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Brainstormy

(2,543 posts)
8. This should be the NUMBER ONE
Mon May 20, 2013, 10:59 AM
May 2013

priority in the list of many changes that must come to our industrialized food system. More of us already die each year of MRSA than from AIDS. Animal to human transmission has been confirmed.And the antibiotics that go into these food animals to make them fat, are making us fat, too.

It appears increasingly plausible that the widespread administration of antibiotics to young children is altering the bacteria in their intestines in a way that increases their ability to convert food into biomass, just like our livestock. In this way, antibiotics seem to be directly contributing to the obesity epidemic.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-spector-md/antibiotics-health_b_2024127.html


Please tell your congressman to PASS PAMTA!

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