Although I have maintained personal webpages and email lists since 1997 (not long after the use of the internet debuted), and I have been involved in blogging and similar web projects in my office for a couple years, this is my first stab at producing a personal blog. I’ve also become part of MySpace and Facebook, two of the more popular social networking sites currently in vogue. My delving into these social networking sites is partly to monitor the activities of the adolescents in my household.
As topics of interest arise, I hope to not only inform my friends and others about some of the activities, questions, problems, etc. which are pertinent to current life, but also share my thoughts about these issues.
I am thankful for a free platform such as WordPress.com to air my views. I hope that the things I have to share will be meaningful for those who will read this blog. Some topics I hope to discuss or bring up in the future include religion, Christianity, Pentecostalism, music, history, genealogy, immigration policies and problems, health issues, nutrition, artificial sweeteners, fluoridation, big business cartels, the news media, politics, and any number of other issues which may lend themselves to discussion.
Part of me warns against airing my thoughts in this open manner, but I find there are topics of interest and concern which I will never be able to write a book about. And with the way things in the world are changing every day, it seems there is no end to the topics that really need to be studied and discussed.
I can only imagine that I will find some people who strongly disagree with my views. I only ask that you give a fair amount of thought to the topics at hand, listen to the evidence presented, and give me a fair shake. And if you still disagree with me, then maybe it is time for you to set up your own blog to share your own views. Fortunately, last I knew, the United States is a free country where a variety of viewpoints can be aired.
Take Action to End Fluoridation
Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing
http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=8276
Sponsored by the Fluoride Action Network http://FluorideAction.Net
End Fluoridation, say 600 Physicians, Dentists, Scientists, and Environmentalists
In a statement released August 9, 2007, over 600 dentists, physicians, scientists and environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks. (http://www.fluorideaction.org/statement.august.2007.html)
Signers include a Nobel Prize winner, three members of the prestigious 2006 National Research Council (NRC) panel that reported on fluoride’s toxicology, two officers in the Union representing professionals at EPA headquarters, the President of the International Society of Doctors for the Environment, and hundreds of medical, dental, academic, scientific and environmental professionals, worldwide.
Signer Dr. Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine, says, “Fluoridation is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It’s really obsolete.”
Paul Connett, PhD, Executive Director of the Fluoride Action Network (FAN), announced that an Online Action Petition to Congress in support of the Professionals’ Statement will soon be available at FAN’s web site, http://www.fluorideaction.org.
“The NRC report dramatically changed scientific understanding of fluoride’s health risks,” says Connett. “Government officials who continue to promote fluoridation must testify under oath as to why they are ignoring the powerful evidence of harm in the NRC report,” he added.
An Assistant NY State Attorney General calls the report “the most up-to-date expert authority on the health effects of fluoride exposure.”
The Professionals’ Statement also references:
– The new American Dental Association policy recommending infant formula NOT be prepared with fluoridated water.
– The CDC’s concession that the predominant benefit of fluoride is topical not systemic.
– CDC data showing that dental fluorosis, caused by fluoride over-exposure, now impacts one third of American children.
– Major research indicating little difference in decay rates between fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.
– A Harvard study indicating a possible link between fluoridation and bone cancer.
– The silicofluoride chemicals used for fluoridation are contaminated industrial waste and have never been FDA- approved for human ingestion.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a DC watchdog, revealed that a Harvard professor concealed the fluoridation/bone cancer connection for three years. EWG President Ken Cook states, “It is time for the US to recognize that fluoridation has serious risks that far outweigh any minor benefits, and unlike many other environmental issues, it’s as easy to end as turning off a valve at the water plant.”
Take Action to End Fluoridation. Sign the Online Petition to End Fluoridation and call for a Congressional Hearing
http://www.actionstudio.org/public/page_view_all.cfm?option=begin&pageid=8276
SOURCE: Fluoride Action Network http://www.FluorideAction.Net