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Originally posted by StereoPrincess you would probably get more titanium and any other metal just from the water you use to rinse out your mouth. i just think that you aren't looking at the whole picture Beh. you probably get more bad stuff in a potato than in the toothpaste.

thats a sound argument, however you can get toothpaste without those ingredients, you can choose to use a different product, that will clean your teeth just as well. But a potato is a potato and can't be replaced with something else that could have less heavy metals.

Sure you can choose to eat something else, or not wash your food, but then not washing your food makes you susceptible to ingesting lots of pesticides. So washing yuor food is the lesser of evils when you don't have a choice. A person does have a choice however in what sort of toothpaste they use since there are competeing products in the market place.

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you can choose types of potatoes.

there is this stupid fad now called organic vegtables and fruits. i personally don't follow such fads.

anyways, from my ppoint of view, i'm saying that there is much worse things to worry about in the air and our water supply (especially Toronto air, my Toronto asthma is returning for the summer already) that a minute bit of titatium dioxide in toothpaste that you spit out most of it anyway does not make any difference.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess you can choose types of potatoes. there is this stupid fad now called organic vegtables and fruits. i personally don't follow such fads. anyways, from my ppoint of view, i'm saying that there is much worse things to worry about in the air and our water supply (especially Toronto air, my Toronto asthma is returning for the summer already) that a minute bit of titatium dioxide in toothpaste that you spit out most of it anyway does not make any difference.

its funny, this whole debate makes me think about people who order diet coke with there McDonalds. You think to yourself, why, why the hell does it matter when your eating McDonalds that your beverage has to be diet?

Lately studies have shown that even organic foods are not free from heavy metals and pesticides becuase of run off from other farms and such. There really is no way to get away from the poisons that we have contaminated our environment with. However you get to choose what toothpaste you use. You may not have any control over what farm your potatoes come from, or the acid rain that rains on your soon to be groceries. But you still have the power to avoid such metals in your toothpaste. To me it just makes sense I guess. If I can avoid it, why not?

on an aside, ofcourse we have the power to stop our environemnt from being poisoned but as it seems, we all still enjoy a very consumerist life which is inherently detrimental to our environment. If we all did our best, avoid driving a lot, avoid products with a lot of packaging, avoid products that which have a manufacturing process that is harmful to the environment we could make great leaps in protecting our Earth. I'm not an environmentalist at ALL but the simple fact is, is that we can choose to do our small part, yet we don't, its that attitude of "hey I don't care, whats a little more gonna hurt" that has poisoned our lives. Drastic change isnt needed nor neccecary, however some thoughtful caring would be nice.

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Originally posted by drgoodvibe Drastic change isnt needed nor neccecary, however some thoughtful caring would be nice.

Indeed... I think you're a closet environmentalist Beh

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lol *points and laughs at Beh* HIPPY!!

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Originally posted by Pixiechick Indeed... I think you're a closet environmentalist Beh

Am not!!!

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ok....so i decided to try a new toothpaste and went with this one



i find that its just as effective as the aquafresh just not as strong...

im torn now between the two.....i just think that the more it stings/burns the cleaner it gets!!!