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The Connection Between How We Eat and Disease in Our Body

In order to have an immune system that's active enough to clear a viral infection, you need to be eating lots of plant fiber. Dr. Paolo Leonetti compared kids in Florence, Italy, eating a highly processed, high meat, high sugar diet with kids in Burkina Faso, eating a plant-based diet. In toddlers, they were seeing these vast differences in the gut microbiome that were predictive of disease.

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