{"id":580,"date":"2013-12-23T19:03:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindykuzma.wordpress.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2013-12-23T19:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T19:03:35","slug":"bacon-with-a-side-of-superbugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Bacon, With a Side of Superbugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2013\/12\/meat.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"205\" \/>Every year, farm animals swallow an estimated 30 million pounds of antibiotics before <em>we<\/em> swallow <em>them<\/em>. Many of these medications are the very same type your doctor might prescribe\u2014and health experts fear if these meds are used in animals, their ability to fight your infection will diminish. Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to cut back on this barnyard drug problem. Here\u2019s what you need to know about the ruling, and how to protect yourself in the meantime. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/health\/bacon-side-superbugs\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article in Men&#8217;s Health.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, farm animals swallow an estimated 30 million pounds of antibiotics before we swallow them. Many of these medications are the very same type your doctor might prescribe\u2014and health experts fear if these meds are used in animals, their ability to fight your infection will diminish. Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,21,79,96,113,128,131,146],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-health","tag-antibiotic-resistance","tag-antibiotics","tag-fda","tag-health","tag-infections","tag-meat","tag-medication","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindykuzma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}