{"id":27300,"date":"2010-08-05T08:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fatty-sugary-western-diets-give-kids-inferior-gut-microbes-80beats\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T08:11:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T08:11:43","slug":"fatty-sugary-western-diets-give-kids-inferior-gut-microbes-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/fatty-sugary-western-diets-give-kids-inferior-gut-microbes-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Fatty, Sugary Western Diets Give Kids Inferior Gut Microbes | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bacillus\"The health detriments of a Western diet<\/a>—eating foods high in fat, sugar, and animal protein—are now well known. However, according to a group of studies out in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, how you eat when you’re just a kid can have a great impact, influencing the gut microbes you’ll carry your entire life.<\/p>

Researchers led by Carlotta de Filippo studied the gut microbes<\/a> of African children raised in Burkina Faso versus those in European children from Italy. According to the team’s findings, the kids’ diet had a dramatic effect on what bacteria they harbored in their guts to help them with digestion. The Burkina Faso children, who grew up eating a lot of fiber, had gut bacteria that help to break down that tough material. Meanwhile the Italian children, who grew up on a Western diet, had guts dominated by a kind of bacteria that’s more common in obese people, and they had less bacterial diversity overall.<\/p>

Two other PNAS papers this week took on the formation and evolution of a human’s gut microbiome. One showed how a nursing infant gets its first helpful gut microbes<\/a> from mother’s milk, and the other followed the same baby<\/a> for two and a half years—collecting “samples” from diapers—to show how its population of gut bacteria changed and developed.<\/p>

For an in-depth take on these studies and insight on how they fit together, check out Ed Yong’s post<\/a> at Not Exactly Rocket Science.<\/p>

Related Content:
Not Exactly Rocket Science: You Are What You Eat—How Your Diet Defines You in Trillions of Ways<\/a>
80beats: Scientists Sequence DNA from the Teeming Microbial Universe in Your Guts<\/a>
80beats: My Excrement, Myself: The Unique Genetics of a Person’s Gut Viruses<\/a><\/p>

Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>

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