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Citizen Communication_Sandy Amberg_Water FluoridationTo: Members of The Dubuque City Council From: Sandy Amberg 80 Croydon Crest Dubuque, Ia. 52001 563 583 -2572 Re: Fluoridation in Dubuque's water system Am I right to assume that Dubuque water contains fluoride? Enclosed please find an article on fluoride in drinking water that I found very insightful and would like to bring to your attention. At the end of the article is a list of further sites to become more informed. I think the City Council should investigate this topic, suggest to the Telegraph- Herald and local radio and television to provide information, and perhaps let the citizens of Dubuque make the decision in a local election on whether or not permit the city to put this harmful substance in our water. Thank you for all the work you do on behalf of our beautiful city. ' � �2 Sandy Amberg /// /.97/ 7,: 7 5 �%' as 1 Prominent researcher apologizes for pushing fluoride by Barry Forbes The Tribune, Mesa, AZ Sunday, December 5, 1999 Reproduced With Permission "Why'd you do it, Doc? Why'd you toss the fluoride folks overboard ?" I had just tracked down Dr. Hardy Limeback, B.Sc., Ph.D., in Biochemistry, D.D.S., head of the Department of Preventive Dentistry for the University of Toronto, and president of the Canadian Association for Dental Research. Dr. Limeback is Canada's leading fluoride authority and, until recently, the country's primary promoter of the controversial additive. In a surprising newsmaker interview this past April, Dr. Limeback announced a dramatic change of heart. "Children under three should never use fluoridated toothpaste," he counseled. "Or drink fluoridated water. And baby formula must never be made up using Toronto tap water. Never." Why, I wondered? What could have caused such a powerful paradigm shift? "It's been building up for a couple of years," Limeback told me during a recent telephone interview. "But certainly the crowning blow was the realization that we have been dumping contaminated fluoride into water reservoirs for half a century. The vast majority of all fluoride additives come from Tampa Bay, Florida, smokestack scrubbers. The additives are a toxic byproduct of the super - phosphate fertilizer industry." "Tragically," he continued, "that means we're not just dumping toxic fluoride into our drinking water. We're also exposing innocent, unsuspecting people to deadly elements of lead, arsenic and radium, all of them carcinogenic. Because of the cumulative properties of toxins, the detrimental effects on human health are catastrophic." A recent study at the University of Toronto confirmed Dr. Limeback's worst fears. "Residents of cities that fluoridate have double the fluoride in their hip bones vis-a - vis the balance of the population. Worse, we discovered that fluoride is actually altering the basic architecture of human bones." Skeletal fluorosis is a debilitating condition that occurs when fluoride accumulates in bones, making them extremely weak and brittle. The earliest symptoms? "Mottled and brittle teeth," Dr. Limeback told me. "In Canada we are now spending more money treating dental fluorosis than we do treating cavities. That includes my own practice." One of the most obvious living experiments today, Dr. Limeback believes, is a proof - positive comparison between any two Canadian cities. "Here in Toronto we've been fluoridating for 36 years. Yet Vancouver - which has never fluoridated - has a cavity rate lower than Toronto's." And, he pointed out, cavity rates are low all across the industrialized world including Europe, which is 98% fluoride free. Low because of improved standards of living, less refined sugar, regular dental checkups, flossing and frequent brushing. Now less than 2 cavities per child Canada -wide, he said. "I don't get it, Doc. Last month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ran a puff piece all across America saying the stuff was better than sliced bread. What's the story ?" "Unfortunately," he replied, "the CDC is basing its position on data that is 50 years old, and questionable at best. Absolutely no one has done research on fluorosilicates, which is the junk they're dumping into the drinking water." "On the other hand," he added, "the evidence against systemic fluoride in -take continues to pour in." "But Doc, the dentists." "I have absolutely no training in toxicity," he stated firmly. "Your well- intentioned dentist is simply following 50 years of misinformation from public health and the dental association. Me, too. Unfortunately, we were wrong." Last week, Dr. Hardy Limeback addressed his faculty and students at the University of Toronto, Department of Dentistry. In a poignant, memorable meetng, he apologized to those gathered before him. "Speaking as the head of preventive dentistry, I told them that I had unintentionally mislead my colleagues and my students. For the past 15 years, I had refused to study the toxicology information that is readily available to anyone. Poisoning our children was the furthest thing from my mind." "The truth," he confessed to me, "was a bitter pill to swallow. But swallow it I did." South of the border, the paradigm shift has yet to dawn. After half a century of delusion, the CDC, American Dental Association and Public Health stubbornly and skillfully continue to manipulate public opinion in favor of fluoridation. Meantime, study after study is delivering the death knell of the deadly toxin. Sure, fuoridation will be around for a long time yet, but ultimately its supporters need to ready the life rafts. The poisonous waters of doubt and confusion are bound to get choppier. "Are lawsuits inevitable ?" I asked the good doctor. "Remember tobacco," was his short, succinct reply. Welcome, Dr. Hardy Limeback, to the far side of the fluoride equation. It's lonely over here, but in our society loneliness and truth frequently travel hand in hand. Thank you for the undeniable courage of your convictions. Fluoride is a corrosive poison http : / /www.apfn.org /apfn /poison.htm Common pesticides use fluoridation chemicals as their main ingredient http: / /www.apfn.org/apfn /fluoride chemicals.htm Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards http:/ /w°ww.apfn.org/apfn /fluoride.htm Shocking News About Fluoride http: / /www.apfn.ore /apfn /flouride.htm Fluoride - The Lunatic Drug http: / /www.apfn.ora /apfn /water.htm STOP FLUORIODEATION http : / /rvi.net /fluoride /index.htm Fluoridation status of some countries http:// w« NS , .fluoridation.com /c- countrv.htm Population Control http: / /ww w.apfn.ora /apfn /population.htm WATER http : //www.apfn.arg /pdf /water.pdf Why American's are SHEEPLES: FLUORIDE http: / /www.apfn.org /apfn /sheeples.htm Artificial Sweeteners Conspiracy to Make Americans Sick http: //w w w.apfn.org/apfn /sicl:.htm GOOD TEETH BIRTH TO DEATH - Anti - Fluoride book - Revised Edition, 117 Pages by: Dr. Gerard F. 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