1939-03-06 — Page 16

Beauty and You

by PATRICIA LINDSAY

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 6, 1939

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Geoff

Vitamin D from sun and foods helps to build strong lovely

teeth and prevents decay.

Vitamin D Helps Prevent Tooth Decay

How often have you met attractive,

Food Acids Cause: Decay

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10.)

When a man tells he is self-made,” says typing Tillie, “he's

seldom meaning it as an apology."

men and women who have deplor- According to a current article able teeth! And what a shock to on tooth decay by Dr. Herman Bun- you it is. "I wonder why she (or desen, it has been the general be

the sequently less tooth decay: he) doesn't care for his teeth," lief that decay starts from you murmur, without re lizing that outside of the tooth and not from Brushing removes gummy substan- ces and food particles, which if al you may be doing the victim a gravel the inside. “ injustice by surmising he neglects "Forty seven years ago W. D. lowed to remain on the teeth, would his teeth.

Miller contended that tooth decay be likely to ferment and form the The sad condition which meets was caused by germs which pro-acid which causes tooth decay. your eyes may be the result of faulty duced acids from the food particles nourishment while the person was in the mouth," writes this physi growing, or even the ignorance of cian. And years later, Dr. R. W. conclusion, science. For only recently have Bunting came to the the professions begun to realize the "that the child who eats very little compared ṣerious attendant dangers of. tooth starches and sweets, as

has less acid-pro- decay, what causes it and how to with other foods,

ducing germs in his mouth, and con- prevent it.

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ticle with this question: Does this mean that children who have sufficient sunshine, codliver oil or other vitamin D preparations will' not develop tooth decay?

If future studies answer that Nutrition Newer Theory question in the affirmative, what About ten years ago Doctors a simple way to build strong beau- Boyd and Drain reported that they tiful teeth in our growing children! could stop teeth from decaying A lot of sunshine, many juices from high sun-ripened fruits (not green, co- after placing children on a vitamin and mineral diet for two lour-added fruits!), and codliver oil months. Only one year ago, these tonics. Even allow your child to same doctors reported that the im- lie on his back with mouth opened portant factor in stopping tooth to the sun, provided he is protected decay was Vitamin D. When Vita- from dust and insects by thin cheese min D was added in the form of cod- cloth stretched above him. And liver oil, and given every day, the you might try giving your tooth decay in children stopped! mouth a sunning-it is very healing

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