LETTER: Give us our daily fibre fix
Just because we don’t have proof that it lessens the risk of cancer and heart disease doesn’t mean there is none
In her entertaining column, Andrea Burgener said there was “not one piece of research which shows that eating fibre or whole grains causes fewer incidents of cancer or heart disease” (“Standing up to the breakfast police”, July 12). But there is substantial evidence that high-fibre diets are associated with better health outcomes, adjusting for other factors.
Burgener correctly points out that association is not causality. However, she then commits the logical fallacy that because we do not (yet?) have comprehensive proof of causality there is none. Sadly, this is wishful thinking. Moreover, there is increasing evidence of causality...
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