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Among the earliest experiments with dietary fiber were those carried out by Ershoff, whose lipid experiments consisted of comparing, in rats, the effects of a fiber-free diet, the same diet plus 1% cholesterol and the fiber-free cholesterol diet augmented with 5–10% of a dietary fiber.
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Kritchevsky, D. (1987). Dietary fiber and lipid metabolism. In: Lenzi, S., Descovich, G.C. (eds) Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Diseases. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3205-0_31
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