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 Should We Drink Fluoride, or Not?
Ranting by Tom Cornwell
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 Gosh,
there is so much data available out 'there' today that it just boggles
my mind. At some point some of us just have to stop and decide
that we've gone far enough because life pulls us away with its demands.
Time to make a decision on the issue at hand.
Because of time restraints, I have found that it certainly helps for me
to have rules, a standard, or acid test for which to judge information
as I come across it. You know, throw an idea up against the wall
and if it sticks, use it. That 'standard' could also be an
individual whose opinion you may value because of their expertise in
one area or another. Sometimes many areas. Sometimes many
individuals. Sometimes statistics - if you can trust 'em.
This water fluoridation issue flares up from time to time and
statistics are always thrown out in support of or against the addition
of fluoride to our water. It recently gained national attention when
the people of Portland, Oregon went to the polls again for the third or
fourth time in as many decades to decide whether or not to fluoridate
their drinking (and cooking and bathing) water for the sake of
preserving their teeth.
Consequently, I feel compelled to take sides - make a decision, like
everybody else, right? So, I'm following the news stories, both pro and
con, and I love to read those comments people write. They get
very passionate, you know, and after I read enough stories and their
accompanying comments I see the same arguments being whipped out, along
with their supporting studies, from both sides.
On one hand, the water fluoridists would have you believe that dumping
fluoride compounds into the water supply is the only way we can save
the 'poor' children's teeth from decay. (For some reason, rich
kids know how to brush their teeth?) Of course 'new studies' now show
that adults benefit too, don't you know! How could you NOT want
to have your kid's drinking water conveniently laced with this
miraculous and harmless substance?!?
On the other hand, we have the anti-fluoridists attempting to prove,
seven ways to Sunday, how drinking this crud will surely make you curl
up and die. Or turn your kids into babbling idiots. Or turn
our entire nation into docile zombies. (Something did.) Hitler
even used it on the inmates of the concentration camps, after all.
Right? If not, surely it was on Mengele's 'to do' list.
Frankly, I find the anti-fluoridists far more credible.
I don't have a clue as to why they really do dump it into the water
supply, to be honest with you. I do know, however, that teeth
certainly DON'T NEED
fluoride to re-mineralize. They need calcium and phosporus
ions. They need a little carbonic acid. The teeth need to
be CLEAN. Teeth will remineralize just fine without fluoride
compounds - just like they always have, but they MUST also be
clean. If the teeth aren't clean in the first place, no amount of
fluoride has the ability to magically bypass the process and do the job
of remineralizing the poor children's teeth.
The poor children. Case in point...A short staff editorial in the
Evansville (IN) Courier & Press from June 25, 2013 laments the
closing of of the county's dental clinic...
"And in Evansville, it is not going to get any better. A Saturday
report by Courier & Press staff writer Jesse Higgins told us that
the Vanderburgh County Community Dental Clinic which closed nearly a
year ago is no where near reopening. That decision a year ago left
hundreds of low income citizens and their children without the means to
stop the pain."(2) Read in full
When water fluoridists want to promote the introduction of fluoride
into a community's water supply, they'll always tout the wonderful
results to the community's children. Especially the poor children. It's a wise community investment! Yet, when I see cries for help, such as this editorial
from the Evansville, IN newspaper, I have to scratch my head and wonder
just how beneficial fluoridated drinking water can actually be. I
mean, Evansville has been spiking the public water since the early
1960s, for crying out loud! Why, then, are these poor children
suffering tooth decay?! ...and so MUCH decay?
Again, I really have no clue as to why they really do add it to the
water. As far as I can tell, it isn't necessary and it certainly
does not appear to live up to its proponents' claims...BUT! that's when
it comes to tooth remineralization. The new research, however,
says that it prevents the formation of plaque on the tooth surface, so
who cares if they were wrong in the past? But if this NEW data is true,
wasn't it also true 30 years ago? Did it change anything?
Cranberries do the same thing, coincidentally. (2) Why not dump cranberry juice into the water instead. I might prefer that over fluoride, you know?
So, WHY do they REALLY add fluoride compounds to water?
Two dental professionals told me that they felt it was the dental
profession's way of showing that they are doing SOMETHING about tooth
decay. Perhaps that is true, but it seems like a very drastic
measure when it appears to be only marginally effective, at best.
If at all. I would think that even the psychiatric community
would think twice about adding serotonin re-uptake inhibitors, such as
Prozac, to the water supply, leveling us all out. It seems highly
unethical, doesn't it...?
See also: 10 Facts About Fluoride
1. EDITORIAL: Dental clinic needs to be a high priority http://tinyurl.com/pcumms5
2. Cranberries for a Healthy Smile http://mizar5.com/cranberries.html
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