When evaluating health claims about fiber, it is important to determine the underlying mechanisms, effect size, and whether it is a primary or adjunct intervention.

“So the way we want to do this is we want to for each of these claims ask the question do we know the mechanism or mechanisms that would account for it? Do we have a sense of the effect size? um do we have a better tool to accomplish this? Uh, in other words, should we consider fiber as an adjunct? Um versus is this sort of the primary tool and the one that we should rely on mostly as our um you know as our as our quiver in the uh or arrow in the quiver.”