[dschiptsov]

So, how are people a hundred years ago and back into distant past, or even nowadays people of remote villages in South Asia, unaware of the miracles of American dental industry, deat with demineralization issues?

Has it anything to do with a diet, particularly of consuming vegetable roots, such as ginger, or redis, of meat curries as a calcium source? Has it anything to do with gums health, to with consuming chilly pepers is related? How the third world people managed to survive up to this very day without that very costly help of American dental industry?

[tripzilch]

Unfortunately for Americans & the industry, the answer is in fact not, consuming more of something.

[dschiptsov]

Actually, it is not the parts of a plant that matters most, but the soil in which the plant grows. The very same tomatoes grown on fertile slopes of Himalaya or on North Indian Plain has very different compounds in it than hydroponic ones. This why Nepalese or Indian tomatoes are so tasty. Even such a crude instrument as tongue could tell the difference. It also will tell if a soup has been cooked with bones or not.

[rejschaap]

My guess would be no fizzy drinks and a lot less sugar.