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Like telling people who are complaining about cavities to brush their teeth more like it.
by Avamander 8y ago
Like telling people who are complaining about cavities to brush their teeth more like it.
- mmt 8y agoI wish you had picked an example less fraught with flamewar potential, as this one has the sugar industry and water fluoridation firmly attached.
- jacobolus 8y agoPeople complaining about cavities should stop eating so much sugar. Brushing their teeth is only a band-aid and doesn’t attack the core problem. And yeah, that means they should probably stop eating processed food with added sugar. Which means they should avoid most of the shelves in the supermarket. It’s a serious problem which goes far beyond personal responsibility. Our whole industrial food system is designed to deliver as much teeth-rotting food [as a bonus, also causes diabetes and heart disease and obesity] to as many consumers as cheaply as possible, while convincing those consumers that there’s nothing wrong. Not only that, we subsidize it heavily using our collective tax money.