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PEDIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
Volume 48, Issue 4, Pages 969-+Publisher
W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3955(05)70351-5
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Dietary fiber may have beneficial effects on body weight regulation through plausible physiological mechanisms that have considerable support in the scientific literature. A large number of short-term studies suggest that high fiber foods induce greater satiation and satiety. Epidemiologic studies generally support a role for fiber in body weight regulation among free-living individuals consuming self-selected diets, though conclusive intervention studies addressing this point are lacking. Few studies of dietary fiber have involved children as subjects; however, there is no physiologic reason to believe that results of studies of fiber in adults should not be applicable to pediatrics.
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