Western Diet Blocks Gut Microbiome Recovery After Antibiotics - Neuroscience News
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New research shows that a Western-style diet rich in processed foods disrupts the gut microbiome’s ability to recover after antibiotic treatment.
  • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Western diet in a nut shell

    • 70% plant based
    • heavily processed
    • most fats replaced with industrial oils

    Look at the nutrition information for any food you buy, if the ingredient isn’t something you could make at home… Then it’s a western diet type of food and heavily processed

    Example Nature’s Choice Granola Bars: https://www.naturevalley.com/products/oats-n-honey-crunchy-granola-bars

    Whole Grain Oats, Sugar, Canola and/or Sunflower Oil, Rice Flour, Honey, Salt, Brown Sugar Syrup, Baking Soda, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor.

    I’ve bolded the parts that are heavily processed and making this a western diet food

    the implication is they went full carnivore

    Not related to this paper, but if they had looked at a carnivore diet in humans they would have found a great microbiome…