Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Mannino likens the deterioration to that of tooth decay. "You don't feel the bone in a tooth decaying," he says. "It's only when the nerve gets irritated or inflamed that the pain comes and you run to the dentist. But that deterioration has been going on for a while."
Management of Misalignment
Because the majority of back pain complaints are mechanical in nature, chiropractic is the number-one conservative approach for back pain. No surgery, no drugs, but plenty of pain relief. Why? |
Mark Sircus
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 Magnesium deficiency factor in osteoporosis and tooth decay
Western medical authorities claim that the widespread incidence of osteoporosis and tooth decay in western countries can be prevented with a high calcium intake. Yet, it is evident that this approach will only exacerbate an already alarming trend. Asian and African populations with a low daily intake of calcium (about 300 mg), experience very little osteoporosis. Bantu women with an intake of 200 to 300 mg of calcium daily have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis in the world. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This can lead to tooth decay, gum destruction, and other tooth-related problems. However, to reiterate the previously made point, bacteria do not cause tooth decay. These germs are attracted only to those areas in the mouth that are already congested, undernourished, and acidified.
A bitter taste in the mouth is caused by bile that has regurgitated into the stomach and, from there, into the mouth. This condition occurs because of major intestinal congestion, as seen, for example, during bouts of constipation. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Some types of bacteria are always in the mouth; they are nurtured by food fragments that adhere to teeth. tooth decay is initiated by the demineralization of the outer surface of the tooth as a result of acids produced by bacteria that digest carbohydrates. Decay of the tooth progresses as the tooth continues to lose minerals and the bacterial metabolites continue to act on the tooth. A cavity forms, which, if untreated, can grow and destroy the entire tooth and even the surrounding gum tissues. |
David Wolfe
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 The more modern the fossil, the more tooth decay. Analyses of striations on fossilized teeth show no decay or premature wear when hominids ate a raw-vegetation diet. Most paleontologists agree that tooth decay coincided with the discovery of fire and accelerated with the advent of agriculture.
An unbalanced, cooked diet lacking in alkaline minerals (calcium, magnesium, silicon) and high in sugar and acid-forming minerals (phosphorus, chlorine) damages teeth formation. Because the "buds" that become the teeth are formed in the pre-natal stage, the diet of the mother has a lifelong influence. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Amla combined with nettles and horsetail speeds up the healing of broken bones, helps prevent tooth decay, and improves the strength of the hair and nails.
Research has indicated that amla could have adaptogenic qualities, which in many ways is a modern equivalent of the ancient Indian concept of a rasayana. In animal studies, amla protected against cellular damage induced by radiation. It also protected against carcinogens, liver damage caused by medications or viruses, and gastric damage caused by drugs, and it helped prevent toxicity caused by arsenic, cadmium, and cardiotoxic medications. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| THE EFFECT OF GREEN TEA ON BAD BREATH
Plaque not only causes tooth decay and gum disease but is also the primary cause of bad breath. The odor of bad breath, or halitosis as it is technically called, comes from a combination of bacteria, decomposing food, and decomposing tissue. Although bad breath has been blamed on many foods, such as garlic, onions, and cheese, no food does more than temporarily increase preexisting bad breath caused by plaque. If plaque is removed daily through brushing and flossing, and decayed teeth are cleaned and repaired, most cases of bad breath will be alleviated. |
| Today it is a recognized fact that tooth decay is less prevalent in areas where fluoride occurs naturally or is added to the drinking water. The fluoridation of municipal water supplies, which began in the 1950s, now covers more than half of the United States population. Experts recommend one part per million of fluoride in water as a health-enhancing level. When fluoride levels are too high, harmless but unattractive brown stains can appear on the teeth. Levels of fluoride in excess of eight parts per million can result in the discoloration of teeth and, possibly, in bone abnormalities. |
| Decay of teeth due to bacteria; also known as tooth decay.
Cartilage. Dense connective tissue located in the joints, nose, and ears.
Catechins. Another name for the particular class of polyphenols found in green tea.
Cavity. An area of a tooth where the enamel has been destroyed by bacterial action.
Cerebrovascular disease. A disease, such as stroke, that originates in the blood vessels of the brain.
Chanoyu. The Japanese tea ceremony; literally "hot water for tea."
Chemotherapy. Treatment of cancer using chemicals that are toxic to cancer cells.
Cholesterol. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Eating too quickly reduces saliva production in the mouth cavity, which is a major cause of tooth decay. One of the functions of saliva is to keep the mouth and teeth protected against harmful substances and irritating microbes.
There are other reasons why masticating food properly is so essential for our wellbeing. According to fascinating research conducted at the Gifu University in Japan, chewing actually improves memory by reducing the release of stress hormones. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| By making the mouth inhospitable to the bacteria that cause tooth decay, green tea can make a valuable contribution to a plan for maintaining good dental health.
THE TEETH
Although we may seem to be born toothless, the development of our teeth is well underway by the third month of pregnancy. After birth, the teeth do not begin to erupt through the gums until about six or seven months of age. Most children have a full set of twenty teeth by the age of three. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 In children and younger teens, topical fluoride treatments seem to reduce tooth decay.
INTAKE OF FLUORIDE
The major source of fluoride in the United States is fluoridated water. About two-thirds of the population of the United States drinks fluoridated water. The fluoride content of food is extremely low. Only tea and sardines have been found to contain even small amounts of fluoride. The swallowing of fluoride-containing toothpaste is a major source of fluoride intake, especially in children.
TOXICITY OF FLUORIDE
There is some controversy about the toxicity of fluoride. |
Andreas Moritz
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| If used in an irrigating device, the warm salt water reaches all gum line crevices and periodontal pockets, which is important for complete reversal of gum disease and tooth decay. Dr. Nara says brushing and flossing are not sufficient to stop gum disease...that's why so many people who followed their dentists' standard advice still wound up with gum disease (infection).
Most people believe that gum disease is caused by plaque. Research studies by Socransky at Forsyth Dental School in Boston, and by Loesche at the University of Michigan showed that the plaque theory does not hold. |
Michael T. Murray
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 The FDA allows products containing the sweetener to use the approved dental health claim "Tagatose does not promote tooth decay" or "Tagatose may reduce the risk of tooth decay."
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Sweet Fiber from Doctor Murray Natural Living offers a revolutionary, healthy means of adding sweetness and fiber to your diet. Its health benefits reflect the synergistic behavior of its ingredients: xylitol, tagatose, and inulin. Each of these three naturally occurring compounds works to produce healthy effects. When combined, their benefits are further magnified. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The release of chocolate from such bonds meant that anyone, anywhere, was able to take chocolate whenever they chose, in any form they preferred (the worries about obesity, acne, tooth decay, and the like are phenomena of our own age). No longer did they have to fret over whether chocolate or its flavorings were "hot," "cold," or "temperate," "dry" or "moist. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| The early stages of dental disease are undetectable, but they are the first missteps on a path that leads to tooth decay and gum disease. Good oral hygiene (brushing twice a day and flossing daily) and twice-yearly visits to a dentist for preventive care are crucial elements of a good dental plan. Adding green tea is a painless and tasty way to help keep the mouth and teeth healthy.
CHAPTER 11
It's Tea Time!
It's refreshing, stimulating, and health-enhancing; that's why tea is the most popular beverage in the world (after water). |
Andreas Moritz
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| Furthermore, researchers from the University of Osaka, Japan, have been able to prove that green tea kills microbes responsible for cholera and tooth decay; it also destroys salmonella germs before they even have the chance to enter the stomach. A substance called "EGCG" has been found to retard tumor growth. The Botikin Hospital in Moscow reported that green tea is more effective against infection than antibiotics, without producing any harmful side effects. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| DEFICIENCY OF FLUORIDE
The only sign of deficiency of fluoride is an increased risk of tooth decay. In colder climates, the amount of fluoride in drinking water is 1.2 milligrams per liter. In warmer climates, where people drink more water, only 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter is used. Some studies have shown a reduced incidence of dental decay in populations drinking fluoridated water. There does not appear to be any advantage to fluoride supplements, topical fluoride, or fluoridated water in people over the age of 16, as the teeth have hardened by this age. |
Ron Garner
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 The main exposure to fluoride is in municipal drinking water and toothpaste, as a supposed deterrent to tooth decay. Many studies, however, have found that the contrary is true; when water fluoridation is discontinued, the incidence of dental caries actually decreases.8 Fluorides can also be found in Teflon pans, pesticides sprayed on fruit, and some beverages and food items. To minimize exposure, use only filtered drinking water, thoroughly wash fruit before eating, read labels, and avoid any products that contain fluoride. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Do you suffer from gingivitis, tooth decay, or chronic oral problems? Your shaver could be the culprit. Trust an old-fashioned razorblade system to give you the best shave. And with no EMF's.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
HOW TO REDUCE INTESTINAL TOXINS FROM PARASITES
Unfortunately, the colon provides a welcoming environment for dangerous invaders such as bacteria, viruses, yeasts, and worms. These invading organisms can enter the human body through air, soil, food, and water. Their interaction with a human host can be unpleasant (and let's face it, pretty gross). |
| Fluoride compounds are still purposefully added to water in many areas (in a process known as fluoridation) and is used in most brands of toothpaste to help prevent tooth decay. However, fluoride has never been proven to significantly aid in protecting teeth from the
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Every year Poison Control centers receive thousands of calls from people reporting excessive consumption of fluoride-containing products (vitamins, toothpaste, mouthwash, etc.). |
Charles Barber
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 Henry Cotton of Trenton State Hospital, believing that germs from tooth decay led to insanity, removed patients' teeth and other body parts, such as the bowels, which he thought might be the causes of their madness. In so doing, he killed almost half of his patients—more than one hundred people.9 Cotton's practices were covered up by the hospital board and the leading figure in American psychiatry of the day, Adolf Meyer, and Cotton was also allowed to continue practicing at the hospital for almost another twenty years. |
Michael Pollan
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 They compiled lists, many of which appeared in medical journals, of the common diseases they'd been hard pressed to find in the native populations they had treated or studied: little to no heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, hypertension, or stroke; no appendicitis, diverticulitis, malformed dental arches, or tooth decay; no varicose veins, ulcers, or hemorrhoids. |
| He wasn't the only one: In the 1930s an argument raged in medical circles as to whether hygiene or nutrition was the key to understanding and treating tooth decay. A public debate on that very question in Manhattan in 1934 attracted an overflow audience of thousands. That hygiene ultimately won the day had as much to do with the needs of the dental profession as it did with good science; the problem of personal hygiene was easier, and
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM «l far more profitable, to address than that of the diet and entire food system. |
| He was also something of a monomaniac on the subject of diet, certain that poor nutrition could explain not just tooth decay and heart disease but just about everything else that bedeviled humankind, including juvenile delinquency, the collapse of civilizations, and war.
Still, the data he painstakingly gathered from his control groups, and the lines of connection he was able to trace, not only between diet and health but also between the way a people produces food and that food's nutritional quality, remain valuable today. |
| Wherever he found an isolated primitive race that had not yet encountered the "displacing foods of modern commerce"—by which he meant refined flour, sugar, canned and chemically preserved foods, and vegetable oils—he found little or no evidence of "modern degeneration"—by which he meant chronic disease, tooth decay, and malformed dental arches. Either there was something present in the Western diet that led to these problems or there was something absent from it. |
| Price found groups that ate diets of wild animal flesh to be generally healthier than the agriculturists who relied on cereals and other plant foods; the agriculturists tended to have somewhat higher levels of tooth decay (though still low by our standards). Price noted that many of the peoples he visited particularly prized organ meats, in which he found high levels of fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, and "activator X," a term of his own invention that is probably vitamin K2. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Internally it is used for colds and inflammation of the throat (with salt; Central America) and for tooth decay (southeast Asia).
Indian Medicine: Coconut Palm oil is used for dysuria, coughs, bronchitis, and to stop hair from turning gray. precautions and adverse reactions
No health hazards are known in conjunction with the use of the drug as a food or as a pharmaceutical vehicle or raw substance (including its use in the extraction of short- and medium-chained fatty acids and in the manufacture of soaps and solubilizing agents). |
Andreas Moritz
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| Most people think that problems such as tooth decay, tonsil infections, earaches, vertigo, tinnitus, sore throat, stiffness of the neck and shoulders, hair loss, a hoarse voice, broken speech, headaches, nasal and sinus congestion and so on, are accidental occurrences that don't need to be taken very seriously. Yet, these "minor" complaints may indicate major imbalances in the digestive system. They can be the harbingers of eventually life-threatening circulatory problems, heart attacks, strokes and even brain tumors. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 More specificially, it is used in the treatment of allergies, arteriosclerosis, asthma, cancer, catarrh, cholera, high cholesterol, colds, congestion, coughs, depression, diarrhea, digestive tract infection, dysentery, external viral conditions (black tea), fatigue, fever, flu, hangover, hepatitis, influenza (green tea), migraines, obesity, tooth decay, typhus, and tumors.
Topically, green tea is styptic, meaning that it stops bleeding. It can be applied as a lukewarm compress or poultice to treat acne, athlete's foot, open wounds, and sunburn. |
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