Mistress Tatiana
Apr 26th, 2002, 07:11:33 PM
Wow! BEST Snack for Your Teeth Is...
By Cathryn Conroy, CompuServe News Editor
...a chocolate bar! And experts are saying this--not chocoholics. According to a study by the New York University Dental Center that was published in the journal Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, a chocolate bar is a far superior snack for your teeth than wheat crackers, potato chips, or corn chips. While it's ideal to brush your teeth after meals and snacks, that's not always possible. So if you're hungry and won't be able to brush after you eat, snack on a chocolate bar since it will do the least damage to your teeth. The other snacks, which are made of starch, tend to stick to your teeth for a long time. Your saliva washes away the sugar in the chocolate bar. The worst snack of all for your teeth is potato chips, which creates more harmful acid production than either the corn chips or wheat crackers.
There are some who think a chocolate a day may keep the doctor away. What is giving chocolate its health food status are the flavonoids (the same thing that makes red wine good for you), which help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation. They also reduce blood clotting, which can cause heart attacks and strokes. "More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects," Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, told Reuters.
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Yup! I definatly Live Wire will be happy to hear this one. Poor Helenias can't eat chocolate though. :(
::gets a chocolate snack while no one's looking::
:crack
By Cathryn Conroy, CompuServe News Editor
...a chocolate bar! And experts are saying this--not chocoholics. According to a study by the New York University Dental Center that was published in the journal Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, a chocolate bar is a far superior snack for your teeth than wheat crackers, potato chips, or corn chips. While it's ideal to brush your teeth after meals and snacks, that's not always possible. So if you're hungry and won't be able to brush after you eat, snack on a chocolate bar since it will do the least damage to your teeth. The other snacks, which are made of starch, tend to stick to your teeth for a long time. Your saliva washes away the sugar in the chocolate bar. The worst snack of all for your teeth is potato chips, which creates more harmful acid production than either the corn chips or wheat crackers.
There are some who think a chocolate a day may keep the doctor away. What is giving chocolate its health food status are the flavonoids (the same thing that makes red wine good for you), which help maintain a healthy heart and good circulation. They also reduce blood clotting, which can cause heart attacks and strokes. "More and more, we are finding evidence that consumption of chocolate that is rich in flavonoids can have positive cardiovascular effects," Carl Keen, a nutritionist at the University of California, Davis, told Reuters.
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Yup! I definatly Live Wire will be happy to hear this one. Poor Helenias can't eat chocolate though. :(
::gets a chocolate snack while no one's looking::
:crack