Health & Nutrition - Healthy Habits That Can Mess With Your Gut

An Insight

- Nisha Bajaj

The endless flow of new nutritional and therapeutic research makes for a great read but it is difficult to know which healthy habits to follow to keep yourself healthy. In some diets, people have to consume more fatty food while in other diets, people have to avoid it completely & eat only complex carbohydrate-based food. It is very important to take the right decision on what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat and what to avoid completely. Let’s discuss some very well-known ‘healthy habits,’ that are actually not healthy and have adverse effects on your health.

Drinking diet soda instead of coke

Many people drink diet soda as a healthy fashion to show that they are avoiding sugary drinks but they are extremely harmful for your health. Diet soda tricks your body into assuming it needs more calories which leads you to consume more in other meals throughout the day. When experts examined the effects of artificial sweeteners on the body’s good bacteria, they found that the sweeteners caused both DNA and protein damage to the bacteria. A healthier alternative would be to make a healthy soda by infusing spring water with different fresh fruits.

Low fat/low carb diet