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SUBMITTER: Di Rienzi SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7231582 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Rienzi Sara C SC Britton Robert A RA
Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) 20200501 3
The consumption of sugar has become central to the Western diet. Cost and health concerns associated with sucrose spurred the development and consumption of other sugars and sweeteners, with the average American consuming 10 times more sugar than 100 y ago. In this review, we discuss how gut microbes are affected by changes in the consumption of sugars and other sweeteners through transcriptional, abundance, and genetic adaptations. We propose that these adaptations result in microbes taking on ...[more]