Climb down from the bran wagon

In years to come, the past couple of decades of the twentieth century may well come to be known as 'The Bran Age'; a time when it seemed that most of the diseases of Western civilisation were being blamed on a lack of fibre in the diet, and we were all being exhorted to eat as much as possible to cure or prevent those diseases. Diseases blamed on a lack of dietary fibre include: intestinal diseases such as cancer of the colon, appendicitis, constipation and irritable bowel syndrome as well as coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, deep vein thrombosis, varicose veins, hiatus hernia and gallstones.

Full article: Second Opinions - Barry Groves, PhD