Dental health with a raw diet

It is known that people who eat raw food more often have to deal with dental problems than people who live a different diet. Raw foodists usually complain increasingly about caries and sensitive teeth.

What are the reasons for this???

In the most common cases, it is the acidification in the body and the increased consumption of acidic and sugary foods that can attack the tooth enamel. However, this can be counteracted with several alkaline balancing meals.

Mainly dental problems come from mineral deficiency. If you absorb too few minerals, the body absorbs them from its own reserves, just from the teeth or from the bones, which in turn can result in osteoporosis.

It is therefore important to absorb a lot of calcium, magnesium and other minerals. This works best with lots of green vegetables, leaf salads or wild herbs. Another source of minerals is algae.

It is well known that fruits contain a lot of fructose and acidity, depending on their species, degree of ripeness and origin. If you eat a lot of fruit, you should always eat greens, as fructose and acids can attack the teeth. In most cases, this is first noticeable through sensitive tooth necks.

In children, it is often difficult for them to consume a large amount of "greens". Here it is advisable to pack the whole thing in green smoothies. By mixing the "greens" in a high-performance blender, all ingredients are better broken down and can thus be better absorbed and metabolized by the body. Since children usually prefer it a little sweeter, they add banana and apples to spinach, for example.

It is certainly also important, not only with a raw diet, to consistently carry out home dental care. Regular dental check-ups are self-evident.