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Foods, Beverages and Products to Avoid In order to restore the ratio of calcium and phosphorus in our Knowing what not to eat is almost as important as knowing blood and to enable minerals to bond onto the teeth, it is usually what fo eat. It is important not to cheat on this advice, which also not sufficient just to avoid eating too much sweet or processed relates to beverages and other products. food. We must eat building foods containing potent amounts of So, avoid these items: minerals and vitamins to create a chain reaction that will build ¢ Sugar: white sugar, brown sugar, organic sugar, evaporated glassy-hard tooth structure in place of decayed tooth structure. cane juice, corn syrup, commercial jams (exceptions: totally unheated honey, organic untreated maple syrup, rapadura, stevia). | Freedom from Tooth Decay Many sweeteners still encourage tooth decay; if you have a severe This article describes some key aspects of how you can be free or difficult case, only use stevia and avoid all other sweets. of tooth decay and avoid those pesky root canal fillings. Our teeth ¢ Flour and grain products: white flour, wheat flour, organic can rebuild themselves and cover themselves over with a hard and flour, any unsoaked grain products (examples: bread, crackers, glassy layer, provided that we give ourselves the right kind of cookies, doughnuts, breakfast cereals, muffins, pastries, tortillas, nutrition. My book, Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent bagels and sandwiches). Most store-bought flour products, even Cavities with Nutrition, describes how to live without tooth decay from the health food store, need to be and how to heal your teeth with good avoided. nutrition. It provides a more detailed " Hydrogenated oils: margarine When our blood chemistry destription of the Special toods te cat and low-quality vegetable oils, . . . and a more in-depth analysis of toot! soybean oil, Crisco®, canola and is out of balance, primarily decay and its various aspects. safflower. Replace these with organic from the consumption of 4 You can minimise Your tooth coconut oil, organic palm oil, organic . ecay, prevent it entirely and even olive oil or butter, suet or tallow. processed foods (especially heal tooth decay once a cavity has ; * Any type of junk or convenience sugars), the ratio of calcium formed. provided that you mnake good ‘ood or modern fast foods. 4 choices for yourse ased on * Coffee, soft drinks, Nutrasweet® to phosphorus in our blood knowledge of decay-free indigenous (aspartame) and anything with deviates from normal peoples. Learn these lessons and take artificial flavours, artificial colours or artificial ingredients. ¢ Soymilk, low-quality protein the wise approach to healing and preventing tooth decay using unprocessed foods as nature intended. powder and excess tofu. You can learn how to live without tooth decay. You can heal ¢ Pasteurised milk, even if it is organic. and prevent cavities. oo * Non-grass-fed meat and eggs, and farm-raised fish. + Alcohol and cigarettes. About the Author: * Drugs including most recreational drugs, prescription drugs Ramiel Nagel, based in Los Gatos, California, has a BA in Legal and vaccines. Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has a In order to restore the ratio of calcium and phosphorus in our blood and to enable minerals to bond onto the teeth, it is usually not sufficient just to avoid eating too much sweet or processed food. We must eat building foods containing potent amounts of minerals and vitamins to create a chain reaction that will build glassy-hard tooth structure in place of decayed tooth structure. When our blood chemistry is out of balance, primarily from the consumption of processed foods (especially sugars), the ratio of calcium to phosphorus in our blood deviates from normal. About the Author: Ramiel Nagel, based in Los Gatos, California, has a BA in Legal Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He has a background in intuitive energy healing as well as in hatha and bhakti yoga. Rami became deeply interested in natural health because his daughter was suffering from tooth decay. He has developed many free Internet health resources in the spirit of serving others. He is the author of Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition, available from website http:/Awww.curetoothdecay.com as a digital or print copy (see review in this edition). Rami is completing a manuscript, Healing Our Children: A Revolutionary Guide to Preconception, Pregnancy and Early Childhood Health, to give parents the tools to understand and thus prevent many disease conditions of pregnancy and childhood (see the websites http://www. healingourchildren.net and http://www.preconception health.org). For professional enquiries, email the author at yourreturn@gmail.com. The Secret to Halting Cavities Through blood tests, dentist Dr Melvin Page pinpointed the cause of tooth decay in modern people. When our blood chemistry is out of balance, primarily from the consumption of processed foods (especially sugars), the ratio of calcium to phosphorus in our blood deviates from normal. (Dr Page advised that the ratio should be 2.5 parts calcium to one part phosphorus, and that a critical point of 8.75 mg of calcium and 3.5 mg of phosphorus per 100 cc of blood, with normal blood sugar levels, creates immunity to tooth decay.”) When this happens, minerals are pulled from the dentin and bones, causing tooth and other bone loss. So, sugar causes tooth decay because it depletes nutrients from the body, not because bacteria eat it and produce acid. Endnotes aag/oh.htm (regarding figure 1); 13. op. cit., p. 441. 1. Price, W. A., J. American Dental http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/ 14. op. cit., p. 171. Association, 1936, p. 888. mmwrhtml/ss5403a1.htm (regarding 15. op. cit., p. 174. 2. Price, W. A., Nutrition and Physical statistics extrapolated from table 17). 16. ibid. Degeneration, Price—Pottenger Nutrition 5. Price, Nutrition and Physical 17. op. cit., p. 295. Foundation, La Mesa, 2004, 6th ed., p. 415. Degeneration, op. cit., p. 26. 18. The Primal Diet is described in: 3. American Dental Association (ADA), 6. ibid. Vonderplanitz, Aajonus, The Recipe For "Tooth Decay", FAQ, 7. ibid. Living Without Disease, Carnelian Bay http://www.ada.org/public/topics/ 8. op. cit., p. 27. Castle Press, Los Angeles, 2002. decay_faq.asp. 9. op. cit., p. 34. 19. Price, op. cit., p. 289. 4. Centers for Disease Control and 10. op. cit., p. 293. 20. Page, M. and Abrams, L., Your Body Is Prevention (CDC), 11. op. cit., p. 35. Your Best Doctor, Keats Publishing, New http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/publications/ 12. op. cit., p. 38. 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