Wheat and Increased Bowel Movements

• Short-term intestinal effects of water intake in fibre supplementation in healthy, low-habitual fibre consumers: a phase 2 clinical trial.

  • 2022-05-23
  • RCT
  • International journal of food sciences and nutrition 73(6)
  • • Gissele V R Gonçalves
    • Raíssa Canova
    • Sidia M Callegari-Jacques
    • Rafael Frandoloso
    • Luiz C Kreutz
    • Fernando Fornari

  • PubMed: 35603590
  • DOI: 10.1080/09637486.2022.2079117

  7 Insights on

  • Increased Bowel Movements

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  Weekly bowel movements increased similarly in both interventions (fibre: 6.8-8.8; fibre/water: 8.6-10; p<0.01)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  Not specified (diet doubled fibre intake)