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If you want a healthy gut, live a healthy life!

How can we be surprised that diseases of the gut are on the increase when we know that our modern Western lifestyle is often less than healthy? Too much fat around the middle, smoking and lack of exercise set the stage for an unhealthy gut. Other habits that contribute towards gut problems are drinking excessive amounts of alcohol, using recreational drugs, running on the ragged edge of mental and physical exhaustion, caffeine addiction and consuming fatty takeaway foods as standard fare. Specific facts about how these lifestyle choices affect the gut are discussed in Chapter 5, ‘When Things Go Wrong’. Hundreds of self-help books and videos are available to help you overcome your personal lifestyle problems.