The Fluoride Debate
Fluoride in our water, is it a big deal or not? Should we be worried about the amount of fluoride we consume daily or is it good for our teeth & bones? Do you think it’s imperative that your water filter removes fluoride or are you more concerned about other contaminants? If you have something interesting to share with others on this subject - maybe a link to a recent article or a personal experience you’ve had in regards to this issue, please leave your comments below.
June 14th, 2008 at 4:08 am
fluoride is poison end of discussion
July 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I believe fluoride is unhealthy if god wanted fluoride in our drinking water it would of had it in it so why is it that we add so much poison in everything just to make money? Fluoride is a waste product and the goverment is paying for a waste product guess were it ends up in our body and in our garden so it goes on shame on the goverment now I will by a filter to filter fluoride out of my water shame on QLD
August 12th, 2008 at 2:30 am
You wonder how supposed intelligent people who are responsible for our wellbeing be it health or economical, are sucked in by the pharma/chemical propaganda and refuse to listen to their people AND the rest of the world. We have no hope.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:38 am
I’m using the Aquasana system which takes out around 1/2 the fluoride. This seems like the best decision I could make, because I don’t want to lose the trace minerals from the water. It’s annoying that there’s fluoride in the water, but I feel secure that I have a water filter that actually removes 1/2 of it, alot of water filters don’t remove any and you’d never know that unless you thought to ask the question.
September 6th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Fluoride is posion and that is the end of it.
we will be getting fluoride in our water debate or no debate, because the government says so.
I wish some one in authority would speak up about this issue along with many others but they dont, its just the way we have let things become. So it looks like I shall have to buy a filter for my drinking water now .
My advice is dont drink to much water.
September 25th, 2008 at 1:19 am
My Girlfriend’s aunty is a dentist who runs her own clinic and she has had to treat patient after patient with rotting teeth due to lack of fluoride - a result of drinking too much bottled water. Every other chemical in the water is poison, but we DO need fluoride. I used to live on an island in New Zealand where there was no mass-water system, everybody had a rainwater tank out the back. Because of this, the local chemist would sell over-the-counter fluoride tablets that you are supposed to chew up and wipe all over your teeth and gums once every couple of months. My advice if you dont want rotting teeth - either live with the other chemicals in the water, or find a place that will source fluoride tablets for you
October 16th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Kallum,
You should become aware that fluoride is industrial waste and makes an excellent rat poison.
Admittedly there is a limited amount added to water but it builds up in our systems.
There are countries in the world that have tried it and found it unsatisfactory and indeed dangerous to human health.
Your girlfriends dentist Aunty would see a lot less rotten teeth if she could just get her patients to brush their teeth after each meal. Indeed this might eliminate the problem altogether and I suppose this would be bad for business, and the Industries that produce fluoride industrial waste would have to pay for its disposal instead of being paid by gullible councils to be allowed to poison their local citizens.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:18 am
I am really getting upset with all our so called “educated” people. It seems the longer we all study and the more PhD’s we churn out, the more stupid we seem to get on the average. I am slowly regretting I studied 5 1/2 years. This is the year 2008 and we are confronted with an epidemic of overweight children and adults and a world wide epidemic of diabetes . It is all related.
The cause of rotting teeth is the high sugar and starch diet which has become a standard diet with too many.
This QLD government and especially the Premier, who’s possibly very first action was to introduce the endocrine system disrupting chemical fluoride into our drinking water, should be sacked.
It does not seem possible, to let the people, who pay the salary of our public servants, get just pure water from the tap, as it should be. Our Premier turned out to be a Tyrant.
Yes, Fluoride hardens the enamel. Its a fact, like Panadol takes headaches away. The question to ask after a while, why do you get headaches that often, and why do teeth rot? You don’t have headaches because of a Panadol deficiency and your children s teeth don’t rot because of a fluoride deficiency.
How about all the Fluoride tooth pastes on sale everywhere “most dentists recommend”? How long have these fluoride toothpastes been around, 20-30 years? They didn’t work? Of course not as long as we don’t reduce sugar intake including Fructose significantly. Neither will fluoride in the water work if the diet stays the same.
No more votes for this premier and her cronies.
December 10th, 2008 at 1:50 am
That’s right - they’ve medicated the population WITHOUT OUR CONSENT!
Shame, Bligh - you could have been good for this state.
December 28th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
WE can do something - we can all have rainwater tanks and refuse to drink the flouridated government water.
January 6th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Has anyone noticed the tasyte of the water has changed? I personally have found it tasting like dirt… could be just me, but I’d be interested to hear of other peoples experiences.
Leave our water alone - people can take fluoride themselves and recycled warer used for industry and agriculture only.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
If I wanted Fluoride I can get plenty from toothpaste!!! Fluoridating water is unquestionably mass medication without consent & is in breach of the Geneva Convention, Human Rights Act & more. I found a Waters Mineral Pot filter that removes 85% but I’d still prefer it wasn’t there in the first place.
March 17th, 2009 at 2:11 am
It’s so bizarre that seemingly educated people I talk to about fluoride in our water use their own personal experience as the only proof they need of it’s effectiveness.
Does nobody know how to research anything anymore? Or at least not provide their opinions so loudly about something they obviously have extremely limited experience of?
March 18th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
We have 2 days to the state election. Can’t understand why no opposition party is campaigning on the flouride debacle. Most people are against it. No goverment should have the power to tamper with our very essence of life without a referendum.
Have your say on Saturday and throw out Anna Bligh.
March 21st, 2009 at 3:13 am
Umm… I spent almost 20 years living in a house with no fluoride in the water. I did not get my first cavity until I was about 22, two years after I moved out and started drinking fluoridated water. If you’d learn how to brush your freakin teeth correctly then you wouldn’t need poison yourself just to keep your teeth from rotting. It’s called hygiene, people! And studies show that fluoride doesn’t really clean teeth anyway. It just slowly kills you. Those of you that are pro-fluoride need to read “Never be sick again” by Raymond Francis.
March 24th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Its so unfortunate how the so called educated health officials and politicians make these decisions for us without our choice. These people are governed by higher and higher tiers of control which are ultimately aiming for population control and intelligence suppression.
April 16th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
The government is not wrong - we all need a certain amount of fluoride in our diet for good bone/teeth health. But if we’re eating any fruits and vegetables at all (especially those where you eat the skin) we’re getting all the fluoride we need. As another commenter stated, no need to medicate us without our consent.
May 14th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Unbelievable ignorance….what happened to choice? Fluoride is poison (and I believe we actually buy it from overseas … ) So what if I decided Spirulina was good for all the people who didn’t eat fresh greens on a regular basis and made EVERY body ingest it. At least you’d be able to see it in the water supply. It seems so crazy. I didn’t vote for Anna but she still got in… bugga! I voted for the one guy who opposed fluoride but not very loudly. I wondered if candidates were unsure if they campaigned against fluoride it would affect their chance? Anyway what can we do??
I came across this whilst looking for filters (other than reverse osmosis and distillation) that remove at least some fluoride from our water. Appreciate any info ….
May 14th, 2009 at 8:15 am
Think I’ll go with Aquasana. Gotta trust someone.
June 16th, 2009 at 8:16 am
Kallum, in regards to the woman with the rotting teeth there are a few variables missing:
What was the patient’s diet like?
How often did the patient brush their teeth?
How often did the patient regularly go to see a decent dentist?
I go for regular check-up and every time as part of the cleaning routine my dentist gives my teeth a topical fluoride treatment. I’ve been living in a non-fluoridated region for a long time and the only issues I’ve had with my teeth are from liking sugar way too much. Anna and her people are surely getting some money for disposing of excess industrial generated fluoride.
July 28th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Fluoride is a by product of making Aluminium. It is a waste product which is put into water as a way of getting rid of it and making money at the same time! It is poison!!
October 25th, 2009 at 4:53 am
There are 2 sides to every debate, but those so called ‘experts’ have only given us 1 side, the bad side!. We are told that fluoride is good for us, and for them (the experts) and I use that term very broadly, that’s the end of the matter. The fact is that fluoride is also bad for you!, the down side is that it promotes diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, but they don’t tell you that!.
November 17th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
My daughter is allergic to flouride. Since our water was flouridated in August she has been very sick. She swelled up like a pumpkin, has constant kidney pain, liver is not handeling the poison and she can’t get rid of her septic throat. She is very tired all the time and is very sick. Thanks Anna Bligh
November 26th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I’ve got a question.
What about animals? My cats drink water so will it be bad for them?
Why can’t we just leave everything the way it is.
We don’t need everything we have got.
November 26th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
IT’S POISON!!!
If those “educated” health experts are so good, why are they putting there countries health to risk? I don’t get it. fluoride is poison!
December 7th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
They just poisoned our water today. I am gutted. Desley Boyle and Anna Bligh have to go. How dare they authorise mass medication on a whole state! What about those that don’t have a voice like the ocean, the reef, our pets?
Dispicable act. Do we live in a democracy or is this hypocrisy? I have my doubts..
December 11th, 2009 at 4:11 am
Hi I went to the dentist yesterday and gladly accepted the topical fluoride treatment which I had to keep on my teeth for 30 mins without rinsing. About 20 minutes after that I am vomitting up my guts while driving home and had nausea for about 3 hours and then a splitting headache. I won’t be getting the flouride treatment again and now I am convinced its poision. Karen (Brisbane) I am also off to get a water filter.
December 11th, 2009 at 4:12 am
I forgot to mention that my vet has also recommended that my dogs drink tank water as the treated water is dangerous and could harm them due to the flouride.
December 19th, 2009 at 6:38 am
The 1940’s thinkers produced water fluoridation.
The 1940’s thinkers also produced a movie called “Big Brother”
Since you are reading this you have the capacity to research both of these phenomena.
2010, it’s fluoridation and “Big Sister”
It’s a worry.
December 19th, 2009 at 6:40 am
I’m also looking for a water filtration system…
Can we claim the cost back from Medicare?
December 19th, 2009 at 6:44 am
By the way, no court case in Europe or the USA has so far succesfully found in favour of a complaint against water flouridation. The Geneva Convention is useless. (I haven’t found any data re court cases in any other country.)
January 15th, 2010 at 11:44 am
Sunny Queenslander’s health is up the creek. Oh…. like our water ways across the country. Bligh needs better advisers, and research into her choices for Queensland. Can we help her? Fluoride in this form is poison. The consumer is becoming more educated so should Anna’s advisors, and Anna. That’s TAX!
February 23rd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
I agree with Leonie, I have searched the internet for weeks and haven’t found any concrete evidence against the use of Flouride in our water. There is a lot of forums and articles that contest is but nothing that is well referenced and conclusive research. I spoke with a lady at a Melbourne based water filter company http://www.phoenixwaterfilters.com.au and they pretty much reiterated what I had found through my searches, it worth checking out there products.
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:39 am
actually, Leonie, “Big Brother” was a book, not a movie; the book was called Nineteen Eighty Four. you should take your own advice and do a bit of research.
fluoridation has been proven completely safe, time and again, and is also proven to strengthen teeth.
bring it on. and bring on re-cycled water.
April 8th, 2010 at 6:36 am
Scott if it is so safe why has fluoride been rejected or banned in most European countries Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands Japan and even China has banned it.
You should take your own advice and do a bit of research.
May 20th, 2010 at 5:42 am
Flouride blocks ones ability to think, It is the Governments aim to dumb us down! Clean your teeth with flouride toothpaste and rinse your mouth is OK. However in the body it is bad news. Wake up and take your power back! Get rid of Flouride in water. Shame on you Bligh!!
June 16th, 2010 at 3:53 am
flouride has also been proven to build up and harden in the pineal gland in the centre of our brain which is responsible for our feelings and aging. it is also our spiritual centre. look it up its the most shocking of all.
July 1st, 2010 at 6:08 am
THIS IS A FACT….FLUORIDE IS OUT RIGHT POISONOUS. There is no healthy reason why its put in the water or products for human consumption…Look at rat poisons, they most (ONLY?) contain fluoride. Hitler successfully performed experiments on prisoners, guards and civilians to dumb down their ability to think properly and its a wounder why this crap was preached to be used in most western countries.. Strong links to why there is a cancer pandemic in the 20th century .
July 30th, 2010 at 7:19 am
Flouride sucks! The government has taken away the basic human right of fresh ,clean, unpolluted water. This is insane! I need to buy a water filter…can anyone recommend one that removes almost all the flouride? Will a distiller work? My only concern is for the poor blighters out there who can’t afford to buy a filter.
August 6th, 2010 at 1:22 am
what is the big drama about added fluoride to the water supply? fluoride dosing is the most highly regulated chemical that is added to the water supply. are there any complaints about aluminium sulphate, ferric chloride, soda ash, lime, chlorine?. these are all necessary chemicals added to raw water to supply clean, disease free water to the consumer. there are some valid points on this site but the majority sounds like hysteria to me.