Fruit of the Contemplative Life
Fruit of the contemplative life: => Health, healing and fitness => : Jhanananda September 25, 2014, 03:10:04 PM
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Sugar Substitutes Linked to Obesity (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sugar-substitutes-linked-to-obesity1/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20140924).
Artificial sweeteners seem to change the microbiomes of our guts. The artificial sweeteners that are widely seen as a way to combat obesity and diabetes could, in part, be contributing to the global epidemic of these conditions.
Sugar substitutes such as saccharin might aggravate these metabolic disorders by acting on bacteria in the human gut, according to a study published by Nature this week.
This article, Gut Bacteria May Play a Role in Autism (http://fruitofthecontemplativelife.org/forum/index.php/topic,825.msg4401.html#new), and Probiotics Sugar and the food industry (http://fruitofthecontemplativelife.org/forum/index.php/topic,714.0.html) make me want to eat properly made pickles, yogurt, and other fermented foods, as well as drink fermented beverages like: beer and wine.