Why do you think there's so much soluble fibre in breast milk? Breast fed babies consume at least 25g of soluble fiber every day. So doing the math, an adult human would have to get 120 g of soluble fibre to even approach that level.
Am I missing something? Didn't evolution feed a baby's gut bacteria so well for a reason?
Humans have such a big bag of bacteria - the colon- after all. In fact we're mostly bacteria aren't we? I thought bacteria far out number all the cells in the human body.
And if we don't feed all those bacteria the food their preferred food -soluble fibre- they have to eat the mucus lining of the bowel. Which I thought leads to increased gut perneability etc.
Humans have been eating fruit for ages. And all fruit contains a lot of pectin. Baobab, which we took where ever we dispersed to from the fertile crescent, presumably because it is such a healthy part of the human diet, is almost 50% pectin.
Stuart
Am I missing something? Didn't evolution feed a baby's gut bacteria so well for a reason?
Humans have such a big bag of bacteria - the colon- after all. In fact we're mostly bacteria aren't we? I thought bacteria far out number all the cells in the human body.
And if we don't feed all those bacteria the food their preferred food -soluble fibre- they have to eat the mucus lining of the bowel. Which I thought leads to increased gut perneability etc.
Humans have been eating fruit for ages. And all fruit contains a lot of pectin. Baobab, which we took where ever we dispersed to from the fertile crescent, presumably because it is such a healthy part of the human diet, is almost 50% pectin.
Stuart