by Office | Apr 14, 2022 | Diet & Nutrition
Kicking a sugar habit is hard, especially since we humans are hardwired to love the stuff. It doesn’t help that sugar is so prevalent in so many products. Many wind up turning to artificial sweeteners to get the sweetness they crave minus the health risks that come...
by Office | May 13, 2015 | Diet & Nutrition
Recently, PepsiCo. announced that, come August, it will no longer put aspartame in Diet Pepsi. They said that consumers just don’t want it. They said that avoiding it was the number one reason why people were drinking less diet soda. Give the people what they want,...
by Office | Dec 16, 2020 | Diet & Nutrition, General Health & Wellness
One of the oft-mentioned upsides of stevia is that it has no apparent downsides. But now a new study in Molecules has called that into question. Like your mouth, your gut is home to trillions of bacteria. Some are helpful; others, not so much. And just as with your...
by Office | Nov 18, 2020 | Dental Health, Diet & Nutrition
In English, we say “you can’t have your cake and eat it, too,” but the basic idea crops up in many cultures. In Bulgarian, “you can’t have both the wolf fed and the lamb intact,” while in Hindi, they describe “having candy in both hands.” In Japanese, they say “if you...
by Office | Feb 12, 2020 | Dental Health
According to a new scientific review, yes, yes, you can. Motivated by “a definite need to update and refresh existing knowledge” about how sugar-free gum may impact tooth decay, researchers at King’s College London reviewed 50 years’ worth of studies. Their findings...
