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Childhood obesity has dramatically increased. Currently about 1/3 of Canadian children and youth aged 5 to 17 are overweight or obese increasing their risk of obesity associated co-morbidities. Our objective was to determine if prebiotic fiber intake reduces body fat, pro-inflammatory cytokines and insulin levels in overweight and obese children and examine if this is due to a shift in gut microbiota composition.
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Nicolucci et al. (2015) studied this question.
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