[PHNUTR-L] Guess What Fights Bad Breath?

[Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD]

Colleagues, the following is FYI and does not necessarily reflect my own
opinion. I have no further knowledge of the topic.
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Guess What Fights Bad Breath?
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/yogurtbreath/yogurtbreath&floc=wn-np

If you want to freshen your breath in the middle of the work day, eat 
some yogurt. A new study from Tsurumi University in Yokohama, Japan 
concludes that eating yogurt every day may keep your breath fresh and 
reduce the offensive odors of halitosis, reports HealthDayNews.

How much yogurt do you need to eat? Six ounces of sugar-free yogurt will 
do it.

Bad breath is not caused by the onions you had for lunch, but rather by 
anaerobic bacteria that breed on the back of the tongue. These bacteria 
produce volatile sulfur compounds. One of those compounds, hydrogen 
sulfide, is what causes your breath to smell like rotten eggs.

	
	
	

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The Japanese researchers realized that regular yogurt consumption not 
only prevented gastrointestinal problems, but also reduced the risk of 
dental decay. "We are thinking that yogurt must be good for oral health, 
also," study co-author Nobuko Maeda, a professor of microbiology at 
Tsurumi University told HealthDayNews. So they recruited 24 volunteers, 
each of whom received identical instructions for oral hygiene, diet, and 
medication intake.

The study: Initially, the participants were told to not eat yogurt or 
products containing streptococci and lactobacilli, such as cheese and 
pickled vegetables, but in the second half of the study they consumed a 
little more than three ounces of yogurt twice a day for six weeks. 
Samples of their saliva and tongue coatings were collected, and 
researchers measured the volatile sulfide compound concentrations in 
their mouths.

The results: After six weeks of eating yogurt daily, the hydrogen 
sulfide levels decreased in 80 percent of the volunteers who had bad 
breath. The yogurt also significantly reduced plaque and gingivitis in 
people who had bad breath, compared with the initial phase when they did 
not eat yogurt.

The study, which was funded in part by a major Japanese yogurt maker, 
was presented to a meeting of the International Association for Dental 
Research in Baltimore, Md.
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/package.jsp?name=fte/yogurtbreath/yogurtbreath&floc=wn-np
-- 
Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD < fivestar at nutritionucanlivewith.com >
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