Assessment of hormonal and metabolic effects of dietary fiber in young Thai women.

Objective: To investigate whether daily dietary fiber intake at the reference level has any impact on studied hormones in a population of Thai women.

Material And Method: Twenty-eight healthy Thai women (aged 18-20 years, BMI 18.5-25 kg/m2) with a history of regular menstrual cycles committed themselves to prepared food without changing the usual ratio of three major macronutrients.