HELP US STOP WATER FLUORIDATION!

The chemical fluoride has been added to drinking water for more than 60 years to theoretically help prevent cavities. But adding fluoride to water affects more than simply our teeth. The ingested fluorides are dispersed throughout your body and actually accumulate over time in your bones, joints, and pineal gland. They also impact and harm your teeth, kidneys, thyroid gland, enzyme actions, neural tissue, and a host of other body systems, tissues, and chemical functions.

In addition to fluoride in water, we ingest fluorides through foods made with fluoridated water (canned goods, processed foods, breads, pasta, and cereals), from pesticide and fumigant residues on fruits, grains, vegetables and dried eggs, in other beverages such as coffee, tea, and soda pop, and from dental products such as toothpaste and mouth rinses. What is happening is called “multiple source overdosing,” and it affects everyone in our society. Americans young and old are potentially at risk for harm from fluoridated water and fluorides. Black Americans and other minorities are disproportionately harmed by fluorides.

Important Developments:

There have been numerous fluoride-related developments in the past few years that you and your loved ones should know about. Here are just a few:

1. The National Research Council in 2006 released a report on fluorides that designated kidney patients, diabetics, seniors, infants, outdoor workers and others as “susceptible subpopulations” that are particularly vulnerable to harm from fluoride ingestion.

2. In 2007 the National Kidney Foundation changed its stance on fluoridation. NKF has caused its name to be removed from the list of water fluoridation supporters maintained by the American Dental Association. NKF’s new position paper stated that, “chronic kidney disease patients should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”

3. There are a growing number of cities, health professionals, scientists, legislators, and key individuals that are rejecting or calling for an end to water fluoridation. You can read about a professionals’ petition to end fluoridation at: www.fluoridealert.org

4. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one of the key promoters of the outdated and harmful practice of water fluoridation, has refused to directly answer a number of questions that The Lillie Center submitted to CDC in a formal 2007 ethics complaint over CDC’s fluoridation promotion activities. Why won’t CDC answer these questions? They won’t do so because if CDC managers answered the questions directly and truthfully, fluoridation would end, and the lawsuits would begin. But don’t worry. Fluoridation WILL end, there is beginning now a huge legal firestorm over harm caused by fluoridation that will dwarf that of tobacco or asbestos.

The world is not flat, and fluoridation is not safe.

Our goal at The Lillie Center Inc. is to stop water fluoridation permanently -- through educating the public, research, working with the media, and most of all, by relying on God to help us end this harmful practice. If you would like to help us, any ideas, media contacts or opportunities, legal assistance, or financial contributions that you can offer are sincerely appreciated. Contributions are not tax-deductible charitable gifts, as we’re not a non-profit. We’re simply a small firm that feels led of God to participate in this work.

For further information on harm from fluoridation, you can visit: www.fluoridealert.org

To see photos of moderate and severe dental fluorosis, go to: www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm (Be sure to scroll all the way down.)

CDC Fluoridation Ethics Complaint: Here’s a link to the ethics complaint we submitted to the Centers for Disease Control: http://www.fluoridealert.org/cdc.ethics.complaint.aug.13.2007.pdf

Media Coverage:

Charleston, South Carolina Article on Fluoridation:

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=59861

EPA Union Supports Fired Georgia Fluoridation Opponent:

http://northgeorgia.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/dec/06/dalton-epa-union-supports-fired-fluoride-opponent/?georgia

Tenn. Physician-Lawmaker Calls for End to Fluoridation:

http://northgeorgia.timesfreepress.com/news/2008/nov/29/tennessee-lawmaker-campaigns-against-fluoride-bill/

Water Association Warned to Preserve Fluoride Evidence for Legal Actions:
http://www.wnd.com/index.html?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67360

National Kidney Foundation Drops Support of Fluoridation:
Reuters article: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS123736+09-Jun-2008+PRN20080609

Dr Biscuspid Dental Web Portal: http://www.drbicuspid.com/index.asp?sec=ser&sub=def&pag=dis&ItemID=300693

Letter from Attorney to National Kidney Foundation (Resulted in NKF Changing its Stance on Water Fluoridation):

http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf

Growing Fluoride-Gate Scandal:

http://juneauempire.com/stories/011508/opi_20080115024.shtml

Press Releases:

NEWS RELEASE -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Firing of Water Utility Whistleblower Spotlights CDC Reluctance to Address New Safety Concerns about Water Fluoridation

Fired Fluoride Purchaser Sided with Kidney Patients and Blacks

December 17, 2008 – Ellijay, GA: With more than 50 communities across the U.S. voting to reject water fluoridation on Election Day last month, the recent firing of Dalton, Georgia water employee Wally Babb for voicing concerns about fluoridated water is focusing a spotlight on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control near Dalton.

In 2007 CDC received a formal ethics complaint over CDC officials’ failure to publicly acknowledge damaging information about the safety of fluorides in CDC’s own research and in reports from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the National Research Council.

CDC Associate Director for Science James Stephens’ response to the complaint did not address a number of questions in the complaint, including questions about why the Black community, kidney patients, and others were not informed of fluoride’s health risks.

Purchasing Coordinator Wally Babb notified his superiors at Dalton Utilities that he could no longer in good conscience purchase the fluoridation chemical used by the utility after learning that the National Research Council in 2006 designated kidney patients, infants, and diabetics as “susceptible subpopulations” that are especially vulnerable to harm from fluoride ingestion.

His stand against fluoridation gained further credibility when the National Kidney Foundation changed its position about fluorides, forcing the American Dental Association to remove NKF’s name from the Dental Association’s list of water fluoridation supporters.

The updated 2008 statement by the National Kidney Foundation says that kidney patients “should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”

Babb also highlighted for his employer a little known state law allowing Georgia communities to pursue a referendum to opt out of fluoridation, but the Utility declined to pursue or endorse a referendum. His stance and statements resulted in his termination by the Utility in November.

Dalton Utilities continues to stand by its actions in firing Babb. But a backlash against the firing and against fluoridation is mounting, particularly in Georgia and Tennessee, the two states sharing a border near Dalton.

The firing has generated a scathing letter of condemnation of both CDC and Dalton Utilities by the union of professional employees at EPA headquarters in Washington DC.

“Instead of addressing his concerns…you chose the reprehensible and dictatorial option of trying to silence him,” writes Dr. William Hirzy, Vice President for the EPA union.

In Tennessee, two State Representatives, Frank Niceley and Joey Hensley, have called for an end to all water fluoridation in Tennessee. Representative Hensley is a physician and a former fluoridation supporter.

Joining Dr. Hensley in speaking out against fluoridation, Representative Frank Niceley recently stated in a letter to a Chattanooga newspaper editor, “Mr. Babb is a hero. He should be commended, not fired for sticking up for people who are being harmed by fluoridated water.”

Kidney patients and fluoridation opponents in Tennessee are also condemning Babb’s firing. An open letter supporting Babb is circulating to collect signatures from Tennessee kidney patients.

Black communities in Tennessee and Georgia are learning of Babb’s actions. “Fluorides harm kidney patients, and blacks are especially affected by kidney disease,” Babb says. “And I learned that CDC’s own data show that blacks are disproportionately harmed by a staining and pitting of teeth called moderate or severe dental fluorosis,” he adds.

Photos of the disfiguring teeth damage can be found at: http://www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm .

Daniel Stockin of The Lillie Center, Inc., a Georgia-based public health training firm that filed the formal water fluoridation ethics complaint with CDC’s joint ethics committees, notes that, “Attorneys are figuring out that fluoride is the next asbestos. Financial and legal liability fears are why CDC refuses to answer certain questions about water fluoridation, such as who is to pay for teeth repair for citizens with moderate and severe dental fluorosis, and who is to buy unfluoridated water for families with babies that don’t wish to mix fluoridated water with their babies’ milk formula.”

“Given that 26 million American adults have chronic kidney disease, why hasn’t CDC told kidney patients their risks from ingesting fluorides?” he asks.

In addition to finding himself without a job, Babb’s firing has jeopardized health care coverage for his wife who has multiple sclerosis, and who recently underwent surgery to remove a tumor.

Babb and his wife remain committed to their stance. “This is the right thing to do,” Babb says. “You pay a much higher cost when you compromise on the truth.”

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Further information and sources:

The electronic version of this press release is available from The Lillie Center by emailing: stockin2@yahoo.com

Text of the EPA union’s letter: http://media.timesfreepress.com/docs/2008/12/Babb_Letter_1206.pdf

Contact for Wally Babb: safewaterindalton@yahoo.com

Tennessee Rep. Frank Niceley: 615-741-4419 or Rep.Frank.Niceley@legislature.state.tn.us

Tennessee Rep. Dr. Joey Hensley: 615-741-7476 or Rep.Joey.Hensley@legislature.state.tn.us

Contact for Daniel Stockin: 706-635-7720

Text of CDC ethics complaint: http://www.fluoridealert.org/cdc.ethics.complaint.aug.13.2007.pdf

Source of press release: The Lillie Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 839 Ellijay GA 30540

Ph: 706.635-7720 // Fax: 706.635.8170

Email: stockin2@yahoo.com for the electronic version of this press release

NEWS RELEASE -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: 706-669-0786

Blacks Disproportionately Harmed by Fluorides and Fluoridated Water

Ellijay, GA, October 2, 2007 -- Fluoride, the controversial chemical added to city water supplies to help prevent cavities, now has three strikes against it in having harmful effects in African Americans.

Strike number one: A blue ribbon panel of scientists has identified kidney patients and diabetics as being especially susceptible to harm from ingested fluorides. Blacks suffer disproportionate amounts of kidney disease and diabetes in America. Strike number two: Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows blacks disproportionately at risk for disfiguring teeth damage from fluoride, compared to whites. (See photos of moderate and severe dental fluorosis at http://www.fluoridealert.org/dental-fluorosis.htm )

And strike number three: The American Dental Association and the CDC are now suggesting that parents of newborns may wish to consider using unfluoridated water when mixing infant milk formula for their babies -- but they offer no outreach to tell black parents this information, and no funds to pay for minority and other low-income families to purchase other sources of water.

“I know the facts are embarrassing and potentially even lawsuit material against CDC, but it’s not morally right that CDC is not telling African Americans of their multiple, intersecting risks for harm from fluoride,” says Daniel Stockin, a public health professional of The Lillie Center, Inc., a firm working to educate Americans about harm from ingested fluorides. “How does CDC continue to say that fluoridated water is safe and effective ‘for all’? Do African Americans not count?” he asks.

Stockin points to disturbing information in a report last year from the National Research Council that acknowledged diabetics and kidney patients to be “susceptible subpopulations” that are especially vulnerable to harmful effects from fluoride ingestion. According to the National Kidney Foundation, blacks comprise 28.4% of kidney failure patients, but number only 13% of the U.S. population. The American Diabetes Association states that African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic whites. Increased risk from fluoride for kidney patients and diabetics logically points towards increased risk for blacks, Stockin says.

Stockin also asks why a chart showing disproportionate harm to African Americans from moderate and severe dental fluorosis, a staining and pitting of teeth indicative of overexposure to fluoride as a child, is buried at the very back of a review published by CDC and has not been shared with the black community. (See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm ) He also notes that CDC this year quietly added information on a little-noticed web page that mothers of newborns may wish to use unfluoridated water when mixing powdered infant milk formula. (See http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/safety/infant_formula.htm#1 ) CDC has not issued a press release about the subject. “Millions of parents in minority, low-income, and limited-English communities are affected by CDC’s change in policy, but these families have neither the facts about fluoride nor the funds to pay for unfluoridated bottled water or an expensive home water fluoride removal system,” Stockin says.

The bad news about fluoride adds to a growing swell of sentiment against use of the chemical. The influential Canadian city of Quebec has voted to stop water fluoridation. In looking at fluoridation, Alaska’s Juneau Empire newspaper recently wrote, “What about people who are more sensitive to the damaging effects of fluoride than the general population?” Eleven unions in EPA, representing 7,000 EPA lab workers, scientists, and others have called for the immediate nationwide halt to fluoridation. There are petitions now to end fluoridation, and a call for congressional hearings (http://www.fluorideaction.net ).

So why does CDC continue to promote fluoridation? Why has CDC not responded to the ethics charges its ethics committees received in August concerning fluoridation? And why aren’t black communities being told of their increased risk for harm from fluorides? “Fair questions,” Stockin says. “And disturbing.”

Press Release from The Lillie Center Inc.

The Lillie Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 839 Ellijay GA 30540

Ph: 706.669.0786 // Fax: 706.635.8170

Email: stockin2@yahoo.com or dan@thelilliecenter.com