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Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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It's worth thinking about the fact that virtually the entire EU gets by with non fluoridated water.

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As a European people here often make comments about American teeth being ridiculously white and unnaturally straight. You guys went a bit far on that one.

Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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It's worth thinking about the fact that virtually the entire EU gets by with non fluoridated water.

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Their precious bodily fluids[1] retain their purity, at least.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4XhhTF7vRM

Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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As a European people here often make comments about American teeth being ridiculously white and unnaturally straight. You guys went a bit far on that one.

Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natural?

Corrected vision is unnatural. Did we go a bit far on that too?

Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.

Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European people here often make comments about American teeth being ridiculously white and unnaturally straight. You guys went a bit far on that one.

Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natural? Corrected vision is unnatural. Did we go a bit far on that too? Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.

Apparently anything man-made to modify natural outcomes is unnatural.

There are extremes, like elective cosmetic surgery, fake tans, cranial implants, etc., but some things just make living as an ordinary person easier. Glasses, hearing aids, normal medicines, etc.

Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a European people here often make comments about American teeth being ridiculously white and unnaturally straight. You guys went a bit far on that one.

Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natural? Corrected vision is unnatural. Did we go a bit far on that too? Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.

Touché! Maybe its just the blinding whiteness then.

Re: Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unnaturally straight? What is natural to you? My teeth are perfectly straight and so is my entire family’s and none of us has ever had braces. Is that not natural? Corrected vision is unnatural. Did we go a bit far on that too? Europeans’ teeth would be white too if they smoked less.

Touché! Maybe its just the blinding whiteness then.

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