Pizza bagels, chewing gum and bottled water want to play a starring new role in our diets: Foods that can be called “healthy.”
Buckingham Palace has revealed a sticky reality -- Queen Elizabeth II is looking for a cleaner who can oversee the removal of chewing gum left by visitors to a royal residence.
The numbers are alarming. According to the 2006 National Oral Health Survey, which looked into the health status of public elementary schoolchildren, 97.1 percent of six-year-old children suffered from tooth decay (dental caries). It was, therefore, a bit of a surprise when a dentist recently suggested that children might benefit from chewing gum.
