Proper nutrition is essential to maintaining a healthy status, however, Western diets often lack healthful ingredients such as fruit, fiber, and whole grains. A key to maintaining good health includes nurturing the body's naturally occurring microorganisms for proper digestive-tract function.
Diets that are high in fat and red meat, alcohol, drugs, and stress can alter the delicate balance between good and bad bacteria in the digestive tract. Not only do antibiotics kill harmful bacteria, they kill beneficial bacteria as well.