Dietary Fiber

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Analysis of Total Dietary Fiber: The Collaborative Study

   • Leon Prosky

   Pages 1-16

3. Measurement of Dietary Fiber as Nonstarch Polysaccharides

   • Hans N. Englyst, John H. Cummings

   Pages 17-34

4. The Relation between Composition and Properties of Dietary Fiber and Physiological Effects

   • David A. T. Southgate

   Pages 35-48

5. Federal Regulations

   • John E. Vanderveen

   Pages 49-54

6. Socioeconomic Aspects of a Fiber-Deficient Public Diet

   • Charles T. Bonfield

   Pages 55-67

7. Dietary Fiber, Gastrointestinal, Endocrine, and Metabolic Effects: Lente Carbohydrate

   • David J. A. Jenkins, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Rodney H. Taylor

   Pages 69-80

8. Dietary Fiber and Bowel Transit

   • N. W. Read

   Pages 81-100

9. The Ecology of the Colon

   • Kathleen Fadden

   Pages 101-118

10. Diet and the Colonic Environment: Measuring the Response of Human Colonic Bacteria to Changes in the Host’s Diet

    • Abigail A. Salyers

    Pages 119-130

11. Fermentation and the Production of Short-Chain Fatty Acids in the Human Large Intestine

    • John H. Cummings, William J. Branch

    Pages 131-149

12. Methane Production and Excretion: A Marker of Cecal Fermentation

    • Martin A. Eastwood, Linda F. Mckay, W. Gordon Brydon

    Pages 151-166

13. The Glycemic Index: Blood Glucose Response to Foods

    • David J. A. Jenkins, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Lilian U. Thompson, A. Venketeshwer Rao, Thomas Francis

    Pages 167-179

14. Dietary Fiber and Intestinal Adaptation

    • George V. Vahouny, Marie M. Cassidy

    Pages 181-209

15. Dietary Fiber and Gastrointestinal Epithelial Cell Proliferation

    • Lucien R. Jacobs

    Pages 211-228

16. The Effect of Fiber in the Postweaning Diet on Nutritional and Intestinal Morphological Indices in the Rat

    • Marie M. Cassidy, Leo R. Fitzpatrick, George V. Vahouny

    Pages 229-251

17. Modification of Steroid Excretion in Response to Dietary Fiber

    • Jon A. Story

    Pages 253-264

18. Dietary Fiber and Atherosclerosis

    • David Kritchevsky

    Pages 265-274

19. Hypocholesterolemic Effects of Soluble Fibers

    • W. J. L. Chen, James W. Anderson

    Pages 275-286

20. Dietary Fiber and Intestinal Lipoprotein Secretion

    • Katsumi Imaizumi, Michihiro Sugano

    Pages 287-308

Only 15 years ago a conference on dietary fiber, let alone an international conference, would have been considered an extremely unlikely, and in fact an unthinkable, event. Yet in recent years a number of such conferences have taken place at the international level and in different parts of the world; the conference of which the present volume is an outgrowth is the second to have been held in Washington, D. C. This extraordinary development of interest in a hitherto largely neglected component of diet has been reflected by a veritable explosion of scientific literature, with published articles increasing 40-fold, from around ten to over 400 per year, within the decade 1968-1978. Not only has the growth of interest in and knowledge of fiber made it perhaps the most rapidly developing aspect of nutritional science in recent history if not in all time, but epidemiologic studies relating fiber intake to disease patterns, subsequently broadened to include other food components, have been largely responsible for the current concept of diseases characteristic of modern Western culture and lifestyle. The potential importance of this realization is forcefully underlined by the considered judgment of Thomas MacKeown, epidemiologist and medical historian of Birmingham University, England.

• Diabetes
• animal experiment
• cancer
• carbohydrate
• dietary fiber
• ecology
• nutrition
• polysaccharides
• prevention
• total dietary fiber

• The George Washington University Medical Center, USA

  George V. Vahouny

• The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

  David Kritchevsky

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