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Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease

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  • © 1997

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Editors:
  1. David Kritchevsky

    1. The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

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  2. Charles Bonfield

    1. Clinical Review Associates, McLean, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 427)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Nutritionally Related Disorders/Diseases in Africans

    • Alexander R. P. Walker
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Evolving Epidemiology of Fiber and Heart Disease

    • Charles Humble
    Pages 15-26

  4. Dietary Fibre and Human Cancer

    • M. J. Hill
    Pages 27-34

  5. What is a High Fiber Diet?

    • Thomas M. S. Wolever, David J. A. Jenkins
    Pages 35-42

  6. Overview on Complex Carbohydrates

    • Jonathan W. DeVries
    Pages 43-50

  7. Dietary Guidelines and Complex Carbohydrates

    • Barbara O. Schneeman
    Pages 51-53

  8. Classification of Complex Carbohydrates

    • Leon Prosky, Sungsoo C. Lee
    Pages 55-61

  9. Determination of Complex Carbohydrates in Foods as the Sum of Available Starch and Dietary Fiber

    • Susan Sungsoo Cho, Leon Prosky
    Pages 63-67

  10. Application of Complex Carbohydrates in the Food Industry

    • Judi Adams
    Pages 69-78

  11. Soluble Fiber and Hypertension

    • Joseph M. Keenan, Zhiquan Huang, Arline McDonald
    Pages 79-87

  12. Soluble Fiber and Energy Regulation

    • Edward Saltzman, Susan B. Roberts
    Pages 89-97

  13. Soluble Fibers and Dietary Lipids

    • Denis Lairon
    Pages 99-108

  14. Sites and Mechanisms for the Hypocholesterolemic Actions of Soluble Dietary Fiber Sources

    • Judith A. Marlett
    Pages 109-121

  15. Butyrate and the Colonocyte

    • Omaida C. Velázquez, Howard M. Lederer, John L. Rombeau
    Pages 123-134

  16. Short Chain Fatty Acids, Intestinal Adaptation, and Nutrient Utilization

    • M. I. McBurney, R. A. Reimer, K. A. Tappenden
    Pages 135-143

  17. Short Chain Fatty Acids Inhibit the Expression of the Neutrophil Chemoattractant, Interleukin 8, in the Caco-2 Intestinal Cell Line

    • Ning Huang, Gary D. Wu
    Pages 145-153

  18. Short Chain Fatty Acids

    • Christine A. Edwards
    Pages 155-167

  19. Butyrate

    • Omaida C. Velázquez, John L. Rombeau
    Pages 169-181

  20. Effect of Short Chain Fatty Acids on Calcium Absorption in Humans

    • Trinidad P. Trinidad, Thomas M. S. Wolever, Lilian U. Thompson
    Pages 183-189
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About this book

This volume carries the proceedings of the Vahouny Fiber Symposium, which took place in Washington DC, in March of 1996. George V. Vahouny pioneered this conference, which was conceived as a means of exchanging information on the latest advances in fiber research. The conference was renamed in George Vahouny's honor after his untimely death. In this volume we have included the reminiscences of Prof. A.R.P. Walker, one of the pioneers in the field, and discussion of the epidemiological findings relating dietary fiber to heart disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal disease. As the overall definition of fiber has broadened we have included for discussion other aspects of carbohydrate chem­ istry and metabolism. Complex carbohydrates were the subject of a full session and resis­ tant starch and the role(s) of oligosaccharides were discussed later in the meeting. Another area of fiber metabolism that is beginning to burgeon is that of the short chain fatty acids, and this too was the subject of presentations and discussion. In addition, the more familiar topics in dietary fiber were updated. Workshops devoted to specific areas of fiber research have now become a mainstay of these meetings, and they were repeated successfully. Due to restraints on spending, the attendance at this meeting was somewhat smaller than usual but the discussion was lively and pertinent. We are deeply grateful to our sponsors and contributors for their continuing interest in dietary fiber research, and for their generous support of this symposium.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

    David Kritchevsky

  • Clinical Review Associates, McLean, USA

    Charles Bonfield

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dietary Fiber in Health and Disease

  • Editors: David Kritchevsky, Charles Bonfield

  • Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5967-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 1997

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45703-6Published: 31 October 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7735-1Published: 23 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5967-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0065-2598

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 325

  • Topics: Food Science, Nutrition, Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology

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