Many processed foods strip carbs of their natural fibers. Eating foods with an ideal total carbohydrate-to-fiber ratio can help with weight management and improve overall health.
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Research suggests there could be a link between hay fever and the microbiome. Exploring this connection paves the way for potential treatments.
No, you’re not imagining it. Some people really do experience bloating or gut upset when they eat a lot of salad.
Your body produces postbiotics after digesting prebiotic and probiotic foods – and many postbiotics are crucial to good gut health.
Two Australians with bipolar have been successfully treated with poo transplants, allowing them to come off, or reduce, their medications. Here’s where the science is up to.
Poop comes in many shapes, sizes and textures. The kind that’s too runny might be the result of wayward germs, Crohn’s disease or lactose intolerance.
Many school lunchbox products are now heavily marketed as promoting gut health. The limited regulation of such claims leaves it to parents and carers to assess whether they really stack up.
New research dispels the myth that gut bacteria causes autism. Rather, changes in the gut bacteria of some people with autism are driven by restricted diets or ‘picky eating’.
Rather than focusing on single foods for ‘gut health’, we’re better off having a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle.
If you believe the memes, men spend ages in the toilet. But they’re not always pooing. Here’s what they’re really doing.
If your gut is healthy to begin with, it will take more to knock it out of whack. Prepare yourself now by making food choices that feed the microbiome and enhance gut health.
Remove the alcohol and calories, and it turns out beer is a drink that has many qualities found in health drinks.
Current research suggests that exercise causes a number of positive changes in our gut microbiome.
Probiotics sold in tablets or capsules don’t need to be refrigerated to work.
Our research found that following a Mediterranean diet was linked with less frailty, inflammation, and maintaining better cognitive function.
Irritable bowel syndrome causes abdominal pain and constipation or diarrhoea. These symptoms overlap with other disorders, so it’s important to get the correct diagnosis and then the best treatments.
Probiotics might avert a case of diarrhoea, or they could mean your gut takes longer to return to normal.
Study finds changes to gut microbiome begin as soon as migrants move to the US and continue to change over decades.
New research suggests people who eat organic plant foods have a reduction in risk of common cancers.
Just like a mobile phone, your body needs to be recharged every day. You need to eat food and drink water every day to keep your body going. Some foods are better than others at helping you stay well.
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Senior Lecturer in Gastro-Intestinal Health, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Scientia Professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland
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Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
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Associate Professor and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington
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Lecturer in Marketing and Consumer Culture Studies, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in Microbiology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University
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Professor of Pharmacology, Head of Pharmacology, UNSW Sydney
