Fluoride Free Auckland will again be active at the Auckland Go Green Event on the 18th & 19th of April at the ASB Showgrounds, Greenlane. Fluoride Free Auckland volunteers will be joined by Dentist Dr Lawrie Brett to continue the campaign to End Fluoridation in Auckland and New Zealand. Dr Brett will be speaking at 1pm on Saturday and Sunday 2:30pm at the…
Read detailsWhat is more serious, one dental filling or thyroid disease? Mr Dunne thinks a dental filling is more serious. Associate Minister Peter Dunne, says that the new peer reviewed research from the UK, which showed that fluoridation increased the rate of hypothyroidism (under-active thyroid) by 60% “not to have shifted the balance of health benefit…
Read detailsYour 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…
Read detailsAssociate 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…
Read detailsPress 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…
Read detailsThe 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have shown pictures of children with mouths full of rotting teeth, and even use these to lobby councils to maintain the out-of-date crumbling policy of water…
Read detailsLate 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…
Read detailsDear 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…
Read detailsAnother 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…
Read detailsRadio 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.…
Read detailsFluoride 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.…
Read detailsOn 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…
Read detailsFluoride 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…
Read detailsFluoride 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…
Read detailsA 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…
Read detailsWe 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…
Read detailsIn February 2014, Professor Paul Connett’s public presentation in Auckland lead to the Royal Society and the Prime Minister’s Chief Scientist scrambling to defend fluoridation. See the NZ Review timeline. Professor Connett returns in February 2015 bringing with him Dr William Hirzy, former Senior Vice-President of the Union for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).…
Read detailsThe New Zealand Government has announced that it is taking public submissions on a pending application to exempt fluoridation chemicals (HFA and SSF) from the New Zealand Medicine’s Act, even though their sole stated purpose is to treat people to prevent dental decay. Closing date is the 9th January 2015. http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/consultations/medicine-regulations-fluoride-in-drinking-water.asp See submission form below…
Read detailsA guest post on Whale Oil by a Mr David Whyte appeared a couple of weeks ago. Read here . This is our response to David. David Whyte’s arguments for fluoridation proved to suffer from exactly the same criticisms he levelled at the arguments against fluoridation. “Most, but not all, fall under the title…
Read detailsPress Release: Fluoride Free NZ 1 December 2014 An international panel of science and medical professionals has published a critical analysis of the 2014 New Zealand fluoridation report, Health effects of water fluoridation – A review of the scientific evidence. The peer reviewed critique published today outlines the failures of the Fluoride Report published…
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