Four months of psyllium treatment significantly improved bowel function and
fecal output in 12 elderly patients (Burton and Manninen, 1982).
Not exact matches
As I show
in my 1 - min video Food Mass Transit, meat - eating women average a four - day mouth - to - anus transit time, likely too long to meet the target 200 gram (half pound) minimum
fecal output for cancer prevention.
After consuming 10.33 g / d of RS3 for 1 week, there was no significant difference
in fecal output, stool fre - quency, ease of defecation, whole - gut transit time, or degree of flatulence compared to an intake of 0.86 g / d of RS3 from a rice - based cereal.
Increased
fecal butyrate
outputs have been demonstrated using both whole food and commercial sources of resistant starch
in some studies (Jenkins et al., 1998; Macfarlane and Englyst, 1986; Phillips et al., 1995; Silvester et al., 1995), but not
in others (Heijnen et al., 1998; Hylla et al., 1998).