Sugar Rots Your Teeth, but Might Also Take a Bite From Your Life
No sooner had we blogged about sugar’s tendency to displace other nutrients in your diet, we ran across some other recent research suggesting that sugar may shorten your lifespan in more ways than you think. Of course, sugar is a major contributor to tooth decay....
Food for Your Brain, Some Relief from Stress
With so many of us having to stay put right now, lots of folks are stepping up online to help families with the challenges of homeschooling. But who says you have to be a kid to benefit from learning a new thing or two or five? Lifelong learning can mean more...
“Politically Charged Science,” Glyphosate Edition
Back in January, the EPA repeated their claim that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the US, isn’t a carcinogen and poses no threat to human health. Of course they did. But like the California jury that awarded $2 billion to a couple who claimed...
Simple Math: Adding Sugar May Mean Subtracting Minerals & Vitamins
How much sugar is too much sugar? A research team in Sweden recently tried to find out. Their results were just published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. Nearly two decades of data from nearly 14,000 total participants was collected from a pair of...
Another Reason Why Ceramic Dental Implants Are the Better Option for Replacing Lost Teeth
Unlike kids hoping for a visit from the Tooth Fairy, adults don’t get too excited about losing a tooth. But at least implants offer a replacement option that’s the closest thing possible to a natural tooth - particularly the all-ceramic implants we place in our...
More Bad News for Fluoride: A News & Research Roundup
It’s been over three years since the IAOMT, Food & Water Watch, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and other concerned groups sued after the EPA denied its citizen petition requesting the end of fluoridation. Despite more than 60 studies showing...
New Research on the Rheumatoid Arthritis & Gum Disease Relationship
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, affecting more than 1.3 million Americans, mostly women. That there’s a link between RA and gum disease has been known for over a century. Both are chronic diseases of inflammation, and both...
Nothing Routine About Radiation
Radiation is literally everywhere. A good amount of it is actually natural radiation, like that found in soil and rocks, cosmic rays from space, and even within your own body. But nearly half of human exposure to radiation is for dental or medical reasons, like...
Serious New Science on Soybean Oil
Since the early 1900s, consumption of soybean oil has increased more than 1000-fold, despite research raising one red flag after another about the potential negative effects of this highly processed product on human health. Soybean oil - often labeled as vegetable...
The Huge Healthcare Cost of Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea affects roughly 22 million Americans, making it as common as type 2 diabetes. But unlike diabetes, it’s a whole lot easier to ignore despite the impact it can have on your physical and mental health - not to mention your relationships, your job, and...
Whole Fat Leads to Less Fat
While cow’s milk doesn’t have to be a part of a healthy diet, in North America it generally is, especially for kids. “Just make it reduced-fat,” the purveyors of conventional wisdom say, concerned about overweight and obesity. But a new review and meta-analysis of...
The Link Between Screen Time & Cavities in Kids
Nearly every adult with a smartphone occasionally worries about screen time, especially if you’ve experienced your own tiny (or big) addiction to Instagram, a game, or those texts you send your best pal throughout what’s supposed to be a slightly more productive...
What Can Happen When You Cut Corners on Teeth Whitening
For many, the beginning of a new year often comes with a personal to-do list: be more grateful, make a difference at work, clean out the garage. Nearly everybody has one, even if just in their head. Self-improvement is often the goal. So, just as weight-loss...
For Healthy Holidays, Try a Little Tradition
Scrumptious foods and the holiday season go hand-in-hand, but often, those foods are filled with the kinds of things you aim to avoid when eating healthfully - a glut of sugar and other refined carbs, with nary a veggie in sight. But you don’t have to sacrifice...
New Studies Highlight Fluoride’s Effects on Children’s Developing Brains
Over the past few months, a pair of Canadian studies on fluoride exposure and children’s IQ have made quite a splash here in the States, to say the least. The first, published in JAMA Pediatrics this summer, involved 601 mother/child pairs from 6 major cities in...
Getting the Message on Mercury to the FDA
This past summer, the FDA put out a call for consumer input on medical devices, including dental amalgam. Hundreds of comments poured in, and 94% percent of them had to do with the adverse health effects of “silver” mercury amalgam fillings. Some stories came from...
Stress Relief Begins with the Act of Thanksgiving
For many, holidays stir up an odd mix of emotions. There’s joy in family traditions and get-togethers but also sadness for family and friends no longer with us or longing for loved ones far away. Your excitement for celebrations may also come with anxiety, thanks...
More Evidence for Ozone’s Role in Dentistry
One of the great things about dental ozone - beyond its power to fight infection - is its versatility. It can be incorporated into any number of treatments, from simple fillings to complex oral surgery. Over the years, research has shown the ability of ozone to...
Great Motivation for Stay-at-Home Meals
When your goal is coming up with nutritious and delicious meals for yourself and your family, it’s easy to fall into a rut. Every week it’s Meatless Monday, Taco Tuesday, Whatever Is in the Fridge Wednesday - you’ve been there. Yet while you know home-cooked meals...
The Trick To a Sugar-Free (& Stress-Free) Holiday Season
With today being Halloween, chances are you’ve already watched It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! - if not this year, then in one of the past 50+ years the Peanuts’ special has been on the air. The plot, where Linus waits in vain all Halloween night for the...