Direct link found between diet ingredients and gut microbes
Thursday, May 19, 2011 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Globally, industrialized countries face an epidemic of obesity while poor nations continue to grapple with pervasive malnutrition, particularly among children. Increasing evidence suggests that both conditions may be linked, in part, to the collection of microbes that live in the intestine and help break down food our bodies otherwise couldnt digest.