Poor Dietary Diversity May Lead To Weak Gut, Type 2 Diabetes, Obesity

People should eat balanced diets to avoid a weak ecosystem of bacteria in the gut. It gets triggered due to a poor dietary diversity, leading to diseases like Type 2 diabetes and obesity, says new research.

This has been caused by changes in farming in the last half-century, leading to reduced agricultural and dietary diversity, explains ndtv.

The study was published in the journal Molecular Metabolism. It showed that due to the reduction, the rich, human gut microbiota and the community of microorganisms have changed.

"Healthy individuals posses a diverse gut microbiota but a reduced microbiotic richness gives rise to Type 2 diabetes, obesity and inflammatory bowel disease," said the team from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in the US.

Gut microbiota are an effective endocrine organ, which metabolise particular nutrients from the diet and generate substances that are metabolic signals in the host.

In healthy persons, the microbiota species indicates diverse gut microbiome. Any loss in species diversity is found in a number of diseased states.

Undigested or semi-digested food, drugs and dietary supplements too can flood the microbiome with energy.

Every microbiotic species in the biome converts the energy into new molecules, which might send messages to the host's physiological systems.

The diversity of the diet is important to indicate the diversity of the microbiome too. It becomes more adaptable to perturbations, the researchers noted.