Preventing Bad Breath Video

Bad breath can be avoided by maintaining good hygiene and watching what you eat. Learn some tips for keeping your mouth fresh and clean in this healthy shopping video.

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Caused by bacteria in teeth
Citrus fruits can help
Maintain good hygiene

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Alice Merritt is currently the Campus Dietitian at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. She has a masters degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in public health with a concentration on nutrition. Alice has worked as a registered dietician for four years, and believes that helping people reach their nutritional goals will lead to a long and healthy life.

ALICE MERRITT: I am now going to talk to you about how to prevent bad breath. Bad breath is typically caused from bacteria that get into spaces in between our teeth and grow and live on some of the foods that we eat. Foods that can help you prevent bad breath are things like apples, pears, citrus fruits, things that have a crisp bite to them because it kind of mimics the brushing teeth motion and helps eliminate some of that bacteria. There's also some foods that can increase your risk of bad breath and those tend to be things like garlic, strong onions, spices. Another thing that could increase bad breath is following a low carbohydrate diet. A lot of people have been interested in the Atkins diet and South Beach diet. These low carbohydrates diet burn fats for fuel and a byproduct of fat burning is ketones and ketones can actually cause the bad breath. So if you are following a low carbohydrate diet and experiencing bad breath, it is good to increase your carbohydrates. So top things to remember about preventing bad breath, you want to follow a very good oral hygiene routine, brushing at least two times a day and flossing. Also incorporate some bad breath fighting foods like eating apples, pears, anything that has got a good crunch to it, citrusy fruits. Also avoid eating things causing bad breath: garlic, onions, strong spices. And overall just make sure you take good oral hygiene and that will help have good nutrition.

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