A long tradition has associated dietary fibres (DFs) as being beneficial to human health and protective against a range of diseases that are common in the Western world, including colon cancer. However, their effects on protecting against the latter disease have been controversial since the publicat
Dietary fibre in human nutrition
โ Scribed by M. A. Eastwood
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 328 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5142
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