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Could Your Healthy Diet Still Be Too Low in Fibre?

The evidence reaches far beyond bowel health, and the amount linked to better long-term health may be higher than you think.

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Ben Jones MD PhD
Sep 19, 2026
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A table laden with fibre-rich foods. A joyless bowl of bran cereal sits in the foreground.

As a kid, I watched my dad struggle through a bowl of All-Bran every morning. It was a hard watch, and no doubt a harder eat.

Back then, fibre was “roughage”. It kept you regular, and that was pretty much the sales pitch.

It’s no wonder few of us got excited about it. Who wants to sit down to a plate of roughage? If you understood the rationale, it felt l…

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