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DESCRIPTION: Handling chicken can lead to the colonization of one’s colon with antibiotic resistant E. coli that may result in bladder infections in women.
I originally explored this topic in Chicken Out of UTIs ( but decided I needed to take a much deeper dive, especially in light of the cross-contamination issue, which I also previously touched on in Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination ( and Fecal Contamination of Sushi (
More on the insanity of feeding antibiotics to farm animals by the ton in:
• Drug Residues in Meat (
• Meat Mythcrushers (
• Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (
Other videos about diseases that one might not initially associate with food include:
• Foodborne Rabies (
• Poultry and Paralysis (
• Avoiding Epilepsy Through Diet (
• Hepatitis E Virus in Pork (
More on urinary tract health in:
• Asparagus Pee (
• Cheese Mites and Maggots (
• Raw Broccoli and Bladder Cancer Survival (
• Some Prostates Are Larger than Others (
• Prostate vs. Plants (
• Prostate vs. a Plant-Based Diet (
• Preventing Kidney Failure Through Diet (
• Treating Kidney Failure Through Diet (
What if you already have a urinary tract infection? Can Cranberry Juice Treat Bladder Infections? ( That’s the next video!
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