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"The pharmaceutical industry doesn't want you to know that if you ate the right food, you wouldn't need their drugs," he says.

A new study suggests that a naturally occurring compound made by healthy gut bacteria may help protect children from developing fatty liver disease later in life. Children whose mothers eat diets high ...