[net.kids] Alpha cellulose and "High Fibre" Bread

mrl@oddjob.UUCP (Scott R. Anderson) (04/12/86)

>It makes no difference whether the fiber you ingest is in the form of
>bran, Metamucil, or wood chips.

I would like to see some basis for this claim.  Just because bran
and wood chips both contain cellulose doesn't mean that the form
of the cellulose is the same; and if it isn't, how do you know
that one form won't have deleterious effects that the other doesn't
have?
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					Scott Anderson
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