Intestinal transit time in Togo (Western Africa) and Germany

Gögler, H.

Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie 14(2): 280-284

1976


ISSN/ISBN: 0044-2771
PMID: 233759
Document Number: 99382
In five groups of Africans and Europeans in Togo (West-Africa) and Germany intestinal transit time and stool-weights have been studied. Native Africans on traditional food passed three times more stool (307 g/d) in half of the time (33 hours) as Europeans and Africans on Western diet did. The effect of dietary fibre on intestinal transit time and intestinal pathology is stressed.

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