You can now find us in our fabulous new office location on Farmington Road:

14700 Farmington Road
Suite 108
Livonia, MI 48154

Phone: 734-367-0200

View Larger Map

Technorati Profile

Helpful information about how you may notice an increase in bad breath with your new weight loss program.

Bad Breath and Low Carbs
MSN Health/WebMD

Low-carb diets may be good for your waistline, but you might not be able to say the same for your breath.

Low-carb lifestyle junkies are more likely to suffer from a seldom discussed side effect of such diets — halitosis, aka bad breath. And since more than 25 million people say they have tried the Atkins diet (not to mention other low-carb eating plans), according to the National Marketing Institute, bad breath may be an epidemic!

Bad breath in the low/no-carb sect is often caused by certain chemicals that are released in the breath as the body burns fat. They are called ketones, and entering into a fat-burning state of ketosis is the hallmark of the Atkins diet. So the good news is that if your breath stinks, you’re probably doing a good job of sticking to that low-carb diet.

“Carbohydrates aren’t readily available, so you start to use other fats and proteins as your source of energy, and as a result you are going to get a breath problem,” explains Kenneth Burrell, DDS, the senior director of the council on scientific affairs of the American Dental Association. http://www.dentistdirectory.com/topic_badbreath.asp

Flickr – Dr. David Stevens Photos

Dr. Stevens