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Dietary fiber in the Management of Diabetes

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Dietary Fiber

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Over the past two decades there has been a radical change in dietary guidelines for diabetes, which now stress high carbohydrate and fiber intakes. The initial impetus for the increase in carbohydrate came from early studies of Himsworth (1935–36) and, later, Stone and Connor (1965), showing improved blood lipids and glucose tolerance on a high-carbohydrate diet. Further motivation for change originated in the early 1970s from Trowell’s suggestion (1973) that the development of diabetes might be related to a lack of fiber in the diet. This spurred many new concepts about the dietary treatment of diabetes and lead to the classic studies of Anderson (Kiehm et al., 1976; Anderson and Ward, 1979) and others (Simpson et al., 1981; Rivellese et al., 1980) showing the beneficial effects of high-carbohydrate, high-fiber diets.

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Wolever, T.M.S. (1990). Dietary fiber in the Management of Diabetes. In: Kritchevsky, D., Bonfield, C., Anderson, J.W. (eds) Dietary Fiber. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0519-4_22

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