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THE US GOVERNMENT is lowering the recommended amount of fluoride added to drinking water for the first time in more than 50 years.
Some people are getting too much fluoride because it is also now put in toothpaste, mouthwash and other products, health officials said in announcing the change.
Too much fluoride has become a common cause of white splotches on teeth in children.
One study found about two out of five adolescents had tooth streaking or spottiness.
Fluoride is a mineral in water and soil. About 70 years ago, scientists discovered that people whose drinking water naturally had more fluoride also had fewer cavities.
Since 1962, the government has been advising water systems to add fluoride to a level of 0.7 parts per million for warmer climates, where people drink more water, to 1.2 parts per million in cooler areas. The new standard is 0.7 everywhere.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the world’s first city to add fluoride to its drinking water in 1945. Six years later, a study found a dramatic decline in tooth decay among children there, and the U.S. surgeon general endorsed water fluoridation.
But adding fluoride was — and has remained — controversial. Some people have vehemently fought adding fluoride to local water supplies.
Today, about 75% of Americans get fluoridated water.
The change finalises a proposal first made four years ago. The US government spent years sorting through and responding to 19,000 public comments.
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Even the pirates are feeling austerity. God is there nothing sacred anymore?
The price of diesel is shocking, who could afford to be a pirate!
Yer auld one..,
Hi-jack an oil tanker.
Haarrrrr
The tom hanks movie was great, but can’t believe the crew didn’t just smash the pirates heads in with a hammer as they climbed the ladder
Normally the pirates attempt to board a ship from 3 points simultaneously so if you manage to bash one head or two, you could be facing his pissed off brother or relation sporting a gleaming well oiled AK-47.
Drinking rum before 12 noon doesn’t make you an alcoholic, it makes you a pirate…
Somali piracy down 90%…They must of blocked pirate bay in Somalia as well
This is really going to annoy all the Irish lads operating out of Malta pretending to be “Maritime Security Professionals”, looks like they won’t have a job soon!
One word. American submarines. Two words actually.
Maybe a deal has been struck. No more overfishing by foreign factory ships in waters where these pirates, who in another life were fishermen depended on fish stock to feed their families
Done a year on the boats as private sexurity….got load of cash and wacked few them lads in there lil boats! Good times
Not when you use chaps like ‘executive outcomes’.X special forces who don’t mess about .Have a few of them on the boat and they will sort out the scourges .!!.
We drink and we pillage and we do what we please.We get all that we want for free.We’ll kick your ass and rape your lass Somalian pirates we. So with a yo ho ho and with a yee hee hee We take to the African sea We’ll brave the squalls And bust your balls Somalian pirates we.
We left our homes and we left our mothersTo go on a pillaging spree We’ll cut off your ears and break your toes and make you drink our pee and if you sail into our waters You best hear this decree We’ll take your boat Set your ass afloat Somalian pirates we.With a yo ho ho (yo ho ho)And a tricky lah-tee do (tricky lah-tee do)We’ll shoot you in the face with glee. Then we’ll cut off your cock and feed it to a croc Somalian pirates we
Where’s me parrot ??
Where is my 12 Bore?
It appears that self defence is the ultimate and sometimes only method of protecting your property nowadays.
Go ahead punk. Make my day.
The biggest pirates of them all are sitting in the EU Parilament
I hope Africa eats a lot of broccoli because it’s good for the horn!
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