Episode 3: Diet Dangers, Dos ‘n Don’ts 

Remember, it pretty much doesn’t matter what you have with breakfast lunch and dinner from a tooth point of view. It’s the snacking between meals that does all the damage. Of course from a health point of view it is very important, but we’re just talking teeth here.

Lets look at common in between meal snacks and rate them:

1.    Really Bad Foods

Soft drinks            Coke is the main evil here but they’re all bad

Cordials                 Normal ones with sugar

Sports Drinks          Save them for the big race, no other time

Fruit Juice             Juice is lolly water. A big health con in my book

Lollies                              Pretty obvious

Cough Lollies           Not so obvious

Dried Fruit            All the sugar is concentrated

Sugared Coffee           And tea

2.    Fairly Bad Foods

Fruit                     Sorry, fruit is a poor in between meal snack.

                             That includes apples (I have do idea why people think

                             apples are good for your teeth)

Muesli Bars            These things are a real joke. They’re really sugar bars

Biscuits                 The better they taste, the worse they are L

3. Good Foods        (Things you can have between meals)

Water                   Water is now cool

Milk                      Plain, not flavoured. Milk also is now cool, Ain’t life funny

Cheese                   Cheese is the best snack

Yogurt                   The plain stuff, not the ones with fruit

Vegetables             All vegies are great snacks

If your snacks are teeth friendly, your teeth will be you friendly

Courtesy of Dr Brett Taylor of Leading Edge Dental