Do they fluoridate bottled water? And other questions for ILX nerd fuxors

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For various reasons I probably don't need to go into here, I choose not to use fluoride. This has never been a problem, as Toms of Maine makes toothpatse without fluoride that's relatively easy to find, I use peroxide as mouthwash, and I never drink tap water. My question, to anyone who might know, is do they fluoridate bottled water like they do tap water? I know water has a natural fluoride in it, I'm not talking about that .0001 percent, but the actual process of adding fluoride. Is this done?

also - does boiling get rid of the fluoride in tap water?

― Quaker Oat Bran (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

peroxide SOUNDS worse than fluoride. must be the 'ox'.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

and the association of hair dye?

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Peroxide is a miracle drug. But that's for another thread.

Fluoride is a corrosive poison.

― Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Only if it's marked on the label as such (in the US). Any water that's the result of full RO polishing or distillation won't have any.

Fluoride is a mineral, boiling doesn't dissipate it. Catch the steam though and condense it and the result will be pure H2O. Fluoride's fairly reactive, so you might be able to bind it out with something else as a precipitate.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sodium is an explosive metal; chlorine is a poison gas. Table salt kills!

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Tinfoil hats all round.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

FDA recently decided to allow bottled water containing between 0.6 and 1.0 mg/L total fluoride to bear the claim “Drinking fluoridated water may reduce the risk of [dental caries or tooth decay].”

― LO-NRG (teenagequiet), Monday, 29 January 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.shawneemasoniclodge54.com/Steps%20of%20Freemasonry.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

CAn you spot the 12ft lizzard in the doorway to the temple of solomon?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://portland.indymedia.org/icon/2006/05/339147.jpg

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Monday, 29 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Article on different ways of removing fluoride from water and limiting fluoride exposure. Avoid tea and chewing tobacco.

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

you must have horrible breaf

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

(nb: I have no problem with fluoride, utilizing it with impunity and crediting it for my strong Indiana farmgirl teeth. However, I am obviously an ILX nerd fuxor and am compelled to answer questions of this ilk.)

― Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

scottish rite
york rite
luny amirite

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Danon water has flouride

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Insidious French

― Ed (dali), Monday, 29 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Evian is Naive spelled backwards

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)

Deja Blue is a somewhat humorous pun.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone remember the report from a year or so ago about how inhaling water droplets while showering could eventually cause brain damage because of the trace amounts of metals in the water? I can't find it now.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I found it

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:19 (eighteen years ago)

oops: http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/0001197/53/

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:20 (eighteen years ago)

Evian is Naive spelled backwards

If you ignore the umlaut on the I in Naïve, perhaps.

― Andrew (enneff), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

Bottled water is a decadent extravagance of the highest order.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

I think the highes order should really be reserved for things like bathing in asses' milk or smoking £50 notes.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

no, bottled water is a BIGASS CON (er in western world where tap water is perfectly safe) and all these LAMEASS FUX0RS fall for it

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have to buy bottled water because WH Smiths won't give me a glass of tap water when I ask for one.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

take a bottle from home?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

If you ignore the umlaut on the I in Naïve, perhaps.

heh. if you're going to be a pedant, get it right. that's not an umlaut. it's a diaeresis.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

"Air can hurt you too"

― S- (sgh), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

Man, that P&T Bullshit episode on bottled water was one of the funniest mountains roaring to produce a widdle mouse. Oh how serious they are. Tap water's fine even if my hero Dr. Bronner thinks flouridated water is evil. I think it's part of why none of my teeth have turned to coal.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

So get a kitchen filter and de-ioniser and don't take part in the wasteful bottled water con.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 8 February 2007 07:45 (eighteen years ago)

it's a diaeresis.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Is this an UK/Australian thing? Because in French there's no dots, and the only US publication that puts dots on words like that is the New Yorker, as far as I know. (They go far it, hardcore, i.e. "preëminent")

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Thursday, 8 February 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

that's not an umlaut though, it is the other thing that two dots over a letter is (as it is in french).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

that's not an umlaut. it's a diaeresis.

ha, I have given up explaining that one to people who ask where to put the dots in my name.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

wait waht

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I know where because my sister has the same name and I apologise for restating what you said.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Evian is Naive spelled backwards

and if you listen closely, it tells you to suck it dry

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I just wanted to say that this picture is a thing of beauty:

http://www.shawneemasoniclodge54.com/Steps%20of%20Freemasonry.jpg

― Probability Smear Of Possible Quantum Katehood (kate), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, that's big. I should have known. D'oh!

― Probability Smear Of Possible Quantum Katehood (kate), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

My mom was a Rainbow girl and my grandpa was a mason

― Charmmy Kitty's Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (ex machina), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

kate, now noone willl notice my witty (heh!) comment. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Nath! I got distracted by all the pretty freemasons. Coz I work across from the Freemasons Hall and they don't wear those great outfits while they walk down the street.

― Probability Smear Of Possible Quantum Katehood (kate), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

the water in bottled water is a con but the bottle is useful, for carrying water around in.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Buy a bottle then.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

i had a 'permanent' bottle, an army-type thing, when i was in the scouts. you can't clean inside them and they get a bit ech. buying a bottle of 'mineral' water is kind of the price of doing business, plus it comes cold.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Buy a wide necked bike bottle or a nalgene bottle, they are easy to clean inside.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

and/or a washing up brush/sponge with a long handle and the brush/sponge on the end. easy.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:02 (eighteen years ago)

ok. i might just go on buying bottled water though. it's nice and cold.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Tap water is right now as well

If you want to get advanced, get a brita jug and keep it in your fridge, but then you loose the taste of London.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

I carried an empty water bottle and some packets of Crystal Light during my last trip through the airports. Bring the empty bottle into the secure area and then enjoy a nice drink of lemonade while waiting for the flight. Rinse and repeat...

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 9 February 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

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