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• Eating a diet high in sugar increases the risk of tooth decay

• 53 per cent of children have decay in their permanent or primary teeth

• Drinking fizzy drinks increases the chance of tooth decay in 12-year-olds by 59 per cent. Four or more glasses daily increases the risk by 252 per cent

The role of sugar in causing tooth decay has been known for hundreds of years. Queen Elizabeth I had terrible tooth decay after sucking on bars of the ‘white gold’ (as sugar used to be known). In its 2003 World Oral Health Report, the World Health Organization announced that dental problems such as tooth decay and gum disease are on the rise, and one of the major reasons is our ever increasing love of sugar. One survey found that thousands of children under the age of five are having large numbers of milk teeth removed in hospital because they are so badly decayed.