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Effect of Dietary Fiber on Lipids and Glucose Tolerance of Healthy Young Men

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Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease

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Epidemiologic evidence supports a protective effect of dietary fiber against diabetes (Trowell 1974), obesity (Trowell 1975), and coronary artery disease (Trowell 1972). However, the diet of peoples consuming large amounts of fiber is likely to differ in other important respects, i.e., to be high in carbohydrate, low in fat and cholesterol, and low in sugars. The effect of dietary fiber must be examined in the context of these other variables. Since other chapters in this book deal with the effect of fiber on diabetes (Anderson, Chapter 14) and lipids (Story and Kelley, Chapter 20), these will be only briefly discussed here. The chief emphasis will be on the effect of diet on glucose tolerance of normal young men. Young women appear to be immune to some of the effects of very high carbohydrate diets (Reiser et al., 1979a). Our own studies have therefore been confined to young men.

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Albrink, M.J., Ullrich, I.H. (1982). Effect of Dietary Fiber on Lipids and Glucose Tolerance of Healthy Young Men. In: Vahouny, G.V., Kritchevsky, D. (eds) Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease. GWUMC Department of Biochemistry Annual Spring Symposia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6850-6_15

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