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- Editors:
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David Kritchevsky
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The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA
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Charles Bonfield
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Clinical Review Associates, McLean, USA
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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- Thomas M. S. Wolever, David J. A. Jenkins
Pages 35-42
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- Leon Prosky, Sungsoo C. Lee
Pages 55-61
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- Susan Sungsoo Cho, Leon Prosky
Pages 63-67
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- Joseph M. Keenan, Zhiquan Huang, Arline McDonald
Pages 79-87
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- Edward Saltzman, Susan B. Roberts
Pages 89-97
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- Omaida C. Velázquez, Howard M. Lederer, John L. Rombeau
Pages 123-134
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- M. I. McBurney, R. A. Reimer, K. A. Tappenden
Pages 135-143
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- Omaida C. Velázquez, John L. Rombeau
Pages 169-181
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- Trinidad P. Trinidad, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Lilian U. Thompson
Pages 183-189
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA
David Kritchevsky
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Clinical Review Associates, McLean, USA
Charles Bonfield