2007-02-06 06:02:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Not at all! In fact, the human body depends on some bacteria for basic functions, like digestion and pH balance. There are approximately 10 times as many bacterial cells as human cells in the human body, with large numbers of bacteria on the skin and in the digestive tract.
Most of the time when bacteria has made us sick, it's not that the bacteria is there, it's that something has either thrown off our body's balance and made too much of one kind of bacteria, or too little of something else.
Sometimes, we even encourage some bacteria. For example, we eat cheese and yogurt regularly (most of us), and both contain bacteria - in fact, everything yogurt MUST contain live cultures of bacteria, or it can't be called yogurt (check the labels - they'll even tell you what kind of bacteria is in there).
Even when we have to take medicine like antibiotics, or try to sterilize things from bacteria, we don't ever want to kill ALL the bacteria. Some antibiotics don't even kill bacteria - they just inhibit bacteria growth (keeping us from having too much).
2007-02-06 06:13:16 · answer #1 · answered by Amber C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. bacteria contained in yoghurt for example are good,
If you refer to eating food in bad condition and getting sick from them, well yes all of the bacteria there will probably make you sick.
How much sick you feel depends on your general body status, your age, the degree of deterioration of the food and how much you have eaten of the bad food.
The weakest candidates for this are kids and elders whose bodies do not have its defense system at full.
Sometimes you can eat something with little amounts of harmful bacteria and you will not experience any symptoms because your body defenses could fight it
When having symptoms, they are mostly vomits, diarrea, and stomach sickness.
2007-02-06 06:23:02 · answer #2 · answered by deliciasyvariedades 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I'm eating some right now in my yogurt. A lot of soft cheeses contain bacteria, too.
2007-02-06 06:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by Allison L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Alot of bacteria is harmless and some is even good for you.
2007-02-06 13:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by Angry-T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, yogurt has bacteria in it. Good bacteria in your digestive tract will keep you healthy.
2007-02-06 06:12:24 · answer #5 · answered by cricket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, some will help people like:nitrogen fixing bacteria.
2007-02-08 16:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by hiru 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No:
there are good as well as bad:
2007-02-07 04:11:11 · answer #7 · answered by ar.samy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all of it , but most of it does
2007-02-06 06:42:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋