Clinical nutrition : dietary fibre. Part 1.

Date:
1977
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Description

Dr J Cummings and Dr D Jenkins discuss dietary fibre in the diet. They describe what dietary fibre is and list the main components of fibre in different foods. They also look at the history of the introduction of fibre into the diet and compare dietary fibre intake in Britain with different parts of the world. Detailed outlines of how fibre from food is broken down in the gut are given, using tables, charts and electron micrographs - we see how stool size and texture changes according to fibre intake and how the transition time of foods through the gut are altered by changes in fibre consumption.

Publication/Creation

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1977.

Physical description

1 videocassette (Umatic) (38.03 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 DVD (38.03 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.
1 videocassette (digibeta) (38.03 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

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University of London

Notes

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest. The lectures mostly take place in a small and intimate studio setting and are often face-to-face. The lecturers use a wide variety of resources to illustrate their points, including film clips, slides, graphs, animated diagrams, charts and tables as well as 3-dimensional models and display boards with movable pieces. Some of the lecturers are telegenic while some are clearly less comfortable about being recorded; all are experts in their field and show great enthusiasm to share both the latest research and the historical context of their specialist areas.

Creator/production credits

Presented by Dr J Cummings, MRC Dunn Nutrition Unit and Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge; Dr D Jenkins MRC Gastroenterology Unit, Central Middlesex Hospital, London. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre.

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