Stone age Julia Roberts

Ananova ^ | 11/17/2004 | Staff

[rightinthemiddle]

"He's got a pretty mouf, ain't he?"







Squeeeel, boy.

[Little Bill]

Rule Brittania, The US of A rules the waves..............Your sons and daughters, in the USA, shall never, never, never be slaves!.

[BenLurkin]

"Archaeologists now believe stone age man must have had a secret way of making toothpaste." Oh really? Antediluvian mystery ping

[Hatteras]

There is really only one stone age woman with perfect teeth...

[BreitbartSentMe]

Archaeologists now believe stone age man must have had a secret way of making toothpaste.

Uh, maybe just not eating sugar constantly????

[Rockpile]

So, they found a bony woman with an empty skull? By golly she IS like Julia Roberts.

[AZLiberty]

Tooth decay is not entirely dietary. It is caused by a particular type of bacterium, streptococcus mutans, that is commonly transmitted from mother to child. Many in the dental community believe that children of a mother with poor dental health are at much higher risk of tooth decay, because of the additional exposure to the bacterium. Vaccines are being developed against this bacterium, and mutant strains of the bacterium are being developed that lack the genes to turn sugar into damaging acid.

Hence, it's possible that these isolated populations benefited by being isolated from the tooth decay bacterium rather than from the tooth decay diet.

[South40]

Is her name also Julie Roberts?

Also? Her name is Julie, not Julia as in the topic of this thread. And she sings as good as she looks...almost.

Julie Roberts.com

[Rytwyng]

Tooth decay is not entirely dietary. It is caused by a particular type of bacterium, streptococcus mutans, that is commonly transmitted from mother to child

However, populations on primitive diets have much denser teeth, which better resist dissolution by acid producing bacteria. Furhtermore, humans on an optimal diet constantly remineralize their teeth via saliva, and experiments on "civilized" folk show that a dietary change can actually stop in-progress caries, despite the presumed presence of the decay producing bacteria.

Finally, the isolated populations had perfectly straight teeth on primitive food, then got collapsed faces, crooked/impacted teeth -- in addition to decay -- after the switch to storebought food. It's just impossible that there's a non-dietary explanation for this. And how do you explain the arrest of tooth decay (without dental work!) by dietary changes alone?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks for the ping Ben. "Archaeologists now believe stone age man must have had a secret way of making toothpaste." Unfortunately, it took another 8000 years for someone to invent the first toothbrush. Oh well, at least they had nice obsidian mirrors right away. ;')

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