{"id":161013,"date":"2023-03-25T16:25:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T21:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-study-links-eating-meat-to-urinary-tract-infections"},"modified":"2023-03-25T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T21:25:23","slug":"new-study-links-eating-meat-to-urinary-tract-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/new-study-links-eating-meat-to-urinary-tract-infections","title":{"rendered":"New Study Links Eating Meat to Urinary Tract Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-links-eating-meat-to-urinary-tract-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>March 24, 2023 \u2013 At least half a million urinary tract infections are caused by eating meat contaminated with <i>E.coli<\/i> bacteria, a new study reports.<\/p>\n<p><i>E.coli<\/i> is the most common bacteria to cause urinary tract infections, and it usually lives <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucsfhealth.org\/conditions\/urinary-tract-infections#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20bacteria%20found, 90%20percent%20of%20the%20time.\"> harmlessly<\/a> in the human intestinal tract, although it is well-known to be a source of food poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost people understand that eating uncooked meat, or accidentally ingesting bacteria from meat, can cause you to have an upset stomach,\u201d said researcher Lance B. Price, a professor at George Washington University, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/03\/23\/bacteria-meat-uti-urinary-tract-gwu-study-ecoli\/\"> <i>The Washington Post<\/i><\/a>. \u201cBut now we also know that specific varieties of <i>E. coli<\/i>, coming from raw meat, are also causing hundreds of thousands of UTIs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 24, 2023 \u2013 At least half a million urinary tract infections are caused by eating meat contaminated with E.coli bacteria, a new study reports. E.coli is the most common bacteria to cause urinary tract infections, and it usually lives harmlessly in the human intestinal tract, although it is well-known to be a source of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}