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Could mouthwash put you at risk for diabetes? What you need to know
Today.com ^ | 11/29/17 | A. Pawlowski

Posted on 11/29/2017 12:24:05 PM PST by NohSpinZone

After three years, 30 percent of the people who used mouthwash twice or more a day progressed to pre-diabetes or diabetes, compared to 20 percent of those who used the rinses less frequently. Ultimately, the very frequent mouthwash users had a 55 percent higher risk of developing one of the conditions than the less frequent users, the study notes. The impact stayed the same when the researchers controlled for age, sex, smoking, physical activity, alcohol consumption and other factors.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: diabetes; harvard; mouthwash; study
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To: MayflowerMadam
I use a weak form of rocket fuel.
61 posted on 11/29/2017 7:58:33 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: miniTAX

#21 Having food stuck between teeth can cause bad breadth.
See 2:50 on how bad it can be....

Dragonheart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1CF7p9z-0o


62 posted on 11/29/2017 10:41:22 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: NohSpinZone

Power to you, except for the mouthwash. I am a mouth hygiene fanatic too, but as said before by another freeper, mouthwash zings everything in the mouth, the good bacteries like the bad bacteries. The mouth needs a healthy population of good bacteries in order to ward off external invasions.
Well the good news is most mouthwashes now are mostly placebo, water with very few disinfectant and a lot of perfume and TV ads, one of my cousin is dentist and he tells me that.


63 posted on 11/30/2017 12:23:55 AM PST by miniTAX (n)
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