by Pride Dental | Aug 17, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition
Healthy eating starts with whole food, real food, including lots of fresh produce. When you picture how it’s grown, you may imagine wide open spaces, fields spanning acres and acres. But it can just as well happen on a much smaller scale, in urban and suburban areas...
by Pride Dental | Aug 10, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition, General Health
Ever notice that when you cave in to sugar cravings, you don’t end up feeling any better – and may, in fact, actually feel worse? That feeling worse may not just be a short term effect. According to new research in Scientific Reports, depressive symptoms can be...
by Pride Dental | Jun 22, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition
Ask a typical American where their food comes from, and they’ll probably say something like “the grocery store.” Beyond that, they might not even want to know – just so long as the food they want is there when they want it. The depths of food illiteracy were recently...
by Pride Dental | Jun 8, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
How much juice should you let your kids drink? If they’re younger than one, zero, zilch, nada. That’s according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics. And that’s the best part of the news. Fruit juice offers no nutritional benefit to children under...
by Pride Dental | Apr 6, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Updated from the original post for July 11, 2013 Drink Your Fruit & Veggies? Think you can just drink your fruit and veggies in a delicious fruit smoothie? Research from the BDJ might make you think twice – at least if you care about your teeth. Researchers found...
by Pride Dental | Mar 16, 2017 | Diet & Nutrition, Mercury / Heavy Metals
During this Lenten season, those of us who give up meat on Fridays will be eating fish. We know including fish in our diet can offer nutritional benefits–a 6-ounce serving offers a hefty dose of B vitamins, some minerals, and those beneficial omega-3 fats. But...