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Spokane has voted 3 times against adding Flu0ride to our drinking water, yet these large corporate institutions keep lobbying their way into to our local politics. Spokane city council voted to spend more than half a million dollars on a study to push this, even though the citizens have voted against it. Flu0ride is a topically treatment and shouldn't be added to our water which we ingest everyday. Flu0ride is not hard to come by or expensive, you can get a months supply of tooth paste with Flu0ride in it at the Dollar Store. We don't need this in our public waters. Contact City Council: https://my.spokanecity.org/citycouncil/members/ 31 reasons to oppose flu0ride in our water: 1) Flu0ride is the only chemical added to water for the purpose of medical treatment. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies Flu0ride as a drug when used to prevent or mitigate disease (FDA 2000). As a matter of basic logic, adding Flu0ride to water for the sole purpose of preventing tooth decay (a non-waterborne disease) is a form of medical treatment. All other water treatment chemicals are added to improve the water’s quality or safety, which Flu0ride does not do. 2) Flu0ridation is unethical. Informed consent is standard practice for all medication, and one of the key reasons why most of Western Europe has ruled against flu0ridation. With water flu0ridation we are allowing governments to do to whole communities (forcing people to take a medicine irrespective of their consent) what individual doctors cannot do to individual patients. 3) The dose cannot be controlled. Once Flu0ride is put in the water it is impossible to control the dose each individual receives because people drink different amounts of water 4) The Flu0ride goes to everyone regardless of age, health or vulnerability. 5) People now receive Flu0ride from many other sources besides water. 6) Flu0ride is not an essential nutrient. No disease, not even tooth decay, is caused by a “Flu0ride deficiency.”(NRC 1993; Institute of Medicine 1997, NRC 2006). Not a single biological process has been shown to require Flu0ride. On the contrary there is extensive evidence that Flu0ride can interfere with many important biological processes. 7) The level in mothers’ milk is very low. Considering reason #6 it is perhaps not surprising that the level of Flu0ride in mother’s milk is remarkably low (0.004 ppm, NRC, 2006). 8 ) Flu0ride accumulates in the body. Healthy adult kidneys excrete 50 to 60% of the Flu0ride ingested each day (Marier & Rose 1971). 9) No health agency in fluoridated countries is monitoring Flu0ride exposure or side effects. 10) There has never been a single randomized controlled trial to demonstrate Flu0ridation’s effectiveness or safety. Swallowing Flu0ride provides no (or very little) benefit 11) Benefit is topical not systemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 1999, 2001) has now acknowledged that the mechanism of Flu0ride’s benefits are mainly topical, not systemic. There is no need whatsoever, therefore, to swallow Flu0ride to protect teeth. 12) Flu0ridation is not necessary. Most western, industrialized countries have rejected water Flu0ridation, but have nevertheless experienced the same decline in childhood dental decay as fluoridated countries. 13) Flu0ridation’s role in the decline of tooth decay is in serious doubt. 14) NIH-funded study on individual Flu0ride ingestion and tooth decay found no significant correlation. 15) Tooth decay is high in low-income communities that have been fluoridated for years. 16) Tooth decay does not go up when Flu0ridation is stopped. 17) Tooth decay was coming down before Flu0ridation started. Modern research shows that decay rates were coming down before Flu0ridation was introduced in Australia and New Zealand and have continued to decline even after its benefits would have been maximized. 18) The studies that launched Flu0ridation were methodologically flawed. The early trials conducted between 1945 and 1955 in North America that helped to launch Flu0ridation, have been heavily criticized for their poor methodology and poor choice of control communities (De Stefano 1954; Sutton 1959, 1960, 1996; Ziegelbecker 1970). According to Dr. Hubert Arnold, a statistician from the University of California at Davis, the early Flu0ridation trials “are especially rich in fallacies, improper design, invalid use of statistical methods, omissions of contrary data, and just plain muddleheadedness and hebetude.” Serious questions have also been raised about Trendley Dean’s (the father of Flu0ridation) famous 21-city study from 1942 (Ziegelbecker 1981). 19) Children are being over-exposed to Flu0ride. 20) The highest doses of Flu0ride are going to bottle-fed babies. 21) Dental fluorosis may be an indicator of wider systemic damage. There have been many suggestions as to the possible biochemical mechanisms underlying the development of dental fluorosis (Matsuo 1998; Den Besten 1999; Sharma 2008; Duan 2011; Tye 2011) and they are complicated for a lay reader. 22) Flu0ride may damage the brain. According to the National Research Council (2006), “it is apparent that Flu0rides have the ability to interfere with the functions of the brain.” In a review of the literature commissioned by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Flu0ride has been listed among about 100 chemicals for which there is “substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” 23) Flu0ride may lower IQ. There have now been 33 studies from China, Iran, India and Mexico that have reported an association between Flu0ride exposure and reduced IQ. 24) Flu0ride may cause non-IQ neurotoxic effects. 25) Flu0ride affects the pineal gland. Studies by Jennifer Luke (2001) show that Flu0ride accumulates in the human pineal gland to very high levels. I 26) Flu0ride affects thyroid function. According to the U.S. National Research Council (2006), “several lines of information indicate an effect of Flu0ride exposure on thyroid function.” 27) Flu0ride causes arthritic symptoms. Some of the early symptoms of skeletal fluorosis (a Flu0ride-induced bone and joint disease that impacts millions of people in India, China, and Africa), mimic the symptoms of arthritis 28) Flu0ride damages bone. 29) Flu0ride may increase hip fractures in the elderly.When high doses of Flu0ride (average 26 mg per day) were used in trials to treat patients with osteoporosis in an effort to harden their bones and reduce fracture rates, it actually led to a higher number of fractures, particularly hip fractures 30) People with impaired kidney function are particularly vulnerable to bone damage. 31) Flu0ride may cause bone cancer (osteosarcoma).