After reading an article on Slashdot regarding a potential cure for cancer and how it involved a natural chemical named Butyrate, I started googling butyrate and that lead me to esters which (somehow) lead me to digestive tract bacteria. Anyway, I just learned something new: Prebiotics are foods that contains nutrients that nourish the bacteria throughout your digestive system, they generally do not digest easily, so they "survive" past the stomach and can enter the intestinal tract in a state and be "consumed" by the good bacteria. .... So I guess we should all be mindful of our 'good' bacteria and feed them well.





UM Univeristy of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center: News Archive - Progress Newsletter Spring 2002 Online: "Prebiotics and Probiotics: What Are They and Why Should I Eat Them" 
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