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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by ballenf on Sunday August 06, 2023 @01:36PM (#37024516)
The sugary foods advice is true if you're talking about refined sugars, but I recall a study showing that raisins, e.g., are much better than refined flour in terms of damage to teeth. Despite having much higher sugar content.

Here's an article about the study: https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/raisins-and-dental-health/

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by jzawodn on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:02PM (#37024784)
You know what flour turns into very, very quickly in you digestive system?

Sugar.

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Re:I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Differ... by eropple on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:31PM (#37025087)
The comment was about teeth, though, and flour/meal is abrasive, though. Not to the degree it was in prehistoric times--dental health went to hell during the transition to sedentarism, thought mostly to be due to milling introducing rocks etc. to the meal--but, setting aside that both are nutritionally probably not great, it stands to reason that the stuff mentioned in that blog post (mostly grain-derived) have more ways to stick to the surface of teeth and hang around to mess up mouth pH.
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