It is strange that a doctor can advocate fluoridation when it requires a group of lay councillors to medicate all the people in an entire town or city without regard to dose, individual susceptibly or informed consent. These are the hallmarks of prescribing medication - right dose, for the right person at the right time. Dr de Wet says that fluoridation is 'when natural fluoride levels in the water supply are topped up just enough to protect teeth” but it is nothing of the sort. Fluoride used in fluoridation schemes is hydrofluorosilicic acid which has been scrubbed from the chimneys of the phosphate fertilizer industry. It is not 'natural” at all and is completely different in chemical composition. Not that naturally occurring fluoride is healthy either. Millions of people around the world, particularly India and China, and have had their lives ruined by fluoride. Fluoride is not a nutrient but a poison. I suggest Dr de Wit ask one of the 101 NZ health professionals that are publicly opposing fluoridation what their concerns are. See http://www.marketground.co.nz/fannz/96076/
Mary Byrne Nation coordinator Fluoride Action Network, Featherston
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National standard next?
Posted on 17-07-2013 18:28 | By Papamoaner
These loopy loud shrill minorities will eventually force a national standard, hopefully resulting in water fluoridation country-wide and a healthier population. I would like to see selenium added as well because like fluoride, it is another soil deficiency here. As to emotional sensationalising comments about scraping chemicals off furnace flues, what claptrap. Plenty of other beneficial products come from by-product like that, including charcoal used in critical medical filtering. I doubt whether fluoride has anything to do with "lives being ruined" in poor nations. Gross exaggeration is the hallmark of most screaming minority activists. The wheels go round. They have had a good innings, but people are starting to wake up to them lately. Not before time.
No Thanks
Posted on 21-07-2013 22:07 | By Captain Sensible
Why should the entire population be poisoned because parents can't make their kids stop guzzling softdrink?
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