Health Affairs Issue: Oral Health And More
The December issue of Health Affairs explores the state of oral health. Editor-in-chief Alan Weil writes that “the divide between dental care and medical care is vast, has significant consequences for patients, and is entirely of our own making.”
More Financial Barriers to Dental Care
While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has brought about a decline in the number of nonelderly adult Americans without health insurance, a much higher share of Americans lack dental insurance. Marko Vujicic of the American Dental Association’s Health Policy Institute and coauthors examined data about financial barriers to care from the 201...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - December 5, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Tracy Gnadinger Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Featured Dental Care Oral Health Source Type: blogs
Are there raccoons in your garden?
Imagine that you are planning to plant a garden in springtime. You clear the soil of grass and weeds, sift out the rocks, fold in some manure or composted material to enrich the soil. You then plant seeds for squash, peppers, maybe some heirloom carrots. You water the garden and then wait for the seeds to sprout, hoping for a glorious bounty of veggies in a couple of months.
But you forgot that there are raccoons, rabbits, and deer in the neighborhood, creatures eager to eat your work. Sprouts come up, leaves, then young vegetables—only to disappear overnight after a raccoon or rabbit feast.
So it goes with the garde...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 3, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten grains microbiome prebiotic probiotic Source Type: blogs
Can Probiotics Improve Memory in Alzheimer's Patients?
Scientists have shown that probiotics can improve memory and cognitive function in dementia patients.Alzheimer's Reading RoomThis research really caught my attention and I wanted to bring it into your awareness.One of the biggest problems I had with my mom was with the"dreaded bowel movement" in Alzheimer's care. It took me a while to convince my mom to drink prune juice.After a while I added a probiotic.The combination of coffee, prune juice, and a probiotic solved the bowel movment problem and after a couple of years of a constant nerve wracking problem - it never happened again. She went like clock work almost every day...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 11, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer care brain dementia care dementia help for caregivers family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia care memory care probiotics science Source Type: blogs
Underuse is Rampant, But Overuse is All We Talk About
By KIP SUILLIVAN, JD
This is my fourth in a series of imaginary lectures on remedial health policy for President Obama. My goal is to convince Obama that he relied on the wrong people for health policy advice. I am focusing on three people in particular: Elliott Fisher and his colleagues at the Dartmouth Institute, Peter Orszag, and Atul Gawande.
In my first comment , I criticized Obama for clinging to the belief that the Affordable Care Act has already reduced health care inflation and will continue to do so in the future. I devoted my second comment to explaining how influential the Dartmouth Institute has been. In my ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Mint Oral Health Tracker for Measuring Volatile Sulfur Compounds in Mouth Now Available to Consumers
Breathometer, a company that became famous on ABC‘s Shark Tank show, is finally releasing its Mint oral health tracker. We spoke with a Brethometer rep last year about the potential for their technology, how it works, and why it was developed. We were intrigued, but it took a few more months than expected for the Mint to finally make it to market and for us to try the device. We were provided with a unit and will have a review of it in a few days here on Medgadget.
The Mint is essentially a device for measuring volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) present in the mouth. These tend to be created by biofilms of anaerobic...
Source: Medgadget - September 28, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Dentistry OTC Source Type: blogs
3 Health Tips from Someone With Experience
Where to Look When You Need Excellent Dental Services
You should know that it is essential for you to take care of your oral health for you to have an excellent quality of life. Probably, you won’t realize it but such extra effort that you are going to put in keeping the mouth clean would help to keep the bacteria away. The presence of an excessive amount of bacteria inside the mouth can cause tooth decay as well as gum disease. Having that well-tended mouth will allow you interact freely with the other people while reducing the trips that you have to make with the dentist. There are those qualified dentists who can...
Source: All Kidney News - August 5, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: admin Tags: Home Products & Services Source Type: blogs
No toothless cavemen here
Here is an excerpt from chapter 1 of the Wheat Belly Total Health book, a discussion of the striking deterioration in health that developed in humans when we first made the dietary error of consuming grains, not recognizing a dietary expedient as a bad choice that resulted in long-term risk for chronic disease.
What happened to those first humans, hungry and desperate, who figured out how to make this one component of grasses—the seed—edible? Incredibly, anthropologists have known this for years. The first humans to consume the grassy food of the ibex and aurochs experienced explosive tooth decay, shrinkage of the maxi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 11, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle abscess gluten grains Inflammation iron tooth decay Source Type: blogs
Oral health for adults in care homes
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - More than half of older adults in care homes have tooth decay compared to 40 per cent of over 75s and 33 per cent of over 85s who do not live in care homes. This guidance calls for oral health and access to dental treatments to be given the same priority as general health for all adults in care homes. Recommendations in the guidance focus on improving and maintaining residents’ day-to-day oral healthcare, ensuring staff are properly trained to confidently look after the oral health needs of residents, and there is adequate access to dental servi...
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 5, 2016 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Social care Source Type: blogs
Natural sweeteners: A quantity and cost comparison
Here’s an interesting comparison I did in my kitchen.
In the Wheat Belly lifestyle, we occasionally desire non-wheat, non-grain snacks, desserts, and treats made without sugar or other unhealthy sweeteners. We therefore reach for natural non- or minimally nutritive sweeteners that allow us to have, for example, a cookie or slice of cheesecake without problems of tooth decay, high blood sugars, inflammation, or any of the other health problems accompanied by foods made with grains and sugar. This allows you to entertain friends, serve treats to kids and grandkids, and enjoy holidays without destroying health.
But such...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 4, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle erythritol lo han guo lokanto monkfruit stevia sugar sweeteners swerve virtue xylitol Source Type: blogs
Oral Health, Veterans’ Health: Tidbits From The Grantmakers In Health Conference
I recently traveled to San Diego to attend the Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual conference. The funding partners (who are like members) of this group are now mostly local or statewide foundations, Faith Mitchell, president and CEO of GIH, told attendees. A record 650 people registered for this March 2016 meeting.
Oral Health
At a breakfast of oral health funders, I learned about the Washington Dental Service Foundation’s focus on system change and policy from the foundation’s relatively new president and CEO, Diane Oakes. One example is Baby Teeth Matter, a Tribal Oral Health Collaborative to help increase the access...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 12, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Lee-Lee Prina Tags: GrantWatch Medicare Access Children Consumers Health Philanthropy Health Promotion and Disease PreventionGW Mental Health Native Americans Oral Health Quality seniors Veterans' Health Care Source Type: blogs
Keeping your kid’s teeth healthy
According to the Centers for Disease Control, 20% of school-aged children have untreated tooth decay.
MedlinePlus has resources for preventing tooth decay and other dental health issues, from birth through adulthood.
Child Dental Health: http://1.usa.gov/1QtrW6d
Dental Health: http://1.usa.gov/1TAdTCj (Source: BHIC)
Source: BHIC - February 22, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Kate Flewelling Tags: Children and Teens Health Information Literacy Source Type: blogs
Brushing Twice a Day Keeps Decay Away – National Children’s Dental Health Month
By Zuryna Smith, System Communications Intern
National Children’s Dental Health Month was introduced by the American Dental Association as a way to provide crucial information regarding oral health in children.
It started as a one-day event in Cleveland. As the importance of the issue of oral health became more prevalent, the one-day event spanned across a week and eventually became a month-long event that garnered global attention.
The ADA provides health fairs, free dental screenings, and other activities that promote the adoption of healthy oral health techniques. This year’s campaign slogan is entitled “Sugar W...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - February 16, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Children's Health Community Outreach Health Tips Kids Dental Hygiene health topics Oral Health Source Type: blogs
The Perfect Storm: Vaccination and Modern Malnutrition
We have the perfect storm for creating an environment that will continue to injure and destroy the health of our most precious gifts, our children. We live in America, which is the most highly vaccinated country on the planet. Vaccinations alone are responsible for tremendous health damage.
We are also a country that consumes a highly processed, sugar-laden, vitamin-deficient diet, which adds its own set of health problems. Good nutrition is the cornerstone of a strong immune system capable of maintaining health and naturally fighting disease. The combination of vaccinations and poor diets contribute to our growing health ...
Source: vactruth.com - February 15, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Top Stories Asthma autism autoimmune disorders Malnutrition official dietary recommendations vaccine schedule Weston Price Source Type: blogs
Supplemental Benefits Under Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly since the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, and now covers 17 million or 33 percent of the 54 million Medicare beneficiaries — up from 13 percent a decade ago. This option allows seniors and the disabled to receive their Medicare benefits from a choice of private health care plans, instead of a single benefit structure managed directly by the federal government through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Much has been written about the relative merits of Medicare Advantage (MA) and Medicare Fee-For-Service from the standpoint of efficiency and care coordination, b...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - January 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Christopher Pope Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy CMS fee-for-service Medicare Advantage Medicare Modernization Act Source Type: blogs
Liberate Your Inner Cow: Life Ungrained
Here’s an excerpt from chapter 1 of Wheat Belly Total Health, the Wheat Belly book that lays out much of the rationale and science behind why so many facets of health, so many abnormal health conditions, reverse with wheat and grain elimination. Short version: humans are simply not equipped to consume any component of grasses, including the seeds (“grains”).
(Only the text is excerpted; I added the photos and illustrations for the blog.)
“Goldfish do not eat sausages.”
Monty Python
Since you are reading this book, ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 7, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gathering gluten grains Grasses hunting ruminant seeds Source Type: blogs
