date:Feb 20, 2020
The Conversation.
The researchers, who published their work in BJM, looked at the diets of 612 people aged 65-79, from the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Poland. Half of the group changed their diet to a Mediterranean diet for a full year and other half continued to ear their normal diet. They didn't initially see that many differences, but over time, two patterns emerged in those who followed the Mediterranean diet: an increase in what they dubbed diet-positive microbes t