> not generalizable
replyBut there's already a general advise on this: eat more fiber.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/08/hunter-gather...
We're a great ape, our body evolved to process a lot of fiber from fruits and starches. It's the modern fiber-deficient diet that's really weird.
90g/day of fiber is similar to the Hadza tribe diet, where they can consume 100-150g of fiber per day.
Fiber’s the new fad supplement.
replyI hope you're not being serious, but they're not "supplements", they're food. You can easily get them from fruits and vegetables.
replyWhile they're not essential in short-term survival, they're essential for long-term health:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559033/
We have enough peer-reviewed studies on this.
it has been for a while, a lot of foods advertise fiber
replyI thought we were onto protein now?
replyAlso, the authors claim the starch "inhibited lipid absorption." They do not argue why they used surrogate blood biomarkers instead of residual energy output in fecal samples (which is a better measurement).
replysample size is 37, number of authors 29