Gum disease, bleeding gums, gum pockets, do you have any of these? Have you ever been told that you need a ’scaling and root planing’ by your dentist?

I’ve been told that. I said no. I did my research. What I found convinced me that I definitely did not want a ’scaling and root planing’.

The dentist and hygienist tried to convince me that I was in danger of losing my teeth and that I needed this procedure. They were partly right. Gum disease is definitely something that can make you lose your teeth. It is a serious condition.

Gingivitis or worse, periodontal disease, is actually dangerous to your overall health. Bacteria can get into the blood stream via infected gums.

That is scary. It really is.

I have good news. The next time I went to the dentist they were impressed. They even said I didn’t need that ’scaling and root planing’ anymore. I was also warned that I needed to ‘keep up’ what I was doing.

What did I do? I bought and started using a Hydrofloss. This device is nothing short of amazing in my opinion. I use it daily and I love how it takes care of my gums. My gums don’t bleed anymore. My gums are happy and it shows.

If you have gum disease or bleeding gums, you are not alone. If you were told you need a gum treatment, such as a ’scaling and root planing’, you are also not alone.

The truth is that a key piece of preventive oral health care is not commonly known by many people. It is actually important to ‘wash’ the neck of the tooth daily. Brushing doesn’t do the job and flossing may not be enough for many or even most people.

It is important to wash around the neck of the tooth. I’ve even heard that it was important to do it with salt water. I don’t use salt water, but I do use a jet stream of water to do the job.

I’ve also found that just using water was not enough for me. I add an oxygenated mouth wash. I add one capful to my Hydrofloss tray on the second pass. It works great, in my opinion.

I didn’t mind spending money on a Hydrofloss, especially if it meant that I was going to keep my teeth. One misconception is that tooth loss is caused by cavities. In most cases, a cavity will not cause the loss of a tooth. Gum disease is primarily responsible for tooth loss in most instances.

The Hydrofloss is the only oral irrigator that I have tried. It worked for me and I will continue to use it.

The Hydrofloss uses magnetized water to clean around the neck of the tooth. Some dentists say that it isn’t necessary to use magnetized water. I read the research and felt that the Hydrofloss was built on sound principles that had been tested.

Whether the magnetized water makes a difference or not doesn’t matter. I know that the Hydrofloss works based on my experience. Therefore, I’m going to keep on using it.

How much does the Hydrofloss cost? It frequently retails for 129 dollars. However, you can purchase the Hydrofloss for only 99 dollars including a bonus oxygenated formula.

Taking care of our gums is something that is very important both for the health of our bodies and for keeping our teeth. With the Hydrofloss, I feel much more confident about my dental health.

This article is for information purposes only. If you have any health problems, including gingivitis or gum disease, see your dentist or doctor for proper diagnosis and treatment.

David Snape writes for ToBeInformed.com You can read more about the Hydrofloss there. ToBeInformed.com is a site about all kinds of health related topics including gingivitis. copyright 2006 all rights reserved.

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I’ve recently created a new page on fat loss as opposed to weight loss. Don’t get me wrong, I think weight loss is fine but I want to make a subtle distinction.

Weight Loss and Fat Loss can be two different things but they don’t have to be. For example if you lose water weight, that is the kind of weight loss that has nothing to do with fat loss.

So it is possible to lose weight without losing body fat. Unfortunately, what we want to lose is fat and not much else.

Water weight loss is temporary, it will come back. Fat weight loss is entirely different.

There are so many concepts that go along with fat loss that it would be hard to discuss them all here. You can sign up for my weight loss email list to learn more about fat loss.

One major concept to fat loss is that you want to be aware of your body’s short term energy supply. When it is full to the brim, there is little chance of burning off fat.

Therefore, you want to deplete that short term energy supply before working out. Once you have depleted it, the body will look to its fat reserves for energy. That is exactly where you want to be.

However, if you eat carbs before working out, your body will have plenty of short term energy reserves and will see not reason to tap into your fat storage supply.

Consistently tapping into the fat storage supply is one key to fat weight loss. Here are two simple ideas to help. After sleeping all night, your body has used much of its short term energy up, it will be easier to get it to burn fat at that time. The second idea is to walk for about 45 minutes before a workout. That will help burn through the short term energy supply.

No time for walking? How about getting out in the yard and raking leaves or something like that? There are plenty of alternatives. I think you get the idea.

There are many aspects to weight loss, this is just one of them. The more you learn, the better equipped you will be to succeed. It may not be enough to get a gym membership. If you have a burning drive to lose weight, just getting a membership may be enough. But, most of us need to know why we are doing something to get motivated in the first place. Once we know the why, we can do it from there. Spend time finding your why.

The reason I think you should join my fat loss / weight loss email list is that you will get a daily dose of fat loss / weight loss talk in your email. You can read a little every day. The key concepts will be hit upon day after day until you are able to burn them into your long term memory.

You can save the emails in a file and refer back to them for motivation or inspiration. You can also revisit your favorites that way. Once you go through the whole series you could resubscribe and go through the series again.

This is a good opportunity for you to get started. Best of all the cost to join the email list is FREE.

This article is for information purposes only. It is not intended to provide advice on weight loss. See your doctor for advice on weight loss and before you change your diet or take up any form of exercise.

David Snape - copyright 2006 all rights reserved (no copy)

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One of the key concepts in weight loss is that one wants to lose fat and not just weight. Losing fat is the goal while preserving other types of body tissue. In particular, we want to maintain as much of our muscle tissue as possible.

One reason to conserve muscle tissue is that it burns the most calories in the resting state. So if we are sitting around and have good muscle mass we will burn calories or energy off at a higher rate than someone with less muscle mass or tone.

The second reason is that weight loss causes a loss of muscle tissue, so we want to counteract that as much as possible by actually lifting weights or doing muscle taxing activities such as isometric resistance or something of that sort.

Again, we want avoid a lot of weight loss at the expense of muscle tone or tissue. If we want to lose weight, we also want to look great. So losing muscle tissue could cause us to look gaunt or under nourished and we don’t want THAT look, do we?

We need to pay attention to our muscles. There are two things that can help our muscles during weight loss.

One is the intake of enough protein or amino acids. The reason for this is that our bodies need a fresh source of amino acids (in combination they are called proteins) once every 8 hours or so. If the body does not have this amino acid supply once every 8 hours, it will start to take the protein straight out of our muscles, causing a loss of muscle mass.

The other consideration with this is that if we do take in a protein, it needs to be a complete protein. A complete protein is one in which all of the essential amino acids are present.

‘Essential’ in nutritional terms means that it is something our body cannot synthesize on its own. In the case of amino acids, a human body uses 22 amino acids, 13 of which it can produce on it’s own from other sources. The other 9 are essential, meaning they absolutely have to come into the body via eating. ( or intravenously, but we aren’t there, are we? ) If they aren’t in our food, our bodies will not be able to build new muscle proteins.

Technically speaking there are only 8 truly essential amino acids. One is semi-essential in adults. That means that there are only certain conditions when it becomes ‘essential’.

Anyway, you need a complete protein, one that has all of the essential amino acids in it. I mention this because we can’t just look at a food label and think we are getting what we need just because it says it has protein in it.

Animal meat and milk, including skim milk, have all of the essential amino acids in them. Soy milk does NOT have all of the essential amino acids. Keep that in mind. It is not a true replacement for cow’s milk for that reason.

If one is a vegetarian, he need not fear. There are food combinations that can help one get all of the essential amino acids at one meal. (I know some people don’t think they all need to be present at one meal, I disagree.) Anyway, as vegetarians, we ought to already know about food combining.

Weight bearing or strengthening exercises are necessary during weight loss to maintain muscle tone and mass. All of the essential amino acids must be present in our food approximately once every 8 hours. Eating should actually be more frequent than that for another reason.

Here are two additional sources for weight loss information aside from my free weight loss list:

Weight Loss E-Book         Weight Loss on Audio

This article is not meant to give advice. It reflects the author’s opinion only. Consult your physician if you need advice on weight loss or any other health issue.

David Snape writes for ToBeInformed.com. You can join his weight loss email list to have more weight loss articles sent to you.

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