Colony Collapse Disorder Honey Bee Research

30. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

I’ve done a little research on the problem with colony collapse disorder. There may be a connection between chemtrails and the failing health of bees.

First please examine the data from rense.com per a recent air quality test of chemtrails:

Chemtrails - Shocking Phoenix Air Quality Test Results (extract)
By Ted Twietmeyer
6-14-8..Fig 1 ­ In this chart we see that barium is 278x the toxic limit, copper is 98x the toxic limit, manganese is a staggering 5,820x the toxic limit and zinc is 593x the toxic limit.Noteworthy here is that manganese is an element commonly found in the environment and soil in small quantities. However, manganese is also a toxic element. This element is the black electrolyte material found in batteries (dry cell types) before the advent of alkaline batteries took over the battery market.

Manganese is still used in cheap batteries and commonly provided with remote controls.Barium, copper and zinc are also heavy metals. Copper and zinc are used by the human body’s metabolism but only in very small amounts. Barium is a common contrast agent used for X-ray diagnostic imaging, but it is not used in powder form. It is suspended in a liquid form for contrast enhancement of X-rays to outline digestive tract soft tissue.

Barium and aluminum (more on aluminum later) are commonly found in chemtrail fallout. These two compounds were also described by Dr. Teller in his weather modification paper as two possible agents that could be spread by aircraft into the upper atmosphere. His intention was to use them as reflective agents for sunlight in an effort to reduce global heating… (continues)

Now, please examine the following data in relation to our honey bees:

*HONEY BEES AND BEE PRODUCTS AS MONITORS OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL (extract)*

Heavy metals present in the atmosphere can deposit on the hairy bodies of bees and be brought back to the hive with pollen, or they may be absorbed together with the nector of the flowers, or through the water or the honeydew. A number of variables have to be considered when using bees, or beehive products such as honey, to monitor heavy metals in the environment….
http://www.apimondia.org/apiacta/articles/2003/porrini.pdf

Investigation of the use of honey bees and honey bee products to assess heavy metals contamination:

Experiment was carried out using 12 colonies of honey bees bred in hives located near an extraurban crossroad. We analyzed the Pb, Cd and Zn deposited on the bee’s surfaces and the heavy metal accumulation in the foragers, dead bees, honey products and some environmental markers during nine weeks of the experiment.

Results showed a large amount of Zn and Cd on the bee’s surface as a consequence of atmospheric fallout, whereas Pb seems to be either water-extractable and/or likely accumulated in the body of the insect.

Dead bees expelled from the hives displayed a progressive accumulation of all heavy metals during the experimental period. Royal jelly and honey contained large amounts of heavy metals. In particular, we found a linear relationship between Cd in the honey and that found in flowers of Trifolium pratense L.

Results obtained suggested that honey bee products and the examined environmental markers may be considered useful parameters to assess the presence of environmental contaminants, whereas the measurements of heavy metals in the dead bees may be considered a suitable tool also to verify a possible dynamics of accumulation of pollutants….
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3212445

This data indicates that honey bees are the most sensitive to pollutants, in particular, heavy metals in the environment.

Optimizing cell preparation technique to enhance adsorption capacity of pseudomonas putida 5-x to heavy metal ions.

A heavy metal accumulation bacterium Pseudomonas putida 5-x isolated from electroplating effluent was used as biosorbent for heavy metal removal from wastewater…
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Microbiologists discovered a while back that different strains of pseudomonas can be derived when subjected to different environmental conditions. What if a strain similar to 5-x has found a way into the bees? According to a few other articles at rense.com, hazardous pseudomona strains have already been found in chemtrails.

*Stinging the Bees*

/..Pseudomonas/, fatal given the right conditions, kills some bees…

“These mites are messing with the honeybee immune systems,” says Fisher. “The bee’s strength is zapped, and it’s hard to fight off even small infections…”
http://www.rps.psu.edu/0009/bees.html

According to the first two articles above, the best indicator of environmental heavy metals are the honey bees and their hives.

Hypothesis: What if the mechanism of heavy metal absorption from chemtrails into bees is through pseudomonas (heavy metal absorbing strains), thereafter, their immune systems are weakened allowing (varroa) mites to attack to make it look like natural causes?

The proof would be the presence of these artificially derived pseudonomas from chemtrails that can infect bees. Pollinating flowers are also particularly receptive to environmental pollutants. (I haven’t even touched on the possible consequences of GMO infections yet!) But flowers affected by environmental pollutants might actually be hurting the bees. The bees may actually be our virtual “canaries in the cave” foretelling of hidden dangers.

A researcher from another group made an interesting point about this chemtrail action on bees being on purpose:

“I wonder if poisons in chemtrails like bromine and even added these suggested heavy metals could be an even worse bee irradiation/reduction process? The would induce a massive price increase in food and thus more world starvation on an evil/painful population reduction agenda? Take the bees out of the picture and no pollination! The only ones with food would be those with stored seed banks like the one discovered in Norway. No doubt they are storing some bee hives there to reboot these crops protected in mountain vaults from genetics,biological, asteroid hit, and poisons… “

It’s possible that Global Bioenergetics has a multi-wave oscillator that kills the pseudomonas:

Good vibrations could save vanishing bees
*Published Date: * 26 April 2008
By Jenny Haworth

/IT IS a mystery that has had scientists stumped. But now experts in Scotland believe they have discovered why bees have been abandoning their hives and vanishing./

/Scientists at the Roslin-based firm Global Bioenergetics think disturbance to bees from mobile phones, radio signals, wi-fi and microwaves is disrupting them with devastating results./

/They think increased airwaves could be interfering with their ability to do the bee dance, which they use to tell other bees where to find pollen./

/Stress caused to the bees by the radiation could be damaging their immune systems, leaving them prone to increasing levels of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides sprayed on crops./

/The scientists are trying out a new device, called a Bioemitter, that transmits electromagnetic waves to provide a stable environment and reduce stress for the bees in their hives, boosting their immune system./

/Global Bioenergetics is about to start trials with bee farmer Brian Poole, from Scottish-Honey./

/Fiona Murray, a political and environmental adviser for Global Bioenergetics, said: “The Bioemitter creates a field in the hive. It inputs a highly specified frequency. In comparison frequencies from things like mobile phones are random./

/The specific frequency shields out the frequency of the mobile phones, microwaves and everything else from the hives, to create a more stable environment in the hive./

/*We can also put in frequencies that are beneficial, to boost the bees’ own immune system.*/

/They are still going to be exposed when they are flying about to the radiation and the sprays that are going on to the field, but the aim is to get their own system to be able to cope with it better.”/

/Previous trials have shown the Bioemitter can also get rid of the devastating varroa mite, which sucks blood from bees and leaves them susceptible to infection./

/It has similarly been shown to destroy red mites, which infest chickens./

/We are creating a field that these parasites can’t live in,” said Ms Murray. “They can’t cope with the vibration of the signal.”/

/The same technique has been used to eliminate salmonella from one farmer’s pig shed in Yorkshire, and the company thinks it has huge potential.

//Now it is trying to secure funding to carry out trials on bees using the device…/
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http://www.global-bioenergetics.com/
http://www.bioemitter.com/

Microwaves have been implicated in causing colony colapse disorder. What if it’s not just the microwaves, but the heavy metal reaction to microwaves since they are absorbed by certain pseudomonas in the bees, thus using the same concept as the Kanzius machine which heats up metallic nanoparticles using radio waves?

If that Bioemitter by Global Bioenergetics actually emits the MORs (mortal oscillatory rates) for pseudomonas, then couldn’t everyone with Rife type emitters do the same? (i.e. hinging on heavy metal absorbing pseudomonas as the culprit)

It’s possible that this is the normal mechanism that makes the bees so sensitive to heavy metal pollutants. Perhaps, we have the same reason old time miners used to take canaries into caves with them since they would be the first ones to die in a hazardous atmosphere. Now, colony collapse disorder is indicative of the state of our environment.

Thanks in advance,

Randolph
HealingMindN Medicine Man

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BTW: I have already shared this information with other research groups on the web including Google which recently placed a WiFi network in a Bay Area City; I guess the idea of losing our key system of pollination which keeps the food chain going on this planet is somehow not important enough to most people.This information is meant to help the truly altruistic people to help the honey bees. I hope you’re one of them.

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14th International Conference of SCENAR Therapists

14. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

14th International Conference of SCENAR-Therapists

In remembrance of Yuri Gorfinkel

Odessa, Ukraine

September 3 - 9, 2008

RITM OKB ZAO (Taganrog),

A.Revenko SCENAR-Academy (Moscow),

SCENAR-Ukraine OLMC (Odessa),

SCENAR-center - Bulgaria

We have the honour to invite colleages, doctors, researchers and scientists, folk practitioners and alternative medicine specialists, experts and all those who are interested in new medical technologies to participate in the SCENAR Conference.

Today, 10 years after Yuri Gorfinkel - one of the founders of SCENAR-therapy - is gone, we see that the interest in his works and experience still lingers. At the conference the contribution Yuri Gorfinkel made to SCENAR-therapy will be covered and high efficiency of the Subjective-Dosed Mode devised by him will be shown.
Odessa conferences are always distinguished by their democratic character and blend of works of different scientific stringency degree - from emotional messages to academic reports.

Conference participants will learn the recent solutions for various SCENAR-therapy applications, share their opinions and discuss all questions that may arise directly with the experts in informal environment.

Conference participants will be offered training of different levels at practical workshops and schools according to the traditional program as well as new author’s seminars and workshops by:
- Prof. Alexander Revenko, Director of the International SCENAR Academy
- Nelly Muracheva, Bachelor of American Folk Medicine Academy
- Galina Subbotina, Senior Lecturer of International SCENAR-Academy

Seminar subjects will be published in the following communications.

Another innovation of the conference will be a special closed session for SCENAR-Academy teachers. Organization and methodology of SCENAR training in regions will be discussed at the session.
Conference participants will be suggested a recreational program as a sea trip and acquaintance with fantastically beautiful, picturesque and hospitable Odessa city.

Final conference program will be available soon.

Citizens of most European and American countries have visa-free travel to Ukraine.
Please send your requests for participation (limited number of participants!) to your local representatives before July 15, 2008
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Arthritis Solution: Tai Chi Chuan

13. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

Tai chi helps arthritis patient

07/11/2008 05:00 AM
By: Marcie Fraser

You may have seen them in a class or taken a class yourself, tai chi an ancient form of Chinese martial arts. Often used for meditation is now used for, medication.

Her name is Lee Shaw; she’s been inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame.

“When I was five I used to stand there and say, I want to do that,” Shaw said.

Her music fills the room, the notes transcend from her fingers. They move smoothly from key to key, a lifelong passion for music that almost came to an end.

“I damaged the cartilage in my thumb and because the body abhors a vacuum, it sent calcium to fill it up.”There was one period of time when I didn’t think I was going to be able to play again,” Shaw said.

She developed a degenerative disease called osteo-arthritis.

“Typically osteo-arthritis develops as a wear and tear process in various joints. There are some joints that are affected more often than others. For instance, the fingers, the neck, the low back, the hips and the knees,” said Dr. Chris Huyck.

 

 

 

Tai chi helps arthritis patient

You may have seen them in a class or taken a class yourself, tai chi an ancient form of Chinese martial arts. Often used for meditation is now used for, medication.

Symptoms include low grade pain with activity and stiffness. Some folks looking for relief find it with tai chi

“It’s systematically designed to help people with arthritis because the steps are in higher stance than in traditional tai chi, which is an ancient Chinese martial arts form. It’s very fluid, the movements are very circular in motion and they flow one right into the other, ” said Jane Perkins-Huyck, instructor.

“Tai chi is very effective because it is extremely well controlled. The movements are slow, it emphasizes balance and appropriate breathing and it allows patients to use their muscles and tone their muscles without hurting them or harming them, “said Doctor Hucyk.

After a warm up, there are six basic movements. The consistent weight transfer and meditation help the body relax, allowing the muscles to stretch, improving the range of motion.

There is no cure. It affects more women than men. Treatment includes tai chi, certain medications and lifestyle changes.

Shaw found relief, both mentally and physically.

Tai chi daily practice

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Congress on Bioenergetics in Cuba

10. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

In Holguín, Cuba the 6th International Congress on Natural and Traditional Medicine and Bioenergetics

The Juan Tomas Roig Traditional and Natural Medicine Hospital in Holguin, will host courses and workshops for the 6th International Congress on Natural and Traditional Medicine and Bioenergetics, scheduled for July 9 to 12 in the eastern Cuban city of Holguin.

 

 

Specialists from the center, the only one of its kind in Cuba, will demonstrate their results on the integration of different techniques of natural medicine and bioenergetics in hospital practices, to treat over 150 clinical and dental diseases.

They will also show the applications of these methods on patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 and craneopuncture in the rehabilitation of patients with disorders of the central nervous system.

Other workshops will cover the use of catgutpuncture, involving the placement of suture thread in acupunctural points for treating various diseases; and the use auriculotherapy for the affections in the osteomyoarticular system.

During the meeting specialists will demonstrate the achievements of this hospital of Holguin in the implementation of natural and traditional medicine techniques, which includes yoga, tai chi chuan, vegetotherapy, hypnosis and flower therapy, among others.

Naomi Rodriguez, director of “Juan Tomas Roig,” told AIN that the application of these therapies have proven effective in the prevention of cardiac arrhythmias, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, heart attack, high blood pressure, and other diseases.

(ACN)

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Bioenergetic Culinary Arts of Intelligence and Beauty

3. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

Molecular Gastronomy: Something’s Cooking

Elisabeth Pain
Portugal
2 November 2007

Never had a test tube looked as colourful and appetising as the one Catarina Prista, Joana Moura, and their team presented at the 2007 Rencontres Sciences, Art & Cuisine in Paris, an international molecular gastronomy contest promoted by Hervé This, one of the pioneers of molecular gastronomy. This is head of the Molecular Gastronomy Group in the Laboratory of Chemical Interactions at the College de France in Paris. The tube (pictured left) contained a delicate and edible suspension of freeze-dried raspberry, gold chips, chopped mint leaves, and whole raspberries obtained with concentration gradients of sucrose and the food additive xanthane gum. The feat earned the Portuguese team first prize in the cocktail category. “We were very glad to win, because it helps to get people”–scientists and the public alike–”to know us,” Prista says.

Molecular gastronomy is a quirky field, and not only for its contests. It began to crystallise as a science in the early 1990s when a few food-loving scientists started meeting with chefs to study the chemical and physical processes of cooking as a sideline to their research. In its broadest sense, molecular gastronomy today is “the idea that we can scientifically understand ways to make us really enjoy our food and apply that to be able to prepare–both in restaurants and at home–food that is increasingly satisfying,” says Peter Barham, a polymer physicist at the University of Bristol in the U.K. and an early contributor to the field.

The emergence of a few dedicated funding and job opportunities across Europe has helped establish molecular gastronomy, but it’s not yet a secure career path for young scientists. From very different backgrounds, Prista and Moura entered the field through a combination of luck and dedication.

Catarina Prista: From food science to molecular gastronomy

Catarina Prista

Prista, 37, came across molecular gastronomy almost by accident. She earned a B.Sc. degree in applied chemistry and biotechnology at the New University of Lisbon, then a master’s degree in food science and technology at the Technical University of Lisbon. For her final-year project, she worked on the physiology of Debaryomyces hansenii, a salt-tolerant yeast used to ripen cheeses.

Prista continued this work with a Ph.D. in agro-industrial engineering at the Technical University of Lisbon’s Superior Institute for Agronomy, graduating in 2001. She stayed on as a postdoc in the same microbiology group and now studies the functional genomics and bioenergetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to improve its use in winemaking.

Prista was first exposed to molecular gastronomy in 2003 when her lab head, Maria Loureiro-Dias, prepared an exhibition for the local museum. “We started to use [molecular gastronomy] as a tool for science divulgation,” Prista says. Later, in 2004, a newspaper article piqued the interest of Prista and some of her colleagues–Loureiro-Dias and two chemical engineers, Paulina Mata of the New University of Lisbon, and Margarida Guerreiro, who is now retired. Together, they became her molecular gastronomy team. Moura joined the team later.

That article said that Spanish chef Ferran Adrià had made caviar pearls out of alginate and fruit juice for the wedding of the Prince of Asturias. Just for fun, the scientists worked to re-create Adrià’s caviar pearls by dropping liquid sodium alginate and fruit juice into a calcium solution. “We had to try several concentrations of alginate in order to obtain a sphere, solid outside and liquid inside,” Prista explains. The team also had to figure out how long the alginate should be in contact with calcium. “Too much [time] will turn the pearls too hard, too [little] will make smooth pearls that will easily burst,” Prista says. “Things like these didn’t come in the recipes and had to be improved before we were able to produce beautiful pearls. Scientific knowledge and way of thinking have certainly helped to get faster answers and solve the problems.”

Prista sees many other connections between microbiology, biochemistry, and molecular gastronomy. Molecular gastronomy is “not what I do for my everyday research, but it is also important to know how things work” in your cooking pans, Prista says.

Soon the team started organising molecular gastronomy courses at the university for chefs and for the public.

Joana Moura: From the kitchen to the laboratory

Joana Moura

Joana Moura, 32, started in a discipline far removed from molecular gastronomy but was drawn to the field because she saw the opportunity for a career that mixes science and the arts. She obtained a degree in landscape architecture from the Superior Institute for Agronomy in Lisbon in 2001, followed by a master’s degree in urban design. Then she worked for a landscape architecture and environmental studies company for several years.

But Moura had always been interested in cooking. Starting in 2002, she took professional courses in vegetarian cooking and Asian, Italian, and French cuisine. She especially enjoyed a pastry course she took in 2005 at the renowned cooking school Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. When she returned home, she quit her job to dedicate herself to cooking. She then did a course at the Ritz Escoffier School and a pastry specialisation with Pierre Hermé at the Ferrandi School in Paris. These programmes offered “theoretical courses where they teach you the techniques of pastry, the different types of flours, … about the temperature, how to make the mixture, what happens when you incorporate [the ingredients]. It is very useful for understanding the science,” she says.

Moura learned about the Portuguese molecular gastronomy team through Mata, who was a friend. She soon started contributing to their research into applications of food-grade additives such as gelling agents, emulsifiers, and thickeners. “I said I would do it for free,” Moura says. “I wanted to know if I would like to do the work.” Together, they later won first prize for scientists at the 2006 Rencontres Sciences, Art & Cuisine for presenting a fish soup under the form of scoops and noodles using agar and alginate.

Since then, Moura has been working in the lab part-time with funding generated by the team through molecular gastronomy courses and private consultation services. Her job is to reproduce innovative recipes, understand the underlying scientific processes, incorporate new ingredients, and find new techniques. This represents “a lot of experiments,” she says.

Moura also helps chefs with their special requests, which are “always changing. … It makes you enthusiastic all the time,” she says. “I really like to work at the interface between the lab and the kitchen.”

What’s cooking now?

Neither Prista nor Moura are sure of their next step. Prista hopes to continue molecular gastronomy research as a side project to her work on S. cerevisiae. “I don’t know if it helps your career” to be involved in molecular gastronomy, she says, but “I am a lucky person because I do what I like.”

Moura, however, has a dilemma. She is now taking courses in biochemistry and microbiology from the university’s M.Sc. programme “to learn a little more and help me in my work.” Doing a full-time M.Sc. would mean putting her current research on hold for a couple of years. “These things are going very fast, and I want to continue the research,” she says.

Prista/Moura culinary creation. Fish soup under the form of scoops and noodles using agar and alginate.

Part of the insecurity for both scientists comes from the fact that molecular gastronomy still has some way to go before it is fully accepted as a scientific field. “I would have said 4 to 5 years ago that [young scientists] would be mad to make a career in this field,” says Bristol’s Barham. The field has advanced, but, still, those who pursue it today “are being brave. I would love to think that it will become a really high-quality scientific discipline. … But success is not guaranteed.”

Founding father This sees a bright future for molecular gastronomy. “Many decades ago, when metal works was a chemical art, scientists realised that science could investigate the various phenomena which occur during metal production or transformation, … and now there are many metal science labs in the world,” he writes in an e-mail. Cooking is also a chemical art, and This expects “that there can be as many [molecular gastronomy] labs in the future than there are metal labs.”

“At the moment, there is no clear career structure”–and there’s a lot of competition, Barham says. But with the emergence of a few Ph.D. programmes in France, Denmark, and Italy, “a few … are able to start as a Ph.D. or make it as a postdoc.” The field has also seen a few dedicated professorships coming up in France, Greece, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Italy. And although funding is still difficult to secure, the European Union and countries such as Denmark and the United Kingdom have started supporting molecular gastronomy and technology transfer to restaurants.

Meanwhile, Prista and Moura are reaping personal and professional rewards from their unconventional field. “If you know how things work, you can cook better and do something new in the kitchen,” Prista says. Having your work recognised at the Rencontres Sciences, Art & Cuisine can also boost your spirits. You can work in your research field “for years and no one knows you, and suddenly you win a prize using the same techniques as [in] other fields of research and people get interested.”

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FAN Fluoride Newsletter

2. July 2008 by HealingMindN.

So here it goes: issue number 1 of our revamped newsletter “Fluoride News You Can Use”, including videos you can watch, flyers you can download, fluoride news you should know about, and a quick online action item that could help save Louisiana from an impending fluoridation mandate.

1) NEW VIDEO: An Environmental Professional Speaks Out on Fluoride

This week, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched the latest video in its “Professional Perspectives” series on water fluoridation. The video is short (just 5 minutes) and features Brent Foster, an environmental attorney and State Conservation Chair of the Oregon Sierra Club. Foster explains why he went from being a onetime proponent of fluoridation to spearheading a successful statewide effort to defeat mandatory fluoridation in Oregon, and how he was able to get the support of the only doctor, dentist, and nurse in the Oregon legislature. The video can be viewed online at FAN’s homepage, or on YouTube.

2) Kidney Foundation Drops its Support of Fluoridation:

A new position paper from the National Kidney Foundation concludes that individuals with chronic kidney disease should be notified of the potential risk from exposure to fluorides. The document acknowledges gaping holes in research concerning kidney impacts from fluorides, and thus further undermines the myth that fluoridation has been proven safe for everyone. In addition to advising that kidney patients be notified of their vulnerability to fluoride, the Kidney Foundation officially withdrew from the American Dental Association’s list of organizations which support fluoridation. To read more about this development, and to watch a FAN video discussing the issue, click here.

3) List of Communities Rejecting Fluoridation Grows Larger
The number of communities rejecting fluoridation continues to grow. On April 1, Quebec City in Canada terminated its fluoridation program after 36 years, thus joining the ranks of other major Canadian cities - such as Montreal and Vancouver - which do not fluoridate their water. Another major victory occurred on the Isle of Man in Europe when the Health Ministry announced on June 12th that it was abandoning its attempt to fluoridate water after a government survey showed the public opposed to the plan. Other communities recently rejecting fluoridation include Dryden, Ontario; Littleton, Massachusetts; and Yarmouth, Massachusetts. In Dryden, voters rejected a fluoridation proposal by a 7-to-1 margin!

4) City that Gave Birth to Fluoridation is Having Second Thoughts

In 1945, Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first city to ever fluoridate its water. Now, 63 years later, some city officials in this town are beginning to wonder whether they should join the growing tide of cities and towns rejecting fluoridation. As noted in an a June 23 article from the Chicago Tribune,

“the chemical widely credited with dramatically cutting cavities and promoting oral hygiene, is having its scientific credentials questioned in the city that literally swallowed it first… [T]he push here mirrors a spreading nationwide awareness and re-examination of the health impact of a wide variety of chemicals added to food, health-care products and water.”

To read the Tribune article, click here.

5) TAKE ACTION: Help Save Louisiana from Fluoridation Mandate!

While the victories above are encouraging, proponents of fluoridation continue their relentless push to, quite literally, shove fluoride down people’s throats. Of particular concern are renewed attempts to pass mandatory fluoridation bills at the statewide level in the US. Sadly, in April, the legislature in Nebraska (with virtually no public input) passed one of these bills, thereby requiring every town with at least 1,000 residents to fluoridate their water. A similar bill has also just been quietly fast-tracked through the Louisiana legislature. We still have a chance, however, to prevent this tragedy from happening. FAN has set up an ONLINE message to Governor Jindal, urging him to veto the bill. Please take a moment to send this message today, and please ask your friends and family to do the same. To send the message, click here.

6) NEW FLYER: 1,700+ Health Professionals Call for End to Fluoridation

The Fluoride Action Network continues its ongoing effort to solicit the support of professionals from the medical, scientific, and environmental communities. Over the past year, over 1,750 professionals — including a Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine, 3 panelists who wrote the groundbreaking National Research Council review “Fluoride in Drinking Water,” 3 scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Headquarters Union, and hundreds of doctors, dentists, and researchers — have signed FAN’s Professionals’ Statement Calling for an End to Water Fluoridation. To help raise more awareness about this movement, and to help get additional signers, FAN has released a professional quality flyer containing the text of the full Statement. The flyer should prove a useful tool to enable local groups to demonstrate that there are solid science-based arguments against fluoridation. To download a copy, click here.

If you know of any professionals who might add their name to this list, please refer them to the online sign-up form at: http://professional.fluoridealert.org

7) Important Fluoride Conferences in Toronto, Canada, August 7-11

With over 30% of children in the United States and Canada now impacted by dental fluorosis, it is clear that millions of children are being over-exposed to fluoride. In light of the health risks associated with excessive fluoride exposures, scientists and activists are converging in Toronto, Canada for TWO historic conferences.

The first conference (August 7-10), hosted by the International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR), will examine fluoride’s impact on bone and brain health and feature presentations from some of the world’s leading scientists on fluoride toxicity. The second conference (August 10-11), hosted by the Fluoride Action Network, will address what citizens can do to stop water fluoridation in their own communities and regions.

Taken together, the back-to-back Conferences will allow people to

• hear and digest the best science on fluoride’s dangers to human health.
• meet in person some of the world’s leading fluoride researchers.
• meet and strategize with citizens and scientists fighting fluoridation from Canada, US, Australia, and other countries.

To learn more and to register for these conferences, see: http://www.fluoridealert.org/conference2008/

Here’s to a fluoride-free future! Together we can make it happen.

Paul Connett, PhD
Executive Director
Fluoride Action Network

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