Also rice bran is used for the enrichment
of some foods, due to its high dietary fibre content. Since
the middle of the 1970s, the role of dietary fibre in health and
nutrition has stimulated a wide range of research activities and
caught public attention. Accumulating evidence favours the view
that increased intake of dietary fibre can have beneficial effects
against diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, gastrointestinal
disease, decreasing blood cholesterol, diverticulosis, diabetes and
colon cancer