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Posted by M. Rae Nadler-Olenick at 10/21/2009 4:00 PM 
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: tooth decay fluoride fluoridation dental
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: tooth decay fluoride fluoridation dental
Many people do not realize that even the reverse osmosis water they buy at the health food store has fluoride in it if the water that was being treated is fluoridated; i.e., r.o. water in Austin has fluoride in it...!!! (The molecules are too small for the filters.)
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Reverse osmosis removes between 80% and 90% of whatever fluoride was there to start with. That isn't bad. If you start out at 1 ppm and remove 80% of it, you end up with 0.2 ppm, a far more tolerable level ,until we can achieve our goal of get tingartificial water fluoridation stopped entirely.
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This is good to know about the reverse osmosis filter. I bought one at Home Depot and was assuming it would remove all fluoride. I guess 80% is better than nothing.
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I am not actually an expert on this, but on reading about reverse osmosis filters, I consistently see the effectiveness described as "80 to 90% and "as much as 90%" . I used the worst case scenario, 80%, in responding to an earlier comment because I couldn't be sure 90% was correct. It might be...anyway, 80% is definitely better than nothing! (I buy reverse osmosis-filtered water for cooking with). What surprised me is that Home Depot actually sells a reverse osmosis system.
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