CNN recently featured an news story on the benefits of bifidobacterium, and where you can find it.
Here are the higlights:
Bifidobacterium is becoming a widely known natural health supplement as a bacteria that will help you. Often it is called they are called probiotics. It can assist in relieving you of a variety of different symptoms or conditions, including:
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-Allergies
-Raises the level of "good" cholesterol
-Helps prevent colon cancer by keeping the colon clean and healthy
-Relieves constipation
-Several studies have shown a lowering of high blood pressure
-Helps improve your immune system
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Where can we find these "good" bacteria? Yogurt is the most commonly known food for easy access to these. However, many commerical yougurts have been pasteruized, a process which takes the bifido out of the food. So what foods are guarunteed to have them?
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-Unpasteruized yogurt
-Most cottage cheese
-Sour cream
-Foods marked with "Live Active Cultures," such as certain milks and cereals
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