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My most popular sites are the ones about using fluoride for your kid’s teeth. The main difference is that I recommend fluoride the whole time teeth are forming. The dental lobby wants you to wait, skipping all of pregnancy and the first 6 months after birth. The other differences are that I tend to keep doses a little lower, and far more even. Like during infancy I suggest dosing by body weight. Good luck and let me know what you think.

 

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Infant fluoride
How to get the dose of fluoride just right for your newborn. (Includes info on the OptiDose dropper.) Baby fluoride is important - many get too much or too little.

https://members.tripod.com/raygrogan-ivil/infantfluoride/

Prenatal fluoride
A few pictures from the Drs. Glenn about prenatal fluoride.

http://raygrogan-ivil.tripod.com/pnf

Early pregnancy fluoride
Using fluoride to give your child straighter teeth. Also charts on comparing doses, and a list of 14 other nutrients that may be key for early pregnancy (like folic acid).

http://raygrogan-ivil.tripod.com/osteo

Fluoride online
BabyCenter.com. I check in once a week or so and answer questions. You can also post comments, say I’m full of it, etc. (Oops - 2011 they took this page down. *SIGH*)

http://www.babycenter.com/0_fluoride-builds-bones-and-fights-cavities_674.bc

(The questions and answers are at the bottom of the page click even if it looks like there is no answer.)

In the “old days” BabyCenter was a free-flowing posting spot. “Readers’ comments” tended to be clogged up with the anti comments, but were interesting. I did save a few of my old responses:

https://raygrogan2-ivil.tripod.com/answersforbabycenterposts/index.html

The next most popular sites are about some minor businesses that are a combination of work and fun.

Prophy
Prophy Research Corporation owns the patent rights to the OptiDose dropper. (This site is a first draft and little dated. The pat ap link doesn’t work – email me if you can’t wait until I update it.)

http://raygrogan-ivil.tripod.com/business

Our “annual” reports are now online (well, some):

http://prophyresearch-ivil.tripod.com/

Mountain House rentals
This is about a little rental business in Honolulu (Waiomao Valley). There is almost never a vacancy, but there are some pictures about hikes, surfing, fruit trees, etc.

http://mhmango.wordpress.com/about/

The swamp

The "swamp" (aka Kipuka Wai, Inc.) is some property a bunch of us are “developing” in Haleiwa. After the goofy pix and vision there is a fairly useful set of corporation bylaws. 

http://raygrogan-ivil.tripod.com/swamp

The newest swamp photos (and report soon)  

http://kipukawai-ivil.tripod.com/

Sites about pure fun and games – foods you’ve never tried, etc.

H&G Hawaii
Hunting and gathering in Hawaii was written for people coming to visit for an Ultimate tournament. It is mostly things you can do with just a rental car, a little inside knowledge, and a day to goof off. 

http://raygrogan-ivil.tripod.com/poi

Plantains
How to “hard-bake” plantains. Blast them in an oven til they are black, oozing, and split wide open. Delicious and easy.

http://www.raygrogan.bravehost.com/

Ginkgo Nuts

How to find female ginkgo trees, get the seeds, and “dry-fry” them. Tasty November fun.

http://ginkgonuts.4t.com

Taro

How to grow, cook, and eat taro - the world's funnest, tastiest, and easiest plant. (This site replaces the old classic by Ted.)

https://raygrogan2-ivil.tripod.com/tarogrowcookeat

Surf reef

How to design a surfing reef (assuming you had a bazillion dollars, of course).

 

https://raygrogan2-ivil.tripod.com/artificalreefforsurfing

Pondermostly

Camping and swimming in the Ozarks.

http://pondermostly.tripod.com/

Bananas 

Mostly about how to harvest bananas in a way to reduce the amount of future suckers. Also how to kill plants infected with BBTV.  Also how to do a "bamboo imu", and a few taro things like how make poi pounders (click on "Ray", top left, to get to these other pages) .

http://picasaweb.google.com/raygrogan1/Banana

Breadfruit

How to pick and cook ulu.
 
 

http://raygrogan.wordpress.com/picking-breadfruit/