title: Dietary fiber in the Japanese diet as investigated in connection with colon cancer risk.
abstract: The low risk of colon cancer among the Japanese suggests a high intake of dietary fiber. Composite diets for 1959, 1970, and 1979 were prepared using food consumption data from the National Nutrition Survey in Japan and analyzed for non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) at the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre in Cambridge. The results showed that average intake of NSP by Japanese in the above years did not exceed 13 g per day, which is as low as the corresponding intake by the Scandinavians and the British, whose risk of colon cancer is known to be high.
mesh_terms: D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004041:Dietary Fats; D004043:Dietary Fiber; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D004043:Dietary Fiber