Eat more plants isn’t just a tagline for me, it’s how I live. In my opinion, a plant-based, anti-inflammatory diet is the ultimate foundation for better digestive health and optimal wellbeing. I talk a lot about anti-inflammatory nutrition in my book Eat More Plants, but let’s take a quick peek at the basics of how a more wholefoods, plant-based diet affects your gut. An anti-inflammatory diet is really about eating as many whole plant foods as possible. I’m talking fruit, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. It’s that simple. We are part of the natural world and have survived this long by eating what we find in nature. So when we ditch the fad diets and drop hyper-processed foods, we don’t need to worry as much about the minutiae of nutrition. When you eat mostly whole plant foods, you are automatically eating in a way that:
• Improves blood sugar balance by reducing highglycaemic and proinflammatory processed foods like white flour and added sugars.