I have been reading articles a lot less lately as Evelyn is home for the summer and I am pretty busy taking care of her and Maya. I get to work for about 4 hours each morning alone at a cafe somewhere in Denver and then I am charged with doing kid stuff for the rest of the day. Writing and reading about health and fitness are very much on the back burner for the summer.
On top of my daily responsibilities, I am reading a good book too. My brother is also a writer and just came out with his second novel called Copout. It is a fantastic story. The language, characters, scenes are all brilliant. But since I don’t have much time to read right now, I’m reading it at a snails pace.
So, here are the few pieces I collected over the last couple of weeks that should make you laugh or scream… if you’re actually at home and interested on this holiday weekend!
“Micro beads of plastic that act as abrasives in facial scrubs are too tiny for water treatment plants to filter, so they wash into the Great Lakes. Yellow perch, turtles and seagulls eat them, get sick and die. Not good.” Microplastic pollution in the Great Lakes
My friend, Will, runs this Paleo food truck in Denver. He is looking to build up votes to get on the Denver A List. His food is awesome. If you live in the area you should check it out.
Oreo cookie butter?!! Seriously, the photographer takes great photos and all but won’t last long if this is what she’s munching on…
I am a proponent of eating raw some foods raw. A healthy gut is the biggest key to avoiding food borne illnesses when and if they are present (which itself isn’t very likely when eating grass fed, free range meats). A scientific article confirms the connection between the battle between good and bad bacteria in the gut. If we do happen to come into contact with a pathogen, our own good bacteria should be able to protect us.
Incontinence, even while exercising, is not normal! There’s a chapter about it in my book, Primal Moms Look Good Naked, which I worked on with physical therapist, Ann Wendel, and then there is this amazing, and amazingly long article about it right here: CrossFit, Your Pelvic Floor and Peeing During Workouts. And here’s another: A Wee Problem with CrossFit
And here is how they report this bullshit in the news: Vaginal Delivery Ups Risk of Pelvic Organ Prolapse. They are basically scaring women into getting a c-section rather than taking their health into their own hands and strengthening tissues and muscles. Argh!
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July 5, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Oy. That peeing-during-crossfit thing is crazy. I just started crosfitting and it is kicking my butt, sure enough. For a week I walked like Frankenstein, then another week I had t-rex arms. No peeing yet. I can’t believe they would actually claim that it is ok/normal/good to pee during a workout! I mean, I can definitely feel the competitive urge but I would be seriously concerned, not to mention embarassed, if I ended up in a puddle of pee! I would imagine that leakage is a sign from your body that something is amiss, right up there with the sort of pains that gave me the t-rex arms. I learned from that and I am going to treat my body with respect so that I can get stronger, not crippled!
Thanks for the good reading!
July 6, 2013 at 1:00 am
Hey Peggy, I have a burning question for people in the paleo community, although it is totally unrelated to this article.
What is your opinion on wisdom teeth?
I just visited a biological dentist for a cleaning and they mentioned I should consider having my wisdom teeth removed, even though they could not tell if any or them that are impacted or not. I left quite pissed off, because from what I’ve read having wisdom teeth removed is no easy procedure, and is majorly invasive and painful, and they suggested this not knowing wether or not it is a completely pointless unnecessary surgery for me or would be beneficial. wtf?!
In my opinion, we have them for a reason, and with proper nutrition as children they should grow in without any problems. Unfortunately, even adults with proper ancestral based nutrition today may have not eaten that way as kids when nutrients were crucial to jaw development and widening, so despite their efforts now, they still have tooth problems stemming from those diets.
Is it too late? are we doomed to need all kinds of oral surgeries? Is there anything one can do to avoid getting wisdom teeth out at all costs? Do you or anyone else know at what point would they truly need to come out? Any information or experiences would be much appreciated to me and I’m sure other people could benefit as well
July 6, 2013 at 2:30 pm
I’m 51 and still have my wisdom teeth. Fortunately, they came in straight and have never been impacted. I’ve had a number of dentists recommend their removal, but since they couldn’t give me a good reason for the surgery, I never went ahead with it. Also, a flute playing friend of mine was left with permanent numbness in half her tongue when she had her wisdom teeth removed–not good for a musician. That was enough to put me off wisdom tooth surgery for good.
July 7, 2013 at 9:46 am
I have my wisdom teeth – I’m 32. Having them grow in was a long and annoying process, but they’re there now, and they certainly don’t give me any trouble. Have your wisdom teeth grown in? (I’m just making the assumption that if you’re reading Peggy’s blog then you are probably an adult!) I would see no point to take them out if they are in and not bothering you! Some medical people just assume that normal parts of healthy humans, like teeth and pregnancy, need medical intervention when that ought to be the exception.
July 9, 2013 at 8:26 am
I am with Nicholle on this. If the wisdom teeth are not causing a problem, why would you have them removed? I am not a dentist but I really don’t understand this at all. If your mouth is large enough to accommodate the extra teeth, then keep them. But for many of us, our mouths are not large enough. So for us, maybe we are doomed. My jaw is not large. I had my impacted wisdom teeth removed when I was in my twenties. Did they have to come out just because they were impacted? I’ve never bothered to read up on it, but I’ve always wondered. How do impacted, turned wisdom teeth affect our adult mouths? I don’t really know.
July 12, 2013 at 6:49 pm
(I will speculate and use lots of wiki in the following!:)
My brother is studying to be a dentist, so from what he’s told me I gather that even if they’re growing in straight, dentists recommend removal because they are very prone to cavities due to their location. But both my father and brother still haven theirs, and I’m considering keeping them, since with proper diet cavities should be less of an issue. But I am guessing most people go for removal if they’re feeling lots of pain (which I assumed occurred when the teeth were not coming out in the right position). My dentist recommended removal because some of my wisdom teeth seem to not be growing anymore, so only a tiny part of the tooth is showing (I say “seem” here because my wisdom teeth have been coming in extremely slowly, so maybe they’ll still come out). I think impacted teeth need to be removed because the gums around the region of impacting are very prone to infection. But according to wiki, you will be feeling pain if something like this is going on, so I guess it should be obvious.
So basically there are 2 possible reasons for the dentist’s recommendation: your jaw is not wide enough so your teeth will be impacted, causing you pain (according to wiki), and making you very prone to infection/tooth decay. (I don’t know if everyone experiences pain though). I am guessing you could lower your tooth decay risk with diet in this scenario, so it will be the pain and food lodging in your gums that makes you opt for removal (also from wiki). Since the tooth may be occupying space where bone should be, you’re risk of jaw fracture increases too (wiki). Honestly, those seem like good reasons for the recommendation.
But, in the 2nd scenario, your jaw is wide enough, your teeth are growing in straight. The dentist will still recommend removal because distant molars are very cavity prone due to their location. So it’s for prevention. Also, if your molars are growing in very slowly like mine are, it may seem like they are just not going to grow in, ie/ they are impacted (even though they may actually eventually come in). So, in this scenario, a good diet and cleaning thoroughly should be helpful for the increased cavity risk . . but the dentist’s recommendation still seems to make sense to me, since the teeth may appear impacted due to slow growth?
As far as the pain of the procedure goes, all my friends were knocked out completely during it, so experienced no pain. And I am guessing for many people the chronic pain of the impacted teeth was worse than any possible pain from their removal. Though some people may suffer nerve damage from the procedure I think, but that’s rare.
So I guess the things to consider are: are you experiencing pain? and are you very cavity prone? Then those may be good reasons to opt for removal (though cavity proneness is modifiable by diet . .so I would opt for that first!).
But if you are asymptomatic, according to a Cochrane review: “preventative removal did not reduce or prevent late incisor crowding”, and removal could damage a nearby nerve.
Evolutionarily speaking, wisdom teeth are actually vestigial I think. So we have them because they were useful in our evolutionary past, but they do not have a use now.