Kate Berkeley Nutrition

The Corfiots know a thing or two about how to eat well. I’m on holiday but practicing what I preach.

A healthy food pattern is one that is diverse, varied, and colorful. I was just reading a paper this morning about plant diversity and the many associated health effects. The basic threshold is to aim for 30 unique species of plants or greater as the research would suggest that this is the point at which you see associations with microbial diversity and short-chain fatty acid fermentation.

If you want to explore these aspects further, look at the published work on American Gut: McDonald, D.; Hyde, E.; Debelius, J.W.; Morton, J.T.; Gonzalez, A.; Ackermann, G.; Aksenov, A.A.; Behsaz, B.; Brennan, C.; Chen, Y.; et al. American gut: An open platform for citizen science microbiome research. Msystems 2018, 3. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.