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Fluoride in Your Water? Get It Out!

by NYSCOF
January 25, 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the biggest public health blunder of all time - fluoridation - the addition of fluoride chemicals into humans via the water supply in a failed effort to reduce tooth decay. Modern science says fluoridation is ineffective, harmful & wa$teful. Politics keeps it alive. You need to demand that it stop.
Fluoride is neither a nutrient nor essential for healthy teeth. Like all drugs, fluoride has adverse side effects - some quite serious. See: http://www.FluorideAction.Net/issues/health

Fluoride's purported benefits are topical but its risks are systemic, says the CDC. This means there is no good reason to swallow fluoride and no logical justification for water fluoridation.

Adolescents are fluoride overdosed already, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Upto 60% of adolescents are afflicted by fluoride overdose - dental fluorosis (white spotted, yellow, brown and/or pitted teeth). But 51% of them still have cavities.

Valid science shows that fluoride is a health risk even at low levels added to water supplies. Especially harmed are high-water drinkers, babies, kidney and thyroid patients.

To avoid fluoride over-dose, fluoridated water must not be routinely mixed into infant formula, according to government, health and dental agencies. (See: Fluoride and Babies: Don't Mix http://fluoridedangers.blogspot.com/2014/06/fluoride-babies-dont-mix.html

Fluoridation began with the untested belief that ingested fluoride prevented tooth decay in small children, only. Evidence-based-dentistry now shows that swallowing fluoride poses dental and health risks without benefits.

Call your water department, ask if fluoride chemicals are added into your water supply. Then ask them and your local legislators, "Who has the authority to stop fluoridation?" Organize your neighbors to lobby the appropriate agency or department to have them cease fluoridation. You will be saving your community money and improving overall health with no increased dental risk. In fact, many studies show that when fluoridation ends, tooth decay rates actually go down or stay the same.

Here are more suggestions about how to stop fluoridation where you live http://fluoridealert.org/take-action/
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