For Good Gut Health Eat Thirty Plants a Week

  The CLOSER we get to living the natural lifestyle given by God to Adam and Eve, the BETTER will be the health we enjoy. The Bible says that the original pair were commanded to eat the widest variety of plants. "And God said, Behold I have given you EVERY herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and EVERY tree, in the which is the fruit of tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat." Gen. 1:29. Reason and physiology would indicate that they couldn't eat every plant on earth in every meal, so they must have rotated through a variety plants day by day, and week by week. We also know from the Bible record, that to assist digestion and strengthen every organ they were physically active, because Scripture says: God "...put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." Gen. 2:16.
  The concept of "rotational variety" in food selection is seen clearly in the Revelator's description of the Tree of Life "...which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month..." Rev. 22:2. We don't know how often the fruits were changing, but long life was clearly associated with maintaining significant variety. Even the Bible recipe for bread in Ezekiel used multiple grains and legumes including "...wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet and spelt..." Ezek. 4:9 (NKJV)
   In an interesting article entitled: "Chew slowly, keep moving and eat 30 plants a week: 12 rules for gut health" The author Emine Saner briefly discusses how eating 30 plants a week, getting 30 grams of fiber a day, avoiding gut-harming ultra-processed foods, slowing down our chewing and getting 20 minutes of cardio exercise each day helps our microbiome. [Instead of the "mindfulness" suggested in this article, we believe Adam and Eve were praying and talking with God.]
  It may sound like a lot, but with a little planning, the 30-plant threshold can easily be reached in 3 days! Taking a small fruit smoothy with orange juice, a banana, raspberries, coconut and little tumeric in the morning before breakfast, (or as a liquid breakfast substitute) and then, starting the afternoon meal, with vegetable salad that has: lettuce, spinach, sweet peppers, onions, olives, sunflower seeds and avocado puts you at 12 plants --not even counting your other meal items! With a little effort and willingness to try plants we don't normally eat, most people can easily eat between 70 and 100 different plants per week. If you follow those rotating meals with a 20 - 30 minute walk, you can help your intestinal flora and much, much more! 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/mar/19/chew-slowly-keep-moving-and-eat-30-plants-a-week-12-rules-for-gut-health

  The human body has approximately 100 trillion cells, which some scientists say co-exist with 100 trillion bacteria --both good and bad. Science is starting to prove that the mis-management of these microbiome is the cause of a whole constellation of illness.