The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has
decided in its wisdom to add Fluoride to the So. Cal water
supply. How much? For how long? Why? When?
Jon Roth, Executive Director of the California Dental Assn.
Foundation (whoever they are!) said: “It’s strange how the
scare tactics have changed over the past 50 years. Of course,
the overwhelming evidence says that it’s safe and effective.
The argument against fluoridation in the 50’s that it was a
communist plot!”
The result is that the MWD is going to add Fluoride whether
people want it or not. There are reasons but certainly not
because of any communist plot. No UFO’s, No surreptitious
desire to spend government’s money! No the MWD is adding a
molecule that is smaller than water itself. They are adding
it because as the amount of Reclaimed water rises in our
water supply….it becomes more and more necessary to kill so
called “suspended viruses” that no filter, no sunlight, no
other chemical that evaporates can do. Fluoride….the wonder
drug for poisoned wells in Texas during the 50’s. Fluoride,
the so-called wonder drug that pitted teeth and browns the
teeth of babies years later.
The paid off Newspaper Editors are busy out there flaunting the
joys of Fluoride and the benefits of stronger teeth. Not for
babies of course. Not for those with gum problems, not for those
that with dietary issues! Remember DDT? Remember Formaldehyde?
Malathion? Methyl Bromide? Remember, remember? How about the
truth? Yes, we are running out of water big time! Yes, we are
being forced to use more and more Reclaimed/Toilet/Sewage Water
mixed with the paltry water supply we do have. Hey, it’s just
another medical benefit ….to add fluoride…for stronger teeth
and bones! Right! Probably worth further documentation and more
study! We study everything…why not Fluoride in the water?
Anything with Fluoride or a derivative of fluoride is questionable.
But hey, what do people know that simply Google the word and find
out for themselves. After all, would the California Dental Assn.
Foundation lie to us? Come on, we must be alarmists! Come on,
we must just be trying to make trouble where there is none! No,
we want our government, Federal, State, County and Cities to make
darn sure that there will be no harmful effects on our population.
How irresponsible is that? Does it cause lowered IQ, brown teeth
on babies that ingest it, pitting in the teeth of adults? Hey,
before we jump off the boat…why don’t we find out if we can swim
first!
The expert opinion better be coming from the top of the food chain
for us to believe the rhetoric of our local “water dudes” and local
or self advancing water power groups. It’s time to check the weather
reports for the next three months before we take down the convertible
top….when the mechanism to put it back up may not work! We have to
at least praise the Newport Beach City Council and others in So. Cal
for stepping up to the plate in asking for a delay. As usual, they
start Monday (tomorrow!)with phased water fluoridation at it’s Deimer
Treatment Facility in Yorba Linda. Newport gets 18% of its water from
that facility! How much of Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Costa Mesa,
Fountain Valley and others will be fluoridated and when?
Did you know that drinking too much water will kill you? No kidding. Almost everything is toxic, in the right dosage, at the right time.
Fluoride is no different. It’s a poison, but it’s also an essential nutrient (it’s not the only chemical in that category, by the way). In the trace amounts put into drinking water, it helps strengthen teeth and prevent dental caries. 50 years of experience piled on dozens of studies confirm this relationship.
Now, too much fluoride will pit teeth. In one fluoride pollution case I worked, cows grazing in a field near a steel mill lost their teeth to too much fluoride. The levels measured were dozens of times higher than what we get added to drinking water.
So the question to ask is this: Is there adequate fluoride in the water already? If so, there’s no need to add it. If not, adding trace amounts produces huge health benefits.
Adding a surplus could cause tooth pitting. But it would also increase the costs enormously.
Go visit with your dentist. Dentists have a vested interest in unhealthy teeth, but altruistically they have collectively campaigned for good dental health, and driven away most of their own fillings business. Fluoridation of water and the consequent reduction in cavities is one of the great public health success stories in world history.
It’s not enough to know fluoride will be added to water. We need to know how much is there before, and after. Responsible public officials aren’t going to add enough to pit teeth, just enough to make the teeth stronger.
The first thing the Commies did in Russia was to fluoridate the water. This poison is meant to sedate the population so that the ultimate ends of the Commies can be reached. Oh-and one of their programs was to confiscate all privately owned toothbrushes. Yes, just like Hillary, the Commies wanted to take away our right to choose!
Ed…Great comments…you set a
good bar for dialogue. We can’t
agree more with your comments.
Communists used fluoride for sedation? You’re trying to make satire, right?
Ed, Ed, “anony” “mouse” was trying
to use sardonic satire…his skill
set in this regard is lacking greatly as you can see!
One more question: When they mix
Chorline with the Fluoride….how
bad can it get if they “screw the
pooch” and put too much of either
one into the water supply?
Well, ya know how they say you can’t parody true stupidity . . . I see a lot of true stupidity around the ‘net.
My apologies.
As to your question: Chlorine and fluorine together make extremely corrosive compounds — but in drinking water, they are usually bound up with other stuff (think sodium chloride, or table salt — which puts free chlorine ions in your soup, which probably doesn’t concern you at all though the chlorine concentrations would be considerably higher than your drinking water . . .). Chlorine does a different function in mammals than fluoride.
At the concentrations fluorine gets when added to drinking water, danger is extremely slight.
But look at this:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00153.htm
And this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_fluoride