Study illuminates how humans digest fibre
New insight into how gut bacteria digest fibre could lead to advances in areas as diverse as health and environmentally-friendly biofuels.Fibre is an essential part of a healthful diet, but our ability to benefit from it is entirely dependent the bacteria living in our intestines.
January 31, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: ability, areas-as-diverse, bacteria, bacteria-digest, dependent-the-bacteria, intestines, nutrition / diet, oncalldietitian.com, the-bacteria
Compound In Red Meat, Energy Drinks, Raises Heart Risk Via Gut Bacteria
Researchers in the US have discovered a surprising new connection between red meat and heart risk that involves bacteria living in the gut. Gut bacteria digest L-carnitine, a compound abundant in red meat and added to popular energy drinks, to produce trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), a metabolite already suspected of helping to clog up arteries…
April 8, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bacteria-digest, compound-abundant, connection-between, involves-bacteria, nutrition, oncalldiets, popular-energy, red-meat, surprising-new, tmao
