What is it about?
The relation between dietary fiber and the well-being of human and other monogastrics has recently become a hot topic as shown by the increasing number of publications of the related research. The aim of this review is to describe - through a logical approach - the scientific suggestion linking possible benefits of dietary fiber on nutritional components and their effect on the gastrointestinal composition in relation to disease conditions in humans and animals. Dietary fiber plays a key role in influencing blood glucose or insulin concentrations, stool bulkiness, reducing the pH within the digestive tract, synthesizing volatile fatty acids (VFA), reducing intestinal transit time, stimulating the growth of intestinal microbes, and constructively enhancing various blood parameters. The available literature suggests that fiber influences the bioavailability of nutrients and maintains the host’s well-being by controlling disorders and disease prevalent with a Western way of living such as constipation and diarrhea, diabetes, obesity, gastrointestinal inflammation, atherosclerosis, and colon cancer.
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Why is it important?
Effects of dietary fiber supplementation on nutrient composition, gut microbial composition, and function, and metabolic disease
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This gives more insight into the increasing rate of cardiovascular and other metabolic diseases. Explaining how dietary fiber supplementations may influence the help of human and other monogastric animals.
Seidu Adams
Jilin Agricultural University
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This page is a summary of: Interactions of Dietary Fibre with Nutritional Components on Gut Microbial Composition, Function and Health in Monogastrics, Current Protein and Peptide Science, July 2018, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1389203719666180508111843.
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