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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003929195_append06.html

too bad the article's discussion of gut flora doesn't have a reminder that the human gut is meant for human milk (and the negative effect on that normal flora when artificial milk is introduced).... but it's an interesting (short) article about researchers how the Duke immunologists theorize that the function of the appendix is to produce and protect "good" gut bacteria and to restore normal digestive flora if diseases like cholera or amoebic dysentery wipe out the useful/helpul bacteria.  
"Also, the worm-shaped organ outgrowth acts like a bacteria factory, cultivating good germs, Parker said......That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society, Parker said. If a person's gut flora die, they usually can repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people, he said.....But before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn't as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy......In less-developed countries, where the appendix may be still useful, the rate of appendicitis is lower than in the United States, other studies have shown, Parker said."

hhhmmm..... less appendicitis. but more diarrhea from formula marketed to them despite less sanitary conditions for preparation.....

vicki hayes rn ibclc in brunswick ga   www.myspace.com/that_username_is_taken

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