Dietary Fiber

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. The Chemistry and Properties of Plant Cell Walls and Dietary Fiber

   • Robert R. Selvendran, A. Verena F. V. Verne

   Pages 1-13

3. The Chemical Structure of the Cell Walls of Higher Plants

   • Nicholas C. Carpita

   Pages 15-30

4. Analysis of Dietary Fiber in Human Foods

   • Judith A. Marlett

   Pages 31-48

5. Dietary Fiber and Resistant Starch

   • Hans N. Englyst, Susan M. Kingman

   Pages 49-65

6. Quantitative and Qualitative Adaptations in Gastrointestinal Mucin with Dietary Fiber Feeding

   • Marie M. Cassidy, Subramaniam Satchithanandam, Richard J. Calvert, George V. Vahouny, Anthony R. Leeds

   Pages 67-88

7. Premenopausal Osteoporosis

   • Tom Lloyd, James R. Buchanan

   Pages 89-103

8. Total Dietary Fiber and Mineral Absorption

   • Dennis T. Gordon

   Pages 105-128

9. Effects of Fiber on Vitamin Bioavailability

   • June L. Kelsay

   Pages 129-135

10. Dietary Fiber and Lipid Absorption

    • Michihiro Sugano, Ikuo Ikeda, Katsumi Imaizumi, Y.-F. Lu

    Pages 137-156

11. Macronutrient Absorption

    • Barbara Olds Schneeman

    Pages 157-166

12. Physiological Effects of Fiber

    • C. A. Edwards

    Pages 167-178

13. Fiber Metabolism and Colonic Water

    • Elizabeth F. Armstrong, W. Gordon Brydon, Martin Eastwood

    Pages 179-186

14. Activities of Polysaccharide-Degrading Bacteria in the Human Colon

    • Abigail A. Salyers

    Pages 187-194

15. The Influence of Dietary Fiber on Microbial Enzyme Activity in the Gut

    • Ian R. Rowland, Anthony K. Mallett

    Pages 195-206

16. The Effects of α-Amylase-Resistant Carbohydrates on Energy Utilization and Deposition in Man and Rat

    • Geoffrey Livesey

    Pages 207-217

17. The Ileal Brake

    • N. W. Read, C. P. Sepple, N. J. Brown

    Pages 219-225

18. Action of Dietary Fiber on the Satiety Cascade

    • Victoria J. Burley, John E. Blundell

    Pages 227-246

19. Lente Carbohydrate or Slowly Absorbed Starch

    • David J. A. Jenkins, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Vladimir Vuksan, Furio Brighenti, Stephen Cunnane et al.

    Pages 247-259

20. Fiber and Gastrointestinal Disease

    • Martin Eastwood

    Pages 261-271

Twenty years ago the very idea of an international conference on the fiber contained in plant food would have been totally inconceivable. At that time fiber was generally viewed as an inert component of food of no nutritional value and consequently consid­ ered as a contaminant, the removal of which would enhance the purity of a product. It was measured by a now obsolete and almost worthless test introduced in the last century for veterinary rather than human nutrition, and what was measured was referred to as "crude fiber," containing part of the cellulose and lignin but none of the numerous components of fiber now known to play important roles in the maintenance of health. There were a few lone voices prior to the last two decades who had extolled the laxative properties of the undigested portion of food, assuming that these were related to its irritant action on the bowel mucosa. In retrospect this was a total misconception, and "softage" would have been a more appropriate term than "roughage," since its presence insured soft, not irritating, colon content.

• Absorption
• Colon
• Diabetes
• Intervention
• Lipid
• Nutrition
• Polysaccharid
• Vitamin
• cancer
• carbohydrate
• dietary fiber
• enzymes
• metabolism
• physiology
• polysaccharides

• The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

  David Kritchevsky

• Astra Associates, Inc., McLean, USA

  Charles Bonfield

• Veterans Administration Medical Center, Lexington, USA

  James W. Anderson

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