by Pride Dental | Oct 17, 2013 | Diet & Nutrition
You often hear complaints about how expensive organic food is. And if you rely on lots of processed food products or measure value only by calories-per-dollar, then foods grown with chemicals or bioengineered or manufactured in factories might seem the best deal. But... 
by Pride Dental | Oct 3, 2013 | Healthy lifestyle, Periodontal health
Once upon a time, shopping used to involve a fair amount of walking. Now you drive to the strip mall, go to one store, get back in your car and drive across the parking lot to visit a store on the other end, get back in your car and drive … No huffing or puffing, let... 
by Pride Dental | Sep 19, 2013 | Diet & Nutrition
Kids are smarter than we think. We try tricking them into eating good foods by offering bargains and rewards, but those tactics can backfire. Too easily, the lesson becomes that dessert is the good thing and the nutritious meal is something bad they have deal with to... by Pride Dental | Sep 5, 2013 | Mercury / Heavy Metals
So called “silver” amalgam fillings are a primary source of mercury exposure – a fact borne out by research just published in the Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology. Canadian researchers analyzed the relationship between the number of... 
by Pride Dental | Aug 22, 2013 | Diet & Nutrition
If your car runs on unleaded gasoline, you wouldn’t fill it up with diesel or some other fuel and still expect it to run well. Its engine wasn’t designed to run on it. Similarly, our bodies are designed to consume a particular type of “fuel”:...