/PRNewswire/ Nearly a decade since revolutionizing the cold beverage section of your local grocery store with its premium kombucha drinks, Health-Ade is.
The Mediterranean diet, with its emphasis on fresh vegetables and fruit, whole grains, legumes, olive oil and fish, provides an array of health benefits, research suggests. These include weight loss and a lowered risk of heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Plus, it’s easy to follow because it
Gut Health Works Along With Mouth
by Dr Jayashree on May 25, 2021 at 10:16 PM
The gut health impact due to the functioning of heart, brain, and liver is known but the knowledge about the connection between the gut and oral cavity being part of digestive system is very little.
As the process of digestion begins in the mouth facilitating adequate chewing of the food to easily digest in the gut, it is important to maintain healthy teeth to keep the gut functioning smooth.
Even oral microbiome environment is provided by the gut through absorbing good and bad bacteria during swallowing. The good bacteria perform defensive functions to facilitate the dental health and some bad bacteria damage the tooth structure to produce decay.
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Will you take part in the blue poop challenge?
Staring down in the toilet bowl, Tim Spector had momentarily forgotten he’d eaten a muffin filled with food coloring. Poking from the well of water was the contents of his bowel, in a shocking shade of electric blue.
Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and author of “The Diet Myth,” is calling for members of the public to follow suit and eat blue-colored muffins to monitor their gut transit times. This is the time it takes for food to travel from your mouth to the other end.