Healthy Tip #12
I found a health article yesterday morning on Yahoo! News that I can’t quite find again right now. I should not have closed my browser yesterday without saving before evacuating. Guess I learned that lesson.
The health tip was about how we should be sure to keep not only our teeth clean and healthy but also our gums. Why? Because gum disease increases our chances of developing heart disease and heart attacks later in life. Researchers in New Zealand have found that a bacteria that can develop on your gums and can infiltrate your blood stream from white blood cells and then can impact your heart. I thought it was interesting because who would have thought that your mouth has such an impact on your heart. I certainly did not know about this impact. I guess it is another reason why we should concentrate on being healthy all over and not just picking certain areas here and there.
This is a similar article to the one I read yesterday that goes more into detail about these proteins and bacteria that are being linked. Quite an interesting read. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080908203017.htm
