Can Cranberry Juice Treat Bladder Infections?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2013-06-12

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DESCRIPTION: Cranberries may reduce the recurrence of urinary tract infections, but their role in treating infections is limited.

The reference to poultry as the source of bladder-infecting E. coli is from my last video, Avoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-chicken-to-avoid-bladder-infections/).

What else can cranberries do? Check out my recent videos Which Fruit Fights Cancer Better? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/which-fruit-fights-cancer-better/) and Cranberries Versus Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/cranberries-versus-cancer/).

How can you consume cranberries palatably? Check out my recipe for Pink Juice with Green Foam (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/pink-juice-with-green-foam/). 

I find it so fascinating that the white berries don't have same effect. For more on these elusive phytonutrients, see Phytochemicals: The Nutrition Facts Missing From the Label (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phytochemicals-the-nutrition-facts-missing-from-the-label/) and for those doubting the power of plants, Power Plants (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/power-plants/).

I discuss the controversy around doctors giving placebos in The Lie That Heals: Should Doctors Give Placebos? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-lie-that-heals-should-doctors-give-placebos/).

If cranberries are so good at keeping bacteria from sticking to the wall of the bladder, what about keeping bacteria from sticking to other places like our teeth? That's the subject of my next video, Childhood Tea Drinking May Increase Fluorosis Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/childhood-tea-drinking-may-increase-fluorosis-risk/).

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-cranberry-juice-treat-bladder-infections/ and he'll try to answer it!

Image Credit: The Atlantic.

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