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...superstar bacteria stick around in your intestines a lot longer," says Dr. Gary Huffnagle, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and co-author of The Probiotics Revolution. In the digestive tract, the bacteria help regulate and restore peristalsis, the rhythmic motion of the intestine that pushes digested food through. There's a reason one of the bugs has the word regularis as its second name, and this intestinal toning is it. "Doesn't matter if you are constipated or the opposite," Huffnagle says. "These bacteria can help make you, um, regular...
PROBIOTIC BACTERIA [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] Name What it's said to do Foods that may contain it Bifidus regularis Regulates the movement of food through the digestive tract Yogurt Lactobacillus casei Inhibits the growth of harmful bacteria; boosts immunity Cottage cheese Lactobacillus acidophilus Aids digestion; diminishes effects of bad bacteria in the intestines Cereal...
...fun.RR: What’s the funniest thing you’ve ever said? Ever.BC: The funniest thing I ever said was probably in a show freshman year when I started a scene where I was a World War I soldier inside somebody’s intestinal tract. It got a big laugh, but I guess you kind of had to be there...
...meantime, longevity isn’t a primary concern. Publications like Tract Magazine are kept alive today by readers and contributors who are drawn to them because of the specificity and diversity of their content. Their goal isn’t to outlast their more prestigious predecessors; it’s to fill what many current editors-in-chief call “holes” in the campus media coverage...
...first issue of Tract Magazine, which aspires to innovatively unite art and science, appeared last fall. “The hole here is not due to The Advocate or The Crimson being at fault,” says Henry M. Cowles ’08, an inactive Crimson arts editor and Tract’s outgoing editor-in-chief. “Tract is not going to rise to the prominence or readership or recognition of these ‘Big Three.’ That’s not really the goal. We’re just providing...