April 05, 2024

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Dietary Fiber Helps Gut Bacteria And This Lowers Your Risk of Type-2 Diabetes

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Dietary Fiber Helps Gut Bacteria And This Lowers Your Risk of Type-2 Diabetes
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Dietary Fiber Helps Gut Bacteria And This Lowers Your Risk of Type-2 Diabetes

Apr 05 2024 | 00:00:49

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Here's your Health minute. We're talking about gut health and diabetes.

 

So a new study is showing us something that your mom's already been telling you. Eat your fiber. If you eat fruits, veggies, whole grains, all that good stuff. New research is showing that these not only feed the healthy gut bacteria, but they ultimately have a beneficial effect of controlling your blood sugars.

 
 
So how can you make this work for you? Number one, you want to understand what your A1 C levels. Number two, you want to get a colon. Skippy. Make sure if you're 45 years and older you've had your colonoscopy exam. And the good news here is that most insurances will cover your preventative colonoscopy. So your take-home message for today is eat more fiber.
 
And this is going to help the bacteria in your gut. And this is going to help you reduce your risk of type two diabetes.
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00:00:00:00 - 00:00:22:05 Unknown Here's your Health minute. We're talking about gut health and diabetes. So a new study is showing us something that your mom's already been telling you. Eat your fiber. If you eat fruits, veggies, whole grains, all that good stuff. New research is showing that these not only feed the healthy gut bacteria, but they ultimately have a beneficial effect of controlling your blood sugars. 00:00:22:07 - 00:00:43:09 Unknown So how can you make this work for you? Number one, you want to understand what your A1 C levels. Number two, you want to get a colon. Skippy. Make sure if you're 45 years and older you've had your colonoscopy exam. And the good news here is that most insurances will cover your preventative colonoscopy. So your take home message for today is eat more fiber. 00:00:43:09 - 00:00:49:03 Unknown And this is going to help the bacteria in your gut. And this is going to help you reduce your risk of type two diabetes.

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