Food poisoning can be long-term problem

Just get that they are only beginning to understand this common and old problem.

Imagine what they will discover about the ill-effects of their diet pills and surgeries over time.

"It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout.

Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.

What they've spotted so far is troubling. In interviews with The Associated Press, they described high blood pressure, kidney damage, even full kidney failure striking 10 to 20 years later in people who survived severe E. coli infection as children, arthritis after a bout of salmonella or shigella, and a mysterious paralysis that can attack people who just had mild symptoms..."

Don't be stupid.

Try to avoid a future with a "dirty little secret" of rescues from being too fat.