'Whole grains, fibre lower death risk'
BOSTON — A study involving researchers from Harvard found eating whole grains and cereal fibre was inversely associated with reduced total mortality and cause-specific mortality. The study, which included 367,442 people, appeared on-line March 24 in BMC Medicine.Eating whole grains was inversely associated with risk of all-cause mortality and death from cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disease, infections and other causes. People with the highest intake of whole grains, or in the highest quintile, had a 17% lower risk of all-cause mortality while the percentages for disease-specific mortality ranged from 11% to 48% for people in the highest quintile.
