Front Matter

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Chapter 2.1. Definitions of Dietary Fiber

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Chapter 2.3. Food Components That Behave as Dietary Fiber
David A. T. Southgate

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Chapter 2.5. Polysaccharide Food Additives That Contribute to Dietary Fiber
David A. T. Southgate

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Chapter 2.7. Physical Chemistry of Dietary Fiber
David Oakenfull

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Chapter 3.1. Enzymatic Gravimetric Methods
Nils-Georg Asp

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Chapter 3.3. Dietary Fiber Analysis as Nonstarch Polysaccharides (NSPs)
Geoffrey Hudson, Hans Englyst

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Chapter 3.5. Determination of Total Dietary Fiber and Its Individual Components by the Uppsala Method
Olof Theander, Roger Andersson, Per Åman, Eric Westerlund

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Chapter 3.7. Newer Methods for Phytate Analysis
Barbara F. Harland, Donald Oberleas

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Chapter 4.1. Effect of Dietary Fiber on Protein Digestibility and Utilization
Daniel D. Gallaher, Barbara O. Schneeman

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Chapter 4.3. Effects of Dietary Fiber on Vitamin Metabolism
Heinrich Kasper

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Chapter 4.5. Correlations of Transit Time to a Critical Fecal Weight (CFW) and to Substances Associated with Dietary Fiber
Monica Spiller

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Chapter 4.7. Interaction between Human Gut Bacteria and Dietary Fiber Substrates
Peter J. Van Soest, Betty A. Lewis, Mary Beth Hall

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Chapter 4.9. The Source of Dietary Fiber Influences – Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production and Concentrations in the Large Bowel
Sharon E. Fleming, H. Kobayashi

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Chapter 4.11. Effect of Dietary Fiber and Foods on Carbohydrate Metabolism
David J. A. Jenkins, Thomas M. S. Wolever

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Chapter 5.2. Development of the Dietary Fiber Hypothesis of Diabetes Mellitus
Hugh C. Trowell

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Chapter 5.4. Fiber in the Treatment of Hyperlipidemia
David J. A. Jenkins, Alexandra L. Jenkins, Vladimir Vuksan

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Chapter 5.6. Fiber and Colonic Diverticulosis
Hugh J. Freeman

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Chapter 5.8. Disease Patterns in Japan and Changes in Dietary Fiber (1930–1980)
Keisuke Tsuji, Bunpei Mori

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Chapter 6.1. Whole Grain, Fiber, and Antioxidants
Gene Miller

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Chapter 6.3. Whole Grains, Cereal Fiber, and Chronic Diseases
Joseph M. Keenan, David R. Jacobs, Mark A. Pereira, Len Marquart, Joel J. Pins

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Chapter 6.5. Phytic Acid and Cancer
Mazda Jenab, Lilian U. Thompson

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Chapter 7.2. Patterns of Dietary Fiber Consumption in Humans to 1992
Sheila Bingham

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Chapter 7.4. Consumption of Dietary Fiber–Rich Foods in China
Su-Fang Zheng, Zhi-Ping Shen

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Chapter 7.6. Fiber Consumption in Italy
Mauro Zamboni, Fabio Armellini, Ottavio Bosello

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Appendix — Table A.2
James B. Robertson

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Appendix — Table A.4
Wenche Frølich

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Appendix — Table A.6

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Appendix — Table A.8
Monica Spiller

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