Malnutrition does not affect children's tissues only it severely affects healthy intestinal microbes too a new study reveals. Gut microbiota is known to contribute to immune function and nutrient extraction. The mix of microbes in people's gut gets established early on in childhood and plays a large part in keeping kids healthy. But starvation disrupts the development of a healthy microbiome according to a new study that compared the gut microbiota of healthy and severely malnourished children in the first two years after birth. The children were from a slum area in Dhaka Bangladesh. This disruption persisted even after the