From: BBC World News By: Melissa Hogenboom Edited by: Amal Udawatta BBC/ Stephen Parker In the end, I overshot my target and ate a grand total of 51 plants. Over the last two years, a new health goal has been growing in popularity. First there was 10,000 steps, then five a day . Now we're being encouraged to eat 30 plants per week. The trend is based on a 2018 study . It found that people who reported eating at least 30 plants per week tended to have more biodiverse gut microbiomes compared to those who ate fewer than ten. Subsequent studies have found that changing your diet to incorporate this much flora each week can improve your microbiome . This has many well-known benefits such as reducing inflammation and helping us to live healthier, longer lives . However, when my editor suggested I give the 30-plants trend a go, it initially sounded extremely intimidating and perhaps impossible. I imagined preparing complicated salads for every meal and...
From : BBC World News By : Jasmin Fox-Skelly Edited by : Amal Udawatta BBC/ Serenity Strull/ Getty Images How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness. In 1797, the British naval commander Admiral Horatio Nelson had his right arm amputated. The operation saved his life. But according to legend the only anaesthetic he was offered was a swig of rum . For the majority of human history, even the removal of limbs was done on patie...