OCR Text |
Show j The Paper t.. . That taj Dares To A ? Take A Stand The UTAH INDEPENDENT December 28, 1972 Bone Meal For Sound Teeth Lack of microscopic traces of the mineral boron leaves beets vulnerable to a disease imilar to tooth decay. The observation started Dr. Aaslanders studies. maintenance of teeth 100 per cent immune against dental caries. Fluoridation must thus be regarded, from the nutritional point of view, as a very unsatisfactory ' method of combating dental caries.... uIt may be added that, according to analyses made by the writer, fluorine content of the tap water in Stockholm is .30 p.p.m. compared with a content of .26 p.p.m. in the tap water in Bonn. In Stockholm practically 100 per cent of the schoolchildren have dental caries, while in Bonn more than SO per cent leave school without any trace of dental caries. It is evident that the fluorine content of the tap water does not govern the rate of dental caries. From the nutritional point of view, we must strive to attafh a complete form of nourishment for the teeth, especially during the periods of tooth formation. Prevention of Dental Caries The writer has been forced to try to prevent dental caries in children. As a boy around the turn of the century I suffered severely from toothache in spite of the fact that I grew up on a dairy farm and on a diet with plenty of milk and other home-produc- ed foods commonly assumed to provide good teeth. The conclusion from the point of view of plant nutrition must be that the common diet is lacking in elements essential for the formation of teeth resistant to dental caries. In 1938 my first child was born and it became a matter of paramount importance to me to save that child from the plague of my childhood, dental caries. The fact that my wife has, if possible, an even larger number of mended teeth than I have myself, gave added weight to the problem. was no hereditary resistance against dental caries to be expected. Our child's diet had to be better than that given to me in my childhood. Improvements in the organic nutrients of the diet did not seem possible to any vital degree; the desirable improvements in the diet had most probably to lie in the field of its mineral nutrients. It was desirable to find a mineral supplement of such universality that perfect teeth could be produced.... Bone meal must be such a universal mineral nutrient. The bulk of bone meal consists of tricalcium phosphate just as in the case of the teeth. In addition, bone meal contains a good many trace there Apparently, elements including fluorine, strontium and vanadium and probably all those essential for the teeth. The selection of bone meal as the universal tooth nutrient was aided by two observations. 1. Bone meal is used, and has been used extensively for a long time, in the feed given to farm animals, especially pigs brought up on a feed consisting mainly of grain, potatoes and skim milk. Without bone meal such pigs often suffered attacks of osteomalacia (softening of the bone). 2. Our forefathers used to eat bone - and they had perfect teeth. The bones eaten were those of small fish, mostly from the small Baltic herring which was - and many places still is - a daily fare. In olden times the herring was grilled over the open fire on the hearth and eaten with head and tail, bones and all. It seems safe to conclude that this daily bone diet was a factor of decisive influence for the production of. the perfect teeth of our forefathers. When this method of cooking fish disappeared with the open health, the decay of the teeth started with a vengeance. Bone Meal Diet Starts Early In 1940, the bone meal period 50 pound bag of wheat with demonstration MAGIC MILL child. For started for our first-bor- n our children born in 1941 and 1944 the bone meal diet started as soon as the mothers milk was supplemented with other foods, for instance, orange juice. The first dose was around 10 milligrams. It was increased steadily so that the daily dose at the age of two years was around .5 to 2 grams, a small teaspoonful. The bone meal has always been given mixed w'ith fruit juices, the reason being twofold. In the first place, the fruit juice makes the bone meal more palatable and, secondly, the slightly acid juice was able to dissolve the bone meal to some extent. Thus the children have been given more or less soluble bone meal, w hich probably has facilitated its digestibility. . . . 1 Stone Flour and Cereal Grinder BOSCH UNIVERSAL FOOD HIRER AND II DREAD HIRER XT Concerning A Demonstration or Dealerships, call your Salt Lake Distributor: For Information Sweeten Robert 2842 So. 2475 East S.L.C., Utah 84109 Telephone 466-353- 5 time will come when gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat" -Brigham Young 'The ON HEALTH Dr. Allen E Banik's fabulous original health report to the nation "THE CHOICE CLEAR". Enjoy your body more IS at 40 - 70 than at TWENTY. Reversing the aging process. Send The result was perfect teeth, in spite of the fact that the diet for the later children was not so carefully planned as for the first-bor- n. Toothbrushes have not been used more than once a day, in the evening before going to bed. No tooth paste has ever been used, only pure water. The experimental conditions have thus been in no way especially favorable for the production of teeth free from dental caries. In spite of this the teeth of the children have been and are of an exceptionally good quality The excellent results of the bone meal diet must be due to the fact that bone meal contains all the nutrients that are essential for the complete nutrition of the teeth. In terms of plant nutrition, bone meal is a complete fertilizer for the growth of the teeth. The growing tooth and perhaps also the is able to select tooth from the complete nutrition any element that is needed under any conditions. . . . Children have . . . been found to grow perfect teeth on a small daily dose of bone meal with a fluorine content of around .03 per cent - the bone meal which the w riter has been using. Bone meal is a natural product and has most probably a suitable composition as far as its fluorine content is Vitamins alone do concerned not seem to prevent dental caries to any appreciable degree. The present situation is that less than one person out of every ,000 is free from dental caries. Only by giving nutrition the teeth complete according to the bone meal method can complete freedom from dental caries be obtained. Sognnaes . . . summarized the results of a series of investigations. . . ; He points out that tooth decay is not an allergy, an inflammation, an atrophy or a cancer; it is a disease in a class by itself. The tooth is not a rocklike, inert structure, a passive prey to its environment of bacteria, food debris and acids. The tooth is a living thing. In the erupting teeth of children the exchange of certain elements such as calcium and phosphorus is 10 times more rapid than in teeth that have been in the mouth for a long time. Monkeys do not develop cavities, even when fed a sticky sugar mixture, unless they previously had suffered from multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies. It has been shown experimentally that the quality of nutrition plays a decisive Yole during the embryologicaland early infant phase of tooth development. In short: complete nutrition has been found to be the most important factor for the growth of teeth resistant dental caries, which has been the working hypothesis of the bone meal method for the last 20 years. . ... full-gro- 1 Swedish Are Dept.Bj 3 255-000- 3 objective m, their deficient synthetic mixture had little or no Naturally, ability to improve the health of teeth. By labeling that mixture artificial bone meal" however, they produced a study that will certainly be used often in the effort to prove Dr. Aaslander wrong and to claim that bone meal is of no value in tooth nutrition. What have they actually succeeded in proving though, to the careful reader of the study, is that you cannot decide any particular element in bone meal as the important one and use that element alone to fight against tooth decay. You have to do precisely w hat Dr. Aaslander did use the whole natural bone meal to nourish the teeth to their maximum health. The healthy tooth, it seems, is a better fighter against todth decay than any chemical mixture that can be slapped together in a laboratory. suppose that Swedish dentists generally would approach the question of bone meal nutrition with more open minds. As pointed out in the London Timex, however, if bone meal is really as perfect a November, 1972. Subscription Kates: One year S5.85, Two Years SI 0.45, Three Years S 14.45. Published Address: monthly. Kodale Press. Inc., 33 East Minor Street, Emmaus, Pennsylvania. Prevention magazine, SILVER BULLION 999 fine guaranteed LAVELL BUTT AGENCY Enterprises 84047 Phone running seemingly experiments with nearly invisible but highly significant changes that assure they will not work properly. Such an experiment is reported in Curies Research (Vol. 6, No. 3, 1972) by three Swedish dental investigators. Gustasson, Stelling and Brunius. These three investigators of high repute tested whether the inclusion of bone meal in the diet would have any effect on the incidence of caries in the golden hamster. It was a very careful test concluding that the only element in bone meal that could have a cariostatic effect is the calcium fluoride and that this is less effective than fluoridated water. U ndoubtedly the study will be cited many times by dentists in many parts of the world as an argument for water fluoridation. Here is the joker, however. Gustasson, Stelling and Brunius didnt use bone meal at all. They used a chemical mixture of calcium fluoride, hydroxyapatite and calcium carbonate. Hydroxyapatite is calcium phosphate. So they used cal-iuphosphorus calcium fluoride calcium and carbonate. No strontium. No magnesium. No molyb denum. None of the other trace elements, that are found in bone meal and that Dr. Aaslander has pointed out are absolutely vital, even as traces, to complete tooth nutrition. From checks, please!), if not satisfied - money cheerfully refunded. Stewardship Hugo Witt Utah Still preventive of tooth decay as it .now seems to be. it could put some 70 per cent of the dentists out of business. It might well be asking a degree of altruism of which the human being is incapable to expect the dental profession to welcome an advance that could cut deeply into dental incomes and might foice many of the profession to simply close their offices and go into another line of work. ' There is a subtle and highly effective' scientific technique that is used over and over for the assassination of any unwelcome advance in science. It involves With water fluoridation eliminated in Sweden, you might order (no 560 East 7800 South, Midvale, Dentists Fighting $2.00 cash or money wn Page 5 .278-661- 1 I SWISS OF AMERICA inwJmiiiimni |