Another study finds that vitamin E helps to protect against heart disease. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania saw a 40 percent reduction in cardiovascular lesions in mice given the vitamin over a 16 week period. The findings are published in the October 1998 issue of Nature Medicine.5 5. Nature Medicine, October, 1998. They first suspected tea offered some protection from ulcers when they noticed a very low incidence of ulcers in a tea-producing region of Japan.
Catechins also appear to kill strains of escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus.
Scientists from the Netherlands have been looking at another natural remedy for h. pylori-associated ulcers garlic. More researchers are warning about the dangers of using antibiotics to enhance food production. Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine have found, in the intestinal tracts of chickens, bacteria that are highly resistant to antibiotics generally considered to be the last remaining drugs effective against many infectious diseases. In addition, they have found resistance to what were thought to be very powerful drugs still under development. These germs are being found in animals raised on antibiotics, which are given in an effort to boost growth and 7.