I've got 5 bucks on the following Valhallian assumption:

You grew up in the country.

Please respond in this thread if I am correct

p.s. SERIOUS...this is a smidgeon of research.

Actually yes, but we did have city (floridated) water. I did live for 2 years in a place where we had straight ground water, which was about the only place I lived long term without floridation.

The city I live in now (for the past 3 years) has only last year began floridation of water, although we drink bottled water for the most part.

SEE! You even knew where I was going. I'm certain you got more well-water as a kid than you realize...HAHAHAHA!

Actually no. The town we lived in, which was very much a podunk oilfield town, DID have processed (floridated) water piped in from about 15 miles away. I lived on that from age 3 to 15. From 15 to 17 I lived off of well water, and from then till 3 years ago I lived predominantly off of floridated city water.

Lets just face it.....
Almost everything can be found to be 'bad' for us......

WARNING: Fruit-A-Looms (sp) will cause prostate cancer.



regards
seekerof

Swingin free!

In the words of my brother...

if you shove enough of ANYTHING up a lab rat's ass, he'll eventually die.

aha..thanks for the article DR...
Now I know where to blame it on.
Pretty lame study, I doubt it's investigated thoroughly.

So if the water hadn't been flouridated on army bases, my brother and I would have an IQ of 300.

I did look at the journal, actually. It publishes ONLY negative information about flouride, so it's not unbiased. The second issue I have is that there isn't a double-blind test done here.

I'm not convinced, here...but I'd be willing to look at more clinical evidence. I'd like to see some analysis of historical data... incidence of children who were born so retarded that they needed to become wards of the state, for instance.

Apart from the water having flouride in it (which I have grown up with) there's the food we eat as well!

Most of the food we eat nowadays has got some kind of chemical on it, you dont know that as you have always had it, but while still on farms etc everything gets sprayed with something (well over here, UK anyway) unless its Organic, then it doesnt taste right, because your use to the chemicals you've been eating for years.

And Organic food is alot more expensive as well, in most place's.



blackwidow

[Edited on 1-9-2003 by blackwidow666]

I also looked at my toothpaste this morning and there's a lot more flouride in the toothpaste than there is in the water. So by that study (a single study, no followups, small sample size), American brain power should have dropped to just about zero now.

Do I think that too many chemicals CAN be bad for you? Yes. I'm concerned that water from our tap will kill fish from the pet store... we not only have to let it sit overnight (get rid of the chlorine) but we have to treat it with other things as well. HOWEVER... water that is untreated would be far worse for us.

There needs to be some balance and some reeducation going on to reduce chemical use in our environment. But it's not as simple as saying "stop the chemicals! because some of what's in there keeps you from getting sicker on other things in the water."

...and "fresh rainwater" ain't the answer, either. It's not all that pure.

Originally posted by dragonrider
Swingin free!

HOTT!

but on the subject, I may not be a supergenius, but I have an awesome smile! I don't ask much from the water supply.
1. don't give me nasty diseases
2. don't reek of chlorine or have crud floating in it
that's about it. I don't worry too much, because when I think about it, I've been exposed to all sorts of hideous stuff and came out okay. I grew up around chainsmokers, in a neighborhood full of lead paint, and played on treated wood that had been pumped full of arsenic. I made it out reasonably okay.

I grew up on well water until I went away to college. No wonder I think everybody else is stupid. ...especially when I drive.

Most of the time when I go back to visit my folks, I drink water constantly when I'm there because I really don't like the taste of treated water. We got a fridge that chills and filters last year which helped it some. I say flouride toothpaste does the job well enough. I once had a prfessor tell my Industrial Design class that every drop of water we drank on campus had already been through at least 3 other people. Gross, I brought my drinking water from home for over a year after that. Its been 180 feet underground for thousands of years.


Does anyone know when they put the flouride in the water? At what step of purifying is it done?

When I went backpacking, I had to purify my water with iodine. Floride is heaven compared to that because it is tasteless.
But anyway, Is that the only reason flouride is used, to promote healthy teeth? If so then I would like to get rid of it. Does anyone know of any other uses of flouride?

Toilet paper can cause cancer. If thats the case then alot of us will be having problems with our butts in the future. Ahh some people have that problem now.