New York Town Stops Fluoridation of Water

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FLUORIDATION

> NEW YORK TOWN STOPS FLUORIDATION OF WATER, Spurred by College Faculty,

> Staff and Students

> Village trustees voted, on February 18, 2003, to halt fluoridation in

> Canton, New York ( http://www.canton.ny.us/ ). One hundred and thirty

> faculty and staff members of Canton's St. Lawrence University and 300

> students petitioned the village trustees to ban fluoride from its water

> supply.

> The decision caps months of public discussion and research about whether

> residents' best interests were served with fluoridation, the intentional

> addition of cavity-preventing fluoride into water supplies. Trustee

> Putnam, who voted against fluoridation, said he spent much of

> December and January reading articles about fluoride and was concerned

> that fluoride accumulates in the bones, particularly for menopausal

> women who drink fluoridated water over many years, reported the

> Watertown Daily Times.

> Chemistry professor Connett, PhD, who led the campaign to rid

> fluoride from Canton's tap water said, " An independent review of the

> literature finds that fluoridation is:

> unethical (medication without patient's informed consent)

>  unnecessary (kids get too much fluoride from many sources)

>  ineffective (at best, fluoridation saves less than one tooth surface

> out of 128 in a child's mouth)

>  unsafe (fluoride accumulation can make bones brittle and joints

> painful)

>  inequitable (the poor cannot afford to avoid it, if desired)

>  unscientifically defended (proponents cannot defend the practice in

> open debate)

>  wasteful, literally pouring taxpayer money down the drain. "

> Hardy Limeback, PhD, DDS, Head of Preventive Dentistry, University of

> Toronto, drove four hours by car, at his own expense, to give testimony.

> Once an avid fluoridation promoter, Limeback turned fluoridation

> opponent when he discovered the:

> a) incidence of children's dental fluorosis (fluoride discolored teeth)

> has risen sharply,

> benefits of fluoridation are topical, not systemic (swallowed

> fluoride does not prevent tooth decay),

> c) chemical most used in fluoridation schemes is not pharmaceutical

> grade, but an industrial waste-product, hexafluorosilicic acid, which

> the US Environmental Protection Agency admits has never been safety

> tested.

> For more information, you can contact:

> Dr. Connett,

> ggvideo@... , http://www.fluoridealert.org Dr. Hardy Limeback,

> hardy.limeback@...

> Attorney Beeber nyscof@...

> (Reprinted with permission of the NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.

> http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof )

> My website offers these articles on fluoridation:

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoridation.html

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/fluoride_cancer.html

> And on care of the teeth:

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/teeth_tooth.html

> There are many fluoridation links to be found on my LINKS page at

> http://www.doctoryourself.com/links.html

>

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> larry tankersley; Gainesville,Florida USA

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