Explain to your readers how diet and the microbiome can impact mental health (you can use my sources in this post or you can find your own).
1. Find and discuss TWO snack foods that have unexpected amounts of sugars/refined carbs. This can be food found in the grocery store, OR in your dorm room: especially if it is something YOU eat as “comfort food”.
- Make sure to discuss what a serving size is, and how much sugar is in every serving. (You can count carbs as well….Do YOU eat just 12 Doritos when you eat chips?). 4 grams of carbs/sugar = 1 tsp sugar
- Make sure to look for ALL forms of sugarincluded (they try to hide it..): SUGAR includes ALL of the following :
- Barley malt, Beet sugar, Brown sugar, Buttered sugar, Cane juice crystals, Cane sugar, Caster sugar, Coconut sugar, Corn sweetener, Crystalline fructose, Date sugar, Dextran, malt powder, Ethyl maltol, Fruit juice concentrate, Golden sugar, Invert sugar, Maltodextrin, Maltose, Muscovado sugar, Panela, Palm sugar, Organic raw sugar, Rapadura sugar, Evaporated cane juice, Confectioner’s (powdered) sugar.
- Agave nectar, Carob syrup, Golden syrup, High-fructose corn syrup, Honey, Malt syrup, Maple syrup, Molasses, Oat syrup, Rice bran syrup, Rice syrup.
- OR you can discuss how artificial sweeteners also can negatively impact the microbiome.
2. Then review the lifestyle markers from the Nature article, and discuss lifestyle markers that YOU would like to advocate to your readers as an EASY way to modify their microbiome to be better.
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