Fiber & Dementia – Diet & Health Today

Introduction

This week’s paper is another 1 from my major article finder – Dr Peter Brukner. It’s another a person on fiber – this time coupled with dementia. The paper was written by Yamagishi et al and it was known as “Dietary fiber ingestion and danger of incident disabling dementia: the Circulatory Threat in Communities Research” (Ref 1).

Fiber intrigues me. It is frequently utilised as a rationale for eating carbohydrate. We are advised to get a number of grams of it a day and but we can not digest it. It appears to be a further typical healthy person confounder. Advantaged people are more probable to consume Jerusalem artichokes, dried apricots and broccoli, which will set up an association amongst fiber and wellness, but it should really not be assumed that the fiber caused the health.

The history to this study was provided in the first stage in the summary of the paper. “It has been hypothesized that dietary fiber ingestion has a effective effects on prevention of dementia, but the epidemiological evidence is scant.” Therefore the authors sought to analyze irrespective of whether dietary fiber ingestion is inversely linked with the risk of dementia (i.e., additional fiber is related with less dementia). Dementia for this analyze was described as disabling dementia, which is dementia that necessitates treatment.

One of the references in the introduction to this paper was an report involving Yamagishi called “Dietary consumption of beans and chance of disabling dementia”, so this is his location of fascination.