Water Fluoridation

I recently began to read about how water fluoridation may be affecting our children. Anything that might affect my child's health becomes a top priority. So I began to dig...turns out fluoride is a neurotoxin that affects our brains (and our babies!) which is why formula feeding parents are encouraged to use fluoride-free water to mix with the formula. Why are those parents encouraged to make this decision, but no other parents? I've been giving my son tap water to drink since he was 6 months old and had no idea! So now I am on a one-woman crusade to make sure other parents and non-parents aren't caught off guard. Please look at the videos on the links. The first video is from the medical community, including dentists and toxicologists, who argue, without a doubt, that fluoridation is unnecessary and harmful. One highlight: we are one of the few countries in the world to fluoridate the water, which is touted by dentist to have reduced dental cavities in our kids, however, the rest of the world (which doesn't fluoridate), saw the same decrease in cavities. The first video has lots of research and stats to back it up and is worth a watch. It is 15 minutes, so make sure you have the time. The second video is 5 minutes from Fox News (sorry to all my liberal friends-but they do cover good stories sometimes :) ) and talks about a recent story affecting our country's fluoridation policy.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/23/fluorides-deadly-secret.aspx

Here is another link for all my evidenced-driven friends that outlines 100 articles arguing against fluoridation. http://fluoridealert.org/caseagainstfluoride.appendices.html

So what to do? I know that Costco's brand of bottled water has no fluoride in it but you do have worry about plastic and Bpa. I have fallen in love with PCC's water at 0.45 a gallon, it's a bargain for my family's health.

Happy Drinking!