Gut Bacteria Link Dietary Fiber with Liver Cancer

We are all told that dietary fiber is good for us, but are all sources and forms of fiber equally beneficial to health? Studies by researchers at the University of Toledo (UT) have surprisingly found that mice developed liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma; HCC) when fed on diets fortified with refined soluble fibers such as inulin, a probiotic that earlier this year was FDA approved to be marketed as health-promoting.The research, headed by Matam Vijay-Kumar, Ph.D., director of the UT Microbi