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Brushing with fluoride (as dentists tend to reccomend) is nowhere near as good for your dental health as more natural alternatives (I've been using these alternatives for a few years and have required no dental work done during that time) but in fact has profoundly more detriments than benefits (the title picture shows the discoloration of teeth caused by fluoride exposure).
It would appear that fluoride was a by-product of the aluminium industry and found an alleged beneficial use in toothpaste manufacture; bringing $$$$$ to the companies involved...
HARMFUL CHEMICAL:
"Fluoride has several mechanisms of toxicity. Ingested fluoride initially acts locally on the intestinal mucosa. It can form hydrofluoric acid in the stomach, which leads to GI irritation or corrosive effects. Following ingestion, the GI tract is the earliest and most commonly affected organ system.
Once absorbed, fluoride binds calcium ions and may lead to hypocalcemia.
> Fluoride has direct cytotoxic effects and interferes with a number of enzyme systems; it disrupts oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, coagulation, and neurotransmission (by binding calcium).
> Fluoride inhibits Na+/K+ -ATPase, which may lead to hyperkalemia by extracellular release of potassium.
> Fluoride inhibits acetylcholinesterase, which may be partly responsible for hypersalivation, vomiting, and diarrhea (cholinergic signs). Seizures may result from both hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia.
Severe fluoride toxicity will result in multiorgan failure. Central vasomotor depression as well as direct cardiotoxicity also may occur. Death usually results from respiratory paralysis, dysrhythmia, or cardiac failure."
FLUORIDE IS A SCAM:
Water Fluoridation: Folly or Fraud?
By David McRae, B.Sc. (Hons)
Every day of the week, most Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Irish are exposed to an influence that can be a cause of serious health problems: the addition of chemical fluoride to our drinking water.
What do you know about the history, politics, and toxicology of this claimed "dental benefit"?
The USA started fluoridation in the 1940s, followed by a handful of other countries in the 50s and 60s. Only about eight countries keep up the practice. The continental European countries that tried it in the past have all discontinued. And many of them have achieved lower rates of tooth decay than the highly fluoridated USA.
Holland quit fluoridation in the 1970s after a large medical team performed a double-blind test on people who reported that the fluoride was making them sick. This study showed that up to 3% of residents in the fluoridated section of Amsterdam were suffering symptoms such as stomach pains, mouth ulcers, skin irritation, migraine-like headaches, worsening of allergic complaints, and joint pains. The symptoms stopped when they switched to non-fluoride water. Along with these acute reactions, there are serious concerns about the long-term health effects of fluoride exposure.
Everything about fluoridation is bizarre, including the two very different stories about its origin. There is the official story - given by some health departments and dental associations. And there is the story based on sources such as (1) archival records of the industrial interests that played a big part in funding the fluoridation project, and (2) dissident (see Word to the Wise, below) authorities and scientists who have taken a critical look at the science.
According to the fluoride-promoting agencies, in the 1930s researchers observed lower rates of tooth decay in regions where people showed "Colorado Brown Stain" on their teeth. When this defect was identified to be fluoride poisoning from the water, it was claimed that a certain level of fluoride was actually good. It could protect teeth without causing too much of the staining and brittleness known as dental fluorosis. Officialdom has ignored that these early studies were very poor quality and non-scientific. They also ignored that the dose to consumers would be uncontrolled and vary dramatically with how much water people drank.
But there is a darker history of fluoridation that has been spoken about by industry insiders and some dentists for decades. In 2004, award-winning journalist Christopher Bryson shined a light on the history of fluoridation in his meticulously researched book The Fluoride Deception. Bryson's book studies the correspondence and meeting reports from industry and laboratory archives and shows a chilling collaboration between polluting industries and certain maverick scientists.
Aluminium smelting and many other wartime and post-war boom industries used massive amounts of fluoride in their processes. In the unregulated 1940s, fluoride waste products were polluting the atmosphere and building up in huge waste piles. The fledgling environmental watchdogs of the day were crying out about serious fluoride damage to workers and surrounding crops and animals. A number of lawsuits were launched against companies, including Alcoa and Reynolds Metals.
The archival material shows great concern among the industrialists and their attorneys and scientists. Rather than cease production or find fluoride-free technologies, a systematic project was commenced to whitewash the emerging evidence of fluoride's health hazards. Fluoride was too important to industry to bow to health and environmental pressures.
The theory that fluoride might be a dental-health treatment, in water supplies or toothpaste, was a trump card for this conglomerate. Industry contributed enormous funds to dental researchers to show fluoride to be a "wonder dental drug." Researchers showing findings detrimental to fluoride's new image mysteriously lost their funding. When toothpaste manufacturers jumped on the fluoride wagon, a virtually unlimited advertising budget was unleashed to complete the transformation of fluoride from pollutant to panacea.
In the 1950s and 60s, sodium fluoride from the aluminium industry was added to the water supplies. In a sinister twist of logic, Alcoa advertised their fluoride in water industry journals for it to be added to water supplies … while simultaneously advertising in chemical journals for its use as a rat poison.
The chemicals most widely used in fluoridation now are two waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry, hydrofluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride. These chemicals have never undergone safety studies, nor have they ever had FDA approval. However, numerous studies have shown them to cause harm.
Furthermore, a dozen studies have shown higher rates of bone fracture in fluoridated areas. Many regions of Asia have both high and moderate levels of calcium fluoride present in water supplies. Though calcium fluoride is considered less harmful than the industrial fluorides we use, they still result in dreadful epidemics of skeletal fluorosis and nervous system illness. India spends a lot of money on defluoridation, and where it can't be afforded people develop crippling bone deformities. Chinese scientists have shown nervous system defects including significantly lowered average IQs, even with moderate fluoride levels in water.
The latest alarming finding is Harvard researcher Elise Bassin's Ph.D. study showing greatly increased bone cancer rates among boys in the USA consuming fluoridated water during their years of growth. Bassin's supervisor, Professor Chester Douglass, is now under investigation by Harvard for suppressing and stopping publication of her work. He has also denied her findings at conferences. However, Douglass has a considerable conflict of interests. He also works for the toothpaste manufacturer Colgate, which reaps huge profits from the public's believing that fluoride is a "healthy" chemical.
The science-based website www.fluorideaction.net links to a large compilation of peer-reviewed medical literature. These studies show links between fluoride exposure and kidney disease; pineal, thyroid, and reproductive gland problems; arthritis; and bone, tooth, and nervous system disorders.
Reviews of the science also show that water fluoridation may not even prevent tooth decay. There are more studies showing zero or negligible reductions in tooth decay than those showing real benefits. And most researchers agree that any benefits from fluoride are from surface application to the teeth, NOT from ingesting it into the system. Thus drinking fluoride in water is as dumb as eating sunscreen to prevent sunburn or swallowing condoms for safe sex!
The current science on fluoridation suggests that we are exposing children and adults to a great health risk … for an imagined or real benefit to less than 1 child in 10. Fluoridation is looking like one of the great medical follies of the 20th century. If even half of Bryson's book is correct, it is more than a folly … it is fraud.
Enforced medication without consumer consent, even if there were no side effects, is highly unethical. Fluoridation is compulsory mass-medication, at uncontrolled dosage, with toxic, industrial waste.
In August of this year, 11 Environmental Protection Agency unions, representing over 7,000 environmental and public health professionals, called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation and asked the EPA to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer. If you would like to read the text of this petition, or to sign it yourself, visit www.fluorideaction.net and click Take Action.
[ Ed. Note: From 1985 to 1996, David McRae worked with and coordinated holistic cancer support and education programs in Australia, including a government-funded project with the North East doctors association in Melbourne. He now works as a health promotion officer in community health in Geelong, Australia.
A few studies of the many which show that fluoride
does not prevent decay are listed below :
A study has been done of the dental records of 39 207 schoolchildren aged 5 - 17 in 84 areas of the USA. These areas were divided according to not fluoridated, partially fluoridated ( less than 17 years or some of the time ) and fluoridated. No statistical difference was found in decay rates of permanent teeth or percentages of decay free children between the areas. The only group of children which showed a difference were 5 year olds who had less decay in decidous teeth in fluoridated areas. However, by age 6 this advantage disappears leading to the conclusion that fluoridation causes a delay in tooth eruption.2
R Ziegelbecker has made two studies by taking a random sample of all available data on caries (decay ) prevalence. He selected 48 000 12-14 year children from 136 communities in seven countries. No correlation was found between caries or dental health and fluoride concentration.3
Further studies have shown that not only does fluoride not improve dental health but it may cause decay.
ALTERNATIVES:
This is what I use: www.health-store.co.uk/acatal...es.html
~ but there are alternatives in every health shop around the world...
here's a yahoo group on the detriments of fluoride:
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/...soning/
:) 3-Radical
It would appear that fluoride was a by-product of the aluminium industry and found an alleged beneficial use in toothpaste manufacture; bringing $$$$$ to the companies involved...
HARMFUL CHEMICAL:
"Fluoride has several mechanisms of toxicity. Ingested fluoride initially acts locally on the intestinal mucosa. It can form hydrofluoric acid in the stomach, which leads to GI irritation or corrosive effects. Following ingestion, the GI tract is the earliest and most commonly affected organ system.
Once absorbed, fluoride binds calcium ions and may lead to hypocalcemia.
> Fluoride has direct cytotoxic effects and interferes with a number of enzyme systems; it disrupts oxidative phosphorylation, glycolysis, coagulation, and neurotransmission (by binding calcium).
> Fluoride inhibits Na+/K+ -ATPase, which may lead to hyperkalemia by extracellular release of potassium.
> Fluoride inhibits acetylcholinesterase, which may be partly responsible for hypersalivation, vomiting, and diarrhea (cholinergic signs). Seizures may result from both hypomagnesemia and hypocalcemia.
Severe fluoride toxicity will result in multiorgan failure. Central vasomotor depression as well as direct cardiotoxicity also may occur. Death usually results from respiratory paralysis, dysrhythmia, or cardiac failure."
FLUORIDE IS A SCAM:
Water Fluoridation: Folly or Fraud?
By David McRae, B.Sc. (Hons)
Every day of the week, most Americans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Irish are exposed to an influence that can be a cause of serious health problems: the addition of chemical fluoride to our drinking water.
What do you know about the history, politics, and toxicology of this claimed "dental benefit"?
The USA started fluoridation in the 1940s, followed by a handful of other countries in the 50s and 60s. Only about eight countries keep up the practice. The continental European countries that tried it in the past have all discontinued. And many of them have achieved lower rates of tooth decay than the highly fluoridated USA.
Holland quit fluoridation in the 1970s after a large medical team performed a double-blind test on people who reported that the fluoride was making them sick. This study showed that up to 3% of residents in the fluoridated section of Amsterdam were suffering symptoms such as stomach pains, mouth ulcers, skin irritation, migraine-like headaches, worsening of allergic complaints, and joint pains. The symptoms stopped when they switched to non-fluoride water. Along with these acute reactions, there are serious concerns about the long-term health effects of fluoride exposure.
Everything about fluoridation is bizarre, including the two very different stories about its origin. There is the official story - given by some health departments and dental associations. And there is the story based on sources such as (1) archival records of the industrial interests that played a big part in funding the fluoridation project, and (2) dissident (see Word to the Wise, below) authorities and scientists who have taken a critical look at the science.
According to the fluoride-promoting agencies, in the 1930s researchers observed lower rates of tooth decay in regions where people showed "Colorado Brown Stain" on their teeth. When this defect was identified to be fluoride poisoning from the water, it was claimed that a certain level of fluoride was actually good. It could protect teeth without causing too much of the staining and brittleness known as dental fluorosis. Officialdom has ignored that these early studies were very poor quality and non-scientific. They also ignored that the dose to consumers would be uncontrolled and vary dramatically with how much water people drank.
But there is a darker history of fluoridation that has been spoken about by industry insiders and some dentists for decades. In 2004, award-winning journalist Christopher Bryson shined a light on the history of fluoridation in his meticulously researched book The Fluoride Deception. Bryson's book studies the correspondence and meeting reports from industry and laboratory archives and shows a chilling collaboration between polluting industries and certain maverick scientists.
Aluminium smelting and many other wartime and post-war boom industries used massive amounts of fluoride in their processes. In the unregulated 1940s, fluoride waste products were polluting the atmosphere and building up in huge waste piles. The fledgling environmental watchdogs of the day were crying out about serious fluoride damage to workers and surrounding crops and animals. A number of lawsuits were launched against companies, including Alcoa and Reynolds Metals.
The archival material shows great concern among the industrialists and their attorneys and scientists. Rather than cease production or find fluoride-free technologies, a systematic project was commenced to whitewash the emerging evidence of fluoride's health hazards. Fluoride was too important to industry to bow to health and environmental pressures.
The theory that fluoride might be a dental-health treatment, in water supplies or toothpaste, was a trump card for this conglomerate. Industry contributed enormous funds to dental researchers to show fluoride to be a "wonder dental drug." Researchers showing findings detrimental to fluoride's new image mysteriously lost their funding. When toothpaste manufacturers jumped on the fluoride wagon, a virtually unlimited advertising budget was unleashed to complete the transformation of fluoride from pollutant to panacea.
In the 1950s and 60s, sodium fluoride from the aluminium industry was added to the water supplies. In a sinister twist of logic, Alcoa advertised their fluoride in water industry journals for it to be added to water supplies … while simultaneously advertising in chemical journals for its use as a rat poison.
The chemicals most widely used in fluoridation now are two waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry, hydrofluorosilicic acid and sodium silicofluoride. These chemicals have never undergone safety studies, nor have they ever had FDA approval. However, numerous studies have shown them to cause harm.
Furthermore, a dozen studies have shown higher rates of bone fracture in fluoridated areas. Many regions of Asia have both high and moderate levels of calcium fluoride present in water supplies. Though calcium fluoride is considered less harmful than the industrial fluorides we use, they still result in dreadful epidemics of skeletal fluorosis and nervous system illness. India spends a lot of money on defluoridation, and where it can't be afforded people develop crippling bone deformities. Chinese scientists have shown nervous system defects including significantly lowered average IQs, even with moderate fluoride levels in water.
The latest alarming finding is Harvard researcher Elise Bassin's Ph.D. study showing greatly increased bone cancer rates among boys in the USA consuming fluoridated water during their years of growth. Bassin's supervisor, Professor Chester Douglass, is now under investigation by Harvard for suppressing and stopping publication of her work. He has also denied her findings at conferences. However, Douglass has a considerable conflict of interests. He also works for the toothpaste manufacturer Colgate, which reaps huge profits from the public's believing that fluoride is a "healthy" chemical.
The science-based website www.fluorideaction.net links to a large compilation of peer-reviewed medical literature. These studies show links between fluoride exposure and kidney disease; pineal, thyroid, and reproductive gland problems; arthritis; and bone, tooth, and nervous system disorders.
Reviews of the science also show that water fluoridation may not even prevent tooth decay. There are more studies showing zero or negligible reductions in tooth decay than those showing real benefits. And most researchers agree that any benefits from fluoride are from surface application to the teeth, NOT from ingesting it into the system. Thus drinking fluoride in water is as dumb as eating sunscreen to prevent sunburn or swallowing condoms for safe sex!
The current science on fluoridation suggests that we are exposing children and adults to a great health risk … for an imagined or real benefit to less than 1 child in 10. Fluoridation is looking like one of the great medical follies of the 20th century. If even half of Bryson's book is correct, it is more than a folly … it is fraud.
Enforced medication without consumer consent, even if there were no side effects, is highly unethical. Fluoridation is compulsory mass-medication, at uncontrolled dosage, with toxic, industrial waste.
In August of this year, 11 Environmental Protection Agency unions, representing over 7,000 environmental and public health professionals, called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation and asked the EPA to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer. If you would like to read the text of this petition, or to sign it yourself, visit www.fluorideaction.net and click Take Action.
[ Ed. Note: From 1985 to 1996, David McRae worked with and coordinated holistic cancer support and education programs in Australia, including a government-funded project with the North East doctors association in Melbourne. He now works as a health promotion officer in community health in Geelong, Australia.
A few studies of the many which show that fluoride
does not prevent decay are listed below :
A study has been done of the dental records of 39 207 schoolchildren aged 5 - 17 in 84 areas of the USA. These areas were divided according to not fluoridated, partially fluoridated ( less than 17 years or some of the time ) and fluoridated. No statistical difference was found in decay rates of permanent teeth or percentages of decay free children between the areas. The only group of children which showed a difference were 5 year olds who had less decay in decidous teeth in fluoridated areas. However, by age 6 this advantage disappears leading to the conclusion that fluoridation causes a delay in tooth eruption.2
R Ziegelbecker has made two studies by taking a random sample of all available data on caries (decay ) prevalence. He selected 48 000 12-14 year children from 136 communities in seven countries. No correlation was found between caries or dental health and fluoride concentration.3
Further studies have shown that not only does fluoride not improve dental health but it may cause decay.
ALTERNATIVES:
This is what I use: www.health-store.co.uk/acatal...es.html
~ but there are alternatives in every health shop around the world...
here's a yahoo group on the detriments of fluoride:
health.groups.yahoo.com/group/...soning/
:) 3-Radical
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Sat, June 10, 2006 - 3:25 PMI just wanted to say that I have heard this before, and I consider it valuable information. I signed the petition today. We've been filtering the flouride out of our water at home now for about three months. We also don't buy bottled water that contains flouride. I'm looking for a natural substitute for toothpaste though, that isnt' icky tasting...any ideas? Perhaps just mint. I know that the brushing is really what counts anyway, not what's on the brush! -
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 6:22 AMToms of Main!!!! I have been using it since I was a little girl. I have NEVER had a cavity. I didn't like the kids flavors as a kid, so my mom would just get the spearmint flavor. They have many different kinds now, gels, pastes, whitening, it goes on.
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 11:44 AMThank you so much for posting this, the more we know, the healthier we are, the happier we are!
Cheers!!!
Deloris
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 6:49 PMWow!!!! Thanks for the info. I had no idea. I have been doing a little research and the effects of flouride are down right scary. We are in the process of finding alternatives. -
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Mon, June 12, 2006 - 7:56 PMMy exhusband's new inlaws are dentists...and they send flouride rinses and toothpaste home with my kids all the time. I have to be sneaky and "make them dissapear". It's very frustrating. I already have enough to argue about with him, so I'll pick my batttes on this one and just do the right thing at home. -
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Fri, June 16, 2006 - 9:09 AMI had no idea. tHANKS FOR sharing this fascinating information. -
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Fri, June 30, 2006 - 7:02 PMGreat! Yet another thing to worry about. I am supposed to give our daughter .5 ml of fluoride every day because we use bottled water.
Wow...I'd like to stop using it, but what about teeth coming out yellow with cavities? That is what the doctor told me would happen if she was not getting enough fluroide. -
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Sat, July 8, 2006 - 1:48 PMdiscoloration is from "hard" water, in fact ppl where I was born all went on bottled water to get away from the staining caused by water w/a high mineral content. I didn't give any flouride drps and my dids' teeth are all fine w/the exception of my daughter who ate toothpaste no matter where I hid it. Her teeth are crumbling.
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Wed, January 28, 2009 - 11:51 PMIf that's what my doctor told me I would find a new doctor. I have walked out of numerous dentists offices after having the dentist tell me mercury in my mouth was "ok" too.
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Fri, August 7, 2009 - 4:34 PMI use extra-flouridated toothpaste because ever since moving to a city where the water is not flouridated I've been getting cavities a lot. I never experienced side efffects when flouride was in my water and I've only found that I'll get a sore throat in the morning if I use the paste at night. I don't think that they teach about flouride to dentists just for the benefit of pharmaceutical companies. Just my 2 cents. -
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Sat, August 8, 2009 - 12:29 PMMy dentist was the one who told me not to use fluoride.
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Sat, July 1, 2006 - 12:28 AMYEAH! Spread the word! Here are some more websites:
www.nofluoride.com/ -my personal favorite!
www.fluoridealert.org/
I have been drinking mostly non-fluoridated water and using non-fluoridated toothpaste for a few years now and my teeth are so much whiter! I had fluoride damage on my 2 front teeth and the brown is a very light yellow now- almost unnoticable! -
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Mon, February 9, 2009 - 10:24 AMpractice good dental hygeine. flouride really isnt nassasary. i am lucky enough to live in sonoma county where our water isnt flouridated. my ped gave me flouride drops they remain uniopened i dont know how to talk to him we already dissagree on so much. -
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Mon, February 9, 2009 - 1:16 PMYeah, we don't have fluoridated water either. I also have an unopened box of fluoride. I did give it to my other two but SO rarely. Like probably not even enough to make a difference.
They both have fine teeth.
I'm more worried about over fluoridating and damaging teeth.
Plus fluoride is naturally found in some water sources. There is fluoride in our water naturally.
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Re: Just say NO to fluoride toothpaste and flouridated water
Fri, March 27, 2009 - 9:18 PMTo understand it all, I highly recommend this documentary: "the fluoride deception"!!!
www.youtube.com/watch
Since Edward Bernays is a big player in this deception, do some research on some other topics such as "eggs and bacon", he's the one who invented that concept of the american breakfast, just so he could have his client sell more of their eggs or something -
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Sat, March 28, 2009 - 9:50 PMWhat an interesting character!
The very father of unscrupulous public relations, it would seem!
from WIki:
Some of the campaigns Bernays worked on:
* In the 1920s, working for the American Tobacco Company, he sent a group of young models to march in the New York City parade. He then told the press that a group of women's rights marchers would light "Torches of Freedom". On his signal, the models lit Lucky Strike cigarettes in front of the eager photographers. The New York Times (1 April 1929) printed: "Group of Girls Puff at Cigarettes as a Gesture of 'Freedom'". This helped to break the taboo against women smoking in public.
* Bernays used his uncle Sigmund Freud's ideas to help convince the public, among other things, that bacon and eggs was the true all-American breakfast.
* In October 1929, Bernays was involved in promoting "Light's Golden Jubilee." The event, which spanned across several major cities in the U.S., was designed to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison's invention of the light-bulb (note: the light-bulb was in fact invented by Joseph Swan). The publicity elements of the Jubilee – including the special issuance of a U.S. postage stamp and Edison's "re-creating" the invention of the light bulb for a nationwide radio audience – provided evidence of Bernays' love for big ideas and "ballyhoo."
* Bernays helped the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) and other special interest groups to convince the American public that water fluoridation was safe and beneficial to human health. This was achieved by using the American Dental Association in a highly successful media campaign.
* In the 1930s, his Dixie Cup campaign was designed to convince consumers that only disposable cups were sanitary.
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