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Inexpensive Home Remedy for Oral Acidity

Ever since my trip to the dentist last month, I have been thinking about how to deal with oral acidity.

Now, note that I’m talking about oral acidity, which involves the acidity of foods as they contact your teeth.  This is a different topic from how foods affect your body’s internal acidity.

I am having to deal with this because I eat a lot of fruits.

Oral acitidy issues are by no means limited to raw foodies.  Besides fruits, many common items are acidic.  For example, sodas and red wine.

So that doesn’t mean stop eating fruits.  On the contrary, fruits are an essential component to any healthy diet.  It simply means being aware of the issue, and not allowing the acidity the opportunity to hang out on your teeth and do its dirty work.

I have done some investigation and come up with a simple and inexpensive remedy you can make at home.

There’s a good, nerdy story behind this that appears below.  But if you’re the kind of person who likes to read the last pages of a book first, I’ll let you in on the remedy here. Read more »

Raw Foods and Tooth Enamel

Today was kind of exciting…  I went to the dentist for the first time in literally 10 years!

Now, I’ve never had cavities and I take care of my teeth (no soft drinks, for instance).  But I was a little bit worried because I had started to notice some minor erosion on the sides of a couple teeth.

I generally got a clean bill of dental health — still no cavities.  In fact, even after 10 years without seeing a dentist I got to skip the cleaning/polishing!

What I did learn, however, is that food acidity can contribute to tooth enamel erosion.  What happens is the acidity softens the enamel.  Then when you brush your teeth, even with a soft toothbrush, the enamel can get brushed away in little microscopic amounts.  Similar to how, given time, rain can gradually erode away even a mountain.

I’ve definitely been eating a lot of acidic fruits.  Citrus fruits like grapefruit and oranges are some of my favorites.

This is not to scare you away from eating fruit!  On the contrary, fruit is in many ways the most ideal food nature has to offer.

And there are certainly worse things you can do to yourself.  Carbonated soft drinks like colas are 10 times more acidic than fruit juice.

5 Ways To Prevent Tooth Enamel Erosion By Acidic Foods

Based on my visit to the dentist today, here are some simple tips I’d like to share with you in the interest of prevention.  (And most apply whether you’re eating “raw foods” or not.) Read more »