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Lose Weight, Heal Your Gut & Stay Healthy While Eating These 5 Carbs

It’s time to end the carb fear — embrace resistant starches during 2022

Ange Dim
In Fitness And In Health
4 min readDec 30, 2021

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Feeding your gut bacteria is one of the most underrated hacks for good health and, of course, having a lean body shape.

The great news is that these resistant starch foods pass through the stomach and small intestine without being absorbed into the body.

However, as they enter the large intestine, they ferment with your gut bacteria and release substances that are great for your health.

The research on these starches indicates that eating more of these foods help people to lose weight and help keep specific disease at bay.

They include:

  • High Cholesterol
  • Diabetes
  • Metabolic syndrome
  • Cardiovascular health

Now, don’t get ahead of yourself and believe I’m talking about white bread and pasta.

These are simple starches that are rapidly digested and send sugar to the bloodstream.

Eating these starches in excess contributes to weight gain, increased risk of…

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In Fitness And In Health
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Ange Dim
Ange Dim

Written by Ange Dim

Multi-passionate creative who's immersed in health, wellness, exercise and loves creating healthy recipes. Low carb Recipes: https://bit.ly/4cHgO8r

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