Does a new study change our minds about the dietary fiber-cancer myth?
A new study in the British Medical Journal conducted a meta-analysis of 25 cohort and case-control studies and concluded that 10 grams daily of dietary fiber correlated with about 10% less colon cancer incidence.
But the reported 10% reduction in incidence (an unreliable weak association) and the fact that none of the studies included in the meta-analysis on their own indicate any credible association between fiber and cancer, expose the meta-analysis technique for what it is — a garbage-in/garbage-out methodology.
Read Steve Milloy’s FoxNews.com column, “The Tail-end of the Fiber Myth.”
Yes, but lots of fiber helps keep the piles under control.
consider reading:
FIBER MANACE: The Truth about the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn’s Disease, and Colon Cancer
by Konstantin Monastyrsky