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.