Comparative metabolomics in vegans and omnivores reveal constraints on diet-dependent gut microbiota

I've said all along that the western diet gets a bad rap. That doesn't mean you can eat donuts for breakfast and burgers and fries everday but that is not really the western diet. There are many other things about the western environment that could effect health far more than diet does.

There's a really interesting study on exposure to air pollution common to the "western environment" that shows how excessive particulate PM 10 and PM 2.5 can cause chronic acute inflammation in the GI system.

The really interesting part is they suggest that this "acute inflammation" can actually change or "hamper" the way our bodies respond to some bacteria.

I'm sure there's a lot of things in the western environment that cause acute inflammation in us - from diet to air pollution to antibiotics and chemicals. So who knows.

Perhaps it's the inflammation that does us in in the first place.

yup cm, that's my belief in general - it's not our bodies that are failing us, it's our run amok environment that's killing us - but since it's easier to mess with us, that's what we do -

i agree with the g man's direction - remove as much of that toxic pollution as possible from our own personal environment, and give our bodies a much needed break -