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Article: EN's Tactics for Taking Your (Bad) Breath Away.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Part 3 of a three-part "G.I. series."
Though onions and garlic are being lauded of late for helping to ward off diseases like heart disease and cancer, they can also undermine your social life because of the bad breath they cause.
An estimated 27 million Americans suffer from bad breath, so it's not surprising that more than $200 million dollars are spent each year on dental and mouth products. Does anything really work?
Bad breath, medically known as halitosis, is a chronic medical problem for 1% to 2% of Americans. But for most people, bad breath is transient and treatable.
Ninety percent of bad breath problems are caused by bacteria ...