So, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s tomato investigators are back to square one, it seems. Nearly 900 people have become ill, and the investigators are even suggesting the cause may not be tomatoes at all.
How about if the agency simply admitted, “We don’t know. We’re stumped. Maybe we just need to start over and look at the entire food supply with a fresh mind.”
Instead, as Henwhisperer points out following my previous post, there are complaints about how tough it is to trace products back to the farm, and there are frequent allusions to the need for bar codes for fruits and veggies—a real great way to help smaller farms remain competitive.
The danger of going back to square one and using it as an opportunity to change your perspective, of course, is that you may find you were going in the completely wrong direction to begin with. That seems to be what’s happening, very quietly, on the dental front, with the explosive issue of conventional dental fillings, or dental amalgams.
The FDA has had some study groups re-visiting the question of whether the mercury contained in amalgams that nearly all of us have in our mouths may be dangerous.
For years and years, patients who raised that possibility have been ridiculed. I know I have. I raised it with my long-time dentist several times in recent years, and each time he snickered as he told me, “There’s absolutely no scientific evidence that they are a problem.” The third or fourth time was the last time, as I moved my business to a dentist who refuses to use amalgams—not an easy person to find in the Boston area three years ago.
Just a few weeks ago, very quietly, the FDA posted on its web site a “Questions and Answers on Dental Amalgam,” and, lo and behold, the language has changed considerably from the line most dentists, dental associations, and the government long offered.
Indeed, Houston, we may have a problem. It states, “Dental amalgams contain mercury, which may have neurotoxic effects on the nervous systems of developing children and fetuses. When amalgam fillings are placed in teeth or removed from teeth, they release mercury vapor. Mercury vapor is also released during chewing. FDA’s rulemaking…will examine evidence concerning whether release of mercury vapor can cause health problems, including neurological disorders, in children and fetuses.”
If you click on a link from a 2006 meeting of dental experts, you see that the panel wanted to “Consider informed consent for patients receiving amalgam” and “Consider labeling changes restricting its use in pregnant women and children.”
Bottom line, the FDA is now saying many of us are walking around with poison in our mouths.
Who knows what might happen if they allow honest re-examination of the problem of food-borne illness. (Thanks to Pete Gasper for forwarding me information on dental amalgams.)
Maybe I just hire Bill Marler…and own you. He brags about owning folks that make mistakes…
Bob Hayles
"Starting Monday, health inspectors will halt the shipment of ingredients common to Mexican cuisine from Mexico to the United States,"
This was printed yesterday (July 4th), Can someone explain why they would wait until Monday? The poor performance from these govt entities just continues.
David, a few months ago I bought a crown and my dentist "assured" me that the metals in it were safe, as he also had the same in his mouth. I’m seeking a new dentist. I paid good money for him to place a toxic appliance in my mouth. There is something wrong with this picture!
I have a friend who is having Chelation therapy and so far it has decreased her hypertension. Her initial labs showed high levels of heavy metals. She has MS and there has been no noted change for those symptoms as of yet. I am curious to see what the labs show now.
Someone had told me (maybe it was on the news)there was over 90 chemicals in our drinking water here in Sacramento. Those chemicals are needed so that the waste water is "clean" for us to consume. Yummy!
Where do you find the untainted water and foods? Uncontaminated land? (I really want to know, I’ll be in the market to buy in the next 4 yrs).
Bob, do you think the "fault" would lie with the schools? They are who teaches the student MDs and DDS. I assume the schools get their information from research and studies, so maybe it would be with that? … (I know research & studies opens a Pandora’s box).In general, I don’t see how fault could laid with past knowledge. I am with David, if they don’t at least view things with an open mind, change providers. I can see the sparks flying if you were to engage Mr. Marler in a business deal.
My husband and I had all of our amalgams removed 2 years ago. Insurance does not cover it unless the dentist can prove it needed to be replaced due to damage. We paid for most of our replacements. Its an expensive venture, but well worth the money spent.
You need to find a biological dentist. Prior to removing the mercury amalgams, Clifford testing is done. Its a blood test that costs around $300.00. Its allergy testing for all the possible substances that could be used in your mouth. Only compatible substances will be used to refill the cavity.
A biological dentist will also use gas masks when the removal is done. Thats how dangerous the vapors are.
Anyone interested in reading on the topic, heres a couple of good books:
Whole Body Dentistry by Mark A Breiner
Uninformed Consent by Hal a. Huggins and Thomas E. Levy
Ya think Marler and I would clash just a bit?…LOL
He and I have a mutual friend who assures me that we would get along famously…provided I could get over my hatred of lawyers and he could get past his disdain for stupid little farmers like me.
I’m up for it if he is. I’m all for education, and he and I both probably have a lot to learn. I know that…I wonder if he does?
Bob Hayles
Don, you are so right, they can put poison in our bodies against our knowledge/wishes, yet the dairy farmer/small farmer are nailed to the barn wall.
http://www.dentalwellness4u.com/freeservices/amalremov.html
There is a lot to disseminate.
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/serum.html
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mercury.html
I know quackwatch is questionable. Do you think they’ll recind (sp) their words?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-to.hs.fillings03jul03,0,1066051.story
I do remember when I got most of my fillings – many, many long visits in the dentist chair, slow belt-driven drills – I was about age 12, the same time my eyesight declined precipitously. The growth spurt of puberty demanded more nutrients than my diet provided (the late 50’s were recession years in Massachusetts where we lived, my Dad was a carpenter out of work, and we ate lots of beans ‘n franks). In the calculus of growth, my skeleton won out, and my teeth and eyes were the losers.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_raids06.456948c.html
Here’s a news report about illegal raw dairy "fiestas" in Southern California where they sell "bathtub cheese" and an alcoholic drink made from raw milk.
CVM, key words from the link you posted. I wonder how many will catch that?
Thanks for the insight everyone on the removal of fillings. Finding a dentist who has the same views as I may be a bit of a challenge. I think about the recent crown I got, the tooth had cracked and had an old filling-from the 60s- he drilled and removed the old filling and prepared the tooth for the crown, he stuck the crown on and the inside is silver colored metal. This was when it dawned on me to ask about the safety and he "assured" me that it was safe. I do think that that dentist truely believes what he said. Nothing special was done to protect me from any vapors or swallowing any contaminated drainage.
Don, I think that the dentists were taught that the mercury fillings were safe and so that is their belief. Change in beliefs is hard for many.
I didn’t know there was mercury in my fillings until a few years ago. The term "amalgam" was used and I thought it was a safe metal; why would anyone want to use an unsafe metal? Or so that is how I think.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-facts.htm
Could flouride be one of the reasons many in the US are on Synthroid for low thyroid function?
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/index.asp
Many water utilities are using Chloramine instad of Chlorine for water treatment. You cannot use tap water that has been treated with chloramine for your goldfish tank, it’ll kill them. In a nut shell, it prevents the red blood cell from uptaking O2. Dialysis has to have a special filters otherwise the patient has complications (no or decreased O2 uptake in redblood cells). If it is known that fish can’t swim in it and it affects medical procedures; why would anyone think it is OK for the masses?
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/disinfection/chloramine/
http://www.vce.org/chloraminearticles.html
Boo! So many things to fear out there 🙂
C2
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/health/07cholesterol.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/health/nutrition/31ibeg.html?fta=y
http://www.thincs.org/
I’ve had elderly tell me that eating a bowl of old fashioned oatmeal (long cooking type) a day for 2-3 months worked at lowering their cholesterol numbers. I would assume that other high fiber foods would assist also. I also have a friend whose husband had a perfect stress test, "normal" labs and he passed away at the age of 43 from a heart attack caused by occluded coronary arteries.
Don, I read a little last night about flouride and the use with inmates. Both the Russians and Hitler used it for the reasons you stated and our govt is and was aware at the time. I also didn’t know that they put flouride into so many products. Slow poisoning of the masses with so many chemicals.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/health/08well.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1215515939-MFVpiqAl3Q5cvqHt65RZiA
Why does my tax money pay for this? Isn’t this a risk of doing business? Perhaps if these factory dairies changed their management practices the cattle would have less chance of contracting disease. It’s been known for many years, poor sanitation, cramped living, poor and/or compromised immune systems lead or make more suseptable to disease. That is not rocket science.
Treatment with medications in the absence of any clear data? I hope theyre ready for the public backlash.
The above quote from Rob’s link, This happens often, the recent HPV vaccine is an example. Henwhiserer is right, it is the diet, environment and lifestyle of todays children and adults as the cause/contributing factors of the majority of illness/diseases today. I don’t understand why more people don’t speak out.
My Insurance company will, however, cover the cost for the amalgams without question. I have about 14 amalgams in my mouth (sorry, I grew up with parents who didn’t care about my health care) and can’t afford to have them all drilled out, even if I found a dentist to drill them out!
I get the same ‘rolled eyes’ reaction from my dentist, even though he only does the resin fillings, whenever I mention having them removed and question the amalgam’s safety.