Good morning and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We are going to take a little different approach this morning to our delivery of today's topic to you.

We're going to do an old-fashioned book review on a book that is full of important information and actually on a topic that we've only really ever covered once ever

on dishing up nutrition.

And this topic is about oral health.

It's about our teeth, about our gums, our facial structure, our jaw structure, our airway

formation, and how all of these things are connected to what we eat. It's connected to our

nutrition. The information-packed book that we're going to be talking about this morning is called

The Dental Diet. It was written by Dr. Stephen Lynn, who is a board-accredited dentist and an author

who practices dentistry down in Australia.

So before we introduce ourselves, I have a couple of questions for the listeners.

Did you realize that 42% of kids develop holes in their baby teeth?

So yes, I said that that 42% of kids develop cavities in their baby teeth. So yes, I said that that 42% of kids develop cavities in their baby teeth.

And did you know that 4 million kids in the U.S. wear braces because of crooked teeth? And did you know

that the number of people who are wearing orthodontics doubled between 1982 and 2008.

So those are really startling statistics. And Dr. Lynn, who's the author of the dental diet,

points out that the role of food and nutrition plays in tooth decay and why so many people have

crooked teeth. It's a book packed why so many people have crooked teeth.

It's a book packed with so many little nuggets of information.

And let me say this right now.

His book goes way beyond just limiting our sugar intake and how sugar can be harmful for

our oral health.

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