Your chance to be heard at Council this year.Most councils are inviting feedback now. Every year councils invite the public to give feedback on their draft annual plan or the draft of their ten year plan depending on what they are doing that year. Feedback can be on any topic and there is usually a…
Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne made the extraordinary statement that sugar is not the main problem associated with tooth decay in response to calls from dentists to have a tax on sugar. His comments were made on the current affairs Programe Sunday on the 7th of March 2015. Sunday “Peter Dunne says the answer…
Press Release: Fluoride Information Network For Dentists WHO: Sugar Causes Tooth Decay, Fluoridation No Use Newly published guidelines from the World Health Organization recommend a reduction of sugar intake to below 10 percent of daily energy intake, in order to reduce tooth decay, and other diseases, particularly in children. The report confirms that high sugar…
The non-profit health advocacy group Fluoride Free New Zealand is concerned about misinformation and ongoing scaremongering perpetrated by the New Zealand Dental Association (NZDA) regarding water fluoridation. The NZDA have shown pictures of children with mouths full of rotting teeth, and even use these to lobby councils to maintain the out-of-date crumbling policy of water…
Late in 2014, the Taumarunui Health Governance Board advocated the reintroduction of fluoridation to Taumarunui’s public water supply citing increased dental decay rates among children. To the contrary, there is no evidence to support these claims. Information received under the official information act show that general anaesthetics, for children up to age 18, has declined since…
Dear Mayor and Councillors, Last week, two studies were published in peer-reviewed mainstream medical journals, which showed a strong link between fluoridation and serious adverse health effects to thyroid and brain function. These two studies looked at fluoridation at the levels that we have in New Zealand. Evidence that fluoridation causes harm is now undeniably…
Another nail in the coffin of Fluoridation. New study hard on the heels of the UK University fluoridation-thyroid study shows fluoridation correlates with an increase in the number of children with ADHD (attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder). The study entitled, “Exposure to fluoridated water and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder prevalence among children and adolescents in the…
Radio New Zealand – Jim Mora Show 27th February 2015 Panelists Finlay MacDonald and Chris Gallavin Transcript of Jim Mora and Rob Beaglehole. Fluoride Free NZ comments in red. Jim: Fluoride could cause depression and weight gain, that’s the headline and the same sort of headline in more than one English paper, not just the Daily Mail.…
