| Millions of health care workers and
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| | experiment. They analyzed the material
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| family members who care for elderly and
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| | for fecal odorous compounds, acids,
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| chronically ill people know the powerful
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| | bacteria and other substances.
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| psychological burden of dealing with
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| | Dr. Hara, who announced the findings at a
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| fecal incontinence.
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| | national meeting of the American Chemical
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| Odor is a big factor. Biologists regard
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| | Society, said patients who received
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| feces' repulsive odor as a safety
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| | catechins showed "marked improvement" of
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| mechanism that discourages human contact
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| | intestinal conditions.
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| with disease-causing microbes in feces.
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| | Acid-producing good bacteria increased
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| A simple way to mute the offensive odor
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| | substantially in number, and undesirable
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| of feces would be an enormous benefit for
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| | bacteria responsible for producing
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| caregivers. Such an approach may be
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| | odorous compounds declined substantially.
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| available soon from an unlikely source:
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| | Amounts of odorous ammonia and sulfide
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| natural green drinks.
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| | compounds in the feces also decreased.
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| Natural green drink is getting plenty of
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| | Patients also had more regular bowel
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| attention as a source of healthful
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| | movements.
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| chemical compounds, including
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| | Nursing staff also noted a substantial
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| anticarcinogens, which combat the effects
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| | decrease in fecal odor in most of the
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| of cancer-causing chemicals. In addition,
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| | patients.
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| studies have found that natural green
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| | Japanese scientists have expanded their
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| drinks contains anti-bacterial substances
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| | research to include elderly people on
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| that combat microbes, including bacteria
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| | normal diets, and plan similar studies on
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| that cause most stomach ulcers.
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| | younger people. Dr. Hara believes they
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| Termed "catechins," these compounds
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| | will show the same effects. Another
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| include chemicals responsible for natural
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| | potential target may be decreasing feces
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| green drink's pungent flavor and aroma.
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| | odor in domestic cats and dogs.
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| The catechins in natural green drink are
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| | Natural green drink, of course, may bring
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| distinctly different from those in the
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| | other beneficial health effects,
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| darker drinks that most Americans use.
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| | including its apparent protective action
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| Japanese researchers reported recently
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| | against cancer. Centuries of use suggest
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| that a commercial catechin preparation
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| | it is harmless in healthy people.
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| called Polyphenon-60 substantially
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| | Should caregivers who have trouble coping
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| reduced fecal odor in bedridden nursing
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| | with fecal incontinence start offering a
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| home patients.
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| | cup of natural green drink, or the
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| The findings, reported by Dr. Yukihiko
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| | Japanese extract, to elderly and
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| Hara, of the Mitsui Norin Co. in
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| | chronically ill patients?
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| Shizukoa, Japan, were based on a study of
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| | Caregivers should check with the
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| patients being fed with commercial liquid
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| | patient's physician first to see if the
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| nutrient via nasal tubes.
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| | added fluid or other components in a cup
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| Each patient got a daily dose of
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| | of natural green drink could have adverse
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| catechins, dissolved in the nutrient
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| | effects. Don't even consider adding
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| solution, equal to one cup of natural
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| | anything to the nutrient liquid in
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| green drink. Researchers collected fecal
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| | patients being fed by tube without the
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| samples before, during and after the
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| | doctor's approval.
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