Weekend Blog
Saturday
Today Peter had volunteered to stay at home whilst I went to the book sale and over to my friends for an early birthday celebration (her Birthday is on Sunday). Happy Birthday to future sister in law Anne for Saturday too. The reason he remained behind is my parents had offered to come over and help him put up a greenhouse. Peter groaned when I said they would be turning up at 8.00am - but fear not they actually arrived even earlier at 7.30am - good job we know them well and were up and ready!
Whilst the greenhouse trio got stuck in I swanned off to my book sale (purchasing lots of good reads) and then over to my friends for a leisurely lunch (picking up another friend on the way), followed by watching a DVD. At about 5.00pm I thought I'd better head on back and admire the handiwork of the day. I got back and work was still in progress - it had been a very tricky thing to erect. I busied myself by making tea and disappearing to Homebase to collect some concrete. The greenhouse was completed at 8.00pm - putting fragile pieces of glass into a flimsy frame is a obviously a nightmare (apparently even my dad swore a few times and I've never heard him swear in my life!)
Peter said the next day that he felt I should have been home sooner - I considered myself told off but did remind him that he did volunteer!
Sunday
Today we went up to the local boot sale and bought more books and plants. Then it was work, work, work in the garden. My contribution today was:-
Cutting up loads of tree branches
Creating tomato plant supports from surplus branches
Concreting in the greenhouse legs
Lugging breeze blocks & washing them off ready for painting for another garden project (Peter helped me with the lugging in the end as I was 'flagging' excuse the pun!
Mid afternoon a guy in an Australian hat came to the gate. Apparently a letter I had sent to the local Echo, re. my opposition to water fluoridation in the area, had been picked up by him (he also opposes it) and he had come round to ask me to leaflet drop the area and get involved with his campaign. I declined but said I would sign his petition to the local MP. I did try to explain to him that my letter was my personal view and not a call to arms for people to come round our house and start 'a group'. I don't know - I do like to voice my opinions but sometimes it does back fire I feel......
This evening there is not much on - just Top Gear, which Peter loves, and I don't mind for the humour - just don't like the serious car bits. Might try and stay awake for the comedy film 'Kinky Boots'.
Today Peter had volunteered to stay at home whilst I went to the book sale and over to my friends for an early birthday celebration (her Birthday is on Sunday). Happy Birthday to future sister in law Anne for Saturday too. The reason he remained behind is my parents had offered to come over and help him put up a greenhouse. Peter groaned when I said they would be turning up at 8.00am - but fear not they actually arrived even earlier at 7.30am - good job we know them well and were up and ready!
Whilst the greenhouse trio got stuck in I swanned off to my book sale (purchasing lots of good reads) and then over to my friends for a leisurely lunch (picking up another friend on the way), followed by watching a DVD. At about 5.00pm I thought I'd better head on back and admire the handiwork of the day. I got back and work was still in progress - it had been a very tricky thing to erect. I busied myself by making tea and disappearing to Homebase to collect some concrete. The greenhouse was completed at 8.00pm - putting fragile pieces of glass into a flimsy frame is a obviously a nightmare (apparently even my dad swore a few times and I've never heard him swear in my life!)
Peter said the next day that he felt I should have been home sooner - I considered myself told off but did remind him that he did volunteer!
Sunday
Today we went up to the local boot sale and bought more books and plants. Then it was work, work, work in the garden. My contribution today was:-
Cutting up loads of tree branches
Creating tomato plant supports from surplus branches
Concreting in the greenhouse legs
Lugging breeze blocks & washing them off ready for painting for another garden project (Peter helped me with the lugging in the end as I was 'flagging' excuse the pun!
Mid afternoon a guy in an Australian hat came to the gate. Apparently a letter I had sent to the local Echo, re. my opposition to water fluoridation in the area, had been picked up by him (he also opposes it) and he had come round to ask me to leaflet drop the area and get involved with his campaign. I declined but said I would sign his petition to the local MP. I did try to explain to him that my letter was my personal view and not a call to arms for people to come round our house and start 'a group'. I don't know - I do like to voice my opinions but sometimes it does back fire I feel......
This evening there is not much on - just Top Gear, which Peter loves, and I don't mind for the humour - just don't like the serious car bits. Might try and stay awake for the comedy film 'Kinky Boots'.
posted by Lover of Books, Films and Good Coffee Shops Everywhere! at
7:22 PM
2 Comments:
Many thanks for the book - lovely!!! And Kinky Boots was great - really cheered me after all the grim films I've been watching!
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A
xxx
Kidney Foundation Drops Fluoridation Support
Fluoride may damage bones of kidney patients
New York – June 9, 2008 – The National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride’s bone and teeth-damaging effects.
The kidney-impaired retain more fluoride and risk skeletal fluorosis (an arthritic-type bone disease), fractures and severe enamel fluorosis, which may increase the risk of dental decay, reports the NRC.
Fluoride is added to US water supplies ostensibly to reduce tooth decay. Fluoride is also in foods, beverages, (1) drugs and dental products.
The National Kidney Foundation’s (NKF) (2) former fluoridation position statement also carried surprising cautions. The NKF advised monitoring children’s fluoride intake along with patients with chronic kidney impairment, those with excessive fluoride intake, and those with prolonged disease. But NKF now admits, “exposure from food and beverages is difficult to monitor, since FDA food labels do not quantify fluoride content.”
The NKF’s April 15, 2008 statement goes further: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be notified of the potential risk of fluoride exposure.”
“More than 20 million Americans have CKD, and most don’t even know it. More than 20 million others are at increased risk for developing CKD,” NKF reports.
“There is consistent evidence that impairment of kidney function results in changes to the way in which fluoride is metabolized and eliminated from the body, resulting in an increased burden of fluoride,” concludes Kidney Health Australia. (3) in a paper NKF
recommends reading (4)
NKF’s fluoridation support was dropped when a lawyer, (5) an academic dentist and public health professional, Daniel Stockin, (6) alerted it to NRC’s findings.
“An easy way to reduce the uncontrolled flow of fluoride into our bodies is to stop water fluoridation,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation. “But it takes political will to reject fluoridation.”
The American and Louisiana Dental Associations (7,8) erroneously claim the National Kidney Foundation supports fluoridation. However, even the ADA reports (9) that “decreased fluoride removal may occur among persons with severely impaired kidney function who may not be on kidney dialysis.”
On June 20, it was reported that the ADA was forced to finally drop the NKF as a fluoridation supporter
Chronic kidney disease is a growing health problem in the United States occurring more often in African-American populations, says the Centers for Disease Control. (10)
More fluoride/kidney information here: http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/kidney/index.html
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
References:
1) USDA Fluoride in Foods Database
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/Fluoride/fluoride.pdf
2) National Kidney Foundation, “Fluoride Intake in Chronic Kidney Disease,”
April 15, 2008
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/Fluoride_Intake_in_CKD.pdf
3) Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
“Effects of fluoridation of community water supplies for people with
chronic kidney disease,” (2007) 22: 2763–2767, Ludlow et al.
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/pdf/KHAFluoridation_CKD-NDT_2007.pdf
4) National Kidney Foundation, “Fluoride”
http://www.kidney.org/atoz/atozItem.cfm?id=205
5) September 18, 2007 letter, Reeves to National Kidney Foundation
http://www.fluoridealert.org/NKF_letter01.pdf
6) October , 2007 news release “Did Kidney Foundation Leave Millions at Risk by Failing to Warn about Fluorides and Fluoridated Drinking Water?” by Daniel Stockin, MPH, The Lillie Center
http://fluoridealert.org/press/nkf.htm
7) American Dental Association,
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/compendium.asp
8) Louisiana Dental Association, “Health Smiles Coalition”
http://www.healthysmileslouisiana.org/coalition.html
9) American Dental Association, “Fluoridation Facts”
http://www.ada.org/public/topics/fluoride/facts/fluoridation_facts.pdf
10) U.S. Centers for Disease Control, MMWR “Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease and Associated Risk Factors --- United States, 1999—2004
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5608a2.htm
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