Short Chain Fatty Acids, fibre and colon health

by Sue M Coad | Sep 19, 2019 | Blog, Blogs, Clean Eating

🌱A diet rich in fibre can help digestion and prevent constipation. … Fatty foods, such as chips, burgers and fried foods, are harder to digest and can cause stomach pain and heartburn. …
🌱Try to eat more lean meat and fish, fruit & veg, seeds, nuts and healthy oils.
🌱The consumption of foods rich in fibre feeds the bacteria that create butyrate, one of the most beneficial short-chain fatty acids, that may help lower our risk of cancer.
🌱Additionally, the abundance of microbiota residing in the human intestine (estimated at 1014 microorganisms) plays a pivotal role in gut health which has a positive impact on the human body due to activation of the immune system, and production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) has in the to promotion of colon cell health as well as brain-gut interactions.

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