Obesity and Fermented Foods

[Monica]

Interesting...I've recently gotten into fermenting. I've been reading a lot about it...turns out that, historically, people of all cultures ate some sort of fermented foods on a daily basis! This is a glaring deficiency in the modern diet...even in the so-called health food diets!

Then, today, I got this from an email newletter:

Is Obesity Caused by Bacterial Infection?

The experiments show that the bacterium "may causatively contribute to the development of obesity" in humans, according to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Microbial Ecology.
A human patient lost over 66 pounds in nine weeks after being placed on a diet of "whole grains, traditional Chinese medicinal foods, and prebiotics," which reduced the bacterium's presence in the patient's gut to "undetectable" levels, the paper said.
One of the report's authors, Zhao Liping, lost 44 pounds in two years after adopting a diet of fermented probiotic foods such as bitter melon to adjust the balance of bacteria in his gut, the American magazine Science said in an article this year on his previous research.

I've got my first batch of sauerkraut, carrot chutney, kimchi, and spiced pears fermenting now!

And, just got this in the mail! I'm excited to try it, for 'foolproof fermenting.'

http://www.perfectpickler.com/