by Pride Dental | Oct 16, 2014 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
People – such as this fellow – often point a finger at fast food and other take-out meals as the reason obesity rates have soared. It can be tasty, but it tends toward junkiness: huge portions of too-salty, too-fatty, too-caloric, too-sugary grub. And of...
by Pride Dental | Jun 5, 2014 | Diet & Nutrition
Originally published on Know Thy Health. Re-posted with permission. Sugar consumption has skyrocketed over the last century. US per capita consumption now stands at 180 pounds a year, fueling all manner of chronic illness in adults and children alike. Sugar is...
by Pride Dental | Jun 5, 2014 | Diet & Nutrition
Originally published on Know Thy Health. Re-posted with permission. Sugar consumption has skyrocketed over the last century. US per capita consumption now stands at 180 pounds a year, fueling all manner of chronic illness in adults and children alike. Sugar is...
by Pride Dental | Apr 17, 2014 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
Though you often hear people talk about “science” as kind of a single, solid body of fact, it’s actually a process and a way of understanding the world. Ideas are tested and retested. Evidence builds up – sometimes in support of a hypothesis, sometimes against – but...
by Pride Dental | Oct 31, 2013 | Diet & Nutrition
Last week, we gave you some tips on helping tame your child’s sweet-tooth, but did you know that your child’s sweet-tooth may have started in the womb? According to a 2012 French study, a child’s taste preferences may be predicted by their mother’s dietary choices,...