Saturday, September 16, 2017

A NEW LOOK AT OBESITY..... THE GUTS OF IT ALL!

Eat less, move more. That’s been the mantra of the weight loss movement for decades.  But as those who have fought the battle of the bulge will tell you, there’s a lot more to obesity than just too much junk food or too little willpower. Even when genes are taken into account, scientists have struggled to explain why one person can eat cake and stay skinny, while another munches on carrots and can’t shed a pound.
Now, exciting new research reveals there is a missing piece to the obesity puzzle, one that is highly complex and intensely personal: gut microbes.
Inside our intestines, there’s an entire ecosystem – our own “inner rainforest” -  made up of microorganisms so small that millions could fit into the eye of a needle. But these tiny bugs that live in our gut are proving key to human health and the obesity epidemic.
microbesCould microbes be the missing key to weight loss?
Some of these bacteria are nasty pathogens that lead to diseases. As a result, conventional wisdom has given all bacteria a bad rap – until recently, when researchers began proving what one science writer calls a  “subversive” idea: bacteria are actually our biggest allies. By targeting them as the enemy, we’ve damaged our bodies’ own biological systems, including weight control. 
Microbes help us digest food, harvest calories, provide us with energy, produce crucial vitamins, regulate appetite, protect our immune system and fend off the bad guys. But because of our modern lifestyle, including a highly processed Western diet and overuse of antibiotics, some of the species of bacteria that once lived in our gut are on the verge of extinction.
Our microbes need to eat, but we’re starving them by failing to nourish them with the proper foods. The result? Unhealthy guts, and an obesity rate that has skyrocketed.
Time  SpectorTim Spector cooking for his family
According to geneticist Tim Spector, author of the new book “The Diet Myth: The Real Science Behind What We Eat”, the most important diet myth is that, “like identical lab rats”, we all respond to food and consume calories the same way. 
But just like a fingerprint, each person’s microbiome is unique, and so is the way diet impacts our weight and our health. So the diet that works for a British scientist may be radically different from a hunter-gatherer in Tanzania, or even the person living next door.
In It Takes Guts we’ll explore the links between microbes, diet and weight. We’ll discover surprising new information about the food we eat, and the food our microbes love to munch on. And we’ll meet the researchers who are applying what they’ve learned in the lab to their everyday lives, and experimenting on themselves, including:
With the help of colourful graphic animations, we’ll learn how we’ve damaged our microbiomes, and discover ways to restore our “inner rainforest”. As one researcher notes, “You never eat alone. Because whatever food you put in you're feeding trillions of your microbes.”
In the battle of the bulge, should we learn to trust our gut?
Directed by Leora Eisen and executive produced by Gordon Henderson at 90th Parallel Productions in association with CBC.
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FOR  CANADIANS  THIS  FULL  HOUR  LONG  PROGRAM  CAN  BE  FOUND  ON  THE  NATURAL  OF  THINGS,  with  David  Suzuki  

THE  BOTTOM  LINE  IS  STAY  OFF  A  FAST  FOOD  DIET,  AND  JUNK  FOODS  WITH  JUNK  DESERTS,  JUNK  DRINKS;   AND  ANTIBIOTICS  THAT  TOO  MANY  CHILDREN  GET  TOO  MANY  TIMES  AS  THEY  GROW;  EAT  MORE  FIBRE  FOODS..... FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES,  WITH  AS  NATURAL  AS  POSSIBLE  PROTEINS [FISH,  CHEESE,  EGGS,  BEEF  ETC.].

IT  IS  A  SHAME  THIS  PROGRAM ON  THE  NATURE  OF  THINGS  IS  ONLY  AVAILABLE  WITHIN  CANADA.

   

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