Change your diet, change your gut bacteria?

Can certain diets help you lose weight by changing your gut microbes, as some people claim? Two years ago, when researchers randomly assigned 609 overweight or obese people to healthy low-fat or low-carb diets for a year, both groups lost the same amount of weight. Now scientists have gone back to look at the gut microbes of 49 of the participants.
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