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For example, people who consumed an extra 90 grams of fiber from whole grains a day also had a 20 percent lower risk of colorectal cancer, according to the British Medical Journal review.
Wow, was this a typo? I can't imagine how you could get 90 gms of fiber a day--I struggle to get my 35 in and people in Africa generally eat around 50-70 I think. But wait, it said an extra 90 grams of fiber and the daily recommended dose is 20-35 grams, so they want you to eat 110-125 grams of fiber just to get a 20% reduction in chance of cancer? I'm thinking a big bowl of lentils is about 15 grams of fiber and they're one of the highest fiber foods you can eat. I can get these special tortillas at Walmart that taste like sawdust but have 10 gms of fiber per. My special high fiber bread from Trader Joe's is 5 gms apiece. A bowl of broccoli is only about 4 gms of fiber and so is an apple. My high fiber noodles from TJ's have 6 grams per serving. The article also said that the fiber has to come from whole grains to be cancer fighting, so drop the broccoli and the apples and focus on the other food--7 bowls of lentil soup, or 22 pieces of WW hi-fiber bread, or 11 of those sawdust tortillas. Oh this is depressing--let's hope it's a typo.
"Researchers reviewed the results of 25 studies that included nearly 2 million people. They found that for each additional 10 grams of total dietary fiber and cereal fiber consumed a day, the person's colorectal cancer risk decreased by 10 percent.
Study researcher Dagfinn Aune, of Imperial College London, told WebMD that even if a person starts off with a low level of fiber consumption -- say, 5 grams a day -- and increase it by 10 grams -- to 15 grams a day -- that could still be beneficial at lowering colorectal cancer risk. "
Looks like a typo, since the article also says the above. Anyway, even if its that non linear - to get to 22% reduction you need 90 grams (which I think is a typo) the article asserts strongly that there is significant benefit to smaller amounts of fiber.
I dont see any reference to consuming 90 grams of fiber. I think Ms Chan misread
"The summary relative risk of developing colorectal cancer for 10 g daily of total dietary fibre (16 studies) was 0.90 (95% confidence interval 0.86 to 0.94, I2=0%), for fruit fibre (n=9) was 0.93 (0.82 to 1.05, I2=23%), for vegetable fibre (n=9) was 0.98 (0.91 to 1.06, I2=0%), for legume fibre (n=4) was 0.62 (0.27 to 1.42, I2=58%), and for cereal fibre (n=8) was 0.90 (0.83 to 0.97, I2=0%). The summary relative risk for an increment of three servings daily of whole grains (n=6) was 0.83 (0.78 to 0.89, I2=18%)."
A correction was added to that article, if you'll check it again now. They were talking about adding "90 grams of whole grains a day", not 90 grams of fiber, as it originally said. Another site below has a table listing how many grams of fiber are in 16 grams of various whole grains. 16 grams of whole wheat = 2 grams of fiber, for example. http://www.wholegrainscouncil.org/wh...n-whole-grains
My favorite source of added fiber is made by Gnu Foods. Their Flavor & Fiber bars have 12 grams of fiber and all natural. I just love them!
Just yesterday, my son a sked me why we switched to whole grain pasta, and as we read the differences of 2 boxes of pasta, 1 whole grain and 1 regular, we determined the only difference was the fiber content. My son asked me what is fiber, my other son who is 10 replied, "Fiber makes your insides work better!" I just agreed
Great thread. Whole grains are a great source of fiber and just a great thing to eat.
I do not believe in avoiding any food type unless one has an allergy or a disease that prevents them from eating certain things.
People are so ready to jump on the latest food fad bandwagon without any real facts or knowledge of why. And then they lose weight, probably because they are consuming less calories avoiding a food type, then all of a sudden its, "hey i now avoid this food and I lost weight so that means everyone should avoid it". I think that is nonsense. I also believe that people will eventually go back to eating the 'forbidden' food, because it is really hard to eliminate something and live in the real world. Especially whole grains.
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I'm thinking a big bowl of lentils is about 15 grams of fiber and they're one of the highest fiber foods you can eat. I can get these special tortillas at Walmart that taste like sawdust but have 10 gms of fiber per. My special high fiber bread from Trader Joe's is 5 gms apiece. A bowl of broccoli is only about 4 gms of fiber and so is an apple. My high fiber noodles from TJ's have 6 grams per serving. The article also said that the fiber has to come from whole grains to be cancer fighting, so drop the broccoli and the apples and focus on the other food--7 bowls of lentil soup, or 22 pieces of WW hi-fiber bread, or 11 of those sawdust tortillas. Oh this is depressing--let's hope it's a typo.
Good luck.
