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Gummy Vitamins Cause Cavities

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     The pearly whites are the first thing people see in a friendly smile. Besides the body, the teeth are among our most valuable assets. Depending on insurance, your teeth may even be more important to you than your health. Simply getting a tooth pulled today can cost upwards of one-hundred dollars. Even with the best insurance, a crown can be unaffordable, as it is considered cosmetic. Tooth decay starts with an attack on enamel in the form of acid from sugars called plaque. Plaque can be washed away fairly easily but can become tartar if let unattended too long.      Upon my last visit to the dentist, I was informed that I had developed three cavities on the outside of my back teeth. This was strange because I had not changed any of my habits, and I had even been flossing regularly and taking daily vitamins.I thought nothing of it, until the other day when my wife came home from my daughter's three-year-old well check. She told me that while the doctor was busy applying a flu

Low Libido Caused by High-Stress Workplaces

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     Most partners enjoy a healthy sexual relationship well into their later years if one another can keep up with changing sexual preferences. Loss of libido oftentimes is due to stress at work, differences in opinion, medications, loss of interest in a partner, or medical conditions. In the world of Emergency Medical Services, to some employees, low libido is just a fact-of-life.      When the majority of nude people you encounter have blood coming out of one or more orifices, whether female or male and most likely in an other-than-naturally occurring manner, one's desire for sexual activity can start to wane. In the workforce's defense, it is  a part of the job and therefore comes with the territory.      Emergency workers oftentimes are paid low wages to account for their built-in overtime as they work twenty-four hours in a row. Some of these hours can be spent sleeping, but how often do the telephones in a 911 Dispatch Center stop ringing? The answer: next to never.

Confederate Statues Fall

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Across the country, statues commemorating the lives of Confederate soldiers are being struck down and stored away until the firestorm of anti-racism cools. Should anti-racism cool? That is the real question. Anti-racism is a thing, and that is because racism is and once was a thing. Jeff Greenberg Universal Images Group Editorial/UIG via Getty Images In 1861 portions of the country (that is to say, groups of people) began declaring themselves apart from the United States in hopes of forming a Confederate States of America. It was assumed among the groups, that if enough followers would back them and join together, slavery would not be abolished. The United States was fighting to defend the constitution, in the mean time. Some were hoping to keep slavery in place, whether it may have been for reasons of business, quality of life, or fear of conflict at their homesteads. Head-of-homestead owners, could simply have wanted the credit for freeing their own slaves. After years of ha