Washington: If you want to have a longer life, make sure to have that bowl of cereal in the morning, as new study has indicated that cereal fibre are potentially protective component for a longer and healthy life.
The Harvard School of Public Health research, which included over 367,000 AARP members, aged 50 to 71 years, from 6 states and two large cities, found that people who had a diet rich in cereal fibre in the morning, lived longer as compared to those who didn’t.
The results showed that people who had more amount of cereal fibre had 19 % reduced risk of death as compared to those who had less. It was also found that high fibre cereal eaters had a 34 % lower risk of death from diabetes, and a 15 % reduced risk of death from cancer. People who ate a lot of whole grains and dietary fibre had a 17 % lower risk of all-cause mortality.
It was concluded that cereal fibre led to a really healthy and premature death-preventing diet. One needed to eat at least 10.22 grams of cereal fibre per day based on a 1,000 kcal daily diet.
Lori Zanini, a dietitian, said that no animal product naturally had fibre and it was the cell walls of plants from where fibre came from.