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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...
...going to tear up my morning menu now that two new studies reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that fiber may not protect against colon cancer? Not on your life. There are lots of other reasons, backed by solid research, for eating a high-fiber diet. Among them: it lowers blood pressure, decreases the cholesterol level and lessens the chances of developing type II, or adult-onset, diabetes...
...reason governments have been slow to respond to the environmental crisis is that Earth is still churning out plenty of goods--enough fiber, grain and fish to support 6 billion people. Many are malnourished, of course, but that's primarily a matter of bad distribution. A closer look at the trends, though, is disturbing. PAGE points out that there is a difference between current production and capacity, which is the amount of grain or fish the globe can produce indefinitely. Fishing fleets, the report says, are 40% larger than the ocean can sustain. At that rate, more fisheries are bound...
This does not constitute a green light, of course, to rush right out and gobble down giant chunks of cheese. As researchers are quick to point out, there are still significant health benefits to eating a low-fat, high fiber diet, including reduced risk of diabetes and heart disease. And there are still plenty of scientists and doctors who would like to see a decade-long study on high-fiber diets before calling them off for patients at risk for colorectal cancer. But preliminary as it may be, the message from the Journal article serves to validate the concerns...