Have you sever seen a Russian drink a glass of water?
Posted on 12/12/2016 3:51:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
In a big win for Silicon Valley dentists sure to give them a wide, sparkling smile, a large portion of San Jose will begin on Monday to receive fluoride in its drinking water to help reduce tooth decay.
Until now, San Jose has been the nation’s biggest city without the natural mineral in its drinking water. Critics, who have feared that its toxic, have fought it off. In fact, the John Birch Society was accused of calling it a Communist plot to poison America. In a 2014 YouTube video, a spokesman clarified that the position of the group was against the "mass medication of citizens by government."
The use of fluoride is endorsed by the American Dental Association, American Medical Association, CDC, California Department of Public Health, American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization.
For years, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital have been pushing for the switch and were able to get a $6.2-million drinking water treatment plant passed, according to the Mercury News.
San Francisco has offered fluoride since 1951, Oakland since 1976, and cities throughout California, such as Los Angeles and San Diego, along with Contra Costa, Marin and San Mateo counties, all add fluoride to the drinking water, the Mercury News reported.
The Health Trust donated $1 million, First 5 Santa Clara County gave $900,000 and the California Dental Association Foundation donated $500,000, the Mercury News reported. On Monday, 230,000 people in East San Jose, Almaden Valley and Santa Teresa who are customers of San Jose Water Company will begin receiving fluoridated water.
By 2020, after the water district has finished upgrading its two other water treatment plants, another 520,000 people will receive fluoride, including residents of West San Jose, Cupertino, Saratoga and other parts of Los Gatos, the Mercury News reported.
About 415,000 people in the county already have fluoride, according to the water district. They include residents of Palo Alto, Mountain View and parts of Sunnyvale whose fluoridated water comes from San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy system, as well as 100,000 or so residents of Evergreen, Alviso and North San Jose who are customers of the San Jose Municipal Water System, which has provided fluoride for years.
By 2020, roughly 1.16 million county residents will have fluoride, still leaving 700,000 people without it, the Mercury News reported. Those residents, in places like downtown and Willow Glen, get their groundwater from San Jose Water Co. wells.
Other parts of the county, such as Gilroy and Morgan Hill, rely entirely on city-owned well water, which is not fluoridated.
Tooth decay only became a problem for me in the past few years because of some medication I was on. Thankfully we found something better and I was able to get dental work done to repair the damage.
I do not buy the "necessity" of adding anything to drinking water that does not naturally belong to it.
[ The use of fluoride is endorsed by the American Dental Association, American Medical Association, CDC, California Department of Public Health, American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization. ]
It’s just too damned bad the Bureau of Arms Tobacco and Firearms doesn’t encourage going out deer hunting while sloshed on beer and smoking a carton of marlboros
[ I grew up on well water, out in the country.
Tooth decay only became a problem for me in the past few years because of some medication I was on. Thankfully we found something better and I was able to get dental work done to repair the damage.
I do not buy the “necessity” of adding anything to drinking water that does not naturally belong to it. ]
Well water child here too, no teeth issues, living near a town that added fluoride, the dentist always said we had great teeth.... they even said they knew when someone was not from the town because no one in their family had flouridosis ( fluoride overdose ) . We used the same water table as the city too....
I think it is a scam mostly for making money off of gullible city governments.
people get hurt when the equipment goes bad and overdoses them on fluoride... Not to mention the drain on the city resources ie. everyone’s taxes.
Water?!? You mean the stuff in the toilet?
How so?
I can’t believe this thread went 18 replies without a Stranglove remark.
This is just a plot to dilute our nation’s precious bodily fluids!
Have you sever seen a Russian drink a glass of water?
Don't folks in colder climates deserve good teeth ?
It’s toxic.
But Fluorine is NOT a mineral
It is a gas....and highly corrosive. Hydrofluoric acid is able to eat through glass and is used in etching.
This brings up the number ONE rule for the chemistry lab:
NEVER lick the spoon!
I have several specimens
John Birch is alive and well
eeewww!
Fluoride in my bod, is bad juju.
Where is the science? At least 50 odd some years old and Archaic.
No fluoride in my house for years... not ONE cavity amongst my three.
Fluoride also lowers testosterone levels. No wonder the liberals want to put it in the water.
Does New York city put extra fluoride in the water to create metro guys?
Interesting. Never knew it wasn’t already in the tap water. San Jose Unified used to have flouride treatment programs in school when I was there for 2 years in the early ‘70’s. Coming from the DC area where it was in the water it was odd to see them doing that. I swallowed some once and it made me nauseous for a day.
I like their music but can’t stand looking at him.
Brawndo or die.
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