Nutrition

Microbial signatures for food traceability: ensuring quality and safety from fermented wines to novel insect-based foods

The interview with Antonia Bruno, from Bicocca University of Milan (Italy), highlights research focused on using microbial signatures to enhance food traceability, ensuring both safety and quality. 

Dietary components may affect health differently based on gut microbiota

The findings highlight the complex interactions between some dietary compounds and the gut microbiota, suggesting that microbial variations can impact health in different ways.

How diet affects the body and its microbiota

A deeper understanding of human biology, new dietary and medical interventions, and their effects on the microbiota may lead to more accurate and trustworthy dietary advice.

Gut bacteria may increase obesity risk by influencing fat metabolism

A recent study highlights the role of specific obesogenic microbes suggesting potential interventions through targeted regulation of M. rupellensis and myo-inositol metabolism.

Some gut bacteria may be involved in compulsive eating

The findings may help to identify new biomarkers for food addiction and assess whether beneficial bacteria could serve as potential new treatments for compulsive eating.

A high-fat diet promotes breast cancer by altering gut microbial metabolism

The findings of a recent study suggest that Desulfovibrio can drive cancer progression, paving the way for therapeutic approached that targeting the gut microbiota.

Industrial societies may be losing gut microbes that help digest plants

The findings of a recent study suggest that Ruminococcus bacteria were more prevalent in ancient human populations and non-industrialized societies, likely due to the high dietary fiber intake.

Diet switching quickly impacts the gut microbiota and immune system

Two weeks of dietary intervention are sufficient to influence host immunity, metabolism and gut microbiota composition.

The cloudy link between gut microbes and obesity

Although a causative relationship between obesity and gut microbes remains unclear, microbiota-based treatments may help to combat obesity.

Alterations in the gut microbiota may drive binge eating, mice study suggests

The findings of a recent study suggest that the interplay between the microbiota, the gut and the brain drives binge-eating disorders.

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