September 20, 2006
What does tobacco, asbestos, and fluoride have in common?
Here's one for the conspiracy category (which has been sitting dormant for quite some time). It turns out that in the tradition of tobacco, asbestos, and other things that were once publicly hailed as "healthy," Fluoride (you know, the thing that will "reduce cavities in children"), is not so healthy after all, to the point of being alarmingly unhealthy.
Since there have been so many attempts to deceive, obfuscate, and inveigle the public into accepting Fluoride as beneficial to children's oral health, it is hard to know the truth from a lie. Will our children or grandchildren's generation scoff at our acceptance of Fluoride as a necessity to oral healthcare as we now scoff at the generation before our's use of tobacco as acceptable and even healthy? It seems probable.
I have no ready answers, but I have put the book, The Fluoride Deception
In the meantime, I've switched to Doctor Burt's Cinna Mint Toothpaste. Yeah, it's not as harsh as my regular toothpaste and there's no poison control warning on the label, but it's got a pretty red tube and it's made with all natural ingredients. So it can't hurt to try something healthy, right?
For those of you with little ones, I would recommend discouraging your school from offering "fluoride rinses" to kids or from popping fluoride tablets in apple juice with the good intention of contributing to your kids' oral health. Instead, offer them no-sugar snacks and help them brush at least twice a day. (And don't get them started on soda pop! Hindsight is 20/20, right?) Also, try and find some kids' toothpaste that doesn't contain fluoride and that is labeled as OK to swallow. Doctor Burt's Children's Toothpaste might be a good option.
Oh and if you live within Beaverton, Oregon city limits, I would NOT drink the water. [link]
Take a deep breath and smile!
Posted by Amber at September 20, 2006 03:50 PManother good thing about the Burts Bees brand is that they make their products without using parabens and phthalates. so even though it's pricier, i will be using their lotion from now on ever since i read an article that said that parabens and phthalates are strongly linked to cancer and reproductive hazards.
i went around the drug store recently reading labels and it seems like these chemicals are in everything.
Maybe i should switch toothpaste too.
Hope your finals go really well, Amber.
Posted by: brenda at September 20, 2006 08:42 PMmmm pthalates. my favorite thing about the pthalates people is that they actually have this expert blogging on their site about how people are off their rockers if they think pthalates are dangerous. crazy experts. why don't they try testing their chemical's affect on the human body as it would exist within the human body -- which nowadays is living, breathing, walking toxic soup with a 1 in 3 chance of getting cancer. Then they could put those results on their little blog.
So, apparently plastic bottles #3 and #6 are the buggers with regard to pthalates. #7 bottles are worse -- they don't contain pthalates, but some other chemical. the morale of the story is hormone leaching (estrogen, specifically). the endocrine system (hormones and such) is really complicated. nobody really knows exactly or everything there is to know about it. i mean think about it, the hormones are traveling freely through the blood stream to a target organ. do you really want to be messing with that delicate of a biochemical cycle, especially one that affects your entire bloodstream? Shaloh! That's just crazy.
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