One study found that using a baking soda toothpaste for six months helped reduce plaque buildup as well as gum bleeding and inflammation ... regular toothpaste. For example: Baking soda can ...

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For example, if you have food allergies ... and meal timing to better manage your symptoms. Xylitol gum: Gum chewing generates extra saliva, which neutralizes the gastric acid in the esophagus.

When you chew gum, you’re essentially gnawing on plastic.

And if you redecorate your home and sand down the old paintwork, the plastic binders in the paint can release microplastics ...

A new study found that both natural and synthetic gum shed microplastics, with each piece of gum producing about 100 pieces ...

The researchers' analysis revealed that the lion's share of the microplastics were released from the gum in the first two ...

Seven pieces of each gum brand were chomped in succession by the participant for four minutes at time. Researchers then collected saliva samples every 30 seconds, along with a sample taken after ...

Both types of gum, the team added, also contained the same polymers—with the most abundant being polyolefins, a group of plastics that includes both polyethylene (used, for example, in plastic ...

The research team also subtracted microplastics found in an initial rinse sample from those in the chewing gum saliva samples to accurately estimate the number of microplastics released from ...