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  • Fermented foods such as yogurt, kefir and sauerkraut are high in Lactobacillus acidophilus (in purple above) and Bifidobacterium longum (in green above), two common probiotic bacteria.

    Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: You Are Home to Millions of Microbes! Deepak Chopra 2011

  • Fermented foods such as yogurt, kefir and sauerkraut are high in Lactobacillus acidophilus (in purple above) and Bifidobacterium longum (in green above), two common probiotic bacteria.

    Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: You Are Home to Millions of Microbes! Deepak Chopra 2011

  • “And various other perquisites, quae nunc praescribere longum,” said the Abbot, summing, with his own lordly voice, the advantages attached to the office of conventional bow-bearer.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Mars in 3, &c. and so solve all appearances better than any way whatsoever: calculate all motions, be they in longum or latum, direct, stationary, retrograde, ascent or descent, without epicycles, intricate eccentrics, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Talia multa connectentes, longum reprehensionis sermonem erga Dei providentiam contexunt.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Schell's studies have suggested that a veggie-heavy diet is linked with high levels of B. longum, which breaks down plant materials, while diets heavy on meat might suppress the bacterium.

    Gut Flora? Great! 2007

  • And if thou be in love, thou wilt say so too, Et longum formosa, vale, farewell sweetheart, vale charissima Argenis,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Three years ago Mark Schell, a microbiologist at the University of Georgia, found that Bifidobacterium longum has several hundred genes for breaking apart sugars found in many common human foods, including breast milk.

    Gut Flora? Great! 2007

  • Regio seu insula dicta Lombe, spatiosa quidem est, continens forestum dictum aliàs Tombar, longum per dietas 18.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Dayre, átque ex tunc exitur de terra Syriæ, et intratur à superiori parte in desertum longum arenosum, et sterile, propè ad septem dietas, quod lingua eorum vocatur Abilech; tamen per illud inueniantur plura hospitia, vbi haberi possunt ad victum nccessaria.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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