A new study finds that a common food additive, ubiquitous in processed foods, changes the microbiome and the gut of healthy people
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When people adhere to simple non-demanding lifestyle choices they stand to reduce their risk of metabolic syndrome – and its consequences – by 65 percent. After a year of sacrificing for health this should be easy!
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Most people think about metabolic health in terms of leanness vs. obesity. But BMI doesn’t tell the whole story, and internal biochemical processes increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart and vascular disease.
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Recent studies find that the state of the inhabitants of our gut may affect our immune system, our weight status, our susceptibility to disease, our energy levels, our mental state and our mood.
But how does one get the kind of microbial society that’s most conducive to wellness?
New research helps explain why diet soda hasn’t yielded the expected weight loss. Even if we can’t be sure that diet soda directly causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, it’s fair to say thi experiment isn’t going too well.
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