Introduction
This week’s paper is one other one from my prime article finder – Dr Peter Brukner. It’s one other one on fiber – this time coupled with dementia. The paper was written by Yamagishi et al and it was referred to as “Dietary fiber consumption and danger of incident disabling dementia: the Circulatory Threat in Communities Examine” (Ref 1).
Fiber intrigues me. It’s continuously used as a rationale for consuming carbohydrate. We’re advised to get a number of grams of it a day and but we are able to’t digest it. It appears to be one other traditional wholesome individual confounder. Advantaged persons are extra prone to devour Jerusalem artichokes, dried apricots and broccoli, which is able to set up an affiliation between fiber and well being, nevertheless it shouldn’t be assumed that the fiber brought on the well being.
The background to this examine was given within the first level within the summary of the paper. “It has been hypothesized that dietary fiber consumption has a helpful affect on prevention of dementia, however the epidemiological proof is scant.” Therefore the authors sought to look at whether or not dietary fiber consumption is inversely related to the danger of dementia (i.e., extra fiber is related to much less dementia). Dementia for this examine was outlined as disabling dementia, which is dementia that requires care.
One of many references within the introduction to this paper was an article involving Yamagishi referred to as “Dietary consumption of beans and danger of disabling dementia”, so that is his space of curiosity.
