Here is the link in case you want to read the rest of the piece: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704825504574582063729991776.html

It was a fascinating article b/c it touched on a bacteria researchers have observed attacking the enamel. I read it thru the lens of WAP and just shook my head that so many smart people could be that misguided!

I was raised on the same well water my kids are now drinking and I had a terrible problem with cavities as a child, despite very good dental hygiene and no sugary snacks/drinks. But, no raw milk or no cod liver oil for me. either I always thought my dental issues stemmed from the lack of fluoridation until I found Dr. Price. Now I know better! I am providing both the FCLO and real milk to all my kids and we are reaping the benefits.

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basically, almost no sugar in the house. this included soda, white sugar, etc. at home it was healthy food time. junk was for (sometimes) out in public. we didn’t eat cookies, etc. either. i hate baking treats.

i did NOT have my kids brush much until they started wanting too. literally, when they were 7 ish or so. before this, it was once every few days. why? i am a bit skeptical about the safety of brushing all the time. many years later, i proved this myself by having tooth damage from too much brushing. however, with our diets, their teeth were kept clean by the food they eat (like apples).

extended nursing.

and, honestly, no dentists until they were teenagers. why? i have had too many over-zealous ones that i believe drilled for the dollar when it wasn’t needed.

the two dentists they have seen are amazed by my kids fabulous teeth. no regrets. it wasn’t deliberate lack of care. it was deliberately protecting them nutritionally, and by not over-tending to them.

Weston Price was very skeptical of fluoride in his book although the practice of putting it in water was not yet a reality at the time. Also please see the topic “fluoride” on the Weston Price web site.

Do you k now that most of the counties in the world do not fluoridate their water and have low rates of dental decay?

Your blanket statement that fluroide was responsible for the reduction in cavities in the 70′s and ’80′s is not correct but an assumption which was generally promoted by the government. Reviews of the one major government study which found that fluoride prevented tooth decay and launched the fluoride campaign, found the results were misinterpreted in favor of fluoride. The major researcher later recanted in court that he fudged his results in favor of the government position.

Do you know, that poor children living in cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which were fluoridated in the 1950′s and continue to be fluoridated, have continuously had some of the highest rates of cavities in the country?
Fluoride was the governmental panacea for the poor, but those children continue to have the highest cavity rates of all groups

Two Harvard researchers were fired after publishing findings that fluoride caused hyperactivity, lower IQ’s, as well as osteosarcoma – a rare cancer -in boys.

Up until 1940 fluoride was considered a poison by the medical and dental profession. But then the atomic age arrived, producing huge amounts of fluoride toxic waste. Soon fluoride was the miracle for tooth decay in children.

But the fluoride put into water is not the natural form found in nature but the toxic byproduct of aluminum, steel, and glass production. These powerful industries, instead of paying huge sums to put their wastes into land fills, are paid for these toxins, which are put into our water supplies.

The fluoride found in tooth paste is sodium fluoride, another toxic waste product, considered a drug by the FDA, but liberally dispensed to the public in toothpaste without a prescription. Sodium fluoride, which was in use in the 1930′s as rate poison, was not required by the FDA to undergo any new drug application process.

There is much more. Thank goodness for raw milk.

Sylvia Onusic