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Vote yes; add fluoride to Juneau's water

When have you last worried about scurvy, rickets, dysentery and polio? Thanks to the usage of vitamin C, vitamin D, chlorine and vaccines, I have never heard or read anything...

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My Turn: Brush your teeth and keep fluoride out of city's water

...to serious health issues like scurvy, rickets, dysentery and polio, is ridiculous...According to the Medline Plus Web site, "Rickets is primarily caused by lack of vitamin...been forced to take vitamin D to avoid rickets, and my mother chose to vaccinate me...

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Alaska Class 4A Wrestling Rankings

...Hernandez, West 112 Pounds 1. Jimmy Eggemeyer, Kodiak 2. Alan Bartelli, Wasilla 3. Dan Simmons, Lathrop 4. Anthony Rickets, Service 5. Doug Templeton, West Valley 119 Pounds 1. Sam Miller, Wasilla 2. Dante Santos, Juneau 3. Bobby Hicks...

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Sports
Class 4A Wrestling Rankings

...Van Meter, Kodiak 112 POUNDS 1. Jimmy Eggemeyer, Kodiak 2. Alan Bartelli, Wasilla 3. Ryan Hogan, Wasilla 4. Anthony Rickets, Service 5. Buddy Howard, Juneau-DOUGLAS 119 POUNDS 1. Sam Miller, Wasilla 2. Dante Santos, Juneau-DOUGLAS 3. Bobby...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012606/spo_20060126028.shtml
Sports
Public water should be fluoridated

...by accident. Polio, smallpox and malaria, to name a few, are all killer diseases of the past in our country. Juvenile rickets, goiter, dental disease and a host of intestinal ailments are no longer the very common threats to our health they once were...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081407/let_20070814018.shtml
Opinion
My Turn: A physician calls for fluoridation

...most vulnerable: Those who may not be willing or able to afford total care. Just as Vitamin D added to milk has prevented rickets, as folic acid added to various foods has prevented congenital neurological defects, as iron added to infant formulas and...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/093007/opi_20070930022.shtml
Opinion
Got Vitamin D?

...more than 90 percent. Mild deficiencies won't necessarily produce immediate ill effects. Serious deficiencies can lead to rickets or softening of the bones, and has also been linked to fatigue, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. In addition, current...

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News
ASAA Class 4A State Wrestling Tournament

...Dennis Hall (Juneau), forfeit. 125 - Logan Harvey (Juneau) maj. dec. Scott Foster (Soldotna), 17-6. 130 - Robbie Rickets (Service) dec. Matt Way (Sitka), 12-5. 135 - Zach Aragon (Skyview) pin. Justin Carlson (Sitka), 2:27. 140...

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Sports
Juneau Empire Online Archive Local News: Archaic disease lingering locally 2/13/98

...diagnosed a local child with early signs of rickets, a condition caused by a lack of vitamin...the next summer,'' Petersen said. Rickets wasn't originally a problem for Alaska...inability to process calcium leads to typical rickets symptoms, including low growth, weak...

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'Sunshine vitamin' often hard to come by in Juneau

...non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, bladder, esophageal and uterine. Rickets, a children's disease of soft, painful bones is caused...when a Polish physician learned that mere sunbathing cured rickets. Lack of Vitamin D also has been linked to depression, of...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121508/loc_367787648.shtml

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