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  1. vernon said:

    "p.k." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Paul Boyd wrote:

    > It serves no useful purpose,

    Does chewing gum help?
    Chewing gum makes your mouth produce more saliva, which helps to
    cancel out the acid in your mouth after eating or drinking. It has
    been proven that using sugar-free chewing gum after meals can
    prevent tooth decay. However, it is important to use only sugar-free
    gum, as ordinary chewing gum contains sugar and therefore may damage
    your teeth. Back to top

    http://www.dentalhealth.org.uk/faqs/leafletdetail.php?LeafletID=14


    A clever marketing ploy to justfy the disgusting habit and to sustain
    sales......

    What's wrong with a healthier reduced sugar diet and regular tooth
    brushing?

    May be you would prefer:

    fron NHS direct;

    Chewing sugar free gum for ten minutes after a meal increases the saliva
    flow and helps to neutralise any acids which have been formed as a result of
    eating sugary foods.

  2. "p.k." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:
    vernon said:

    "p.k." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    > Paul Boyd wrote:
    >
    >> It serves no useful purpose,

    Does chewing gum help?
    Chewing gum makes your mouth produce more saliva, which helps to
    cancel out the acid in your mouth after eating or drinking. It has
    been proven that using sugar-free chewing gum after meals can
    prevent tooth decay. However, it is important to use only sugar-free
    gum, as ordinary chewing gum contains sugar and therefore may damage
    your teeth. Back to top

    http://www.dentalhealth.org.uk/faqs/leafletdetail.php?LeafletID=14


    A clever marketing ploy to justfy the disgusting habit and to sustain
    sales......

    What's wrong with a healthier reduced sugar diet and regular tooth
    brushing?

    May be you would prefer:

    fron NHS direct;

    Chewing sugar free gum for ten minutes after a meal increases the saliva
    flow and helps to neutralise any acids which have been formed as a result
    of eating sugary foods.


    And where's the advice to eat fewer sugary foods.....advice sponsored by the
    sugar industry? ;-)

  3. p.k. said:
    vernon said:

    "p.k." <[email hidden]> wrote in message
    news:[email hidden]...

    Quoted message said:

    > Paul Boyd wrote:
    >
    >> It serves no useful purpose,

    Does chewing gum help?
    Chewing gum makes your mouth produce more saliva, which helps to
    cancel out the acid in your mouth after eating or drinking. It has
    been proven that using sugar-free chewing gum after meals can
    prevent tooth decay. However, it is important to use only sugar-free
    gum, as ordinary chewing gum contains sugar and therefore may damage
    your teeth. Back to top

    http://www.dentalhealth.org.uk/faqs/leafletdetail.php?LeafletID=14


    A clever marketing ploy to justfy the disgusting habit and to sustain
    sales......

    What's wrong with a healthier reduced sugar diet and regular tooth
    brushing?

    It is often inconvenient to brush teeth, e.g. after a meal at work or
    when you are out and about.

    Quoted message said:

    May be you would prefer:

    fron NHS direct;

    Chewing sugar free gum for ten minutes after a meal increases the saliva
    flow and helps to neutralise any acids which have been formed as a result of
    eating sugary foods.

    There are several lines of chewing gum specially designed for this that
    contain chemicals that kill bacteria. (e.g. Xylitol)

    Martin.

  4. "Paul Boyd" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    On 16/01/2007 16:21, OG said,

    Quoted message said:

    Our local shopping centre has little wall bins at the entrance, rather
    worryingly labelled, "Please use this bin to recycle your chewing gum";
    the more you think about it, the more you wish you hadn't.

    The mind boggles! Next time you buy some inner tubes, check what they're
    made of /very/ carefully :-)

    What's worse, is that the wall bins are sponsored by Subway, the 'sandwich'
    place.

  5. In news:[email hidden],
    Aloysius Cholmondeley Featherstonehawe
    <[email hidden]> tweaked the
    Babbage-Engine to tell us:

    Quoted message said:
    GeoffC said:
    Paul Boyd usenet.dont.work@plusnet said:

    Martin Dann said the following on 16/01/2007 01:02:

    > Chewing gum, which is very difficult to remove. Some environmental
    > type groups have been talking about putting extra tax on the stuff,
    > it is just amazing that taxation brown has not caught on yet.
    I think chewing gum should simply be made illegal, as it seems to
    end up everywhere and costs us a fortune to remove. It serves no
    useful purpose, and someone who is permanently masticating whilst
    talking to you is extremely off-putting. Same with cigarettes, but
    there's too much revenue at stake there!

    I suppose the human rights brigade would be up in arms though...

    No need. Just educate people to swallow it instead of spitting it
    out.

    But it wraps round your heart and then you die.

    I was going to say that.

    Bah!

    --
    Dave Larrington
    <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
    Here, take these cheese-shaped stilts. You'll know when to use
    them.

  6. Jan said:
    soup said:
    citizen142 said:

    Could anyone tell me what the hell are all those white blobs on the
    roads.

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Chewing gum. Brother works for the council (he drives one of those
    "gutter hoover lorry" things) he did a stint on chewing gum removal he
    had a pressure washer type device to clean off the chewing gum it was
    only partially successful very slow and horrendously expensive.

    Quoted message said:

    We were sat in Figueres ( Spain) bus station last year. One of the employees
    had a customised long handled chewing gum scraper. It took him a good 20
    mins per paving slab to scrape each one clean. Must be like painting the
    Forth Bridge.

    The easiest method is to freeze the gum so that it becomes brittle. If
    global warming kills the Gulf Stream our winters might do that for us
    for free.

    --
    Chris Malcolm [email hidden] DoD #205
    IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK
    [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/]

  7. In article <[email hidden]>, Chris Malcolm
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:

    The easiest method is to freeze the gum so that it becomes brittle. If
    global warming kills the Gulf Stream our winters might do that for us
    for free.


    We'll be too busy trying to cope with ice storms to worry about what's
    under the ice.

  8. "citizen142" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Could anyone tell me what the hell are all those white blobs on the
    roads. First ride of the year and went to Ponty for a ten mile ride
    and all you can eat Chinese meal (yummy yummy) (Pontypridd - Tom Jones
    land) and the whole of Taff Street is covered with white blobs. What
    the hell are they? Cant be pigeon droppings surely?Cycled up to Lidls
    to do my shop today and sure enough they are everywhere. What the hell
    are they?


    Painted on behalf of Plod (the original ones were actually painted *by*
    Plod, and were illegal road markings), so that they can spot speeding from
    their Plodicopters. If you are a motorist, go out one night and burn one
    off, and paint a new one further away from the "start" spot. You can then go
    faster.....

  9. ian henden said:
    Quoted message said:


    Painted on behalf of Plod (the original ones were actually painted
    *by* Plod, and were illegal road markings), so that they can spot
    speeding from their Plodicopters. If you are a motorist, go out one
    night and burn one off, and paint a new one further away from the
    "start" spot. You can then go faster.....

    Are they as slippy as they look, theres one on my way home on a roundabout
    that I'm very wary of crossing.

    --
    Andy Morris

    AndyAtJinkasDotFreeserve.Co.UK

    Love this:
    Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes
    http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

    --
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  10. "AndyMorris" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:
    ian henden said:
    Quoted message said:


    Painted on behalf of Plod (the original ones were actually painted
    *by* Plod, and were illegal road markings), so that they can spot
    speeding from their Plodicopters. If you are a motorist, go out one
    night and burn one off, and paint a new one further away from the
    "start" spot. You can then go faster.....

    Are they as slippy as they look, theres one on my way home on a roundabout
    that I'm very wary of crossing.


    Dunno. 10 ton of bus with 4 ton of people on it doesn't slide as easily as
    a pushbike. (... but when it *does* slide, it doesn't stop sliding as
    easily as a pushbike does...)

    :o)

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