 | Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic in Children; Dentistry and Tooth DecayMany health officials are alarmed at the growing rate of type 2 diabetes in U.S. kids aged 10 to 17 - some are even referring to it as an epidemic. |
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How Did Dental Caries Become So Prevalent?
An interesting overview of dental caries, titled "Epidemiology of Dental Disease" from the University of Illinois, explains how cavity rates have changed drastically over the years. Although this research is not entirely new. Dr. Weston Price discovered that there are populations that lived free from cavities and tooth decay. The University paper helps explain why cavities and tooth decay have become so prevalent.
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Sickenly Sweet, Part 3: Saccharine
If you have perused this site or, even better, read Ramiel Nagel’s Cure Tooth Decay, you know that refined sugar is bad for your teeth not because it “sticks” to them as conventional dentistry would have you believe, but through changes in blood chemistry.
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Tooth Decay Precursor of Metabolic Syndrome?
Before moving on to the dangers of the various artificial sweeteners, let’s take some time to delve further into just what makes excess sugar in our diets so unhealthy.
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Sugar Feeding Bacteria Do Not Cause Tooth Decay
For decades we have been taught that sugar causes cavities by sticking to the teeth. I agree with what dentists say. That eating sugar frequently will lead to tooth decay. But it isn't because of the bacteria feeding off of the sugar. It is because of how processed sugar can cause and contribute to disease and imbalance in your body.
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The Tremendous Truth: Tuna is Healthy and Safe
First, let’s talk about what’s undisputedly terrific about tuna.
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Tax Dollars Pay for the War on Health Food as Feds Shut Down Amish Dairy Farm
The FDA has been working for two years at the War on Health Food to shut down an Amish dairy farmer who was selling fresh raw milk to health-conscious individuals in the Washington, D.C. area. This month a judge banned Daniel Allgyer from selling his milk across state lines; customers were informed that the Amish farm would be shut down all together. While your tax dollars could be paying for ops to shut down meth labs, illegal drug cartels, and the overprescribing of addictive and dangerous prescription narcotics, instead your taxes are going towards shutting down family farms for selling real food to people who consciously choose to purchase and consume it. Raw milk is an important tool in the fight against tooth decay because it provides your body with the precise minerals needed for bone growth and maintenance, calcium and phosphorus.