<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1dfb3b01-9dda-43d6-9c02-bc5b57efb610/F2EEA176-C68C-43BD-8B18-A880C76C8642/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><H1 id="yn-story-title">Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><P>SYDNEY (AFP) – An apple a day may keep the doctor away but a fibre-filled diet could also hold the key to keeping <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_0" class="yshortcuts">asthma</SPAN>, <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_1" class="yshortcuts">diabetes</SPAN> and arthritis at bay, according to Australian research released Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/97ABA26D-5F93-43D2-833B-4D788FC9849D" alt="Fibre may keep asthma, diabetes at bay, study finds" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><CITE class="caption"> AFP/DDP/File – Harvest labourers sort freshly picked apples at an orchard in Marquardt, eastern Germany in August 2009. … </CITE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><P> Scientists at <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_2" class="yshortcuts">Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research</SPAN> say that fibre not only helps keep people regular, it boosts the immune system so it can better combat <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_3" class="yshortcuts">inflammatory diseases</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><P> When foods high in fibre, such as <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_4" class="yshortcuts">dried fruit</SPAN> and beans, reach the gut, bacteria convert them to compounds known as short chain <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_5" class="yshortcuts">fatty acids</SPAN>. These acids are known to alleviate some <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_6" class="yshortcuts">inflammatory disease</SPAN> in the bowel.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/hl_afp/healthaustraliafibre"><P> The research, published in the latest edition of Nature, indicated that diet may have profound effects on <SPAN id="lw_1256752528_10" class="yshortcuts">immune responses</SPAN> or inflammatory diseases, he said.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F2EEA176-C68C-43BD-8B18-A880C76C8642/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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