Dental Analyzer

Can we talk? There is something I need to tell you, and that is that you smell bad. You smell bad in the morning. You smell bad in the afternoon. You smell bad in the evening. Your breath is a cross between a bad toilet and a garbage can. I am sorry to say, but this is really true.

Maybe you do not notice this. And you are walking around thinking you look nice. You lost a little weight. You have a good haircut finally. Your clothes look nice. You are driving a hip car. Your bank account is full; your house is beautiful. You are thinking to yourself what more could I ask for? Well are you?

But here is the thing. A lot of people and that means A LOT, are thinking none of these things when they think of you. They are thinking you smell bad. Really bad and for you that is really not good, they are not seeing the flash car, they are not seeing the new hair cut or the weight loss, all they see is that person who smells really badly, yes that person is you.

If you are lucky, then they are considering an intervention, maybe. If they are in close quarters with you then they are seriously considering this. But maybe things are worse than that. Maybe they are thinking they do not want to be in close quarters with you anymore. You have to get this: You are very un-kissable. It some cases, you are virtually un-kissable. You are un-huggable. Driving with you in a closed car is no fun either, breathing in the stench and not being able to do anything about it. Sitting next to you in a theater is a chore. That, over the course of a lifetime, can be quite a problem and lets face it if you don do not know it is there, you will not be looking for a solution, will you?

Maybe you do know this. Maybe you are trying to take definitive measures to stem the problem. You are popping mints every time you put out a cigarette, or maybe you take a hit of mouthwash five or six times a day. We need to talk, because the thing is, the mints are not doing any good. They mints do very little to take away the smell of tobacco. In fact the result is even more nauseating, its just Mint-Marlboro, and it is not pleasant.

Also, the smell is not just on your breath. It is on your clothes and it is in your hair, and on your hands and on your skin. So unless you plan on taking a steam bath each time you smoke (with your clothes on) then you are going to smell like this forever. That is depressing.

Do you honestly want to be thought of as a pigpen? Someone who walks around with a cloud, someone that will smell forever? Well do you?

Mike Durand
http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/you-smell-bad-51670.html

It all started with eggs.

We weren’t supposed to eat them as they contain cholesterol, the stuff that leads to furring of the arteries and heart problems. Then that piece of advice suddenly disappeared when research suggested that eating foods high in cholesterol doesn’t lead to an increase in that substance in the bloodstream. Instead the blame was laid at the door of saturated (ie animal) fat. Not that there were any clinical trials to prove this. The theory was formulated because of epidemiological evidence, the study of nations, usually non-western, where the incidences of heart disease and bowel cancer are lower.

The food industry embraced the idea warmly, and produced a vast range of foods which were claimed to be low in fat (note how the ’saturated’ bit got lost.) Eat a diet low in fat and you’ll be healthy and slim we were told.

Then a funny thing happened. Lots of people started to get fat. They continue to do so, with childhood obesity being a particular problem.

Meanwhile, on the Atkins diet, a regime high in fat and protein but low in carbohydrate, success was had by some in losing weight. It should have been obvious that this was going to happen, because the nutritionists said it wouldn’t do. Not that Atkins is necessarily the answer. The side effects, such as bad breath, constipation and feeling lousy, are well documented, but its record in shedding the pounds punches holes in the theory that a diet low in fat, moderate in protein and stuffed with carbs is the way to go.

With advances in the analysis of blood it is no longer necessary to wait until someone keels over before the effects of their diet can be assessed, and it’s here that another myth, the one that says cholesterol is bad for you, bites the dust. It now emerges that there are two types. High density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol helps prevent the build up of deposits on artery walls whilst low density lipoprotein (LDL) has the opposite effect. The proportion of HDL to LDL cholesterol is as significant as the overall level in the bloodstream. Has anyone apologised for the previous duff information that was imparted? Like hell.

There’s a quietly emerging school of thought that takes dietary theory away from the idea that protein, fat and carbohydrate should be consumed in specified percentages. Instead we should be eating foodstuffs that have been around as long as humans have. Staples should be meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts and pulses, food that the body is designed to process. There is logic to this theory, but still the establishment continues to pump out the guff that a low fat diet is desirable when evidence doesn,t back this up.

To summarise, the misinformation that’s been bandied about for the last thirty years:

Eggs are bad for you - no they’re not.
Cholesterol is bad for you - not necessarily.
Fat is bad for you - wrong again.

Here’s a better piece of advice: Nutritionists are bad for you.

Richard McCormick
http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/nutritionists-are-bad-for-you-126168.html