Georgetown stands by the findings and says Lifeway had no complaints until the results came in.
"Probiotics can help so many children, " swears Lifeway Chief Executive Julie Smolyanski, referring to products containing protective bacteria.
You'd never guess from the breathless marketing that when Lifeway tested ProBugs in a clinical trial, it failed spectacularly.
But Lifeway continues to tout ProBugs' digestive benefits as if nothing has happened.
The conduct of Lifeway and the Southern Baptist Convention is shameful, and they owe Hairston an apology for their actions.
But another yogurt-like product, ProBugs kefir from Lifeway Foods, utterly failed to prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea in another study by the same researchers.
She was angered by Lifeway's decision but made it clear that she didn't serve the bookstore or even the Southern Baptist Convention.
Last year, he finished a study of ProBugs, from Lifeway Foods.
Lifeway told Forbes it thinks the researchers made mistakes in the study, and that it wants the to redo the study before it will pay Georgetown's bills.
ProBugs, a yogurtlike beverage for kids, is tasty, fun and good for a child's digestive system, if claims from its maker, Lifeway Foods, near Chicago, are to be believed.
If drug companies made so many claims with so little evidence, "they would be fined, " says Georgetown University physician Daniel Merenstein, who did the study of Lifeway's good bacteria.
Religious folks will quickly say that Scripture is clear that women can't be pastors and lead men, yet Hairston says that when she featured Pastor Paula White on her cover two years ago, Lifeway didn't take any action against the magazine.
Sold at high-end U.S. stores like Whole Foods, it comes in flavors like Sublime Slime Lime and contains a hefty dose of 7 billion to 10 billion good bacteria that "inhibit the growth of harmful bacteria" in the gut, according to Lifeway's website.
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