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The Food Compass system scores foods based on variables like the amounts of refined grains and sugars, processing and healthful ingredients. People who ate better-scoring foods had better overall health.
Our latest study adds further evidence that diet and mental health are closely connected.
Your body produces postbiotics after digesting prebiotic and probiotic foods – and many postbiotics are crucial to good gut health.
Our new technology to recycle food waste into prebiotics uses no toxic chemicals and no fossil fuels.
Antibiotics can destroy the good bacteria in your gut. But some foods can help get it back to normal.
The disease is more severe in people with obesity, diabetes and hypertension — all conditions linked to changes in the gut microbiome.
Clinical trials involving probiotics are failing to report on the safety and harms of these treatments.
Certain gut microbes have been associated with certain diseases, but a new study finds that the pattern of microbes is consistent across a range of diseases.
Gut microbe metabolites can tell us a lot about our health.
Six scientists on the supplements they take every day and why they take them.
Low fibre eaters gain weight more quickly and may be more susceptible to certain illnesses.
The terms probiotics and prebiotics are appearing on more items in supermarket aisles all the time. Both words, their placement and the products they adorn, imply they’re good for you, that more of these…
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