What You Eat Shapes The Germs In Your Guts
NPRWhat You Eat Shapes The Germs In Your Guts Bacteria get a bad rap for finding their way into our lettuce and hamburgers and making people sick. Dr. Paolo Lionetti, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Meyer Children Hospital at the University of Florence and a study co-author, says those differences could help explain the increase in certain diseases that have become more common in the developed world. Researchers chose Burkina Faso as a research location because Meyer Children Hospital and the Tuscany region have a cooperation program with a hospital in that African country. Lionetti says the research team is working on the next step of the research, which is to collect stools from children in African cities and characterize the microbes found.
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