Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Nutritionally Related Disorders/Diseases in Africans

   • Alexander R. P. Walker

   Pages 1-14

3. The Evolving Epidemiology of Fiber and Heart Disease

   • Charles Humble

   Pages 15-26

4. Dietary Fibre and Human Cancer

   • M. J. Hill

   Pages 27-34

5. What is a High Fiber Diet?

   • Thomas M. S. Wolever, David J. A. Jenkins

   Pages 35-42

6. Overview on Complex Carbohydrates

   • Jonathan W. DeVries

   Pages 43-50

7. Dietary Guidelines and Complex Carbohydrates

   • Barbara O. Schneeman

   Pages 51-53

8. Classification of Complex Carbohydrates

   • Leon Prosky, Sungsoo C. Lee

   Pages 55-61

9. Determination of Complex Carbohydrates in Foods as the Sum of Available Starch and Dietary Fiber

   • Susan Sungsoo Cho, Leon Prosky

   Pages 63-67

10. Application of Complex Carbohydrates in the Food Industry

    • Judi Adams

    Pages 69-78

11. Soluble Fiber and Hypertension

    • Joseph M. Keenan, Zhiquan Huang, Arline McDonald

    Pages 79-87

12. Soluble Fiber and Energy Regulation

    • Edward Saltzman, Susan B. Roberts

    Pages 89-97

13. Soluble Fibers and Dietary Lipids

    • Denis Lairon

    Pages 99-108

14. Sites and Mechanisms for the Hypocholesterolemic Actions of Soluble Dietary Fiber Sources

    • Judith A. Marlett

    Pages 109-121

15. Butyrate and the Colonocyte

    • Omaida C. Velázquez, Howard M. Lederer, John L. Rombeau

    Pages 123-134

16. Short Chain Fatty Acids, Intestinal Adaptation, and Nutrient Utilization

    • M. I. McBurney, R. A. Reimer, K. A. Tappenden

    Pages 135-143

17. Short Chain Fatty Acids Inhibit the Expression of the Neutrophil Chemoattractant, Interleukin 8, in the Caco-2 Intestinal Cell Line

    • Ning Huang, Gary D. Wu

    Pages 145-153

18. Short Chain Fatty Acids

    • Christine A. Edwards

    Pages 155-167

19. Butyrate

    • Omaida C. Velázquez, John L. Rombeau

    Pages 169-181

20. Effect of Short Chain Fatty Acids on Calcium Absorption in Humans

    • Trinidad P. Trinidad, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Lilian U. Thompson

    Pages 183-189

This volume carries the proceedings of the Vahouny Fiber Symposium, which took place in Washington DC, in March of 1996. George V. Vahouny pioneered this conference, which was conceived as a means of exchanging information on the latest advances in fiber research. The conference was renamed in George Vahouny's honor after his untimely death. In this volume we have included the reminiscences of Prof. A.R.P. Walker, one of the pioneers in the field, and discussion of the epidemiological findings relating dietary fiber to heart disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal disease. As the overall definition of fiber has broadened we have included for discussion other aspects of carbohydrate chem­ istry and metabolism. Complex carbohydrates were the subject of a full session and resis­ tant starch and the role(s) of oligosaccharides were discussed later in the meeting. Another area of fiber metabolism that is beginning to burgeon is that of the short chain fatty acids, and this too was the subject of presentations and discussion. In addition, the more familiar topics in dietary fiber were updated. Workshops devoted to specific areas of fiber research have now become a mainstay of these meetings, and they were repeated successfully. Due to restraints on spending, the attendance at this meeting was somewhat smaller than usual but the discussion was lively and pertinent. We are deeply grateful to our sponsors and contributors for their continuing interest in dietary fiber research, and for their generous support of this symposium.

• Absorption
• Colon
• Nutrition
• Oligosaccharid
• cancer
• carbohydrate
• dietary fiber
• metabolism

• The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

  David Kritchevsky

• Clinical Review Associates, McLean, USA

  Charles Bonfield

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