Keep in mind where this comes from, please. This is the BBC. "Beans on toast" is not at all an unusual dish there. I think the idea here is that if you switch to whole-grain bread, this standard food becomes something quite fiber-rich.

If I'm in the US and *I* know this just from watching occasional British television shows and movies, I'm pretty sure it's not something that can be considered odd. Google is your friend.

This is my second post to Broadsheet regarding cancer and diet, and though I am repeating myself a little bit, it bears repeating (and repeating and repeating):

The China Study is the largest study of the correlation between nutrition and disease ever performed. It was carried out by Cornell, Oxford and a Chinese University. It followed 6500 Chinese villagers for 20 years to see what, if any, correlation there is between nutrition and disease. The results were overwhelming. In a nutshell, those people who consumed the most animal protein were the ones who came down with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, allergies, and that's all I can remember off the top of my head. The main culprit in causing cancer, it turns out, is casein. Casein is a (cow) milk protein. They did studies with lab rats where they infected the animals with cancer-causing agents. The rats who were fed a diet with a "normal" amount of dairy products developed cancer. The rats fed a low protein vegetarian diet did not. Then they experimented with feeding dairy/no dairy diets to the infected rats. When they were being fed the diet that included dairy products, the cancer grew. When they were being fed the vegetarian diet, the cancer stopped growing. Like flipping a switch, is how they described it.

As a result of these findings, the author, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, who started his life on a dairy farm, and grew up eating sausages, eggs and bacon for breakfast, has become a vegetarian, and he and his family are now moving in the direction of becoming vegan.

Lest you think that this is a book written by an "activist doctor", let me assure you that he was an establishment scientist for most of his career, working for 50 years in high level government positions. All of the health assertions in this book are backed up by laboratory evidence.

It's not wacky, out there, or unproven: eating your fruits and vegetables and limiting your animal protein consumption lowers your risk of cancer and heart disease MORE SUBSTANTIALLY THAN ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN DO and increases the quality and length of your life. And those studies that say otherwise? Well, there is a very enlightening chapter in The China Study that covers just that subject. Let's just say that the governing interests behind the funders, designers, and publishers of studies determines what will be found by those studies.

but I do have a gut. When I stop eating high fibre for any longer than one day, bathroom visits become very uncomfortable. Women I know who have tried the high fibre way have told me that they didn't realize bathroom visits could be painless, until they tried the high fibre way. Maybe we're all medical anomalies, but I don't think anything that causes pain can be good for you in thelong term, even if it is something as common as white flour.

they have to be Heinz beans in tomato sauce, which have no sugar or pork.

In other words, they have to be British Heinz beans for proper Beans on Toast.

is more palatable than All Bran Buds in milk for some reason. Since I made that discovery, I have been making fibre my friend.

Beans on toast is pretty good! I highly recommend it.

With an Immodium chaser, of course, lest you not be able to get through the day without a whole bunch of "interruptions."

Hey man, we don't need your kind of should-be-common sense. We want more vapid studies about how sneezing too much causes cancer.

I was almost on your side but then you started ragging on dairy. Everyone knows that milk does a body good. The commecials say so! They say so because it's true, not because they are trying to make money or anything.

Even worse you suggest that allergies have something to do with diet. Everyone knows that allergies are just the immune system acting up for no reason, or because we have bad genes.

Sorry man, we're not going to believe you until the major media outlets give us permission, because they are always right and aren't controlled by special interests or anything.

But I'm not allowed to tell you what it is. Sorry.

Which of course I'm not, I'd say that Broadsheet is strictly about what goes in and comes out of a woman's three orifices and nothing more.

favor their baked beans on toast, which is unheard of here. I have to say as an American who lived in Britain for a while, that is one dish I never got used to. But now, sigh, I suppose I will have to. . ..

and STFU until you truly understand science, math, and the studies you keep skimming over for snarky column fodder.

Stop confusing anecdotes for facts, stop believing your opinion outweighs longitudinal studies, stop pretending to be a feminist and then tossing of sexist comments as if they were bon mots.

So I quit smoking last year and my bowel movements shrink and I develop incontinence. Doctor sends me for a colonoscopy, which shows I have an enlarged colon. Dr. says increasing fiber intake could exacerbate this condition, so don't do it. He says drink more water. Now it is a year and a half, my bowels are still not right. I lowball the fiber and I drink lots of water though that does not help. These people -- medical scientists -- obviously don't know what they're talking about but like to pretend they do. Watch out for that roughage.

I'll type slowly because as an ex-drug addict it's obviously not just your bowels that are addled.

Take a moment to read what those "dumb doctors" have compiled in terms of the ill-effects of long-term smoking on your bowels and the rest of you...even though you're obviously a total asshole. It's not the doctor's fault, the doctor is just telling you what your drug-addicted ruined body can and can't do now that you've thoroughly ravaged it with smoking.

Unless and until smokers and ex-smokers see temselves as drug addicts and then addicts in recovery they will never improve their health. It's not about patches or gum or even cold turkey. But you can't talk sense to an addict, so why bother?