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Gut Health Has A Fatal Flaws By Yasmin Tayag Summary

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Well-known, Atlantic essayist and writer, Yasmin Tayag, in her essay, “Gut Health has a Fatal Flaw”, describes how many healthy alternatives don’t do much for you and how we don’t know how the gut operates too well. Ms. Tayag’s purpose is to inform readers about how little we know about the gut and its effects on our overall health. She creates a formal, persuasive tone in order to convey to her readers the idea that “healthier” alternatives do not help improve overall health as well as they should and that we know very little about how the gut works in relation to our body. Ms. Tayag begins her article speaking about how her father encouraged healthy eating with the mantra “All disease begins in the gut.” She then voices her discontent with her fathers idea saying “I would roll my eyes, dubious that his enthusiasm for this practice was anything more than fussiness.” She also voices the idea that improving your gut health has become mainstream on social media. …show more content…

In the next paragraph, Ms. Tayag states that Karen Cobain, an investigator at the AdventHealth Research Institute of Metabolism and Diabetes, told her in an interview that expecting certain foods and products to overhaul gut health is unrealistic, as is believing that they will guarantee greater overall well-being. They are “a little bit premature.” As well as stating that “gut health cookies, after all, are just cookies”

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