Dietary Fiber and Colon Cancer
The idea that dietary fiber reduces the risk of colon cancer first came about in the 1970’s. ... Does dietary fiber prevent or reduce the risk of colon cancer, what’s the real story? In some of the research that states there is no correlation between dietary fiber and colon cancer suggest that certain subtypes of fiber may indeed prevent colon cancer (Anonymous; High Dietary Fiber Intake May Not Reduce The Risk Of Colon Cancer; MedicineNet. ... This particular article was based on some of the findings of one of the largest studies on colon cancer in New England also stated that is would be almost impossible to ever really prove that dietary fiber does reduce the possibility of colon cancer because the researchers haven’t been able to study a group of humans from adolescence to adulthood. They think that timing of exposure to dietary fiber would also have an effect on the colon, but they need to study humans from a young age to an old one. ... This study also concluded that women who maintained a diet high in fiber were no less likely to develop polyps than women with a low fiber intake (Gottlieb, Scott; British Medical Journal; 01/30/99, Vol. ... In Japan diets are generally low in fat and high in dietary fiber, yet in another study of 23 Japanese prefectures there was no protective effect of dietary fiber on colon or rectal cancer (Shigeyuki, Nakaji; Tadashi, Shimoyama; Takashi, Umeda; Shuji, Katsura; Baxter, David; Dietary Fiber Showed No Preventive Effect Against Colorectal Cancer In Japanese…).