NEW CANON- What['s Up with That?

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "granaiogirl"
<granaiogirl at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> > > The British don't put Fluoride in their water, so they are 
> > > notorious for having bad teeth. 
> 
> Is not quite true. Many water companies in the UK do fluoridate.
> http://www.npwa.freeserve.co.uk/risk.htm


bboy_mn:

Yes, about 1/10th of the population in Britian has flourindated water,
and you will notice that the page you referenced is a hysterical
anti-flouride rant about how we are all being poisoned; driven to an
early grave by the use of Flouride.

It takes massive doses of flouride to cause any harm, and you should
note from the page you referenced that 

# Durham
# Essex
# Lincolnshire
# Peterborough
# Suffolk
# Teesside
# Tyneside

...have enough naturally occurring flouride that it isn't necessary to
add it to the water. It was through the connection between low tooth
decay and naturally occurring flourde that it's effectiveness was
discovered. Based on what I read many years, the initial research was
done in France.


The United States on the other hand has near (not quite, but near)
universal flouridation of water. Growing up in a rural comminity, I've
even noticed the difference in quality of teeth between town kids and
farm kids; farm kids have to work a lot harder to take care of their
teeth in order to prevent decay.

Not that it's really that important an issue.

Just passing it along.

bboy_mn