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Western Diet Blocks Gut Microbiome Recovery After Antibiotics (neurosciencenews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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...

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah that granola is like, sugar/-protein, sugar, fat, sugar, sugar, salt, sugar...