Especially in the elderly is a varied and high-fiber nutrition has a positive effect on the intestinal flora.
Bon appetit - and ask a lot of variety on the plate. This affects the health and fitness at the age
DUBLIN. Older people who eat varied promote the diversity of bacteria in their intestines. This makes them probably less fragile and prone to obesity and inflammation than their peers who eat on one side and therefore have a less diverse flora. This connection is at least see Irish microbiologists and physicians according to a study with 178 men, average age of 78. "Our findings suggest that we can improve the health of older people, if we change their diet and thus alter their intestinal flora," said Dr. Paul O'Toole, of University College Cork, the result of yesterday with his colleagues on the European Science Conference presented in Dublin.
For their study, published in the journal "Nature", the researchers had interviewed people age 64 to 102 years after their nutrition habits. Furthermore, they had analyzed the chair of the participants, to detect the existing intestinal bacteria. Because many of these bacteria can not cultivate, the researchers deciphered the genome of the bacteria. So they came in their samples up to 5000 different types of bacteria. She also recorded values in the stool and blood that indicate infection. A number of respondents was housed in nursing homes, rehabilitation clinics and hospitals, the rest lived at home.
