Eating resistant starch may help reduce red meat-related colorectal cancer risk
Consumption of a type of starch that acts like fiber may help reduce colorectal cancer risk associated with a high red meat diet, according to a study. “Red meat and resistant starch have opposite effects on the colorectal cancer-promoting miRNAs, the miR-17-92 cluster,” said one researcher. “This finding supports consumption of resistant starch as a means of reducing the risk associated with a high red meat diet.”
August 4, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: colorectal, diet, fiber-may, high-red, meat-diet, oncalldiets, resistant-starch, risk, said-one
Vitamin B3, fiber ‘protects against colon cancer and inflammation’
Previous research has suggested that a diet rich in fiber may reduce the risk of colon inflammation and cancer.
January 20, 2014 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: colon-inflammation, diet, diet-rich, fiber-may, help-protect, including-co-author, known-as-vitamin, new-research, nutrition, reduce-the-risk, research-team, risk
Fiber Intake Associated With Reduced Risk Of Death
Dietary fiber may be associated with a reduced risk of death from cardiovascular, infectious and respiratory diseases, as well as a reduced risk of death from any cause over a nine-year period, according to a report posted online today that will be published in the June 14 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals…
February 14, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: archives, fiber-may, internal, internal-medicine, jama, nine-year-period, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldiets, online-today, print-issue, reduced-risk
