[July 4th]

Cut out all the sugar crap and lose the requirement for fluoride.

Unfortunately, that's a little difficult for most, since it's not just "crap" that has sugar. The sugars in the major "summer" fruits outpace many candies, and can cause the same tooth decay. Frankly, I'd rather brush with fluoride than give up a nice juicy peach.

[phroebe]

Unfortunately, that's a little difficult for most, since it's not just "crap" that has sugar. The sugars in the major "summer" fruits outpace many candies, and can cause the same tooth decay. Frankly, I'd rather brush with fluoride than give up a nice juicy peach.

It's "refined" sugar that's the culprit. I don't buy that myself, figuring it's in enough stuff I might eat inadvertently (like the odd cookie). But living where it's always summer, I have about 3-4 fruit smoothies per week, and I have yet to see my first cavity. It's been decades since I regularly used fluoride toothpaste or drank any water that wasn't bottled spring water, so all that fruit sugar in all those smoothies must be pretty harmless.