Personalised diets - 6 Minute English

Many diets claim to improve health or help you lose weight, recent research shows that what counts is not what you eat but how your body reacts. 

Neil and Sam discuss how microbes matter when it comes to food, and teach some related vocabulary. 

This week's question How long exactly is the average adult’s gut? 

a) 3.5 metres 

b) 5.5 metres 

c) 7.5 metres 

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Listen to the programme to find out the answer. 

Vocabulary gut (informal) intestines; long tube inside the body which starts below the stomach and helps digest food microbes tiny, microscopic organisms living inside the human body calorie unit measuring the amount of energy that food provides flimsy weak and difficult to believe; not convincing skinny very thin stick out of the crowd be very easy to notice, in a positive sense