genie out of bottle

So Miranda (Txt messages), you suggest that people not wanting fluoride in their town water should buy bottled water. This is just simply ludicrous.

Why not (but not cheaper for government) give free fluoride tablets to those who think that nature is short changing them on nutrients.

Do you really believe that more is better?

Aren’t we in danger of upsetting the entire chemical balance of the body?

We are getting more of lots of different minerals and vitamins in our diets.

Fluoride is a trace mineral, that means we need but a small amount.

If it is added to our water we will be getting much more than nature intended us to get.

Have you done so little research into the health risks of not only fluoride but all the other fortifications.

Try the following web address http://www.mom-going-organic-sens ibly.com/fortified-foods.html.It has sensible information.

Fluoride should never be ingested, because if it is so beneficial to teeth surely that is the only place it should be getting to.

When added to water it affects the skeletal, endocrine and urinary systems, the developing brain of children and so on.

You must be very young if you cannot remember what happened with DDT and Thalidomide, also closer to our time asbestos.

The effects from those substances was not immediate and DDT was not banned until after it was found in the food chain and in breast milk.

We know how people will be, there are many recent studies completed to support the idea that ingesting an insecticide is not to our best interest. Try searching health effects of fluoride.

Miranda, I suggest if you think it will be in your best interest or your children’s or your grand children’s best interest to take fluoride, then it would be best to have a pharmaceutical grade fluoride to ingest rather than something that makes good insecticide. Please do more research before you foist you desires on to the rest of us.

Stefanie Ransome,

Mildura

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