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What you ate as a child has a lifelong impact on your health, says new study – Hindustan Times

A recent study has shown that the kind of food that one consumes as a child has a lifelong impact on them. If a child eats a lot of fat and sugar, it can alter…

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A new study in mice suggests that eating too much fat and sugar as a child can alter one’s microbiome for life, even if you later learn to eat healthier.
The study by UC Riverside researchers is one of the first to show a significant decrease in the total number and diversity of gut bacteria in mature mice fed an unhealthy diet as juveniles.
“We studied mice, but the effect we observed is equivalent to kids having a Western diet, high in fat and sugar and their gut microbiome still being affected…

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