Pine Apples

Choose your food wisely

Pine Apples

The more acidic the food you eat the higher the risk for your tooth enamel to get damaged. So choose low acid foods like bananas, melons and mangoes rather than apples, peaches, plums, raspberries and pineapples while wearing your braces. Eliminate soft drinks, fruit drinks and even sports drinks in your diet and be satisfied with milk or water. Stick to less starchy food like potato chips and sugary food because it may has a tendency to stick to the teeth for a longer period of time.

Proper eating habit

Chew your food slowly and take in little bites. Saliva helps wash away the acids contained in the food that you eat so it is best to allow these to slowly mix with your saliva for a healthier digestion. Limit your intake of nuts, cookies and other hard foods and throw away all the toffees, chocolates, fruit bars, caramels, and sticky food especially chewing gum from your cabinet so as not to damage your braces.

Proper brushing

Use fluoride toothpaste when brushing your teeth. Provide approximately ten seconds of brushing time per tooth to include the intricate wires and brackets of your braces. Make sure you brush all the gaps between the wires and the brackets by firmly pressing your toothbrush between the wire and the tooth. Continue the process in a gentle yet circular motion to cover both the outside and inside surface of the teeth. Spit out any excess paste after brushing then carefully observe the condition of your teeth in front of the mirror.

Dental Visit

Maintain a regular visit to your dentist for further advice on proper tooth care procedures.

Call our Broomall dentist office today to schedule your appointment or consultation with our dentists, your dental implants partner in the quest for a beautiful & healthy smile.

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Child friendly recipes are fun to create. What makes a child friend recipe? A recipe that incorporates fun and good foods. Fruits and vegetables are favorite ingredients in child friendly recipes. Using these fresh ingredients provide vibrant colors that are appealing to children while also providing a nutritious meal.

Fruit can be cut into small sizes so a toddler can experience the texture as well as the taste of these healthy food group. Fruits or vegetables make excellent finger foods and can be easily added to fun recipes that children love. This fun "fruit pizza" is an example of a food project that allows children to select fruits in different colors and create a healthy snack while having fun creating fun faces.

Allow children to choose colorful fruits at the store or farmers' market. Turn the kids loose in the kitchen creating imaginative faces on this delicious fruit pizza. Odds are, they will snack as they create--and like what they taste.

Child Friendly Fruit Pizza

Ingredients

*Graham cracker piecrust

Filling for pie:

*1/2 cup fat free or low fat cream cheese

*1 tablespoon sugar

*1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

*1/4 teaspoon lemon juice

*1 tablespoon 1% milk

Toppings:

Suggestions for fruit pizza faces:

*Strawberries for the nose

*Kiwi fruit or seedless grapes for the eyes

*A banana for the mouth

The choices for making the face are only limited by their imaginations. The kids can choose pineapples, mandarin orange, grapes or any fruit they like.

Instructions:

To Prepare the Filling:

1. Whisk together cream cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, and lemon juice.

2. Add just enough milk to the mix to make it spreadable onto the crust.

3. Spread the cream-cheese mixture with a rubber spatula.

4. Spread to the edge of the crust.

Now its time for the kids to get involved.

*Allow the kids to arrange the fruit onto the cream cheese mixture.

*Don't worry if it is not perfect. It is perfectly nutritious and fun.

*Children may want to add sprinkles or chocolate chips. Let their imaginations run wild.

*Refrigerate the pizza for at least 1 hour.

*Slice with a sharp knife and serve.

The kids will be impatient and want to eat the pizza right away. This pizza cream cheese mixture is almost set but will cut easier if refrigerated for at least 1 hour. Let the kids help you with the cleanup. They will be anxious to taste their creation.

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1. Pineapple:

The Pineapple has always been synonymous with hospitality and used as a gesture of friendliness across the Caribbean. Pineapples, locally grown and a dietary staple in the islands, were traditionally hung outside the houses of Carib Indians as a sign to welcome visitors. This practice was adopted by Colonialists who carved pineapples onto the entrance of their plantations to welcome visitors.

As an aside, the Pineapples of Eleuthera, an island within the Bahamas, are known to be the sweetest and juiciest of all.

2. Palm Tree:

Apart from the obvious meaning of a tropical vacation, the palm tree has a historically religious meaning. Palm branches can be seen throughout Christian art as a symbol of victory or triumph of the spiritual over the worldly. The use of Palms on Palm Sunday, and the burning of these palms for use in next years Ash Wednesday symbolizes mortality and penance. As a result they have become known as a symbol of purity.

3. Hibiscus:

A symbol of beauty and fertility.

4. Aloe:

Synonymous with healing and good health.

5. Flamingo:

A symbol of the sun. Ancient Egyptians revered the flamingo as a living symbol of the sun god Ra but in more recent times the pink flamingo has donned the lawns of many in plastic form to symbolize summertime.

The Flamingo is found naturally breeding on the island of Mayaguana, in the southern Bahamas and Bonaire where it is the island's National symbol.

6. Iguana

considered sacred by the Mayan peoples and revered in the Caribbean to this day. Endangered in most islands, the Blue Iguana's are the recycling symbol for the Cayman Islands.

7. Conch Shell:

Not only is the conch shell one of the 8 auspicious symbols of Buddhism signifying righteous speech and strength, and part of the Hindu tradition of prayer, but also the weapon of choice of mystical mermaids and mermen looking to increase the magnitude of waves across the ocean. As such its mystical meaning alludes to strength and fortitude.

8. Cowrie Shells:

An inertly feminine symbol, the cowrie has traditionally been used as a charm, sewn into the hems of Indian women to encourage love and fertility.

9. Scallop Shells:

The scallop shell is used in many ways through Christianity to depict the purity of pilgrimage, or to encourage fertility.

Known as the traditional emblem of the apostle "St James the Great" the scallop shell was used by St James during his pilgrimage, to beg for as much food, or liquids as one scoop of the shell could hold. Because of the size of the shell even the poorest of poor households could assist him along the way. Later, followers of St James, making their way to his shrine, wore the scallop shell symbol on their hats and clothes. Hence the use of the scallop shell in Christianity to depict "pilgrimage'.

There is also the fertility symbolism associated with the scallop shell derived from the ancient paintings of Venus, roman goddess of love and fertility which always identified her with a scallop shell. Perhaps this is why some pilgrims walking the "way of st james" wore the scallop shell as a pagan fertility ritual to encourage child bearing.

10. The Sand Dollar:

According to legend if you break the center of the sand dollar, five white doves will be released to spread good will and peace across the earth.

Beyond this, the religious meaning of the Sand Dollar is told in this wonderful verse:

There's a pretty little legend

That I would like to tell

Of the birth and death of Jesus

Found in this lowly shell

If you examine closely,

You'll see that you find here

Four nail holes and a fifth one

Made by a Roman's Spear.

On one side the Easter Lily,

Its center is the star

That appeared unto the shepherds

And led them from afar.

The Christmas poinsettia

Etched on the other side

Reminds us of His birthday

Our Happy Christmastide.

Now break the centre open

And here you will release

The five white doves awaiting

To spread Good Will and Peace.

This simple little symbol,

Christ left for you and me

To help us spread

His Gospel?Through all eternity.

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