Fabulous reads – It’s all about the gut
Book review - The Lose Your Belly Diet by Dr Travis Stork.
The Lose Your Belly Diet, Dr Travis Stork, Penguin Random House, ISBN: 9780 5930 79300
THE all-consuming (excuse the pun) weight loss quest often leaves, especially older folk, with a wobbly belly.
Not for nothing, termed middle-age spread – our sedentary lifestyles seem designed to encourage belly growth.
So the book, The Lose Your Belly Diet by Travis Stork,MD, an Emmy-nominated host of the award-winning talk show, The Doctors, caught my eye. Dr Stork said he was inspired to write the book due to the “rapidly changing knowledge of the human gut microbiome and its effect on our health and weight”.
The human gut microbiome, the new buzz word in the weight loss industry, are tiny organisms that live in our bodies, especially in our tummies. Scientists have discovered that healthy folk have more and a greater variety of microbes than unhealthy people.
So the book explains how to cherish and feed these microbes so that they provided optimum health.
You learn what foods these tiny organisms thrive on, and what damages or kills them.
There is also an eating plan with the recipes provided.
What is interesting is that scientists are about to make a breakthrough regarding how these microbes, in a healthy body, influence weight loss in bodies. And the possibility of giving obese people a dose of these healthy microbes to help weight loss in those who can’t get the fat to budge, is a future plan.
Apparently, but not surprisingly, your gut health dictates your overall well-being as eating correctly helps maintain a healthy immune system, imperative for optimum health.
Don’t let the scientific terms put you off, Dr Stork explains the processes clearly for the man in the street to understand, and a medical degree is not necessary.
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