Dry mouth is a common complaint of people as they get older, especially if you take drugs. Many drugs have dry mouth as a side effect. Having dry mouth at night while you are sleeping will eventually cause your teeth to become loose and gum disease and gingivitis to take hold. If you don't want dentures, you need to deal with this issue aggressively. I recommend reducing drugs when ever possible, and doing a night time protocol to reduce bacteria in the mouth that builds up, from the dryness. To reverse this tendency, brush you teeth with a peroxide/baking soda tooth paste and then follow with a 30 second gargle and brushing with Listerine. Also, vitamin C, along with D, magnesium, K, boron etc, will keep the gums and bone from receding, and reverse it if it has already progressed. PERIODONTAL HEALTH is a product I formulated that is designed to protect and assist in all aspects of tooth and jaw health.
Here are some studies and reflextion on Flu Shots, type 2 diabetes, and some good news about coffee. Enjoy... cw
Can Flu Shots Really Protect Against the Flu?...
NaturalNews) Reading through the health section of any mainstream media outlet recently would convince most people that it’s time to hurry up, rush out, line up, and get a flu shot. I just entered the search “flu shot” into Google’s news page and got some of the following headlines: “Time for a Flu Shot”, “How to Get a Flu Shot”, and “Where Are You Going to Get Your Flu Shot This Season?”. Makes it sound automatic, sound like something every sensible person should do.
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Reverse Prediabetes with Better Eating Habits and Supplements ...
(NaturalNews) The biggest epidemic in America hasn't come from birds, Asia, or germs. It's caused by the food you put in your mouth, and it has already affected some 70 to 100 million American adults. Doctors refer to the condition as metabolic syndrome, Syndrome X, or insulin-resistance syndrome - or, increasingly, prediabetes. If you have it and don't do anything about it, you'll be on the fast track to full-blown diabetes and a constellation of other health problems."You can diagnose the telltale sign - a pot belly - all by yourself, standing in front of a mirror," says Fred Pescatore, M.D., a nutritionally oriented physician in New York City. "The bigger your belly, the worse off you probably are."In addition to abdominal obesity, the other key signs of prediabetes are high blood pressure, high levels of triglyceride (a type of blood fat), low levels of the "good" high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and high levels of either blood sugar or insulin. High insulin levels point to insulin resistance, a characteristic of glucose intolerance, which hamstrings the body's ability to properly use the hormone to burn sugars and carbohydrates.
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Legumes linked to lower diabetes risk...
08-Jan-2008 - An increased intake of legumes like peanuts and soybeans could reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes by over 40 per cent, suggests a new study.
The dietary habits of over 64,000 women were assessed and correlated with the development of type-2 diabetes over about five years, and a high intake of all legumes was associated with a 38 per cent reduction in risk of developing the disease, report researchers in this month's American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
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Researchers find five cups of coffee per day may keep Alzheimer's away...
If you load up on java in the morning, you may be reducing your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease.Long-term intake of caffeine has been shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease in mice that develop the disease.In a study just published online in the journal Neuroscience, researchers at the Byrd Alzheimer's Institute in Tampa, Fla., reported that caffeine intake equivalent to five cups of coffee per day in humans protects mice with Alzheimer's against further memory impairment and reduces Alzheimer's pathology in their brains.
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Coffee linked to lower ovarian cancer risk...
22-Jan-2008 - Drinking three or more cups of coffee per day may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer by over 20 per cent, according to a new study.
The benefits of coffee consumption appeared to be related to the caffeine content of the beverages, with no benefits observed from decaffeinated coffee, stated the researchers in the journal Cancer. Shelley Tworoger and co-workers from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health also state that the benefits were more pronounced for postmenopausal women and their younger counterparts who had never used oral contraceptives.
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Good health to all of you...
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