Fiber & Dementia – Food regimen & Well being Right this moment

Introduction

This week’s paper is one other one from my prime article finder – Dr Peter Brukner. It’s one other one on fiber – this time coupled with dementia. The paper was written by Yamagishi et al and it was known as “Dietary fiber intake and risk of incident disabling dementia: the Circulatory Risk in Communities Study” (Ref 1).

Fiber intrigues me. It's always used as a rationale for consuming carbohydrate. We're informed to get a number of grams of it a day and but we are able to’t digest it. It appears to be one other traditional wholesome particular person confounder. Advantaged individuals are extra more likely to devour Jerusalem artichokes, dried apricots and broccoli, which is able to set up an affiliation between fiber and well being, but it surely shouldn't be assumed that the fiber induced the well being.

The background to this research was given within the first level within the summary of the paper. “It has been hypothesized that dietary fiber intake has a beneficial impact on prevention of dementia, but the epidemiological evidence is scant.” Therefore the authors sought to look at whether or not dietary fiber consumption is inversely related to the danger of dementia (i.e., extra fiber is related to much less dementia). Dementia for this research was outlined as disabling dementia, which is dementia that requires care.

One of many references within the introduction to this paper was an article involving Yamagishi known as “Dietary intake of beans and risk of disabling dementia”, so that is his space of curiosity.