Guess I missed this thread the first time around...but your statement sounds like a classic coincidental correlation. Correlation is not causation, I'm sure you've heard that lol. Think of all the other things in diet, etc. that changed about the same time.
Steve, yes, there were other factors, but nothing else changed that correlates as well.
We’ve tracked this as the use of toothpaste as a dentifrice was exported to foreign markets, and its substitution for dental powders (90% sodium bicarbonate and its totally coincidental bactericidal benefits) spread and the ensuing 20-30 year lagging growth of the same plaque related diseases in those populations where they did not change diets or other aspects of their lifestyles. . . and where those diseases were not endemic before.
You can’t tell me that these diseases have followed this same pattern everywhere that tasty, pasty sweetened pumice dentifrice (which has zero anti-bacterial ability) has supplanted the use of baking soda as a dentifrice with no major change in cultural dietary norms, yet 20-30 years later that population experiences an identical increase on heart disease, adult onset diabetes, age related senility, and alzheimers and that is not significant???
Steve, yes, there were other factors, but nothing else changed that correlates as well.
We’ve tracked this as the use of toothpaste as a dentifrice was exported to foreign markets, and its substitution for dental powders (90% sodium bicarbonate and its totally coincidental bactericidal benefits) spread and the ensuing 20-30 year lagging growth of the same plaque related diseases in those populations where they did not change diets or other aspects of their lifestyles. . . and where those diseases were not endemic before.
You can’t tell me that these diseases have followed this same pattern everywhere that tasty, pasty sweetened pumice dentifrice (which has zero anti-bacterial ability) has supplanted the use of baking soda as a dentifrice with no major change in cultural dietary norms, yet 20-30 years later that population experiences an identical increase on heart disease, adult onset diabetes, age related senility, and alzheimers and that is not significant???