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Health Hazard Alert! Fluoridated water for Queensland, Australia

Griffith University's School of Dentistry and Oral Health welcomes the Queensland Government's decision to introduce fluoride into the public drinking water - a measure endorsed by all major international and Australian health bodies as the best way to prevent dental decay.

The decision will ensure that 80 per cent of Queenslanders will be drinking fluoridated water within two years, and more than 90 per cent of the state's population by 2012.

Associate Professor Jeroen Kroon, an expert in Public Health, Community and Preventative Dentistry, said the decision was long overdue given that other areas of Australia have benefited from fluoridated water for more than 40 years.

"The absence of this essential community-based preventive measure against dental decay has resulted in the oral health status of Queenslanders being much worse than residents in other States and Territories."

Comment: This article is a clear example of a dangerous propaganda. Citizens of Queensland should be aware that by making a decision to introduce fluoride into drinking water, their Government approved mass poisoning of the population.

Read the following articles to understand what kind of effect fluoride have on a human mind.

Small Amounts Fluoride Destroy The Will To Resist

High fluoride in drinking water is associated with poor performance on intelligence tests

Fluoride Accumulates in Pineal Gland


Fluoridation Doing More Harm Than Good, Studies Show - New York State Coalition Opposed To Fluoridation, Inc


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Ears Too Big? It's All in Your Head

People with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) hate the way they look. Even though they are as normal in appearance as anyone else, they are obsessed with features such as their skin, their noses, and their hair, which--to them--never look right. Now, the first brain-imaging study of BDD patients shows that the condition is not just an emotional problem. Rather, their brains are presenting them with skewed images of themselves.

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How Scientific Is Modern Medicine?



©Dana Ullman

A new book on homeopathy challenges conventional medicine, which touts itself as scientific even though it is largely run by businessmen, not doctors.

(The following is an excerpt from The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, by Dana Ullman.)

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Israeli study says regular mobile use increases tumour risk

Regular use of mobile telephones increases the risk of developing tumours, a new scientific study by Israeli researchers and published in the American Journal of Epidemiology revealed on Friday.

An extract of the report seen by Israel's Yedoit Aharonot newspaper put the risk of developing a parotid gland tumour nearly 50 percent higher for frequent mobile phone users -- more than 22 hours a month.

Comment: The public is not being told of the risks of cell phones and cell phone towers by the manufacturers of these products nor the various officials whose job it is to investigate and inform the public of these risks.

For more information of the dangers of cell phones there is:

The Hidden Danger of Cell Phone Radiation

The Hidden Health Risk of Cell Phones


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Encephalitis Strain Kills 484 India Kids

An outbreak of a mystery strain of encephalitis has killed nearly 500 children in northern India this year and seems to be getting worse, doctors said Thursday.

Health

Man Jailed for Not Taking TB Medication

TUCSON, Ariz. - A man was jailed for failing to take his tuberculosis medication after officials said he was a serious health risk.

James Roman Pearson, 49, remained at the Pima County jail Thursday on a tuberculosis violation, more than two weeks after the county health department petitioned to have him taken into custody.

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Humans Appear Hardwired to Learn by 'Over-Imitation'

Children learn by imitating adults-so much so that they will rethink how an object works if they observe an adult taking unnecessary steps when using that object, according to a Yale study today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Even when you add time pressure, or warn the children not to do the unnecessary actions, they seem unable to avoid reproducing the adult's irrelevant actions," said Derek Lyons, doctoral candidate, developmental psychology, and first author of the study. "They have already incorporated the actions into their idea of how the object works."

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Doctors baffled by Chinese man sweating green

Doctors in China admit they are baffled after a man began to perspire green sweat. Cheng Shunguo, 52, of Wuhan city, says his sweat turned green in the middle of November. "I noticed that my underwear and bed sheets were all green, and even the water in the shower," he told.

©Ananova

Attention

Psychotropic drug prescriptions to children skyrocket 400 percent in ten years

Prescriptions of psychiatric drugs in the United Kingdom to children under the age of 16 have more than quadrupled since the mid-1990s, according to figures recorded by the government. In the mid-'90s, general practitioners wrote 146,000 such prescriptions, while in the most recent fiscal year they wrote 613,000.

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Bisphenol A in infant formula at 'dangerous' levels, says group

Bisphenol A (BPA), known as the 'gender bender' chemical, leaches into liquid baby formula from the linings of cans at levels dangerous to infant health, according to new research published yesterday by a US environmental group