Health

Starches common in processed grains can curb helpful gut bacteria

Eating cereal grains—corn, rice, wheat or one of the several others that collectively provide more than half of the world's calories—means consuming the carbohydrate known as starch. Starches consist of two primary components, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Resistant starch provides lasting benefit in Lynch syndrome

For patients with Lynch syndrome (LS), daily resistant starch (RS) seems to have a lasting protective effect against noncolorectal cancers, according to a study published online July 25 in Cancer Prevention Research.

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