Gastrointestinal Diseases and Fiber Intake with Special Reference to South African Populations

Invited commentary

“…They have now conformed totally to Western dietary habits and it is believed, as a consequence, have a comparable disease pattern to that of white Americans. The direct relationships shown by Ogunbiyi between fiber intake and stool weight, and its inverse relationship to intestinal transit times are consistent with studies in Great Britain and elsewhere [1][2][3]. It is of particular interest to note that the frequency of defecation of his subjects was not all that different from Europeans.…”