here, but I'm afraid he can't come to the phone at the moment.

Well, this is his secretary, Miss Scott.

softly Freddie, how are you? Fine and you? Oh, we were just catching up on some of the General's paperwork. Well, look Freddie, he's very tied up at the moment. I'm afraid he can't come to the phone. Well, just a minute. shouts to Tuirgidson, OF General Turgidson, a General Puntridge calling.

Turgidson:

Tell him to call back.

Miss Scott:

to phone Freddie, the General says could you call back in a minute or two? Oh. shouting He says it can't wait.

Turgidson:

Ah, for Pete... well... Find out what he wants.

Miss Scott:

Freddie, the thing is, the General is in the powder room right now. Could you tell me what it's about? Just a second...

shouting Apparently they monitored a transmission about eight minutes ago from Burpleson Air Force Base.

to phone Right.

shouting It was directed to the 843'rd bomb wing on airborne alert. to phone Yeah.

shouting It decoded as Wing Attack, Plan R.

Turgidson:

Um ah, tell him to call uh what's his name. Base commander. Ripper. I have to think of everything?

Miss Scott:

to phone The General suggests you call General Ripper, the 843rd base commander. Oh.

shouting All communications are dead.

Turgidson:

Bull! Tell him to do it himself.

Miss Scott:

Freddie, the General asks if you could possibly try again yourself.

I see.

shouting He says he's tried personally several times, but everything is dead. Even the normal phone lines are shut down.

Turgidson emerges from the bathroom, grumbling.

Turgidson:

to phone Fred. Buck. What's it look like? Yeah. Waa... are you sure it's plan R? Huh. What's cookin' on the threat board.? Nothin? Nothin at all? I don't like the look of this, Fred. Alright, I tell you what you better do, old buddy. slaps his belly You better give Elmo and Charlie a blast, and bump everything up to condition red and stand by the blower, I'll get back to you. hangs up

Miss Scott:

What's up?

Turgidson:

Nothing. Nothing. Where's my shorts?

Miss Scott:

On the floor. Where are you going?

Turgidson:

No place. No... no place... I just thought I might mosey over to the War room for a few minutes. See what's doing over there.

Miss Scott:

It's three o'clock in the morning.

Turgidson:

laughs The Air Force never sleeps.

Miss Scott:

Buck, honey... I'm not sleepy either.

Turgidson:

I know how it is, baby. Tell you what you do. You just start your countdown, and old Bucky'll be back here before you can say... Blast Off!

[editor-surveyor]

The formation of plaques (’tartar’) is caused by incomplete digestion; you lack sufficient acid to digest your food, which then rots and forms lactic acid.

[roamer_1]

The tinfoil hats got it right again...

[OneWingedShark]

>LOL...brilliantly funny movie...even though it slanders nearly everything military and those who serve.

I take it you’ve never read Pvt Murphy’s Law then...
If there’s one thing that’s “slanderous” about everything in the military it’s the soldiers themselves! {It’s the only way to keep your sanity at times.}

>But...even military people thought it was funnier than hell, so...that compensates for it...:)

I remember one time where I put a Magic 8-Ball into my chain of command... :)
{It was really the only explanation as to WHY every ten minutes or so new, and conflicting, orders would come down from “on high.”
ASK AGAIN LATER

[jch10]

A generation of soldiers exposed to herbicides in Viet Nam might be the reason for rampant thyroid problems.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ I need to get control of this soon or I’ll be eating soup the rest of my life” <<

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All it takes to fix it is packing your gums with cayenne. About two weeks should completely heal the gums and get them growing again.