{"id":52124,"date":"2024-11-26T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=52124"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:11:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T23:11:01","slug":"fluoride-or-no-fluoride-in-the-city-of-lakeland-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/11\/26\/fluoride-or-no-fluoride-in-the-city-of-lakeland-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluoride or No Fluoride in the City of Lakeland water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo urged cities and counties statewide to quit adding fluoride to drinking water, a majority of Lakeland\u2019s city commissioners said they would need to learn more before they could vote on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-dominant-color=\"798a8e\" data-has-transparency=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"772\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fluorideProsConsinfographic-1024x772-1.webp?resize=1024%2C772&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52125 has-transparency\" style=\"--dominant-color: #798a8e; width:699px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fluorideProsConsinfographic-1024x772-1.webp?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fluorideProsConsinfographic-1024x772-1.webp?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fluorideProsConsinfographic-1024x772-1.webp?resize=768%2C579&amp;ssl=1 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Cook Lakeland spokesman said the city began adding fluoride to the drinking water in 1981, with the City Commission approving the measure in a roll-call vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe practice of the addition of fluoride to public drinking has been questioned over the years, but the benefit of prevention of dental caries has been the main reason to continue the practice of fluoride addition,\u201d Cook said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lakeland currently adds fluoride at a level of 0.7 milligrams per liter, which is the amount&nbsp;recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most Lakeland city commissioners said they would need more information before deciding on any formal requests to remove fluoride from the city\u2019s drinking water. Their comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chad McLeod:\u00a0\u201cUntil now, it really hasn\u2019t come up as an issue during my time on the commission. I need to look into it and study it more.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mike Musick: \u201cLet me be honest, I have never really looked into it. Let me do some research.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bill Mutz, mayor: \u201cI am open to considering same with greater understanding.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Madden, whose son was born without enamel on his teeth and \u201chas suffered\u201d because of it\u201d. \u201cI would love to hear pros and cons from our water department,\u201d she said.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sara Roberts McCarley:\u00a0\u201cI am open to having a discussion on our water.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guy LaLonde Jr., who said he is leaning toward removing fluoride: \u201cI believe it\u2019s time we revisit this policy. Families deserve access to clean, pure water without unnecessary additives. As a father, husband, and community leader, I feel a responsibility to question practices that may no longer serve us as they once did \u2013 or perhaps never did at all. I would like to hear more information before any decision would be made, of course.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bill Read:\u00a0\u201cI have met with our water department several times addressing trying to stop it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Communities in the United States began fluoridating water in the 1940s to prevent cavities, also called caries, in children and adults.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo urged cities and counties statewide to quit adding fluoride to drinking water, a majority of Lakeland\u2019s city commissioners said they would need to learn more&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTFcL2ZsdW9yaWRlUHJvc0NvbnNpbmZvZ3JhcGhpYy0xMDI0eDc3Mi0xLndlYnA_Zml0PTEwMjQlMkM3NzImc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJGbHVvcmlkZSBvciBObyBGbHVvcmlkZSBpbiB0aGUgQ2l0eSBvZiBMYWtlbGFuZCB3YXRlciIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.B0T0GeKWyDaapHbTxscN438h_rGbcjb2X5FsI3dQ6xMMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":52125,"url":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/fluorideProsConsinfographic-1024x772-1.webp","type":"image\/webp"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10397],"class_list":["post-52124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-fluoride-or-no-fluoride-in-the-city-of-lakeland-water"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52126,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52124\/revisions\/52126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}