Windsor votes to remove fluoride from drinking water (Canada)

Windsor star ^ | January 28, 2012

[opentalk]

Windsor on Monday joined the growing number of municipalities which have voted to end the decades-old practice of adding fluoride to the water supply in the fight against tooth decay.

“A lot has changed in the last 60 years … fluoride is not the be-all and end-all to prevent tooth decay,” said Mayor Eddie Francis, who voted with the majority.

… “I want to be shown that when we ingest this, we are safe,” said Kimberley DeYong of Fluoride Free Windsor. She and others said not a single study among those cited by fluoridation proponents looked specifically at the industry-sourced chemical used by the municipality and its impact on human health outside of tooth enamel hardening.

… Peter Van Caulart, director of the Environmental Training Institute that trains municipal waterworks operators, said there’s been a 26 per cent drop in Canadian municipalities using fluoridation since 2005 and that in Niagara Falls, it was the first time council opposed its medical officer of health.

[opentalk]

From another article the cost of adding fluoride to Windsor’s drinking water is between $125,000 and $150,000 each year.

[CanadianBloodAmericanHeart]

I live in Windsor as well. I think we have some of the best tasting water anywhere. They run that stuff through like a trillion spaghetti strainers...seems to work.

[MetaThought]

It began long before Obama, and will continue for quite a while after.

[ReformationFan]

Sad but true:

http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

[Fightin Whitey]

And you’re one of the smart ones!

Sorry, kiddin’. If I wasn’t HTMiLiterate I would have posted a pic of a bottle of the stuff.

If you’re not Canadian or living along the border (as I have done my whole life) there’s no chance.

[AlexW]

What about Chlorine in public water? Is that not worse then fluoride?
Anyway, from 1972 until I left the US in 2000, I had nothing but pure well water with NO chemicals at all.

[Talisker]

When I moved out into the country and we had well water, I started getting more cavities, until I realized what the problem was and started rinsing with flouride at night. That seems to have fixed it. You don’t need flouride in the water if you use the right kind of flouridated toothpaste, and rinse at night.

Like hell you do.

I don't even want to know how you can post something so evil and live with yourself.

[Roos_Girl]

Thank you for posting that so I didn’t have to. :)

I’ll also add that ingested fluoride can have negative effects on your thyroid. I read somewhere that it is/was commonly used in Europe to treat hyperthyroidism.

[castlebrew]

Chlorine = tripleplusunbad than E. Coli ...

[mlizzy]

Fluoridegate - the film that will absolutely obliterate any remaining credibility of chemical fluoride pushers

http://www.naturalnews.com/038888_Fluoridegate_water_fluoridation_documentary.html

[PA Engineer]

There is an interesting presentation on YouTube. I have kept my eyes wide open and come to the conclusion that I will not drink water with Fluoride. Fluoride "might" have some benefit as a topical treatment, but was never meant to be consumed. Fluoride is another excitotoxin.

Bryson The Fluoride Deception (1/3)

Bryson The Fluoride Deception (2/3)

Bryson The Fluoride Deception (3/3)

[tongass kid]

Fluoridated water and treatments may be extremely beneficial to adults. Dental caries on the roots of adult teeth can be difficult to restore, especially if the caries is in the mesial, distal, facial and lingual root surfaces of a tooth. The restoration of root caries on anterior teeth can be a challenge and very costly. Many years ago the standard for the dental industry was to discontinue fluoride treatments at age 18. For the last 20 years the leaders in dentistry highly recommend fluoride treatments for adults that continue to suffer dental caries. I have over 40 years as a dentist and a dental scientist and encourage adults that continue to suffer decay and/or demonstrate significant root surfaces exposed to the oral environment to receive regular fluoride treatments. It is important for all of us to understand that dental caries (tooth decay) is the number one disease suffered by humans. Numerous scientific studies have demonstrated that the best prevention of dental caries is a diet with no sugar or extremely low sugar. The next level is adequate oral hygiene. Please understand that a sugar diet will over ride the benefits of excellent oral hygiene to the extent that dental caries will be observed in this combination. The third area of defense of dental caries is adequate fluoride therapy. Once again, the benefits of excellent oral hygiene and fluoride therapy can be overcome by a sugar diet. The next area of defense is the surgical removal of the dental caries and replace the area of removal with a restoration. The restoration is not the ultimate in that the restoration can suffer recurrent dental caries. Therefore, the best we can do for our patients to prevent dental caries is to encourage behavior modification of the sugar diet for those that continue to suffer dental caries. Most dental practices do not promote a behavior modification program because it is difficult to modify behavior and patients do not wish to pay for it. Dental caries is a preventable disease and it is simply easier for the dentist to treat the disease then to modify the behavior that causes the disease.

[Squawk 8888]

Thanks Springman.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[Squawk 8888]

Thanks Springman.

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[tongass kid]

I have never heard of pure well water. I have observed a number of well water tests and none are pure. Well water contains the naturally occurring elements in the area of the well and may include arsenic and yes even fluoride. I recommend that if you drink well water that the water be tested once a year or more often if the well is shallow and/or live stock or other animals live in the area.

[Squawk 8888]

Yep, fluoridation is like labour unions- great 70 years ago, useless now.

[tongass kid]

It is a reasonable assumption that the average dentist in Windsor charges more then $150k in treating the effects of tooth decay. Most studies show that adding fluoride to the water will reduce tooth decay by about one half. Therefor the $150k allocated to fluoride added to the drinking water is a great cost savings in addition to the reduced pain and suffering of the patients.

[AlexW]

“I have never heard of pure well water.”
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Yes, the only “pure” water is distilled water.
I say pure in that it fell 70 miles away as rain water over 100 years ago. It made its way into water bearing sands that are over 100 feet deep.
It is as clean and unadulterated as anything you will find
in nature. No chemicals are needed to make it safe to drink.
Any minerals that are in the water are innocuous and of no concern.
The quality is equal to Memphis artesian water, but no Chlorine was added.

My information came from my well driller who was also a customer of mine, and the most notable well driller, Commercial, municipal, and private, in west Tennessee.

[Don W]

Horse hockey.

I have “atrocious” oral “hygiene” habits (I have flossed exactly 4 times in my life, and brush occasionally, when my mouth feels icky).

My hygienist is amazed that I have so little bone loss, and cannot believe me when I tell her of my utter disdain for the dental profession. Your post does nothing but confirm my prejudice. You guys are no less a scam than AlGore.

Go peddle your snake oil elsewhere. Flouride is POISON, and only entered the food chain because of lobbying by the aluminum industry. Take a GOOD look at pictures of folks’ teeth where flouride is naturally in the water they drink and tell me again how “beneficial” flouride is supposed to be.

Yes, I said LIAR!

[Former Proud Canadian]

Actually that is a US only brand. They don’t sell it here. Few Canadians are aware of its existence.