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Here’s a follow up on what's happening in the Southampton area for those who may be worried about the impact of water fluoridation, not only on their/their kids’ health but also on their family budget (see further back in the thread for discussion on reverse osmosis filtration systems and the “halo effect” of water fluoridation) :
" TOP Southampton councillor has today said the city council would never have backed fluoridation if it had known children’s dental health had improved.Original here
Deputy leader Cllr Royston Smith said new survey results, which show the city’s five-year-olds suffer the same amount of tooth decay as those across England, have dramatically weakened the case for fluoridation.
The survey found tooth decay among Southampton children at a ten-year low[FONT="]"[/FONT]
See also Fluoride plans in Tatters“26 per cent drop on the figures from 2005/6”Dr Peckham has a point - from elsewhere in that article:
“Dr Stephen Peckham, a reader in health policy at the Department of Public Health and Policy, said:
“It blows a hole in what they have consistently said, that Southampton has some of the worst teeth in the country – that’s patently not true, and probably never was.
It will completely change the economic analysis and I think the whole thing is so shaky that the noble thing to do would probably be to accept they were wrong in the first place.
Southampton is about average for England, and you would expect it to have higher rates of decay because of deprivation, so the city’s actually doing quite well.
(The PCT) has been telling us they’ve been doing all these things, and maybe they’re working after all, so they should be congratulated.
It would save the SHA and the public purse a lot of money and allow us to focus on targeting children most in need and think about ways the service could be improved.”
“The authority has been in talks with Southern Water about how the scheme would work practically, and how much it would cost.
Original estimates suggested it would take around £470,000, with that bill being picked up by the Department of Health, but SHA bosses admitted that figure could ultimately "double or triple".
Once the infrastructure is in place, NHS Southampton City will then pay the estimated £60,500 yearly running costs out of its annual £9.5m dental health budget.”
The SHA has also apparently set aside £400,000 to deal with the legal challenges being mounted by local residents and campaigners who object to their water supplies being fluoridated.
Now, couldn’t they undertake an awful lot of appropriately targeted dental health care with that sort of money?
Should they need a financial top-up they could look at upping the tax on the manufacturers of fizzy drinks, sugary foods and confectionery so that a dental care fund can be set up for those affected by their products………0 -
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Russell Blaylock MD has been on The Alex Jones radio show a lot recently.
I originally read about him here.
http://www.virginiahopkinstestkits.com/blaylockmdbrain.html
here is an mp3 of one show there. http://rss.nfowars.net/20100803_Tue_Alex.mp30 -
Click on this you tube channel for more information.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel and then Uploads and search Dr Blaylock for small archive of his appearances on the show.0 -
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