date:Jul 03, 2013
eat different amounts of whole grains, including cereal fiber, they can't prove it was the fiber, itself, that prevented diabetes and heart disease.
But a large enough long-term study to prove cause and effect would be difficult, the study team wrote.
It may simply be, people (who eat cereal fiber) are full longer, and therefore they don't eat so much, and they're leaner, Fung, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
Another possibility is people who eat a lot of cereal fib