Coffee, wine may be good for your gut bacteria

                Drinking coffee, tea and wine may be associated with a healthier and more diverse community of microbes living in the gut. The opposite is true for dinking sugary beverages and whole milk, as well as for continually eating snacks and a lot of carbohydrates, researchers from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands said. They analysed the microbes inside the guts of more than 1,100 people. “In total we found 60 dietary factors that influence diversity. But there is good correlation between diversity and health – greater diversity is better,” said Alexandra Zhernakova from the University.