With ever-increasing population, governments across the globe
keep feeling the pressure of ensuring availability of food to their masses.
Malnutrition has been plaguing a large part of the world population,
particularly in the developing and under-developed world.
Malnutrition also makes the victims more susceptible to
different infections and physiological disorders. There are large scale social,
economic, and political implications of failure of governments in tackling the problem
of malnutrition.
This problem is related to both quantity as well as quality of the food.
Microorganisms in the human gut are intimately associated
with digestion and absorption of the food. The human gut microbiome has now
been well demonstrated to have a strong connection to our health and disease.
There are approximately 1014 microbial cells inside human gut, which weigh
approximately 1 kg.
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