Beyond Sugar and Soda: Nutritional Cures for Damaged Teeth

By one of my favorite bloggers, Denise Minger.

Thanks Nancy.
I've so much to read that I many times miss personally helpful things like this. It's likely I might not have seen this for ages if you hadn't pointed it out.
I really appreciate that (in my case) you seem to keep doing that!

Surprised they didn't list Xylitol. I know she's a real foodie and it is technically a processed ingredient. Since the body is only set to handle a little, one has to gradually build up to ingesting it (it's fine then but will give the runs before that. Not as miserable on gut/runs as sugar alcohols like maltitol, though.)

But the research on this for health, let alone teeth including *repairing existing cavities* is stunning.

For a quick list of some of the things xylitol has been found useful for -- nearly all of these are a 1-sentence summary of an actual research paper -- see this post:

http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost...13&postcount=54

PJ

My new toothpaste has xylitol in it.

Has anyone here tried activated charcoal for teeth whitening? I saw the recommendation in the post and thought I might give it a try.

Fat-solubles: Must eat fat.