On February 12, 2004, the Mayor of Honolulu approved a bill passed 7-2 by the
Honolulu city and county council that prohibits the introduction of unnecessary
chemical additives, considered to be medication, into their water supply. (1)
Fluoride, neither a nutrient nor essential to health, is added to 66% of U.S.
water supplies in a failing effort to reduce tooth decay in people who drink
it. Fluoride is never added to make water safer to drink.
The new Honolulu law further stipulates that, if the Hawaii state legislature
mandates fluoridation, against the will of the Honolulu legislature and
residents, the chemical dispensed must be a pure, FDA-approved,
pharmaceutical-grade medicine that will not corrode pipes.
Currently, over 91% of fluoridating communities use industrial-grade impure
silicofluorides which have never been safety tested in animals or humans and
often requires a buffering chemical water additive to neutralize its acidity.
Honolulu is one of four cities among the nation’s 50 largest cities that
serves residents fluoride-free water. Ironically, tooth decay crises are
occurring in many of those large fluoridated cities (2)
What’s more, cavities are a leading cause of tooth loss and the most tooth
loss occurs in Kentucky and West Virginia, where 42 percent lost all their
natural teeth, but are 96 and 87% fluoridated, respectively. Conversely, only
13 percent are toothless in only 9% fluoridated Hawaii. (3, 4)
Despite decades of dosing Americans with fluoridated water and a subsequently
fluoridated food supply, 60% of US preschoolers still get cavities (5) – the
same amount as never-fluoridated Manchester, England,(6) and Northern Ireland
(7).
And Africa, the country with the lowest exposure to fluorides and dental care,
has the lowest cavity rates in the world, according to the World Health
Organization.(8) The reason: low sugar diets.
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Sally Stride
Suite 101 Fluoridation Editor
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