December 2009

Probiotics
Having just recently put together a healthy gut menu for Activia to use in their 14 day challenge, it reminded me of how important probiotics are to us and has inspired me to make probiotics the focus of this blog post. Firstly, probiotic literally means “for life” and according to the World Health Organisation's official definition, probiotics are “living micro-organisms that, when ingested in sufficient quantities, exert beneficial effects on the host that go beyond the primary nutritional effect”. A note here that sufficient quantities, means several million bacteria at a time!