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DESCRIPTION: Inadequate consumption of prebiotics—the fiber and resistant starch concentrated in unprocessed plant foods—can cause a disease promoting imbalance in our gut microbiome.
This is one of the reasons I recommend three daily servings of legumes (beans, split pea, chickpeas, and lentils) in my Daily Dozen ( checklist.
The microbiome connection may explain the extraordinary results in the study I featured in my last video: Is it Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown? (
More on the musical fruit:
• Beans and the Second Meal Effect (
• Canned Beans or Cooked Beans? (
• Increased Lifespan from Beans (
• Beans, Beans, They’re Good For Your Heart (
• Cooked Beans or Sprouted Beans? (
• Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses (
• Slow Your Beating Heart: Beans vs. Exercise (
More on the microbiome revolution in medicine:
• Treating Ulcerative Colitis with Diet (
• Microbiome: The Inside Story (
• Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (
• What’s Your Gut Microbiome Enterotype? (
• How to Change Your Enterotype (
• Paleopoo: What We Can Learn from Fossilized Feces (
More on bowel health in:
• Dr. Burkitt’s F-Word Diet (
• Breast Cancer and Constipation (
• How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (
• Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement? (
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