Here's Where Bad Breath Comes From...

True story: I acquired a dog from a police officer, who acquired him from an exhausted pet owner looking to unload him at the New York City Marathon. The dog had a dull coat, bad breath, body odor, hot spots and a double ear infection. His diet was a 45 lb. bag of processed kibble. I took the dog in, immediately and swiftly changed the dog's diet, and within one-two weeks the dog's ear infections were gone, body odor and hot spots disappeared and the dog's bad breath was as sweet as a kine. 

That being said, you can bathe a dog until the cows come home -- you can buy all the latest doggie shampoos and hose the pup down once a week--but if that dog's diet continues to be inadequate, he will continue to smell, his ears be remain infected and his breath will continue to be foul.

The same holds true for the human species. Just like our canine friends our chronic symptoms are due to poor diet. Chronic ear infections are caused by food allergies, while body odor, skin breakouts and bad breath are mostly diet related.

While there are many differences between human and animal, how we digest is not one of them. The main cause of bad breath in the human species is caused by improper diet. For humans, a diet high in animal products and sugar -- an acidic diet - is a major cause of bad breath - mostly because acidic diet are high in animal products and sugar. Bad breath is caused by VSCs -- volatile sulfur compounds --by excretion of anaerobic bacteria. To back up this claim biological physicists at the University of Buffalo's School of Medicine reported that a strain of bacteria that emits volatile sulfur compounds may be the cause of a large portion of cases of halitosis in humans. Remove the animal products and bad breath vastly improves. 

Instead of spending a small fortune on body scents, shampoos, candies and remedies to perfume bad breath and disguise impaired health, address it. Swap out 

sugar,animal products,fast and processed foods,wheat,and coffee,

with a diet high in fruits and vegetables. Switching your diet over from highly acidic to a more alkaline fruit-and-vegetable-rich diet will help to neutralize bad breath (especially for those whose bad breath is caused by eating high amounts of animal products.)  

What many don't realize is that offensive breath is always a symptom of an abnormality. Aside from poor diet, bad breath may also be due to tobacco, poor oral hygiene, tonsil stones, gastro-intestinal decomposition, mucus accumulation, lung disease, or most any disease.

As a general rule, sweet breath equals good health and stinky breath equals poor health. Healthy breath is sweet; it has no bad odor to it. It's garbage-in, garbage-out when it comes to your breath. Keep putting in foods your body needs and it will reward you with good health and sweet breath.