Archive for July 2010

Fermented Foods V/s Probiotic Pills

A 2000 study led by Dr. Chitra N. Wendakoon of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, found that fermented milk products, like yogurt, can kill Helicobacter pylori (the ulcer causing bacteria) but that the beneficial bacteria alone cannot.
This means that probiotics in pill form would have no effect on H. pylori but that homemade yogurt and Kefir would. 
Ex: Live probiotics like kefir - with all sorts of bacteria, yeasts, enzymes, acids etc completely covert milk to a fully digestible product

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