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Sueving sweets of exuehing sugar ‘will not harm your chil deen's tooth. That is what Britain's Medical Research Council reports after tests: lasting two years on boys and girls aged from two to 44, living In residential homes In these big English cities. Half the children were fed om dlets containing as much as two and three-quarter pounds of sugar a week for each children. ‘They took’ the sugar in the form of sweeta, jam, honey, syrup and plain sugar. Theireeth did not decay any faster than those of the children who ate all 10 oz, of gat per wesk. ‘ However, immediately following publication of the report, a spokes man of the British Dental As sociation warned Wat *indiscrim inate sucking of sweets and eating of sweet cakes are bad for chil dren’s teeth. He pointed out that the experiments were concerned with sugar added to the ordinary lot and eaten at ordinary mag] azines, ‘They did not concern the oerating of sigar Welwee meats, or LEVT TOR ERELANT with sweet eating, ’ Miss Mollie Dingle and Nis. Mr. Croghan felt here by RMS Naval age fr Leth deseyts the hed Sent in Monday to spend their sun]4t ten woons and the presenes | _ Bee geeetltg Eyaland ‘or absence of proper amounts of a sulla in our mouths. Scientiats are found that sugar [i snfution ves not seem to Increate tooth ceavy] probably because It does not collect on the enamel surface of the tooth, Sallya Washes It off. In al our mouths there re millions of bacteria. We know that |anmaven Bobancock ofter the direct cause of tooth King's Cove arrived in the lly [Coet: Dut why it It that some ing's Cove arrived in the city treople are more subject to erosion Monday on a business trip, and are 1 o¢ youth engines than others? Why [Fealsterea at the Arownsdale Hotel, ]are cavities almost unknown among, POH GEATYER TINS: the Eskimos? Why Is there toss tooth decay In India and China than In the highly Industrialized countries of Northern Europe, Canada, the United States and Australia? We do not yet know he answers to these questions, ‘The hard, outside surface of ur teeth is not either permanent , or nonflying. Studies with radio- See Fon Bore onn fictive substances show that moe Rev. Gordon S. Templeton and iegigt pinced on the surface al is, Templeton left here on Montonthe absorbed Inthe. body. day by the express for Botwood, however, teeth are Very fifferent Where they plan to live ‘during from the body issues. They do their retirement, His many friends ave ie. abilty to. repair Will be glad to bear that Mi. TEI themselves or correct deficiencies proton has fully recovered. from other parts of the body which can the serious accident he amutered in este, mainly the bones, early this past winter. When Relega do their own repair wotch, was knocked down by a et once the teeth begin to decay, they have to have outside help. One of the newest discoveries In the study of tooth decay con cerns the tyroid gland. Research ers have found that when this’ sland is under active accenaibility to tooth decay Incresse. They also found that when died thyrcid is used with fluorine, x chemical re lated 0 iodine and chlorine, the rate of tooth decay is reduced 55 per cent. S All other researchers have re ported that when children ace even extra amounts of Vitamin D teeth are stronger and decay is less prevalent. However, the most important ‘element In’ preserving teeth seems to be fluorine. Both the enamel and the dentine of teeth need Mousine. Evidently uorine should ‘LEFT YESTERDAY Nr. Anthony Mullowney, Linden Court, left here yesterday by TCA, to attend the annual meeting of the Canadian Liquor Commissioners, which will open at Saskatoon on June 13th. FROM FLOWER'S COVE Mr. Augustus C. Norman, business man from Flower's Cove, is at present visiting the city In the Interest of his firm, I LEFT FOR HALIFAX Mr. and Mrs. “Robert Grant, Glenridge Crescent, left here last ‘week for Halifax, where Mr. Grant ‘who was branch manager in St. John's for the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, has been ‘transferred {’ the Hallfar office, ON VACATION. Misa Liltiaia Ghilins of Ware Bays at present pending her ‘vacation to St. Job's ay the ‘vacat of Me. and Mrs. B. Col ns, ARRIVED HOME Mr. William Knowling, Rennie's ‘Bll Road, who has been receiving medical treatment In Quebec for, the past year, arrived home by the Vexpress yesterday. His many friends will be glad, to Tenra that he is feeling fine. HOSPITALIZED Mrs. Artie Bell is at pres ent a patent at the Grace
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St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Wed, Jun 08, 1955
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