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 […]
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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. […]
A New Must-Read: The Case Against Sugar
You’ve got to read Gary Taubes’ new book, The Case Against Sugar. As the title suggests, Taubes’ purpose is to present the case against sugar – both sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup – as the principal cause of the chronic diseases that are most likely to kill us, or at least accelerate our demise, in […]
A Whole Lot of Infection Going On…
In our office, sterilization is a very big deal – so big, we devote a whole page of this site to how we protect against harmful bacteria, viruses, and other microbes in our day-to-day work. It’s a basic part of supporting your overall health and well-being. The importance of this was underscored last week by […]
Real Food Doesn’t Need Labels (and You Need Real Food)
Every so often, you hear a lot of hopeful chatter about a new kind of nutrition label – something to make it quick and easy for consumers to grasp how healthful or horrible a product may be. The latest version getting a whole lot of PR? Something called NuVal, which gives a single numerical rating […]
Notes on the Changing Food Landscape
It was big news last year when General Mills announced that Cheerios would become GMO-free – even though it was a clearly a go at low-hanging fruit: the cereal hardly contained any GMO ingredients to begin with. But it was also a sign that consumer demand was having an impact. Since then, we’ve seen other […]
Fat & Malnourished: The Sorry State of the American Diet – and Glimmers of Positive Change
Imagine two tomato plants. One is in nutrient-rich soil, gets plenty of bright, direct sunlight and is given all the water it needs. The other is in depleted soil, gets mainly filtered sunlight and is given just half the water given to the other. Both plants may live, but only the first one may truly […]
Added Sugars as “the Next Trans Fat”?
We know the FDA has its problems, from conflicts of interest to the stubborn refusal to acknowledge the science on mercury dental amalgam and finally put an end to the use of this antique dental material. But sometimes they do the right thing – like their recent decision to finally ban the use of artificial […]