According to their website, Brita filters don’t remove flouride from water, so I guess a) my teeth are safe, and b) you need some badass water filtration to get rid of it.
And that is one of the best scenes in Dr. Strangelove. No, I don’t think fluoridation is a subversive Communist plot either.
To CL, good thing Portland has always voted against water fluoridation, then. We have some of the best drinking water in the country, why F it up?
Dave47
1623
This is why we can’t have nice things.
tiohn
1624
No one puts rBst in any dairy products.
WarrenM
1625
Papageno
You’re starting to sound like a raving loon. Just FYI. Might want to throttle down and stop grinding metal.
jeffd
1626
We both know lots of parents aren’t going to “stand up to their 4 year-old.” So your opinion is fuck the little rats, let their teeth rot?
Athryn
1627
You very much implied that fluoride in the drinking water is a substitution for lazy parenting:
“Kids can teach their kids to brush their teeth properly”
The whole idea of water fluoridation was to help with the socioeconomic disparity in the country. You know, helping those who can’t help themselves.
World Heath Organisation on Fluoride in Drinking-water
;tldr version is that at the right levels, it helps prevent dental decay (cavities), but in larger amounts, not so good.
Scuzz
1629
Isn’t Portland the city that drained it’s drinking water supply because some kid/teen peed in the water?
Athryn
1630
And the CDC considers fluoridation of drinking water (which is in low amounts,) to be one of the top 10 health public health achievements of the 20th century.
Did I not say I’d abide by the decision of the voting majority on the issue?
Dude, you know what I meant: dairy products from cows treated with that stuff.
It was one reservoir, and yes, it was a stupid move.
This is true, but beside the point. Doing those things will help reduce cavities, yes. Doing those thing plus drinking fluoridated water will help even more so. It’s not some sort of zero sum equation.
JeffL
1635
There have been a lot of changes in the recommended levels, based on EPA studies (not sure why they are the ones doing the studies.) And it isn’t enough to make up for a lack of dental hygiene at home combined with crappy eating/drinking habits.
But it doesn’t hurt and it probably does help some. If this was indeed a Tea Party driven response, good. The more crazy stuff they do, the more radical they appear. I hope the next thing they do is launch a concerted attack on vaccinations.
Skeptoid on fluoridation, always interesting. I enjoyed the notion of certain municipalities having to reduce the levels of natural fluoride in their systems to meet the federal regs.
What’s the background on Portland? The only stuff I can find on the history there is your standard Communist Plot.
I’m amazed at how the wingnut flouridation obsession just cannot fucking be killed. For chrissakes, it was invented as a crackpot obsession in the 1950s. It survived the fall of communism!
I had no idea on the excess levels, though, that’s really interesting.
I think that in Portland we simply value one thing (having some of the best municipal tap water in the country, as free of extra additives as possible) over the dental health benefit, at least the last time we had a vote on it (in the 80’s sometime, IIRC), which is our prerogative, isn’t it? And Portland is hardly the land of rabid Tea Partiers, I assure you.
ckessel
1639
Unless you live in the Beaverton suburb, in which case we actually have fluoridation because, you know, we like our teeth.
Do you guys over in “the 'Tron” have Bull Run Watershed water? Just wondering.
