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Is Chipotle healthy? Nutritionists give the final word on if eating at Chipotle is good for you, plus the healthiest menu items and the ones you should skip.
Your gut houses billions of bacteria that help your body break down the food you eat and send it either into your bloodstream as nutrients or out of the body as waste. The gut microbiome keeps you alive and healthy, and as you choose foods, it shifts its balance to grow and support good bacteria or bad bacteria, depending on whether you re eating a healthy plant-based diet or loads of processed junk food and fatty animal products. According to two nutrition experts we interviewed, the bacteria in your gut is not just on the receiving end of this process of metabolizing the food we eat but also signaling the brain that it