As you may already know, what I am gonna talking about is how
the probiotics can be effective for a healthy living. But the sad thing
is most people think that only the food comes with huge brand names such
as probiotic yoghurt, are the only effective ones that has the ability
to fight with harmful bacterial organisms inside our body. Though since
1000's of years our ancient people used to get various kinds of natural
food that has MANY KINDS of probiotics. According to the Wikipedia,
evidence of fermented beverages have been found in the ancient city of
Babylon dated about 5000 BC.
First we have to exactly know
what are the Probiotics and benefits they provide before we move to the
next part. Okey, so we know that many probiotic food are actually
produced by the action of lactic acid bacteria, yeasts or a combination
of both. These invisible microorganisms break down sugars and
carbohydrates in the foods and make them more digestible and more
nutritious for us. We also know that when we ingest more of these
gut-friendly microbes, which bear long names like
lactobacillus acidophilus,
they would help to control the amount of harmful bacteria in our body
and prevent them from growing out of control. But there is another thing
to consider is that each of these different kinds of probiotic foods
have their own bacterial organisms that plays various kinds of different
roles in our body.
Well now you know the importance of
including probiotics to our daily life through the daily diets though
now comes the question which food contains them?
Here is a short
list of foodstuffs that you can find everywhere but there are few other
better products exist but I know you cannot find them easily in a
country like Sri Lanka because most of them are traditional Japanese and
Korean foods.
1. Yoghurt (Only the products made with natural milk other than artificial flavours)
2.
Dark Chocolate (Not the ones in light brown colour comes in huge brand
names in Sri lanka. These products commonly comes in super dark brown
and they stat it on their package)
3. Jelly crystals made with Microalgae
4. Curd
5. Pickles (අච්චාරු)
6. Kefir (is a unique fermented milk
drink made with Kefir grains, available in most asian and european countries)
Ok
now you are used to include the probiotic food into your everyday life
so what to do next? As I early mentioned probiotics are microorganisms
made up with various kinds of friendly bacteria so they also need food
for live longer and do their job inside our human body. Then what we
need to do is getting Prebiotics with the combination of probiotics for
our daily routine so they can last longer and spread quickly. As I said
Prebiotics are the food for probiotic bacteria so here is a list of many
prebiotic food that we can include in our meals.
1. Garlic
2. Leeks
3. Onion
4. Asparagus (හාතාවාරිය)
5. Wheat flour
6. Artichoke (සූරියකාන්ත අල)
7. Many other greens
Mm
now you also know the importance of feeding the friendly bacterial
organisms living in our body so all you have to do is planning your
everyday diets well and including those Probiotic and Prebiotic food
into your daily meals with other nutritious fruits and vegetables, then
your life will be much better. But do not forget to do daily exercises
because eating those meals also needs to process inside our body so
exercises will greatly improve it's speed and effectiveness.
Thanks for reading and I wish you all for a good and healthy life.
