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gut health
A Time article compares American school lunches with foreign counterparts.
...Our children’s health, brain development, and future are highly dependent on what we feed them, teach them, but also not the least bit important is what we show them. We are showing them it is ok to eat carbohydrates, sugar, and unhealthy fats at meals...
Recent research suggests more tangible evidence of a gut and brain connection.
...Think about kids as they are in school, and how what they eat will influence how well they can learn as well as their retention of what they have learned. If they start their morning with a sugary meal then they, and by extension you, are setting them up for failure...
Need to sell your bad food, and wasteful products? Use Television. Problem solved.
...However, we recently started watching a new TV show online, but from a free service, that contains commercials, and I was amazed by the advertisements. Perhaps I had forgotten how bad they are, or just about them in general. These ads were for crappy food, drugs, and even toxic cleaning supplies...
Bacteria, and the human body.
...There are 100,000 billion microbes in the human intestine, but there are only 37,200 billion cells in the human body...
It goes without saying that what we eat matters to the whole body.
I spent a Saturday a few weekends ago at a conference about gut health. It was a great reminder of how important the gut is to the body. From the gut we are able to see what is going on in the rest of the body; especially in the brain which does not have pain receptors. If you are dealing with bloating in the stomach then imagine what is also going on in the brain. How is the brain being affected by the foods that you are eating?...
