https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/1dc09a80-da92-4f31-8377-bd50582751c5 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 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 To download the audio and a transcript, go to our webpage at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2022/ep-220120 [Cover: Getty Images] More 6 Minute English episodes: How green is nuclear energy? https://youtu.be/naB_3XYRtew Why we forget the things we learn https://youtu.be/1iHeeMlOsyc Should fast food sponsor sport? https://youtu.be/BvNNuSz-EFw Grime: Music from architecture https://youtu.be/l31dAwfYjhI 'I love my language!' https://youtu.be/2z6A62BO2zc How can we make the web a better place? https://youtu.be/wMQjmpVgor8​​ #learnenglish #vocabulary #diet #bioma #6minuteenglish Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:03 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/1dc09a80-da92-4f31-8377-bd50582751c5 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.