OFF: EUR / USA

[J Strobridge]

Jerry writes:


> >Americans are obsessive about personal cleanliness.  I think it has
> >something to do with flouridated water.  They don't do that in
> >Europe, do they?
> No, 'they' don't, we can keep our own teeth clean by ourselves.
>

I thought they'd been putting fluoride in the water here for years.
That's why bits of your teeth sometimes turn black.   If you've
got a tooth with a weakness in the enamel or a section where the enamel
is beginning to wear thin the fluoride will react with the stuff
underneath to form a protective barrier against decay but unfortunately
will also turn your tooth a greyishblack in the process.   Tho' that
could just be happening in areas of naturally fluoridated water I guess.


> >Of course you can't drink the water there anyway,
> >so why waste time and money putting flouride in it?
> I've never tastes worse water than when I was in the US. Er... /drinkable/


I've heard say that the cleanest water you will find anywhere in the
world is in New York but that this is primarily because by the time its
been filtered, cleaned, purified, decontaminated and
de-whateverelseified there is absolutely nothing left in it at all.

On the other hand I've also heard say that London water has been through
nine people by the time you drink it.....

Yours fluoridatedly,



jill



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