by Pride Dental | Aug 6, 2020 | General Health
Time in the sun – a/k/a getting vitamin D – is essential for your mouth/body health, but it’s also important to protect your skin from overexposure. Unfortunately, a lot of sunscreens contain some potentially problematic ingredients. In fact, a new study...
by Pride Dental | Jul 2, 2020 | General Health, Oral Hygiene
Perhaps nowhere is the mouth/body relationship clearer than in gum disease – a condition that’s been said to affect nearly 80% of all Americans and scientifically linked to many other inflammatory conditions, from diabetes and heart disease to Alzheimer’s and...
by Pride Dental | May 21, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, General Health
If you’re buying commercially prepared baby food, the answer is probably yes. A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Colorado recently surveyed a range of baby foods claiming to be “loaded with dark green vegetables.” Those claims, they found,...
by Pride Dental | May 14, 2020 | General Health, Healthy lifestyle
There are lots of benefits to breastfeeding, not least of which are delivering antibodies that help your baby fight off viruses and bacteria, and a lower risk of conditions like asthma, allergies, and ear infections. Breastfeeding is also crucial for your child’s...
by Pride Dental | Apr 2, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, General Health
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. It...
by Pride Dental | Mar 26, 2020 | General Health
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...
