Dietary Fiber And Human Health
This special issue will highlight recent research on dietary fiber content in foods and function in human health ranging from digestive function to chronic disease prevention and management.
Dietary fiber and human health. Dietary fiber is also important for prevention and management of cardiovascular disease diabetes obesity and other chronic diseases. The health council of netherlands has set tips for the intake of dietary fiber which chiefly supported the importance of dietary fiber for intestinal functioning and its relationship to risk of coronary heart disease. This special issue on dietary fiber and human health deals with the potential health effects of dietary fiber with respect to cardiometabolic risk. Dietary fiber supplements have the potential to play an adjunctive role in offering the health benefits provided by high fiber foods.
But foods containing fiber can provide other health benefits as well such as helping to maintain a healthy weight and lowering your risk of diabetes heart disease and some types of cancer. An evidence map of current research activity in this area was created using a newly developed database of dietary fiber intervention studies. Different classes of functional dietary components such as dietary fibers probiotics prebiotics polyunsaturated fatty acids polyphenols and spices possess positive impacts on human health. Traditionally dietary fiber was defined as the portions of plant foods that were resistant to digestion by human digestive enzyme.
This included polysaccharides and lignin. Food fibers and human health. N engl j med. Luh food safety research center shanghai jiaotong university p r.
Dietary fiber and human health yanling gao school of agriculture and biology shanghai jiaotong university and bor s. Dietary fibers and their role as functional food for human health. Dietary fibers could be. Dietary fiber and human health.
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