Dietary fiber promotes a healthy intestinal microflora in part by:
A) slowing the movement of food material in the gut.
B) promoting the production of short chain fatty acids which provide metabolic fuel for colonic cells.
C) decreasing the fluidity of the intestinal contents.
D) producing natural antibiotics that kill pathogenic bacteria.
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