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Thank you for your opinion, Michael. Mouth washes and rinses have been used for millenium and is not an invention of "modern culture" as you stated. Modern culture, per se, like anything else, has both positive and negative aspects, but to knock modern culture in general is one-sided and narrow. Tremendous breaktrhoughs in health, science, the arts, technology, etc. come from the modern word. There are millions of people who enjoy its benefits. People like the Taliban may not, and may seek ways to destroy it. It is better to be more flexible in your thinking and allow nature to run its course and let people hold to whatever belief systems they have.
One of the most natural forms of "mouth wash" is water and serves well to remove both food particles and acids from the mouth. Even if you don't brush, rinsing with water after you eat helps to neutralize the efftects of even the most concentrated sugars. Ten percent salt water is even better and adds a more alkaline effect. There are a number of tea rinses that can both help eliminate "bad" bacteria, (such as the decay-causing Streptococcus mutans) such as golden seal, gold thread, myrrh,
ginger, peppermint, and green tea. Green tea has natural flouride in it and helps in remineralization of dental carries.
There are a numer of EXCELLENT natural food products such as Jason Natural, Tom's of Maine, Neways, Nature's Gate, and Peelu that offer eco-logically sound tooth products that are not harmful to your health and I endorse them, just as I would endorse the "dentie" black gel and powder made by the macrobiotic industries. I would howeverr use caution with the powderred dentie as it is very abrasive and can remove tooth enamel.
In my opion there is a GREAT DIFFERENCE between what the natural food industry offers and what the conventional mainstream products offer. Not only in quality, but in their testing methods, use of organics, non-gmo's and a whole list too long for me to go into.
The readership of cybermacro is one that is quite diverse and encompasses both rigid thinking macrobiotics, flexible thinking macrobiotics, new comers to macrobiotics, non-macrobiotics, vegetarians, people that live contradictory lives that use computers, wear clothes spun in modern factories, ride in cars and planes and watch TV's and try to set up modern society as being the Great Satan while they eat whole grains and vegetables (that most likely they didn't grow themselves). It is just those with fanatical interests that do the least for macrobiotics. Macrobiotics is all embracing, a world that is both large and wide. Do not let FEAR dictate your lives. In peace, Roy
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