Word: bran
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...attention to detail can sometimes try a reader's patience. When her father, long divorced from her mother, pays a visit, Kate makes them breakfast from "a box of Shredded Wheat for her father (two biscuits carefully broken up in just enough milk to make them edible) and All-Bran for Katherine (with Sweet'n Low because of her diabetes, half a banana, whole milk to encourage weight maintenance)." This is probably too much of a good thing. For the most part, though, MotherKind marshals details in a passionate but indirect evocation of loss...
About three years ago, I started sprinkling a mixture of oat bran, wheat bran and wheat germ on my oatmeal every morning. Like many Americans, I'd heard about the studies linking a diet high in fiber--found in cereal grains, fruits and vegetables--to the prevention of heart disease and colon cancer. I figured I couldn't go wrong...
...wasn't that simple. I quickly learned that you shouldn't shovel a lot of bran into your system all at once. You get bloated and gassy and suffer abdominal cramps from the sudden onslaught of all that indigestible bulk. Once I got over the initial discomfort, though, my new breakfast ritual became routine...
FIBER Study: it doesn't stop colon cancer. Can I lose the All-Bran and get a breakfast burrito...
...down that super-size bowl of bran flakes. According to an article published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, it looks as if our national obsession with all things fiber may not be yielding the results we'd hoped for, particularly in the realm of colorectal cancer. The Journal report describes two multiyear studies in which half the 3,000 subjects suffered through an eternity of low-fat, high-fiber diets, while the other half went happily on their way eating their usual (read: low-fiber) foods. In a development that more than one researcher calls "shocking," members...