Healthy Eating: The Mediterranean Diet
Research indicates that the Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of illnesses such as heart disease and stroke. However, this diet is a lifestyle choice rather than a short-term craze to lose weight and improve health.
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How Gut Bacteria Affects Your Weight
We all know what we eat affects our gut bacteria but did you know that an imbalanced gut bacteria can cause weight gain?
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Prebiotics: How These Can Change Your Health
Prebiotics are in plants, mostly vegetables. These plant fibres cannot be digested. Instead, they make their way through our small intestine to our colon relatively unchanged. When they get to the colon, they act as food that can stimulate the bacteria. The bacteria ferment them, and that’s why you often hear them called ‘fermentable fibres’.
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How Stress Affects Your Gut Health
Hippocrates said, “All disease begins in the gut.” Stress is a cause of many illnesses as it creates physiological changes in our bodies. For instance, our body reverts back to its primitive instincts when stressed. Should it fight or should it flee?
