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Mechanisms and experimental and epidemiological evidence relating dietary fibre (non-starch polysaccharides) and starch to protection against large bowel cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Sheila A. Bingham
Sheila A. Bingham
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MRC Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, 100 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QL
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Symposium on ‘Diet and Cancer’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 49 , Issue 2 , July 1990 , pp. 153 - 171
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