It would appear that the article in our February eZine edition of The Health Gazette by Dr Jenny Tylee titled Fluoride: A Toxin to Avoid was more timely than we realized. Two significant 'health' stories in the Australian media since then have related to fluoride. Both have extolled the virtues of this toxic waste in reducing dental decay and both are equally false and misleading.

The first news item was little more than a well orchestrated marketing element in the first stages of a campaign to promote the fluroridation of bottled water. Such an idea is preposterous but so is the practice of adding fluoride to public water supplies, so this certainly doesn't guarantee that it won't happen. Indeed, I suspect that it will and people will then have to carefully read labels to ensure they are not buying a chemical concoction rather than pure water.

The Organic Concumers Association is participating in a campaign to educate consumers and put pressure on manufacturers of synthetic supplements. They aim to challenge the natural products industry to stop lacing nutritional supplements with innefective and hazardous synthetic chemicals and to instead use genuinely organic, naturally occuring ingredients.

To coincide with the Natural Products Expo West convention, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has launched a new public health and truth-in-labeling campaign called Nutri-Con: The Truth About Vitamins & Supplements. Through public education, marketplace pressure, and litigation, OCA's Nutri-Con campaign will expose the hazards and limited effectiveness of synthetic vitamins and supplements, and strive to create mass consumer awareness and marketplace demand for truly organic, "naturally occurring" vitamins, botanicals, and supplements.

The March 2007 Health Gazette Ezine edition will be published on schedule, March 1st. This month Drs Peter and Jenny Tylee provide a main article titled "Effectively Dealing with Osteoporosis." This ultimately quite devestating disease is both preventable and successfully treatable, yet every year many thousands of people are diagnosed with osteoporosis and hundreds of thousands continue to suffer from the condition.

The main reasons for this state of affairs are poor and confused public health education and poor management generally by the medical profession. To discover the means to deal with osteoporosis read this month's edition.