The virus was found when Bas Dutilh of Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues were trawling
through data from
faecal samples collected for a 2010 study looking at the microbial gut communities of twins.
The specific effects of food structure (increased satiety, reduced transit time and glycaemic response), fibre (improved
faecal bulking and satiety, viscosity and SCFA production, and / or reduced glycaemic response) and Mg (better glycaemic homeostasis
through increased insulin secretion), together with the antioxidant and anti-carcinogenic properties of numerous bioactive compounds, especially those in the bran and germ (minerals, trace elements, vitamins, carotenoids, polyphenols and alkylresorcinols), are today well - recognised mechanisms in this protection.