But is it that healthy folks tend to eat breakfast, or is there a causal relationship between consuming a good breakfast and improved health outcomes? Are the lower chances of suffering from diabetes, heart disease, and being overweight due to eating a healthy breakfast?... Read More
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Cancer and the Gut Microbiome
The exact cause of colorectal cancer for any individual is often unknown. However, lifestyle risk factors include sedentary behavior, a low-fiber diet low in fiber (and high in fat), and obesity. Alcohol and tobacco also increase colorectal cancer risk.... Read More
Are Your Probiotics Safe?
The “good” bacteria may support your immune function and control inflammation. Some bacteria types may also help you to digest food, create vitamins, keep bad bacteria from getting out of control, and break down and absorb medicines. Finally, probiotics help support the cells lining your gut, preventing bad bacteria from entering your blood.... Read More
A Psychobiotic Diet Drops Stress
The gut microbiome — the microbe community in the gastrointestinal tract — influences immunity and metabolism. This essential organ of microorganisms contains up to 1,000 species and 100 trillion organisms, encoding 100-times more unique genomes than our own.... Read More
Red Meat and Health
That lean ground beef contains 43 percent of the Daily Value (DV) of zinc. Zinc is essential for brain function, nerve tissue health, and red blood cell production. Zinc also supports our immune system.... Read More
Ultra-processed Foods and Health
Ultra-processed foods include colorants, flavorings, modified starches, hydrolyzed proteins, hydrogenated oils, artificial sweeteners, and bulking agents. And I would be very remiss if I didn’t include my bete noir, high fructose corn syrup.... Read More