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The best food, which also promotes good health and helps prevent diseases of all kinds, is fresh and unprocessed whole foods, particularly fruit and vegetables.

The more a food item is processed and modified (and thus loaded up with toxic chemicals) the less of a food it becomes. In fact it becomes a packet for delivering a load of toxic chemicals directly into your stomach. Toxic chemicals that eventually and inevitably produce all kinds of chronic and acute disease conditions.

Someone, perhaps it was Michael Pollan in his superb In Defense of (REAL) Food, suggested that if any package has more than four ingedients on its label, then DONT buy it. He also asked the real question---would your grandmother have recognised what you are about to eat as food---if not, then dont put it in your mouth.

Health care begin with what we put in our mouths on a regular basis. Most of the "food" items that you buy in your supermarket are packets of disease causing toxic chemicals.

The food industry can be part of the solution but there is a long way to go yet.

Tooth decay is the most common and second most expensive disease due to carbohydrate left on teeth after eating being changed by plaque bacteria, to acid demineralisation of teeth.

Most food is trapped between teeth after eating but over 80% of cavities occur inside deep pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces of back teeth where the brush has no access and saliva has no access to neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised tooth nor has fluoride toothpaste access for acid resistant remineralisation.

The main problem is that most processed food as is easy to see on the packaging, has high carbohydrate content especially sugar confection.

Chewing forces food to be trapped between teeth and inside grooves displacing previously trapped food and some foods are hard to displace so confection companies could make sugar free confection to chew before eating to prevent meals or snacks from being trapped while eating. Also to chew after eating to displace any meals or snacks that were trapped and even help saliva neutralise acid and remineralise tooth.

This does't mean you can eat as much confection as you like. Certainly it is important to avoid sugar and even fruit food like heath bars between meals. Also the oral hygiene industry needs to develop better evidence based products to deliver fluoride toothpaste where the brush cannot reach.