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A team of researchers has discovered that dietary fiber plays a crucial role in determining the balance between the production of healthy and harmful substances by influencing the behavior of bacteria in the colon. Different types of bacteria inside our colon compete to utilize an essential amino acid called tryptophan. The research reveals that when we eat a lot of dietary fiber, gut bacteria help turn tryptophan into healthy substances. But if we don't eat enough fiber, tryptophan can be converted into harmful compounds by our gut bacteria. "The gut bacterium E. coli can turn tryptophan into a harmful compound...

I'd sooner be roofied by Barney Frank than be subject to the holiday abomination known as green bean casserole.

I hate green bean casserole.

'Yes, there were calls from the London bomb suspects to Saudi Arabia, but to describe my country as the crucible of terror is insulting' By Andrew Alderson (Filed: 07/08/2005) When Prince Turki al-Faisal was app-ointed as Saudi Arabia's ambassador to London, he must have thought that his 24-year watch on some of the world's most deadly terrorists had finally come to an end. The quietly spoken diplomat, who is the nephew of the late King Fahd and the new King Adbullah, was head of his kingdom's intelligence service from 1977 to 2001 and, as such, was responsible for trying to...

Burp....scuze me, please pass the green bean casserole...WHAT? IT's GONE!??? Aunt Sherry TOOK IT?? Well gang, if you're a typical family and either hosted a party last night or today or went to the party, then you have two differing dilemmas. If you hosted the part, chances are good you have a fridge full of leftovers; enough to feed a small army or a couple of teenagers. If you attended a party, then did you sneek a bowl of broccoli and cheeze or some turkey for a sandwich. When you got home, was there a sense of 'emptiness' in YOUR...