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Previous Volume 340:223-224 January 21, 1999 Number 3 Next

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The idea that unrefined foods have an important influence on health goes back at least to Hippocrates. Writing in 1585, Stubs asked pointedly: "Doe we not see the poore man that eateth browne bread health fuller, stronger, fayrer complectioned and longer living than the other that fare daintelie every day?"¹ Later, the notion that constipation was central to human disease gave rise to some quaint practices and a huge breakfast-cereal industry. By the mid-20th century, colorectal cancer was being blamed first, by Cleave, on an excess of sugar ("the saccharine disease")² and later, by Burkitt, on a deficiency of fiber.³

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