Water utility announces it’s ditching fluoride—then reveals it did so years ago
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So you still get just as much fluoride, except via a different source. Most toothpaste and mouthwash in the US doesn't include it because it is assumed that we get it though the public drinking water.
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If it can wash out .. without washing out soil as well
eventually … salt can be very persistent
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Most Alabamans are too poor to afford regular healthcare, let alone "luxury" healthcare like dental visits, so no. That doesn't prove anything.
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Bottled water is typically filtered more than tap water. Tap is fine, but bottled is generally NOT just tap water in bottles. Thats propaganda by people that believe we shouldnt use so much plastic. They may have a point about use of plastic but it doesnt help their case to make up stories about the water in it.
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Their source for dental health advice:
https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies...p-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/quote_28949.html
[D'ohh..!! Ninja'd by Statistical]
https://www.moviequotedb.com/movies...p-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/quote_28949.html
[D'ohh..!! Ninja'd by Statistical]
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I ALMOST said "salt the earth", but I went with "blight" because at least salt has health benefits.
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But “blight” can at least get you high .. if you extend the definition to Ergot
Unfortunately its apparently universally a pretty bad trip if we go by historical accounts, and that episode of Quincy on the cruise ship.
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Never heard of blight the drug, but of course one would have been called that at some point. Still, I'll accept that. These people have put the whole U.S. in an altered state of consciousness for years and deluded us in the process.
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To overly explain a casual joke .. and placate the pedantic monkey on my back
‘Blight’ or more specifically Fusarium ear blight, is a fungal disease of cereals, including wheat, barley, oats, and rye that rapidly effects the ‘head’ of crops as opposed to “rust” which is slower and effects photosynthesis of whole plant - leaving a reddish stain hence rust.
Ergot is a fungus that also infects cereals crops but more classically the grain after harvest .. its also known to produce LSD (maybe as a by product) but this isn’t clean ‘acid’ Think bad high school science bathtub syd
.. basically a guaranteed bad trip especially when ingested by someone unaware of whats happening to them.
and has historically been linked to the occasion outbreak of mass hysteria / madness
In one episode in old TV show Quincy the source of the ergot .. and resulting madness was the bowl the taco salad was served in on a cruise-ship which was made from wheat and supposedly edible
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Obviously the stoppage was done because the managers were afraid of turning their customers into "Fluorida Man"...
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Not necessarily. The folks who need floride the most are exactly those who cannot afford dentists. Pro bono and dental care don't usually go together.
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Yes .. but not the THE WITCH
A Korean action/scifi movie
(actually series of films)
That was a bunch of chemically enhanced psychic children soldier/assassins created by multiple competing secret government and corporate programs
They are a fun watch though
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I work at a water district in California where state law requires that we add fluoride. We already did before that requirement took effect, and the older dentists here say they could tell which of their customers lived in our service area. Untreated cavities can lead to some pretty nasty health problems so it makes a difference.
It's not cheap, though, and it isn't part of our core mission so I can see why a utility would see it as a way to cut costs. But doing it in secret is wild.
It's not cheap, though, and it isn't part of our core mission so I can see why a utility would see it as a way to cut costs. But doing it in secret is wild.
We're mostly just used to it. And we think water's better because the amount people drink varies a lot less than people's salt intake. Especially among kids.
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For those suffering from TDS, Portland Oregon is about as progressive as it gets and they don't put flouride in their water. It's not just Trumpites.
I used to live there, I went to a dentist and he asked me if I grew up there because I had great teeth compared to those who grew up in Portland.
I used to live there, I went to a dentist and he asked me if I grew up there because I had great teeth compared to those who grew up in Portland.
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Tomorrow, maybe they will make a press release saying that they plan to end slavery.
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"noted that people can buy toothpaste [...] that contain fluoride to protect their teeth."
Isn't it common to buy with fluoride in the US?
Isn't it common to buy with fluoride in the US?
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Depends. I've used a fluoride toothpaste for years to help with temperature sensitive teeth. It works very well for that, the Plain Old Toothpaste I used to use didn't, but I'm not sure if that had fluoride or just had less of it.
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Hush. Don't complicate things for the Americans for whom everything is so simple.
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Hope citizens get together and sue them too.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Also isn't it hilarious how these people twist themselves into justifying removing a a flouro compound that is actually safe from their water and at the same time refuse to remove all the forever flourinated and related chemicals from water at the same time.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Also isn't it hilarious how these people twist themselves into justifying removing a a flouro compound that is actually safe from their water and at the same time refuse to remove all the forever flourinated and related chemicals from water at the same time.
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This is ridiculous. Just educate your population already and give them decently paid jobs so they can afford toothpaste with fluoride. Also if you don't have it already introduce regular fluoride gurgling in primary schools.
But I guess you don't want your tax dollars to be spent on free healthcare so it's cheaper to just turn your water supply into a chemical cesspool of fluoride, bleach and lead.
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… first of all Not my population
Secondly care to reveal yours so we can all mock their ridiculous traditions tendencies and government policies in return?
Look .. I greatly enjoy mocking ‘Americans’, .. I’m actually dual by birth and partially grew up there so I feel thats allowable
And god knows Americans in general deserve mockery .. and stereotypes are stereotypes for some reason
But come on …
This has been done
Low hanging fruit is one thing .. eating the stuff thats fallen and rotten on the ground is another.
Lets do ourselves a favour
Lets be more ambitious and choose a (slightly) higher road for our mockery
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If you floss first, you not only clean what the floss can get, you also loosen up what’s left so that brushing can finish the job. If you do it the other way around, brushing gets the loose matter and flossing won’t get much because the easy stuff was removed by brushing. Consider using things like Plackers Flossers that you rinse between teeth and throw away after use. Or a GUM Proxabrush that you rinse.
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Just to add: water flossers do a really excellent job here compared to string floss. A typical trip for a cleaning for me was about 20 mildly unpleasant minutes. After using a water flosser, that's down to 10 minutes of...basically almost nothing, with final polishing (and string flossing, go figure) taking most of that time.
Advice is the same as yours: use the flosser first, then brush.
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And even if you have dental coverage it's still expensive AF if you need anything more than a cleaning. (Had to cancel prep for a cap last year as the estimate with insurance was too much)And claiming toothpaste is enough is dumb because that means you assume the kid and parents both have good hygiene habits. (And the toothpaste actually has a clinically significant amount in it to make a difference and whether the correct amount was used. 5000PPM Flouride toothpaste is prescription only in the US. Your dentist may be able to sell you some too. But that's an additional barrier)
My parents tried really hard when I was a kid but I struggled with dental hygiene and I can only imagine how much worse it would have been if the water hadn't been flouridated.
As an adult, turning 35 soon I am still struggling with gum health specifically and because of gingivitis I get 1-2 additional cleanings a year compared to most people. And that costs $$$.
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Numerous nonsensical journal publications on pubmed produced by kids in prosthodontic residencies. The nonsensical wanna be journal article I worked on as a 2nd year dental student that was never published. The NIH. The WHO. Pick your poison.
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I think the ranting about fluoride is still a good indicator, but re your question, it was adrenochrome the Satanist Democratic pedo cabal was supposedly after, harvested from children's pineal glands or some such weird malarkey.
I'd say that's a good indicator of madness.
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Everyone knows that the fluoride ion is what they use to power the Bill Gates 5g chips that were implanted via COVID jabs.
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I spent the first 20 years of my life on an unfluoridated water supply. I also used fluoridated toothpaste, and went to the dentist every 6 months and got my teeth fluoride pasted.
I suspect that my 0 cavity record (and that of siblings) was due to good dental health. Being on well water, there also wasn't chlorine in the water, which also likely had an effect.
Saying all that, in a region where not everyone will be using fluoridated toothpaste and not everyone has access to proper dental care, fluoridated water seems like a no-brainer. Only the rich and educated have the option to protect their teeth via other means.
I suspect that my 0 cavity record (and that of siblings) was due to good dental health. Being on well water, there also wasn't chlorine in the water, which also likely had an effect.
Saying all that, in a region where not everyone will be using fluoridated toothpaste and not everyone has access to proper dental care, fluoridated water seems like a no-brainer. Only the rich and educated have the option to protect their teeth via other means.
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I vaguely recall there's a city out there where the drinking water has elevated (but safe) levels of lithium (used for treating bipolar amongst other things), and their crime rate is statistically lower.
Sometimes water supply is just lucky. Pure doesn't always mean perfect.
Edit: There we go, found literature on it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7576670/
Not that I'm a SME, so I won't comment on the accuracy - there may be plenty of countervailing results that I'm not equipped to discover. But it's been researched.
Edit 2: Apparently happens a lot in Texas as well as Japan. Couldn't think of a better place to drug the water supply to make the residents more docile (may as well use the paranoid dipshit description of it, because I'm damned sure some lunatic on the internet would anyway)
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On election day, yes. But if you've waited until election day to take positive action, you're too late.
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Bottled water typically is just tap water - where the tap water meets reasonable standards. Not all water supplies are reliable as Flint found out the hard way.
Edit: And the bottled water companies don't set up excessive filtering usually. They just bottle it in huge quantities where the government has already done the work and ship it whereever. Why duplicate labour?
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This reminds me of how neo-Nazis and similar extremists used to be the butt of jokes in mainstream comedies, like The Blues Brothers.
And yet, here we are. I would like to have those days back. Or at least that side of them...
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Always find it an amusing tale that coke charged more for the water from its bottling plants without any burnt sugar added to it
than they did for the cola
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Most of the cost is in the packaging and shipping I think. It's far cheaper to buy in bulk.
Edit: Damned supermarkets not selling it at pumps....
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It would make sense that elevated levels of lithium and fluoride in water are correlated. They are both hosted by granitic and felsic volcanic rocks, so aquifers that are hosted by those rocks may have some of each. Not all granites or rhyolites are equal, however, and their concentrations of each element are highly variable.
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