Nearly 80 years ago, Weston Price showed how oral health and development both suffered when traditional diets were replaced with Western ones, loaded with refined sugar and flour. For most of those 80 years, mainstream dentistry dismissed those findings, accusing Price of shoddy research methods and fitting evidence to preconceived conclusions. All the while, other […]
Nutrition & Diet
What Kids Need to Develop Strong, Healthy Teeth (Hint: It’s Not Fluoride)
What do iron, vitamin D, and fluoride have in common? The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics thinks they’re all nutrients and worries that your breastfed baby might not be getting enough of them. Yes, in a recent article for moms, fluoride is described as one of “three nutrients” they believe breastfed babies may need supplements […]
When Is a GMO Not a GMO? When It’s Labeled According to the Newly Proposed USDA Guidelines
Choose the right words, and you can make most anything seem better than reality. A cramped, shotgun shack gets turned into a “cozy cottage.” Mercury amalgam gets spun into “silver fillings.” Now the USDA is getting into the act with its proposed rules for GMO labeling. If they get their way, we’ll be saying “goodbye” […]
Not Just the Sugars but the Refined Starches, Too
We’ve all heard that sugar rots your teeth. But believe it or don’t, there may be something even worse: sugar and starch together. At least, that’s the case with root decay, according to a study just published in Caries Research. For it, researchers created typical dental biofilms – plaque – on slabs of root dentin. […]
What You Eat Affects How You Are
Of course it makes sense that what you eat affects how you are. Just as a garden typically thrives when given the right nutrient-rich soil and the right amount of sunlight and water, so your body thrives when it gets the nutrition it needs. Otherwise, the results can be devastating. Sadly, we see that devastation […]
How the American Diet Is Looking These Days
How about some good news? According to new research in Obesity, folks have finally started cutting back on the sugary drinks. They’re also drinking more water, which – unlike soft drinks – your body actually needs. After all, it’s involved in every single metabolic process within. Analyzing data from 18,000 kids and 27,652 adults collected […]
Fat Still Isn’t the Bad Guy
You might remember the big to-do over coconut oil this past summer. Suddenly, headlines everywhere were screaming that coconut oil isn’t actually healthy, and you’re deluded if you think otherwise. Was there some new study that showed this? No, just a new “Presidential Advisory” from the American Heart Association that repeated the same old bad […]
Have Dentists Come Down Too Hard on Dried Fruit?
What did Dr. Glaros learn in dental school that seems as true four decades later as it did back then? Here it is: “Avoid retentive, fermentable carbohydrates!” In other words, don’t eat the sticky, sugary stuff. “But what if it’s natural?” some folks might ask. Let’s look at fruit juice, for instance. It’s certainly natural […]