by Pride Dental | May 7, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, Healthy lifestyle
With spring long since sprung and summer pretty much here, most folks are well into gardening season. If you haven’t already begun, it’s not too late to start, especially considering that the value of growing your own veggies goes well beyond grocery store savings,... 
by Pride Dental | Apr 23, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, Periodontal health
It’s no surprise that internet use has spiked dramatically since COVID-19 lockdowns went into effect around the world. Time spent watching streamed content has more than doubled, and data traffic is up even more than that. And why not? Screen time can be a... 
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 12, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition
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 national... 
by Pride Dental | Feb 6, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition
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... 
by Pride Dental | Jan 23, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition
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 28...