Posted
12/17/2005 01:01:00 PM
by Douglas
Your colon and you. Maybe high fiber diet isn't as important as we once
thought.A new study appears to debunk a longstanding notion that a diet high in fibre shields against colorectal cancer.
In a report set to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evidence suggests there is actually no relationship between fibre and lower colon cancer rates.
The international study followed 725,628 men and women for between six and 20 years. Over the course of the study, 8081 cases of colorectal cancer were identified.
Researchers found virtually no difference in colon cancer rates between those who ate an average of 15 grams of fibre per day and those who ate almost double, up to 28 grams per day.
Makes ya wonder. I still think
this is hillarious.