Health & Nutrition Facts for Bodybuilders

Listeria has been found in up to five percent or more of normal healthy people usually in the gut. For this reason, exposure to this bacterium is unavoidable. The bacterium can grow at temperatures as low as 0°C. Diseases Caused By Listeria L. monocytogenes can cause a variety of diseases, including infections in pregnancy ranging from a mild chill to a severe illness which may precipitate premature birth or miscarriage, and meningitis in newborn children. Septicaemia and meningitis occurs in adults whose immunity to infection is impaired, such as those suffering from cancer or leukaemia or transplant patients. Infection does occur in otherwise healthy adults and children although this is extremely rare. The infection may be treated with antibiotics but in about one third of cases the disease is fatal. There is no vaccine available to help prevent this infection. Although the Listeria organism is common in the environment it is a relatively rare cause of infection and common...