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bless your heart bacteria  December 7th, 2012 by David Cook in
Opinion Columns  David Cook  Photo by Ashlee Culverhouse/Times
Free Press.  I suspect that when it's all said and done, they'll
find a lot of cornbread crumbs and fried chicken.  Having
already explored Mars and mapped the human genome, scientists
are now venturing into new territories.  The mysterious American
gut.  "The gut is the area that defines your health," said Dr.
Jack Gilbert, a leading microbiologist behind the American Gut
Project. "It's the link between your diet and what you get out
of your diet."  Like the Vols secondary, your gut is the
difference between heartburn and happiness.  Before reaching its
final destination, all the food we eat must pass through our gut
(it's like the Atlanta airport of the gastrointestinal world),
where bacteria there identify, process and remove all the
valuables (kind of like