Fiber's Health Benefits
One of the cheapest and easiest ways to help out your diet is including more fiber into the foods that you eat. This is hardly a new idea, most indigenous cultures eat high fiber meals, have lower levels of digestive tract diseases, and the benefits are extraordinary for how simple this tip is to implement. Fiber in high amounts helps the large intestine and the entire digestive tract. It cleanses the colon, and helps with colon health.
This also has an additional benefit that is derived from the nature of fiber. The same fibrous materials that help keep your gastrointestinal tract working steadily and properly also absorb many times its weight in water/fat/cholesterol. This is one reason that fiber has the rare stamp of approval from the FDA as a heart healthy food that lowers the risk of heart disease. But what does this mean for your diet? You feel more full while eating less. The fiber bonds to waters/fats/cholesterols and makes you feel like you have eaten more. Plus it slows the absorption of these high calorie molecules into your bloodstream.
With so many benefits, and overall health given from consuming more fiber how can you implement more fiber in your diet? Eat more whole grains instead of simple processed flours. Brown rice instead of white rice. More roots and fruits. And perhaps the easiest? A bran cereal with 1% milk to start the day off.
But, most people have either a hard time figuring out ways to substitute more fiber into your diet. Brown rice just isn’t the same as white rice. For those of you that agree, another simple way to get your daily dose of fiber is by adding a fiber supplement to your diet.