By Leo Ward
By M_A_YA
Can a diet eliminate bad breath and improve digestion? Kowhai Dental says diet commonly affects our breath and metabolism, as well as giving gastrointestinal issues.
Nutritional deficiencies don’t cause bad breath, but cause further oral health issues, leading to bad breath and tooth decay. So, do we need to use dental tools and chemicals on our teeth, or just eat healthy in the first place?
It may sound crazy to say brushing teeth isn’t needed as much if you eat healthy, but some dentists swear by it.
“Think about the steps we take to maintain good health: we often think about brushing, flossing, and taking regular trips to the dentist. But as a proportion of our time, these steps are actually a small part of the bigger picture. How you care for your teeth between these steps could actually have a much bigger impact on your oral health.’’ – Longfellow dental
People often think that brushing teeth, flossing and visiting the dentist are all the right things to keep a healthy mouth, but this is just fixing the problem rather than preventing it
The truth about keeping good dental hygiene is what goes in your mouth in the first place. If you feel you need to see the dentist about your gums when there’s nothing visibly wrong, it’s because you aren’t doing all you can to avoid it yourself.
The teeth we humans have today evolved about 25,000 years ago and are still evolving today, but our ancestors 25,000 years ago did not have refined sugar, alcohol or synthetic foods. Our teeth are not made for modern-day food, and we are destroying our teeth from a consumerist food industry.
Miami Cosmetic Dental care conducted research on dental disease by studying DNA of tooth fossils and found a large increase in diseases corresponding with the farming age, which changed the diet of civilisation. Gum disease was shown to be more prevalent in increased consumption of wheat and barley. Tooth decay also escalated as people began to eat sugar.
Wisdom teeth are also another sign that our mouths are not as strong and healthy as they used to be. Our ancestors used wisdom teeth to eat through meat and tough fruits. As humans no longer hunt for food and food has been processed for so long, the wisdom teeth, as well as jaw muscles supporting them, are no longer as common in humans as they once were.
The food industry has caused jaws to lose muscle to evolution as well as make us more prone to dental disease, so it too late to turn back to raw, strong diets? Is eating non-processed meat and vegetables no longer a normal thing to do?
By Succo
John Baker, age 61, a retired resident of Islington, says: “My grandchildren only eat fast food, it’s not like when I was little, and all we ate was stews and fresh food from the markets.” He thinks that pricing of groceries makes it too difficult to eat healthy, and it’s usually cheaper to eat less healthy food.
Since 1970, fast food has become incredibly popular in the United Kingdom. In the ’90s, food technology developed extremely fast, with practical kitchen appliances such as microwaves making it easier to cook synthetic prepackaged foods.
Julia Perkins, age 24, who works in retail, says that fast food is more practical. “I only get a half-hour break on my shift, it’s just simple to buy something cheap and quick before going back to work. I haven’t got the time to prepare lunch at home, and I prefer a hot lunch to a sandwich.”
So are people too lazy, or does modern life culture and prices make us unable to eat healthily?
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