With this statistical division, there was a significant decrease in cell proliferation as a result of the fiber supplementation in six of the eight patients with initially high labeling indices and three of the eight patients with initially low indices, which suggests that wheat - bran fiber is
protective against colon cancer.
High fibre has also been shown to be
protective against colon cancer, and type 2 diabetes.
Not exact matches
Milk thistle has been shown to have
protective effects
against certain types of
cancer such as
colon cancer, liver
cancer, bladder
cancer, cervical
cancer, prostate
cancer, lung
cancer, ovarian
cancer, skin
cancer, and breast
cancer.
Cabbage can also help detoxify your body and boost your immune system, form a
protective shield
against colon cancer, and promote weight loss.
Based on these observations, DF's and substances that are part of the fibre complex such as antioxidants, flavonoids, sulphur containing compounds and folate have been proposed as potentially
protective agents
against colon cancer.
Research that provides human data and does the following is assigned the highest priority: â $ cents Evaluate the
protective effect of fiber
against colon cancer in subsets of the population by applying genotyping and phenotyping to those par - ticipating in fiber and
colon cancer trials.
Most importantly, the three clinical intervention trials with
colon polyp recurrence as an end point also failed to show a
protective effect
against this surrogate marker for
colon cancer (Alberts et al., 2000; Bonithon - Kopp et al., 2000); Schatzkin et al., 2000).
374 DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES and other positive findings, a number of important studies (Fuchs et al., 1999; Giovannucci and Willett, 1994) and three recent clinical interven - tion trials (Alberts et al., 2000; Bonithon - Kopp et al., 2000; Schatzkin et al., 2000) do not support a
protective effect of Dietary Fiber intake
against colon cancer.