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They compared a group of school children who live in a very remote agricultural village in Boulpon in Burkina Faso
一組兒童居住在布基納法索偏遠的農村Boulpon
which was previously called Upper Volta, for those of you who haven't check the map for 20 years, But
布基納法索原名叫上沃爾特，這是20年前的叫法
this is a very, very remote village. You can see the map down there
這是一個很偏僻的村子，左下角有地圖
It's quite far from Ouagadougou, Has anyone in the room ever been to Ouagadougou
它離首都瓦加杜古有點遠，有人去過瓦加杜古嗎
Alright, great. Have you been to Boulpon
很好，你去過Boulpon嗎
Okay. Great. It's pretty remote but even Ouagadougou, as you know, is not most of the sophisticated places
很好，它很偏遠，就算瓦加杜古也不能算很發達
And what they did was they compare these children and these were all healthy children
研究者將Boulpon的健康孩子
to children who were living in downtown Florence middle class, kids living in downtown Florence Italy, Cause they were Italian researchers
同佛羅倫薩中產階級的孩子進行對比，意大利佛羅倫薩的城里孩子，因為研究者來自意大利
And the kids in Florence were going to school
佛羅倫薩的孩子要上學
and probably eating a diet that's not too different these days from the diet the kids in the United States eat
他們吃的東西應該和美國孩子差不多
I don't know if you've been following it but you know, in urban areas in Europe
不知道你們了不了解，歐洲的城市地區
they're having the same explosion of heart disease and obesity and all the problems that we're having here in United States
心臟病和肥胖癥等疾病和美國同樣高發
What they did from these two groups of kids was a collected their bowel movements
研究者對比了兩組孩子的腸內活動
They collected their feces, okay, and they study them for bacteria
采集孩子的糞便，研究其中的細菌
And this is something that they couldn't have done even 10 years ago
這在10年前還無法做到
because it was actually that they did DNA sequencing on their bacteria in the feces to actually see what the colonies were
因為這需要對細菌進行DNA測序
And what they found was really, really striking, Ok
結果非常非常驚人
