"The resultsfrom thisstudysuggest thatfibermay have broader healthbenefitsthanwhat has beenfound before, " Dr. Frank Hu, a Harvard School of PublicHealthnutritionist, said.
While the trend in China parallels that in the U.S., it is "much more rapid, " says FrankHu, an associate professor in the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, who has conducted his own studies of the phenomenon.