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People often find it difficult to accept the idea that bacteria can be beneficial and improve health. Lactic acid bacteria are good, and when eaten, these bacteria improve health and increase longevity. These bacteria included in foods such as yogurt.
Patients who have been on total parenteral nutrition for more than a few days may need to have foods gradually reintroduced to give the digestive tract time to start working again.
More than 30% of American adults, and about 12% of children utilize health care approaches that were developed outside of conventional medicine.
In the United States, an estimated 50 million unnecessary antibiotics are prescribed for viral respiratory infections.
According to the FDA, adverse drug events harmed or killed approximately 1,200,000 people in the United States in the year 2015.


