Eating a high-fiber diet can help protect against infections as it encourages the growth of beneficial gut bacteria to outnumber harmful pathogens like E. coli and Klebsiella, recent research suggests. The University of Cambridge, UK, study in the journal Nature Microbiology has also found that knowing a person’s microbiome “signature” can allow scientists to predict whether someone’s gut is at risk of Enterobacteriaceae colonization. This group of bacteria can cause illness and disease, explain the researchers.
