Dietary Fiber and Human Health

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue on “Dietary Fiber and Human Health” deals with the potential health effects of dietary fiber with respect to cardiometabolic risk. The effects of dietary fiber (DF) may be investigated on isolated supplements to the diet, or as endogenous DF included in the normal food matrix, for example, whole grain. The issue addresses both physiological effects linked to upper gastrointestinal mechanisms and mechanisms related to colonic fermentation of DF, involving gut microbiota composition and effects of colonic fermentation derived metabolites.  

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles based on acute, short term or long term interventions in healthy adults, addressing effects of DF on cardiometabolic risk-related markers, as well as studies performed in murine models. It also welcomes systematic reviews or meta analyses of health-related effects of dietary fiber in humans.

Assoc. Prof. Anne Nilsson
Dr. Juscelino Tovar
Prof. Margareta Nyman
Guest Editors

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