The Role of Supplemental Complex Dietary Carbohydrates and Gut Microbiota in Promoting Cardiometabolic and Immunological Health in Obesity: Lessons from Healthy Non-Obese Individuals

Dietary supplementation with complex carbohydrates is known to alter the composition of gut microbiota, and optimal implementation of the use of these so called “prebiotics” could be of great potential in prevention and possibly treatment of obesity and associated cardiometabolic and inflammatory di...

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Main Authors: Petra C. Vinke, Sahar El Aidy, Gertjan van Dijk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Nutrition
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnut.2017.00034/full