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What does your Gut know about Bacteria?

December 12, 2013

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Tasty Food Abundance in Healthy Europe (Photo credit: epSos.de)

We all have good bacteria in our gut. It helps digest what we eat and keep us healthy. In fact we can not live without these microbes. Eating the wrong foods can kill off this good bacteria with a strain of bad bacteria. This link takes you to a great BLOG on this subject. Don’t miss the cartoon at the end of the BLOG! It states to medical students that, “Preventative medicine kills return business.” Eating animal based proteins (meat, cheese, eggs and milk) will increase the bad bacteria and thus lessen the good ones.

We are very complex creatures. Our systems have a delicate balance that when upset can cause diseases. This system was developed over millions of years as we evolved. What we mostly ate during that time was plant-based foods. These foods were evolving as well. They provided us with the missing nutrients we needed to exist. In our modern society, many people exist without many lang-based foods at all. This is why we are so sick as a society. If it continues no government program will work. It will simply break and millions of people will suffer with their diseases. Our current system works because fewer people are sick than healthy but that is changing rapidly.

Diet could possibly affect mood via bacteria in gut (indigomoodrhythms.wordpress.com)
Diet could possibly affect mood via bacteria in gut (indigomindspectrum.wordpress.com)
Diet Changes Gut Bacteria Within a Day, Harvard Study Finds (bloomberg.com)
Bacteria tails implicated in gut inflammation (scienceblog.com)
New Diet Study Reveals The Link Between Meat-Eating And IBS (wonderfultips.wordpress.com)
Chowing Down On Meat And Dairy Alters Gut Bacteria A Lot, And Quickly (npr.org)
Colon Cancer Linked to Low Diversity of Gut Bacteria (livescience.com)
The bacteria in breast milk (blogs.scientificamerican.com)

Will We be able to Stop a lethal Strain of Bacteria in the Near Future?

July 11, 2013

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The original advisory opinion was requested by the World Health Organization in 1993. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The director of the World Health Organization said the overuse of antibiotics may lead to the end of modern medicine. Over 80% of all antibiotics are sold to the meat industry. We are headed for a disaster! The inventor of Penicillin warned of the problems of overuse. The government understands this but is tied by the meat industry to not legislate against them. What will happen in the near future when a strain of bacteria that can resist all forms of antibiotics is unleashed on us? It will be too late then to stop it. Talk to your local government representatives and force Washington to stop taking orders from the meat industry. They are literally killing us!

Join The Urgent Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance, Australia (medicalnewstoday.com)
Scientists Discover How Bacteria Communicate to Resist Antibiotic Treatment (scienceworldreport.com)
Bacteria communicate to resist antibiotics (vr-zone.com)
UK raises alarm on deadly rise of superbugs (grosvenorcontractsblog.wordpress.com)
Supermarket meat to be tested for antibiotic resistant bacteria (telegraph.co.uk)

If you are a Woman and have had a Urinary Tract Infection – READ ON

August 7, 2012

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Public domain photograph of various meats. (Beef, pork, chicken.) Source: http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/details.cfm?imageid=2402 (via http://geekphilosopher.com/bkg/foodMeat.htm) Public domain declaration: http://visualsonline.cancer.gov/about.cfm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is the next in my series on Dr Gregor’s fantastic video. He mentions that vegan woman have significantly less urinary tract infections than do meat-eating women. Of the meat eaters those consuming chicken have the most! Through DNA they have identified the bacteria from fecal matter that invades our bodies and causes urinary tract infections. The meat industries had two responses: 1) inject a virus into the meat to kill the bacteria. What will this virus do to us over time? And 2) Make a spread of maggots and put it on the meat. After all maggots seem to be able to eat decaying meat with no adverse affects. If you want to prevent urinary tract infections naturally, just eat less meat (both red and white) and more fruits and vegetables. Vegans have the lowest amount of this infection.