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...inspire children to plead with their mothers at the supermarket. Nor did it get much closer to American mouths than arm's length, from which those mothers could read the list of ingredients to be reminded that yogurt is animated by at least two types of live bacteria: Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus. Pudding, anyone? Aisle...
...category, like the yogurt, has not always been smooth and palatable. A maverick, yogurt rode with the Mongol horde, flourished in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and has been cultured by generations around the globe. Then pale, viscous and teeming with live bacteria, it arrived from the fringes into the fridges of health nuts. When Yoplait Original appeared on shelves in 1977, "you had to be a committed health-food person to eat it," says General Mills CEO Steve Sanger. Yoplait had to convince Americans that they would love its signature creamy texture, but it also had to keep...
...beginning of the film, Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing V.P. for Mickey's burger franchise, gets some bad news from a company exec: "The fecal coliform [bacteria] counts were just off the charts ... I'm saying there's shit in our meat." But Don is a hard man to rob of his optimism. Before he goes off to inspect a meat factory, he cheerfully enunciates a rule of Marketing 101: "Don't kill the customer. It's bad for repeat business...
Toll-like receptors (TLRs), which lie on the surface of certain white blood cells, serve to detect invading viruses and bacteria. They then cause the production of cytokine proteins, which activate other immune cells against the infection...
...major teaching center. For all their fame and all-star doctors, teaching hospitals carry risks of their own. The sickest patients often have compromised immune systems and may need to be treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics--which increases the chance that antibiotic-resistant strains of staph and other bacteria will make the rounds of the intensive-care unit. As a rule, doctors decide where to go based on how sick they are. For fairly routine care--a hip replacement, a hernia operation--they will often opt for the convenience and comfort of a community hospital. But if there...