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Bezig met laden... Fiber Fueled: The Plant-Based Gut Health Program for Losing Weight, Restoring Your Health, and Optimizing Your Microbiomedoor Will Bulsiewicz
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"A bold new plant-based plan that challenges popular keto and paleo diets, from an award-winning gastroenterologist. The benefits of restrictive diets like paleo and keto have been touted for more than a decade, but as renowned gastroenterologist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz, or "Dr. B," illuminates in this groundbreaking book, the explosion of studies on the microbiome makes it abundantly clear that eliminations are in fact hazardous to our health. What studies clearly now show--and what Dr. B preaches with his patients--is that gut health is the key to boosting our metabolism, balancing our hormones, and taming the inflammation that causes a host of diseases. And the scientifically proven way to fuel our guts is with dietary fiber from an abundant variety of colorful plants. Forget about the fiber your grandmother used to take--the cutting-edge science on fiber is incredibly exciting. As Dr. B explains, fiber energizes our gut microbes to create powerhouse postbiotics called short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) that are essential to our health. SCFAs are scientifically proven to promote weight loss, repair leaky gut, strengthen the microbiome, optimize the immune system, reduce food sensitivities, lower cholesterol, reverse type 2 diabetes, improve brain function, and even prevent cancer. Restrictive fad diets starve the gut of the critical fiber we need, weaken the microbes, and make our system vulnerable. As a former junk-food junkie, Dr. B knows firsthand the power of fiber to dramatically transform our health. The good news is that our guts can be trained. Fiber-rich, real foods--with fruits, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and legumes--start working quickly and maintain your long-term health, promote weight loss, and allow you to thrive and feel great from the inside out. With a 28-day jumpstart program with menus and more than 65 recipes, along with essential advice on food sensitivities, Fiber Fueled offers the blueprint to start turbocharging your gut for lifelong health today"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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And the cheerleading. "I'm building a fiber bandwagon. Who's coming with me? Invite your friends, Grab your family. Let's be loud and proud so they can hear us." (Loud and proud. One sentence later we're supposed to Eat The Rainbow. Mixed message?) The cheerleading goes on and on and ON. I just can't.
And the acronyms. FODMAPS and FGOALS and SCFA abound; also SAD which has a new meaning (most of the often-used acronyms, but not SCFA, are in the index). And the cutesy wordies. "Shrooms" and "veggies" . So very twee.
It's really hard to sift through this word salad to find any meaning, but I did get a few take-aways. In Chapter 4, the above mentioned EAT THE RAINBOW, he talks about Dr Rob Knight, whom he actually describes as a "god of gut health" (sort of like one of those chubby Buddhas, one assumes). Dr Knight's startling and useful finding, as presented at 2017's Digestive Disease Week in Chicago, was that "the single greatest predictor of a healthy gut microbiome is the diversity of plants" in the diet. And he quantifies it. 30 different types of plant is a number to aim for. Another take-away from that chapter is that in a study (as the review from 2022 points out, the study is completely anonymous! but oh hey, if we want the citations we can type in the web address at the end of the chapter, how generous) ANYWAY, in "a study" consuming whole grains let to a strong anti-inflammatory effect. A third identifiable piece of useful advice is that leafy greens are nutrient dense, extremely high in fibre and low in calories, so that even if you are unprepared to do a complete diet change immediately, adding more of these to your meals is basically found healthiness (and if you use a variety of them, you're working towards those 30 plants).
My request to the library had been "a high fibre cookbook please", and sure enough by page 200 he's done with the unalloyed puffery and is ready to tell us about The Fiber Fueled Four Weeks that will make us "a plant-based rock star". Uh, thanks. The recipes don't read as being very good at all (I originally said "look", but there are no photos), and I gather he isn't expecting you to like them: he suggests picking out your five favourite dinner dishes out of the 28 and go from there, after you complete the month of gut boot camp. What I was hoping for was a cookbook with appetizing recipes, attractive pictures, and suggestions on how to increase the fibre content of what I already eat. ( )