HEALTHY LIVING

GUT-FRIENDLY FOODS SPROUTS ·        Sprouts are the premature growth of a plant from a germinated seed. ·     Sprouts are excellent sources of antioxidants, essential amino acids, and a handful of nourishing vitamins and minerals. ·     S prouts have been designated by foodies as a “superfood” in recent years and have gained significant popularity. Easy steps to make beautiful and healthy sprouts :- Many different types of seeds can be sprouted :- Bean and pea sprouts: soybean, mung bean, black bean, kidney bean, green pea. Sprouted grains:  Such as  quinoa and oats. Vegetable or leafy sprouts:  Such as radish, broccoli, beet, mustard green and fenugreek sprouts. Nut and seed sprouts:  Such as almond, pumpkin seed, sesame seed or sunflower seed sprouts. Sprouts are generally consumed raw, but may also be lightly cooked before you eat them for taste enhancement. In sprouted barley, crude fibre, a major constituent of cell walls, increa

The Great Gut-Microbiome  & our Health  “All diseases begin in the gut.”  ‐ Hippocrates  Hippocrates said ,"Death sits in the bowels and bad digestion is the root of all evil." in 400 B.C. showing the importance of intenstine in human health, which seems to be ignored in modern medicine. However, there has been recently considerable increase in studies of effect of commensal microbes in human gut (stomach to intenstine).                           The term Gut-microbioata refers to total number of microbes such as bacteria, fungi, viruses etc but majority of tham are bacteria.  Sometimes the microbiome and microbiota are used interchangeably, these two terms have subtle differences. The  microbiome , refers to the collection of genomes from all the microorganisms in the environment.  Microbiota , on the other hand, usually refers to specific microorganisms that are found within a specific environment. Microbiota can refer to all the microorganism