Are personalised diets the best way to be healthy

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2022-01-20

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  • Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

  • I'm Sam.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • In recent years, new diets was named like vegan,

  • kesso and paleo have become very popular.

  • Are you a vegetarian, Neil?

  • Do you follow any particular diet?

  • Well, a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and only a little meat from time to time.

  • Well, while many diets claim to improve health or help you lose weight,

  • recent research shows that what counts is not what you eat, but how your body reacts.

  • Yes, and that reaction doesn't happen where you might think, not in the brain or tongue,

  • or even the stomach, but in the gut.

  • Another name for the intestines,

  • the long tube inside your body which digests food.

  • Inside everyone's gut are millions of microbes, tiny living organisms, too small to see with us in microscope.

  • Some of them are good for us, some bad.

  • Microbes help digest food, but they influence our bodies more than we know.

  • Think of them as chemical factories that cause our individual reaction to the food we eat.