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Open Letter to Prime Minister John Key – More Dirty Politics?

Fluoride Free New Zealand is concerned with the secrecy surrounding the fluoridation review being led by pro-fluoridationists Peter Gluckman and Prof Skeg. Given the Ministry of Health’s uncooperative approach to engage in discussion and debate on this issue we are extremely concerned that there has been no transparency around this process. Without transparency any…

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August 18, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Secret Fluoridation Review Totally One-Sided Admits Chair

Press Release: Mark Atkin Secret Fluoridation Review Totally One-Sided Admits Chair 15 August 2014 The secret ‘review’ of water fluoridation will only look at research that supports fluoridationists’ belief in ‘the safety and efficacy of fluoride in water’, says Sir Peter Gluckman, co-chair of this thereby-admitted ‘kangaroo review’. It is no wonder that scientific studies…

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August 16, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Secret Fluoridation review ‘should be open public discussion’

Fluoride Free New Zealand calls for the secret Government review on fluoridation to be replaced by an independently chaired open public discussion. The Government, with the approval of Prime Minister John Key, has been undertaking a secret so-called review of the scientific evidence on fluoridation. There is no doubt this review has been set up…

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August 13, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Win for Common Sense in Rotorua

Fluoride Free New Zealand congratulates Rotorua councillors for abandoning plans to hold a referendum. This is despite intense efforts from fluoridation lobbyists with the DHB even offering to pay half or up to $50,000 for a referendum. This is a big win for common sense, democracy and freedom. It allows residents to choose if they…

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August 2, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Jury still out on fluoride safety says Dr Michael Beasley, Deputy Director of the National Poisons Centre

Is the jury still out regarding the safety of Fluoride? “I think it is”, agreed Dr Michael Beasley, Deputy Director of the National Poisons Centre on Radio New Zealand this week, adding “Certainly the question really is the safety of fluoride at what level?” “The dose determines a lot of what happens”, he confirms. Fluoride Free…

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July 31, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Fluoride Free NZ Campaign Targets Taupo and Turangi

Following on from the very successful Rotorua ‘Informed Dentists and Doctors Fluoridation Event’ Fluoride Free NZ will be holding the ‘Dentists, Doctors & School Dental Nurses Taupo Event’ on Saturday 15 November from 4pm – 6pm. Location: Rotary House, 12 Story Place, Taupo. Local Councillors, Local MPs, Iwi representatives, local dentists and doctors, and the Public from Taupo…

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July 29, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Open Letter to Labour’s David Shearer

Fluoride Free NZ is surprised to hear you refer to those of us who take an active concern of clean pure drinking water as parasites. We find your comments baseless and insulting to the majority of international scientists and world governments, who have rejected fluoridation as ineffective, unsafe, and unethical. It also seems a rather…

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July 25, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

Local councils attempt to abdicate responsibility

Fluoride Free New Zealand is disappointed with the decision made at Local Government New Zealand’s (LGNZ) Annual Conference to lobby central Government to take control of fluoridation. LGNZ members should not be abdicating their responsibility to protect their residents from harm, to anyone, even central Government. Whether or not a person wants to consume fluoride chemicals…

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July 22, 2014Press ReleasesBy FFNZ

In Memory of Dr Peter Scanlon

We are sad to announce that Dr Peter Scanlon passed away on Tuesday (15th July 2014) in hospital after battling cancer for the past year. Dr Scanlon will be sorely missed by everyone in Fluoride Free New Zealand. Dr Scanlon gave great presentations to New Plymouth, Hamilton and South Taranaki District Councils. He did…

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July 17, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

The Case Against Fluoride – Dr Stan Litras

By Dr Stan Litras Saturday 28 June 2014 Rotorua Daily Post Is there a difference between fluoride found naturally in water and fluoride that is added to water? Yes. Naturally occurring fluoride is bound strongly to calcium and is relatively inert. It is the free fluoride ions released by the toxic silicofluorides used in water…

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July 1, 2014NewsBy FFNZ

First I must say I don’t live in New Zealand, but in the UK.

Around 20 years ago my husband was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. At age 42, and self employed, he had no choice but to try and carry on through the dreadful pains, exhaustion, muscle spasms and headaches. At that time we were living in an area with fluoridated water. We subsequently moved to an area with natural spring water, where things seemed to get a little better, yet the frequent headaches continued.

Around 10 years ago, after we moved again, the headaches turned into daily migraines and ever increasing doses of otc painkillers did little to help. From there we began the consultant route, seeing both neurologist and headache specialists. MRI and CT scans showed boney spurs in the cervical neck, with spinal cord compression. Highly invasive surgery was discussed, but it was decided we should wait until loss of feeling in his arms and legs occurred. Really unpleasant drugs were prescribed in stepped increasing dosage but the side effects were so bad my husband just stopped taking them. They never helped the migraines at all.

Last Christmas, we realised we would not be getting any real help from doctors and my husband fell back on constantly rotating doses of ibuprofen with lysine, and paracetamol. Just after Christmas, on a whim, I bought some Alodent toothpaste, fluoride free. The next morning I asked the regular question on waking up : “how’s your head this morning? ” When he replied “I don’t have much of a headache actually” I was really puzzled. I started looking at what we’d done the previous day, what we’d eaten, what we hadn’t eaten or used, what pillows were on the bed. THE ONLY THING ABNORMAL TO US WAS THE NEW TOOTHPASTE!

On a research mission, which I had done many, many times over many years, I started reading everything about fluoride, good and bad, from every pathway my little laptop had ever known.

We started a diary, and slowly, day after day after day, the migraines became just little dull headaches, and after 3 weeks they had stopped altogether. We bought a reverse osmosis system to take out any naturally occurring fluoride in our non fluoridated water supply, and polished it off by filtering that water through a separate specal jug filter (takes water to zero ppm). We ditched our favourite strong tea, in favour of fresh ground coffee with the occasional cup of weak, white tea. We stopped buying calfornia wines (our favourite weekend treat), and grapes and raisins had to be organic or nothing. It’s been around 120 days since we went on a mission to rid fluoride from our daily lives. In that time frame, my husband would have suffered around 90 migraines, ten severe headaches and 20 dull, can’t quite think straight foggy headaches, always emanating from the base of his skull. Instead, he has had 6 very mild morning headaches not needing anything to help, 3 level 3 (out of 5) headaches needing medication, and 110 mornings without any headache whatsoever. I have asked the question over and over again, how could we not have known???

I have never suffered headaches, obviously only a few suffer from the extreme sensitivity my husband experiences with fluoride, just as only a few will suffer greatly from strawberries, peanuts, shellfish etc. One person’s meat is seriously another person’s poison. You can choose to avoid buying any of those things but water that comes through your tap, how do you avoid that? We are lucky enough to have the ability to install a complex water filtration system. Just the other day we were out visiting for the day and I thought, a few cups of tea with unfiltered water wouldn’t hurt that much. Oh my goodness, was I wrong! My husband didn’t even know he wasn’t drinking tea made with bottled or filtered water, he just developed a thumping headache as we were setting off for home.

He is currently taking antioxidants, in the hope that over time, the fluoride deposits within his body will be greatly reduced.

Jane Dowse

Years and Years of Headaches gone