Stefan Joest <[log in to unmask]> writes: Please watch for your teeth if you continue to eat lots of dates. They tend to bind calcium. I don't know an explanation for this. Detoxing bad sugars in your teeth by partially dissolving the teeth? Binding calcium from teeth/bones for digestion? Ugly and torturing questions. How 'bout the physical stickiness of stuff like dates that adheres the sugar to the teeth so many 20-min cycles of bacterial processing of sugar to acid can happen over & over before the gunk finally dissolves away? Any validity? Bo7b