Attention…This Food is Dangerous to your Teeth and Health:

Our Southern California Bioidentical Dental office routinely offers nutritional advice for dental and total body wellness.  We believe that oral health and total body wellness depend on one another for balance.   As many of us know, soda and diet soda drinks are known to cause the breakdown of tooth enamel.  This leads to high amounts of acidity in the mouth, causing cavities.  Once the tooth enamel is weakened, it is difficult to rebuild and strengthen before a cavity is developed.  Aside from soft drinks, any drink with citric acid and artificial sweeteners using aspartame or Splenda is extremely harmful to your health.  Aspartame was approved by the FDA as a food additive in the early 1980’s.  Interestingly, the FDA denied the approval of aspartame for 15 years prior to this date.  With persistence and politics, aspartame was approved with little research showing dangers of it as an additive to food and drinks.  To date, there has been more than 90 independent studies proving the dangers and health risks associated with aspartame aka Nutrasweet.  As for  Splenda sweetener, it was discovered first for its pesticide abilities.  Unfortunately, we are the test group to determine the long term effects of these dangerous additives.  The light at the end of the tunnel is that sweeteners like Xylitol and Stevia are healthy natural alternatives and are safe for diabetics.

How do artificial sweeteners harm the body?…..

The following is a quote from an article entitled Aspartame: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You.

Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol “is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic.” They recommend a limit of consumption of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing products consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 times the EPA limit.

Here is a list of serious health problems associated with aspartame:

Diabetes                         Lymphomas                         Leukemia

Anxiety                           Memory Loss                       Asthma

Brain Cancer                  Depression                       Autoimmune Disorders

Fatigue                           Headaches                         Stomach Problems