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Fibre for women: a simple change to live longer?

Fibre for women: a simple change to live longer?

Most of what we say about fibre and living longer comes from studies that pool men and women together. A 2026 analysis of US national survey data did something less common: it looked specifically at postmenopausal women, 7,708 of them, followed for up to two decades [1].

The headline is the kind that hits home. Women in the highest third of fibre intake had a lower rate of death over follow-up than women in the lowest third, with all-cause mortality about 15% lower and cardiovascular mortality about 31% lower [1]. Across 2,116 deaths, of which 657 were cardiovascular, that is a sizeable gap.

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