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have shown pictures of children with mouths full of rotting teeth, and even use these to lobby councils to maintain the out-of-date crumbling policy of water…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.…
Fluoride in drinking water may trigger depression and weight gain, warn UK scientists. Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid) in women was at least 30% more likely in areas with fluoride levels in excess of 0.3 mg/l, confirms new research just published in Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. Hypothyroidism causes weight gain and depression, among other things.…
On invitation from public health education and advocacy organisation Fluoride Free New Zealand, international fluoridation experts Professor Emeritus Paul Connett and Dr Bill Hirzy will be in New Zealand next week, 22nd to the 28th of February. Dr Bill Hirzy is a former senior scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency who was invited to…
Fluoride compounds are medicines when given to you in a pill but not when put in your water supply – this is the absurd Regulation passed into law on the word of the Minister of Health, Dr Coleman. Last week (27th January) Dr Coleman exempted fluoride chemicals from the Medicine’s Act. However, in doing so…
Fluoride Free NZ calls for an open transparent public discussion of fluoridation where both sides of the argument can be heard. To date Sir Peter Gluckman and Sir David Skegg, authors of last year’s NZ Report on Fluoridation, have declined an invitation to debate or discuss the errors found in the Report with international fluoridation…
A royal blunder The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor and the Royal Society of New Zealand admitted yesterday, Thursday 15th January, that a serious blunder had been made in their report “Health effects of water fluoridation: a Review of the scientific evidence”. A new version[1] is available on the Royal Society’s website where…
We have only until Friday to contribute to the consultation the Government is undertaking with regard to the Ministry of Health’s proposal to exempt fluoridation chemicals, hydrofluorosilicic acid (HFA) and sodium silico fluoride (SSF) from being subject to the Medicines Act. That leaves only tonight and two more days to get a submission in. We…
