Many people have gut issues nowadays, and even issues that don’t appear to be gut related- such as inflammation - are more related to gut health than we usually realise. One of the foundations of a wholistic, natural medicine approach to health, is to ensure the gut is healthy. It affects every cell in the body. 

A low carb diet, which is very popular, is generally a high meat diet. We know there are issues with this, but yes, it can help you lose weight. However it’s generally not sustainable and not very healthy overall. It is a recipe for heart disease and other issues, and some of these low carb diets, like Atkins, are linked to a lower life expectancy. So you can be skinny and dead. 

High carbohydrate foods cover a wide range of foods. From ice cream to pizza to a serve of brown rice or a sweet potato. Obviously, all carbs are not the same, yet they tend to get lobbed into the same evil category in the current war against carbs and sugar. (This war is an inevitable backlash against a culture that eats a lot of poor quality carb foods, but it is still a fad). 

Is going gluten free healthier? Its become very popular, that’s for sure. Even, shall we say, fashionable. Many people have jumped on the bandwagon….but without necessarily knowing anything more than “gluten is bad” because they read it somewhere, or someone told them.