Your Fad Diet May Be Ruining Your Teeth

Every week, there’s seems to always be a new diet to try out, especially since we find it hard to stay on one for long. That’s why we call them diets! Today I want to talk about how different diets we all may or may not have gone through affect our oral health. There are 3 different diets I want to take note of and show you that even though they may seem healthy at first glance, they are still unhealthy diets for your teeth.

Raw Food Diet

Let’s start with the raw foods – fruits, nuts and seeds. They all seem very healthy, in fact you’re supposed to have 2 cups of fruit per day. However, your oral health can really take a hit if this is all that you are eating.

Despite being all natural, most fruits have the same amount of sugar that is found in a chocolate bar or any other sweet candies. Fruits also have a tendency to get stuck in between our teeth, such as a skin of an apple. Not only is the skin stuck and a pain to take out without picking your teeth in front of everyone, leaving it stuck for long only allows bacteria inside of your mouth to find another breeding ground and multiply.

Nuts and seeds are a different story. Each time you crack open a sunflower seed or take a bite into an almond, you’re applying unnecessary pressure onto your teeth, causing them to sometimes loosen or weaken. Eating nuts and seeds alone can degenerate your teeth to the point where anytime you bite into something the wrong way, you may end up losing a tooth. That’s not good. While this diet seems like a healthy one, it sure can lead to lots of tooth pain.

No Carb Diet

If you’ve looked to gain muscle fast while losing weight, you’ve probably have been on a 5:2 diet, a ratio of protein to carbs you consume. Now while the results vary and I can’t tell whether you’ve got the body you wanted or not, I can tell you that this diet is very bad for your breath. See, when the body is on this diet, its breaking down fat, which is what you want. However, the aftermath is a state of ketosis which is the cause of smelly breath. One of the downsides of this diet is that there is no fighting bad breath with any amount of brushing or flossing. Think twice before you cut carbs out of your diet.

Scheduled Meals and Food Plans

If you’re on a food diet plan such as Weight Watchers, you may be eating some very tasty food with low calories, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t bad for your teeth. In fact, because it has little calories, most meals like these make up for that with high volumes of artificial sugar in order to make your food taste delicious. The extra sugar that they put in their meals is what can be very damaging to your teeth. Since there’s such a high sugar content, you may experience levels of tooth decay while on this diet, especially if you signed up for snacks between your square meals.

What I Suggest

It isn’t much, but the best thing that you can do for the sake of your teeth’s health when preparing a food diet is to make your food from scratch. Fresh food daily from the market and a balanced meal is definitely the best thing you can do. This way you can control how much sugar is in your food, how much of it is actually good for your body, and eat things you know are good for your teeth. Do you have a diet plan you’d like to share that is good for your teeth’s health? Share it below, I want to know!