{"id":15,"date":"2019-05-06T03:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/?p=15"},"modified":"2019-05-06T03:25:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T03:25:16","slug":"writing-exercise-5-food-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/2019\/05\/06\/writing-exercise-5-food-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Exercise #5 &#8211; Food Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prompt: What choices do you make in terms of food\/nutrition\/product use and consumption that may have an impact on your microbial communities? Consider choices that are intentional, and choices that are perhaps non-intentional.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, first I want to say that I believe that everything that we consume affects our microbial communities in our guts. Now, I do however, make some choices to consciously give myself a chance of benefiting those tiny organisms in my intestines. Some of the things I have started doing intentionally in the past couple of years to benefit my gut microbiome are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I take a probiotic supplement (capsule) daily with my first meal.<\/li>\n<li>I make it a point to drink 4-6 ounces of raw kombucha 5-6 days a week (DELICIOUS).<\/li>\n<li>I eat fermented foods: yogurt, kimchi, beer (lol), kiefer, and sauerkraut. This is easy because I like all of these things.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of garlic in my diet.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, I try to eat healthy every day, not just for my gut health but for my overall health.<\/li>\n<li>Greens (spinach, kale, broccoli, spirulina)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The intentional choices have been placed in my daily routine in order to benefit my gut health, overall health, etc. The non-intentional choices can most definitely have an adverse affect on microbial communities. Without doing any research, here is a list of things that I believe are probably bad for my gut.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sugar-Free energy drinks (<strong>Bang, Monster, Red Bull<\/strong>) &#8211; These are full of weird stuff that we can&#8217;t pronounce and sugar alcohols that are probably no good.<\/li>\n<li>Protein powders\/bars &#8211; Once again, the sugar alcohols really scare me when I think about them.<\/li>\n<li>Fried Foods &#8211; Inflammation causing food.<\/li>\n<li>Potato Chips<\/li>\n<li>TACO BELL &#8211; Every college kid knows we eat a little too much of this after a good weekend<\/li>\n<li>Too much beer?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompt: What choices do you make in terms of food\/nutrition\/product use and consumption that may have an impact on your microbial communities? Consider choices that are intentional, and choices that are perhaps non-intentional. So, first I want to say that I believe that everything that we consume affects our microbial communities in our guts. Now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/2019\/05\/06\/writing-exercise-5-food-choices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writing Exercise #5 &#8211; Food Choices<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/bhs323webb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}