by Office | Aug 25, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
We all know that spinach is what gave Popeye his amazing strength. But have you ever wondered why spinach and not some other vegetable? Back in 1870, Erich von Wolf, a German chemist, examined the amount of iron within spinach, among many other green...
by Office | Aug 18, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition
While research has shown that, overall, American kids’ dietary habits are improving, the truth remains that less than 1% of them eat in a nutritionally sound way. Most continue to consume an awful lot of junk. A new study in JAMA shows just how bad the average kid’s...
by Office | Aug 11, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition, Oral Health
This week, we’re swapping posts with another biological dental office, Pride Dental in Arlington, TX. Our thanks to them for letting us share this post on the Tooth/Body blog – and for sharing our recent post on turmeric and gum health with their patients...
by Office | Jul 21, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition
Many decades ago, Dr. Weston Price showed how the shift from traditional foodways to the modern Western diet – with its softer foods and highly refined grains and sugars – resulted not just in more oral disease but a shift from broad, toothy smiles to...
by Office | Jun 23, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition
If you spend much time on social media, you may have recently heard about the British doctor who ate junk food for a month to document its effects on his physical health. Regardless, you can probably guess that the results were none too pretty. I aged about ten years...
by Office | May 26, 2021 | Diet & Nutrition
Through recent years, it seems more people finally seem to be noticing the incredible shrinking human jaw – shrinkage that’s a result of the shift from traditional diets to diets reliant on ultra-processed foods. It’s a change most famously documented by...
