Want another beneficial reason to ...

Want another beneficial reason to eat more fiber-rich fruits, grains and vegetables? A six-year meditation conducted by Harvard Medical indoctrinate shows that a fiber-rich diet may be able to help lower a woman's risk of heart disease.

"These findings generally support dietary recommendations to increase the consumption of fiber-rich whole grains and fruits and vegetables as a primary preventive measure," the Harvard researchers report in the January issue of The Journal of the American guild of Cardiology.

The research in which 38,000 female health professionals age 45 and older participated, showed that the women who ate the greatest in number fiber were less likely to bring to maturity heart disease and suffer heart attacks than those whose diets were les rich in fiber. The differences, while slight, nonetheless support the long-standing recommendations that Americans boost their consumption of fiber to 25 to 35 grams each day by way of eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

The issues support "current recommendations to incorporate more fiber from whole grains and fruits and vegetables into the diet for the prevention of heart disease," says Wayne D Rosamond, associate professor of epidemiology at the the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

The highest intake of fiber in the studious mood was just eight grams more than the lowest, Rosamond notes. That's "les than single serving of a high-fiber cereal or the combined fiber in a serving of peas, a potato and an apple." A little more fiber can make a big difference.

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