CarbHealth
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The CarbHealth-project received funding from the Joint Programming Initiative聽聽and from聽the ERA-NET Cofund HDHL INTIMI. The project will start April 1st聽2020 and will last for three years. The project is lead by聽Professor Jutta Dierkes聽with partners聽聽from Nofima AS (脜s, Norway),聽聽from the University of Paderborn (Germany),聽聽from the University of Leipzig (Germany) and聽聽from the Chalmers University (Sweden). Combining a randomized clinical trial, data from existing cohorts in middle-aged (HUSK-study, Norway) and children (KFO and LifeCHild, Germany), and a meta-analysis of published RCTs and observational studies, the project will address the overall hypothesis that diets that are high in habitual consumption of dietary fiber, also through regular consumption of high-fiber bread, can form an integral part of a plant-based healthy diet associated with benefits for body weight and T2DM risk.
