Looking for a scintillating topic opf conversation for the Thanksgiving meal? Try urinary tract infections. The cranberries, with their peculiar ability to prevent such infections, offer the perfect segue. And this year, thanks to a recent story in Science Daily, you can explain exactly how cranberries prevent infection.You might start with the news that researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute have found that compounds in cranberries are able to alter E. coli
bacteria, which are responsible for a host of human illnesses (from
kidney infections to gastroenteritis to tooth decay), in ways that
render them unable to initiate an infection. Of course, to learn the details you’ll need to keep the conversation going, you have to click here. And pass the stuffing.
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It all goes back to using natural compounds to promote health in human beings…just like we have been doing for centuries. Perhaps NOT creating a synthetic version of them is in our best interest?