Mercury's in Retrograde - Toxic To Teeth, Toxic To The Environment, Toxic To All

Surgeon General Warning: Reading this press release may be beneficial to your health

It’s not for naught that there’s a proposed resolution in a plank in the forthcoming United Nations treaty on mercury, a date certain to determine the end of dental mercury amalgam. European nation have largely banned malicious mercury. But in the United States, our very survival depends upon the Obama Administration leading the world in adopting this plank. Marketed deceptively as “silver fillings,” amalgam is an environmental pollutant for us all, and a serious workplace hazard for young female dental workers. Two-tiered dentistry in America, where the haves get alternatives and the have-nots get the shaft along with totally toxic mercury fillings must be eliminated.

Explanation

Mercury is a virulent neurotoxin and a reproductive toxin. It is already so omnipresent in our environment that US EPA says one in 7 woman of childbearing age is at risk of having a brain-damaged child. Dental mercury (amalgam) is a primitive, pre-Civil War polluting product – composed mainly (43 to 54%) of mercury.

Major environmental pollutant: Amalgam is the #2 source of annual mercury sales in the US, the largest source of mercury in the wastewater, and the largest source of mercury from household waste. More mercury is in Americans’ teeth than in all products combined. With cremation use increasing, amalgam is a major source of air pollution.

Workplace hazard for young female dental workers. Proposition 65 mandates signs in dental offices that, as a matter of law, must read: “Dental Amalgam, used in many dental fillings, causes exposure to mercury, a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm.”

Social injustice: The wealthy have escaped to alternatives; America now has, as an NAACP witness testifying before Congress noted, “two-tiered dentistry … choice for the rich and mercury for the poor.” Drill, fill, and bill mercury dentistry is still practiced on our soldiers and sailors, our prisoners, our working poor, and by the Indian Health Service,; masses all willing to be free of mercury once the facts are out

Market deception: Over three-fourths of consumers, says a Zogby poll, would choose a non-mercury fillings – if they knew. The marketing term “silver fillings” misleads them.

A risk for children: The Dental Board of California provides a fact sheet for every patient that reads, in part, that mercury from dental amalgam “may harm the developing brain of a child or fetus.”

Taxpayer rip-off: When externalized costs – environmental clean-up, health care bills – are included, amalgam is the highest priced filling material (not the lowest). Amalgam manufacturers hand the bill to California taxpayers, who are hardly in a position to pay.

Never used in modern dentistry: Modern dentists have transitioned completely out of this historical anachronism. It’s time for the other half to do the same.

Mercury treaty negotiations: Under UN auspices, the nations are determining what to include in a treaty devoted solely to mercury. To his credit, President Obama reversed Bush and directed the U. S. to participate. As a Senator, Mr. Obama had a great record against mercury, and America could now lead the way toward a comprehensive treaty phasing out all man-made mercury. But the U.S. must fight amalgam manufacturers who seek to make amalgam standard in developing countries as it used to be in the U.S.

President Obama’s splendid record on mercury -

As a Senator

Senator Obama

· He authored the law that bans the export of elemental mercury

o Think about that. The most capitalist society in history, which exports all manner of weapons, toxins, cigarettes, whatever --- writes a law saying companies may not export mercury.

o It’s part of the world strategy: make each country dispose of its own mercury rather than paying off a third world country to dump it in; it makes us address our mercury problem.

· He convinced the Dept of Energy to bury, not sell, excess mercury. Part of the strategy to zero out mercury on this planet is to reduce its availability, raising its price

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As a President

President Obama

· Put in motion this mercury treaty. Talks had ground to zero, because Bush was against the treaty, as was China, so without them, why move forward? The month after Pres Obama took office, at a UN Environmental Programme session in Nairobi, the new Obama Administration made clear it wanted a treaty. So a calendar was formed: five sessions over three years, 2010-13,to end with a treaty.

· I was told about the centrality of the Obama role by both a UN official and a British diplomat.

Charles G. Brown, National Counsel
Consumers for Dental Choice
316 F St., N.E., Suite 210, Washington, DC 20002
Ph. 202.544-6333; fax 202.544-6331
charlie@toxicteeth.org,
www.toxicteeth.org
Working for Mercury-Free Dentistry

Larry King Interviews Dr Andrew Weil Regarding Health Care Reform

These are the best and most valuable 18 minutes I've listened to regarding health care reform:

http://www.drweilblog.com/home/2009/9/11/discussion-with-larry-king-sep-10-2009.html

Mr President, are you listening?

Why Obama's Heath Care Reform Will Destroy US Jobs and Devastate the Economy

If you want to know why U.S. businesses increasingly outsource jobs to other countries, just add up the cost of doing business in America: As an employer, you have to pay not only higher wages than most other countries, but you also have to pay for the lost productivity and missed days due to the astonishingly poor health of the U.S. workforce.

Now, under the new Obama health care reform bill, you'll have to pay an additional eight percent of your payroll as a new tax to cover the costs of Big Government running its new sick-care system where nobody gets healthy, but everybody gets hammered with new taxes.

For details on how we can cut our health care costs by 90 percent (!), go to:

http://www.naturalnews.com/026643_health_health_care_America.html

LNH

Drs Weil, Oz, Ornish and Hyman Testify Before the Senate

Dr Andy Weil and ocnaturaldoc 

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Natural Products Expo West

Anaheim, California

March 2009

President Obama has recently suggested expanding the pathway to a healthier nation to include alternative and integrative medicine. Money has already been appropriated for this effort. How will it be spent?

Here's an inside track to what's new in government and how our culture is changing from one of 'Sick Care' and 'Disease Management' to one of 'Health Care'.  You can watch the compelling testimony of the distinguished panel of practicing, front-line leaders - Dr Mehmet Oz, Dr Andrew Weil, Dr Mark Hyman and Dr Dean Ornish at the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing to examine integrative health care focusing on a pathway to a healthier nation.  

Their testimonials reveal how the current health care system has not served us well and why it needs to be revised.  You may even raise an eyebrow more than once.  OK, you may be shocked...especially when the prestigious Mayo Clinic has been called out for ineffective treatment practices.

So grab an apple, some tea and get comfy -- the video is on the long side, but this hearing is worth your time investment.  There are some scenarios discussed where you may think they're talking about you! So check out:

http://help.senate.gov/Hearings/2009_02_26/2009_02_26.html

You may want to grab a pen and pad for note taking, because NOW is the time to make your voice heard by writing congress and senate representatives. Our Health Care program is currently under revision. The written letter is very powerful, and when you have others sign it, that letter becomes a petition.  So send it off to Washington, DC and let your voice be heard.  Don't let someone else make the decisions for you and later complain about it! (Haven't we all had enough of that?) Let them know what YOU think makes sense to maintain your choice for health freedom.

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