date:Apr 23, 2013
a senior lecturer in nutritional epidemiology at the University of Leeds in the U.K.
Burley and her coauthors pooled the results of eight studies conducted since 1990 that included close to 500,000 participants. Those people reported on their dietary fiber consumption and were followed for anywhere from eight to 19 years.
The researchers found the risk of suffering a first stroke fell by 7% for every 7g increase in dietary fiber people reported each day, so that those who ate the most fiber ha