Dietary Fiber

1. Dietary Factors in the Etiology of Gallstones

   • Kenneth W. Heaton

   Pages 273-282

2. Fiber-Depleted Starch Foods and NIDDM Diabetes

   • Hugh Trowell

   Pages 283-286

3. Dietary fiber in the Management of Diabetes

   • Thomas M. S. Wolever

   Pages 287-299

4. Production and Absorption of Short-Chain Fatty Acids

   • S. E. Fleming, Sungshin Yeo

   Pages 301-315

5. Short-Chain Fatty Acids

   • John L. Rombeau, Scott A. Kripke, R. Gregg Settle

   Pages 317-337

6. Soluble Fiber

   • James W. Anderson, Dee A. Deakins, Susan R. Bridges

   Pages 339-363

7. Dietary Fiber and Bile Acid Metabolism

   • Jon A. Story, Emily J. Furumoto

   Pages 365-374

8. Antitoxic Effects of Dietary Fiber

   • David Kritchevsky

   Pages 375-381

9. National Cancer Institute Satellite Symposium on Fiber and Colon Cancer

   • Elaine Lanza

   Pages 383-387

10. Influence of Soluble Fibers on Experimental Colon Carcinogenesis

    • Lucien R. Jacobs

    Pages 389-401

11. Insoluble Dietary Fiber and Experimental Colon Cancer

    • David M. Klurfeld

    Pages 403-415

12. Bacterial Metabolism, Fiber, and Colorectal Cancer

    • Michael J. Hill, Fresia Fernandez

    Pages 417-429

13. The Epidemiology of Fiber and Colorectal Cancer

    • John D. Potter

    Pages 431-445

14. Starch, Nonstarch Polysaccharides, and the Large Gut

    • Sheila A. Bingham

    Pages 447-454

15. The Epidemiology of Cancer and Its Risk Factors in South African Populations

    • A. R. P. Walker, B. F. Walker

    Pages 455-472

16. Dietary Fiber Intake and Colon Cancer Mortality in The People’s Republic of China

    • T. Colin Campbell, Wang Guangya, Chen Junshi, James Robertson, Chao Zhonglin, Banoo Parpia

    Pages 473-480

17. Rationale for Intervention Trials of Dietary Fiber and Adenomatous Polyps

    • Robert MacLennan

    Pages 481-488

18. Future Research Directions, Including Clinical Trials

    • Peter Greenwald, Elaine Lanza

    Pages 489-494

19. Back Matter

    Pages 495-499

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Twenty years ago the very idea of an international conference on the fiber contained in plant food would have been totally inconceivable. At that time fiber was generally viewed as an inert component of food of no nutritional value and consequently consid­ ered as a contaminant, the removal of which would enhance the purity of a product. It was measured by a now obsolete and almost worthless test introduced in the last century for veterinary rather than human nutrition, and what was measured was referred to as "crude fiber," containing part of the cellulose and lignin but none of the numerous components of fiber now known to play important roles in the maintenance of health. There were a few lone voices prior to the last two decades who had extolled the laxative properties of the undigested portion of food, assuming that these were related to its irritant action on the bowel mucosa. In retrospect this was a total misconception, and "softage" would have been a more appropriate term than "roughage," since its presence insured soft, not irritating, colon content.

• Absorption
• Colon
• Diabetes
• Intervention
• Lipid
• Nutrition
• Polysaccharid
• Vitamin
• cancer
• carbohydrate
• dietary fiber
• enzymes
• metabolism
• physiology
• polysaccharides

• The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

  David Kritchevsky

• Astra Associates, Inc., McLean, USA

  Charles Bonfield

• Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lexington, USA

  James W. Anderson

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