E. coli has been found in the irrigation water -- SO WHAT?

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Natural, Friendly Bacteria Can Fight Off E. Coli is the headline

of a recent newspaper column that promotes a more real

perspective:

 

I've been reading about the E. coli outbreak with mixed concern

and amusement; concern for those afflicted and amusement at the

lengths the media and the US federal government will go to in

controlling it. Seems that, like our own Health Authority,

they'll do anything but educate the public.

 

Those who read my Body Electric columns in the Citizen or looked

up the facts that we all have available, will know where I'm

going with this; I'll repeat myself for those who did neither: E.

coli, like all bowel organisms, require that intestinal

conditions to be compatible with their needs.

 

Natural friendly bacteria (probiotics) living in your intestines,

given similar opportunity, maintain a hostile environment to bad

organisms night and day. Decent probiotic numbers pretty well

rule out a fluorish of opportunistic microbes, including Norwalk-

like viruses, stomach flu, viral gastroenteritis, clostridia,

klebsiella, rotavirus, and other problematic organisms in

addition to E. coli.

 

So, simply put, one can easily keep one's probiotic numbers

decent and thus prevent the nursing home killer C. difficile,

prevent Norwalk outbreaks in the hospital, and avoid bowel

candida, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and irritable bowel

syndrome; all of these depend on the numbers of natural probiotic

bacteria being too low to do their job of protecting your

intestines. It's been in the research for years, the research has

been compiled on my website for years, and I've been writing

about it for years, since long before the last deaths due for

example to C. difficile, the " killer diarrhea " in the Cowichan

valley.

 

The fact is, a diet that is high in carbohydrate and low in

soluble prebiotic fiber fails to feed probiotic organisms enough

for them to maintain a normal degree of control over the

pathogens in the gut, especially the colonies living on the

crucial position of the bowel lining.

 

Research has established that this known dietary deficiency of

inulin, the main prebiotic, is very common, thus the e. coli risk

from food is as much a dietary as an infection concern. In fact,

prebiotics have been used to reverse " antibiotic- associated

diarrhea " , even on their own.

 

It's not about eating probiotics in a capsule; its about feeding

them by correcting an identified dietary deficiency that is

normal in developed countries. Inulin is cheap; use it. If it's

not cheap, ask why.

 

About a week of scientific reading on the subject lies on my page

below; read it there or dig up your own inulin references. My

site isn't in the Curezone.com Top Health Site listings for