Comments on: Chicago, The Toxic City? http://columbiachronicle.com/chicago-the-toxic-city/ The Columbia Chronicle Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Peter Gonzlez http://columbiachronicle.com/chicago-the-toxic-city/comment-page-1/#comment-4411 Peter Gonzlez Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:21:43 +0000 http://columbiachronicle.com/?p=8229#comment-4411 Chicago, clean your air! My applause for those who fight the polluters and liars who darkened the Chicago skies with their toxic emissions. Chicago, clean your air! My applause for those who fight the polluters and liars who darkened the Chicago skies with their toxic emissions.

]]> By: nyscof http://columbiachronicle.com/chicago-the-toxic-city/comment-page-1/#comment-4391 nyscof Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:03:42 +0000 http://columbiachronicle.com/?p=8229#comment-4391 Chicagoans not only have to breathe in toxic fluoride emissions as this article states; but also must drink fluoride from their water supply, inhale it in their showers and consume it via their water cooked foods.. However, it's easy to stop the flew of unnecessary fluoride chemicals into the water supply by just turning off a switch or a valve. Children’s cavity rates are similar whether water is fluoridated or not, according to data published in the July 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association by dentist J.V. Kumar of the NY State Health Department. In 2008, New York City spent approximately $24 million on water fluoridation ($5 million on fluoride chemicals)(. In 2010, NYC’s fluoride chemicals will cost $9 million Fluoride in water at “optimal” levels (0.7 – 1.2 mg/L) is supposed to reduce tooth decay Yet cavities are rampant in NY’s fluoridated populations . Attempting to prove that fluorosed teeth have fewer cavities, Kumar uses 1986-1987 National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) data which, upon analysis, shows that 7- to 17-year-olds have similar cavity rates in their permanent teeth whether their water supply is fluoridated or not (Table 1). In 1990, using the same NIDR data, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis published equally surprising results in a peer-reviewed journal. He concluded, “No statistically significant differences were found in the decay rates of permanent teeth or the percentages of decay-free children in the F [fluoridated], NF [non-fluoridated], and PF [partially fluoridated] areas.” Chicagoans not only have to breathe in toxic fluoride emissions as this article states; but also must drink fluoride from their water supply, inhale it in their showers and consume it via their water cooked foods..

However, it’s easy to stop the flew of unnecessary fluoride chemicals into the water supply by just turning off a switch or a valve.

Children’s cavity rates are similar whether water is fluoridated or not, according to data published in the July 2009 Journal of the American Dental Association by dentist J.V. Kumar of the NY State Health Department.

In 2008, New York City spent approximately $24 million on water fluoridation ($5 million on fluoride chemicals)(. In 2010, NYC’s fluoride chemicals will cost $9 million

Fluoride in water at “optimal” levels (0.7 – 1.2 mg/L) is supposed to reduce tooth decay Yet cavities are rampant in NY’s fluoridated populations .

Attempting to prove that fluorosed teeth have fewer cavities, Kumar uses 1986-1987 National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR) data which, upon analysis, shows that 7- to 17-year-olds have similar cavity rates in their permanent teeth whether their water supply is fluoridated or not (Table 1).

In 1990, using the same NIDR data, Dr. John Yiamouyiannis published equally surprising results in a peer-reviewed journal. He concluded, “No statistically significant differences were found in the decay rates of permanent teeth or the percentages of decay-free children in the F [fluoridated], NF [non-fluoridated], and PF [partially fluoridated] areas.”

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