~ Resistant starch and «the butyrate revolution» (review — abstract) «Early epidemiological studies indicated that populations that consume a
high proportion of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) dietary
fibre (DF) in their daily diet suffer less from gastrointestinal diseases, in particular colorectal cancers, than populations that consume diets that are
high in fat and protein but low in NSP
fibre.