Читать книгу Principles in Microbiome Engineering - Группа авторов - Страница 34

The Australian continent agricultural activity focuses on producing wheat, barley, canola, chickpeas, and oats in the winter while producing sorghum grain in the summer. On top of this, other agricultural activities are focused on farming sugarcane, leaving limited farming grounds for orchards and vegetables. This results in lower consumption of fruits and leafy vegetables that are a rich source of prebiotics [147]. Australian diet is also heavily influenced by meat and dairy products [148]. This leads to close to 20% of the adult population being classified as obese as reported by the WHO in 2012 [149, 150]. It is possible that the dietary pattern influenced the increased incidences of Clostridium difficile infection and increased rates of ulcerative colitis (UC) observed in Australia [151]. Additionally, it was found that the dairy‐rich diet in children also influenced enriched Firmicutes‐affiliated and Bifidobacterium lineages [124].