Bacteria are among the earliest forms of life on Earth. Notwithstanding their small size and primitive origin, bacteria still have a tremendous impact on everyday human life. Over the centuries, research into bacteria have provided and enriched the fundamental biological knowledge due to their readily measured processes and effects on higher organisms. Although molecular genetics and microbiology were among the scientific fields that have mostly benefited from the discoveries made in bacteria, our current state of knowledge has gone beyond what anyone could have ever imagined. The present Research Topic aims to cover new and exciting broad aspects of the importance of bacteria to human life, both positive and negative influences. Regulation of bacterial gene expression, replication and segregation control mechanisms, cell to cell communication via quorum sensors, and the relatively recent finding of bacterial immunity via CRISPR, have led to the development of many, and very important new tools in biotechnology and the emerging field of molecular medicine. The battle against infectious diseases has also benefited from the genetic approaches that have been developed in the quest for finding new targets and novel drugs against pathogenic bacteria. At the next level, the human microbiome project has opened up new avenues in understanding the role of bacteria in human health and wellbeing. Finally, the relationship between bacterial infections and human cancers will also be covered, a subject that is still under verification through rigorous experimental approaches. Special emphasis will be given to the bacterial accessory genome, i.e the mobilome, as the primary cause of health-threatening antimicrobial resistance and the production of toxins and virulence factors. Taking into account the evolutionary importance of horizontal gene transfer and the additional beneficial roles of certain bacterial mobile genetic elements, they help project best “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” outline of this topic. At the time this eBook is about to be published, our Research Topic has registered nearly 55, 000 views.

Facilitate fun and fitness with students in grades 5 and up using Healthy Eating and Exercise! This 80-page book encourages better overall fitness using activities, games, experiments, tips, and recipes based on the USDA food pyramid. Written by a medical doctor, the activities allow students to explore a healthier diet using the USDA's "My Pyramid Plan," understand food labels, chart eating and exercise habits, and learn how to plan a healthier lifestyle.

Healthier Without Wheat is the leading resource for understanding, diagnosing, and living with reactions to wheat and gluten. Critically acclaimed by Library Journal, and a 2010 Book of the Year Finalist for ForeWord Magazine, Healthier Without Wheat makes sense of a complex issue and explains why millions of people feel better when they avoid gluten. Dr. Wangen, a gluten intolerant physician, has an easy-to-understand writing style and uses patient stories with scientific facts to clearly explain how gluten intolerance causes numerous maladies and is often difficult to recognize. Most importantly, this book substantiates the much larger world of non-celiac gluten intolerance.

Practical lifestyle management encompasses the knowledge and understanding of the components of health that we require to work, learn, socialise and develop. This programme looks at lifestyle management from a holistic point of view surrounding the components of a lifestyle that bring about or prevent disease and explores ways to use the physical, social, mental and affective / spiritual components of living to our own benefit. The programme has twelve facilitated learning sessions which look at the spectrum of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual disciplines that can detract from or enhance, the process of building long term well-being.

This is the authoritative resource on IBS. In this easy to read book you will discover what actually causes IBS; how to find the cause of your own symptoms; how to treat your symptoms; and where to go for help. If you have IBS, constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating, indigestion, or chronic abdominal pain, there is a logical reason for your suffering. Written by Dr. Stephen Wangen, the founder of the IBS Treatment Center, this book explains how your symptoms can be cured. You do not need to eat more fiber; take medications or supplements for the rest of your life; or wonder if you are too stressed. You can actually live your life completely free of IBS and this book will help you discover how.