probiotics and probiotic-rich foods https://b2012overleven.runboard.com/t523 Runboard| probiotics and probiotic-rich foods en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:34:16 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 08:34:16 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 articleshttps://b2012overleven.runboard.com/p2165,from=rss#post2165https://b2012overleven.runboard.com/p2165,from=rss#post2165The Importance of Fermented Foods Did you know the number of bacteria in your body outnumber your cells by about 10 to 1? These bacteria in turn are comprised of both beneficial ones and harmful ones. The ideal balance is about 85 percent good bacteria and 15 percent bad. Maintaining this ideal ratio is what it’s all about when we’re talking about the importance of probiotics. It’s important to understand though that probiotics are not a new concept. The only thing that’s new is that you can take them in pill form. But historically, mankind has consumed large amounts of probiotics in the form of fermented and cultured foods, which were invented long before the advent of refrigeration and other forms of food preservation. “Every traditional culture, when you look at their traditional diet, they ferment their foods. They fermented everything. You can ferment dairy, grains, beans, vegetables, fruits, meats, and fish. Everything can be fermented, and there were fermented beverages in every culture. When the cabbages were ripe in September, you made it a fermented cabbage. Perhaps for a month or two, you were eating fresh cabbage, but then for the rest of the year, 10 months of the year, you ate your cabbage in a fermented form. Quite a large percent of all the foods that people consume on a daily basis were fermented. And with every mouthful of these fermented foods you consume trillions of beneficial bacteria…” Fermented foods not only give you a wider variety of beneficial bacteria, they also give you far more of them, so it’s a much more cost effective alternative. Here’s a case in point: It’s unusual to find a probiotic supplement containing more than 10 billion colony-forming units. But when my team actually tested fermented vegetables produced by probiotic starter cultures, they had 10 trillion colony-forming units of bacteria. Literally, one serving of vegetables was equal to an entire bottle of a high potency probiotic! So clearly, you’re far better off using fermented foods. follow the link to read more and for 2 podcasts Also see This Food Contains 100 TIMES More Probiotics than a Supplementnondisclosed_email@example.com (TheDoctorIsInTheHouse)Sat, 12 May 2012 18:14:15 +0000 probiotics and probiotic-rich foodshttps://b2012overleven.runboard.com/p1318,from=rss#post1318https://b2012overleven.runboard.com/p1318,from=rss#post1318Sauerkraut is so full of vitamins and probiotics that ancient sailors ate it on long voyages to stay healthy Raw, fermented foods are brimming with health-promoting probiotics and have been staples of the human diet for thousands of years. One such ancient food is sauerkraut, produced simply by covering cabbage with water and letting it sit for several weeks. Naturally occurring bacteria on the surface of the cabbage leaves thrive in this environment, chemically changing the cabbage and increasing its B vitamin content. Perhaps as importantly, fermented cabbage takes much longer to go bad than fresh cabbage. Ancient sailors took advantage of this superfood and brought casks of sauerkraut along with them on long voyages to stave off scurvy, the debilitating disease of vitamin C deficiency that was one of the main hazards of the profession. Shipboard records show that this condition was nearly absent on ships that carried sauerkraut. follow link to read the restnondisclosed_email@example.com (TheLivingShadow)Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:18:51 +0000