There’s a lot to be said about the organ digesting your food. In the Western culture, our stomachs have for aeons been seen as just that - something to eagerly do away with whatever we’ve eaten. But in Asian and other cultures, the gut has long been seen as an important part of the body and soul. To the Japanese, our largest organ - the intestine - is known as hara or the “centre of the spiritual and physical strength”. Now, science is investigating and showing just how important our midsection is. Not only does a healthy
