Kathie Wrick

• Researcher at Pfizer

A proposed approach to help address the fiber shortfall in the diets of Americans has been to increase intake of whole grains. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended for the first time that all age groups consume at least half their grain servings as whole grains as 1 way to help achieve fiber recommendations. Yet the amount of fiber...

Dietary Supplements The Outlook for Dietary Supplements The Regulatory Landscape for Nutraceuticals The Future Outlook

Preliminary consumer data have indicated that about 50% of American adults, especially in the older age groups, not only have read or heard about natural substances in foods that may help prevent chronic diseases, but they also believe that these substances really do work. The readiness of the marketplace for disease-preventing products, such as th...

The metabolic role that some nutrients and other nonnutrient constituents of foods may have in potentially preventing the premature onset of chronic diseases, or in preventing a disease or disorder from ever occurring at all, has captured the attention and imaginations of nutrition scientists, medical practitioners, the food and pharmaceutical indu...

Wheat bran ground to a coarse and fine particle size, purified cellulose and ethanol-extracted cabbage fiber, fed to 24 adult males during an 80-day metabolic trial, were examined for effects on intestinal transit time, laxation and stool composition. Brilliant blue, plastic pellets, polyethylene glycol (PEG)-4000 and Cr(III) mordanted onto isolate...