VTT: Bilberries to increase our dietary fiber intake

Bilberries — a unique part of the Nordic diet — could be utilised in higher amounts in food products to increase our dietary fibre intake.

Another ‘whey’ to improve your health in the New Year?

Adding calcium, Vitamin D and prebiotic dietary fibre to a beverage made of whey can have huge health benefits for those who drink it, team of Lithuanian scientists has discovered.

Study adds to evidence that increasing dietary fiber reduces the risk of developing diabetes

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) indicates that consuming greater quantities of dietary fibre reduces the risk of developing…

A versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiber

University of British Columbia researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract – helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fibre from the cell walls of fruits and vegetables.

Dietary fibre and how we metabolise it

We are all aware of the health benefits of “dietary fibre”. But what is dietary fibre and how do we metabolise it?Research at the University of York’s Structural Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with groups in Canada, the USA and Sweden, has begun to uncover how our gut bacteria metabolise the complex dietary carbohydrates found in fruits and vegetables.

Nordic study: few persons with metabolic syndrome adhere to nutrition recommendations

Adherence to dietary recommendations is weak among people suffering from metabolic syndrome or having increased risk for metabolic syndrome, according to the Nordic SYSDIET study. In most cases, the diet is too high in salt and saturated fat, and too low in dietary fibre and unsaturated fat; many don’t have enough vitamin D.

Consumption Of Resistant Starch May Protect Against Bowel Cancer

Western diets are typically low in fibre and have been linked with a higher incidence of bowel cancer. Even though Australians eat more dietary fibre than many other western countries, bowel cancer is still the second most commonly reported cancer in Australia with 30 new cases diagnosed every day…