Some Facts About Fibre You Should Know About
Confession time – here at Granite Fitness, most of our discussion about food and food choices centre around calories, as quite a lot of our initial clientele are people who wish to lose weight. While there is nothing wrong with it, we have, apart from the content in the Strategic Nutrition Guide, been neglecting the other important stuff, namely fibre, vitamins and minerals.
Therefore, today we attempt to right this wrong with an article about fibre. Hopefully, this encourages you to selectively have more of it in your diet. Since we are not experts on this topic, we did a bit of research and got permission by some experts to include their content in this post. Here goes:
One: Fibre fights diseases. Yes, a diet high in fibre can help to prevent colon cancer and heart disease. High fibre helps the body to eliminate cholesterol by binding it in the digestive tract. For thousands of years, fibre has been used to stop constipation.
Two: Fibre helps with overeating issues. All high fibre foods will take longer to chew and digest, making you feel satisfied longer.
Three: Most popular foods don’t have enough fibre. If you like the more popular foods, you probably need to increase your intake of fibre.
Four: Grains offer the most fibre. Dietary fibre is actually plant matter that we cannot digest. The best sources are whole grains and concentrated grain products.
Five: Kids need fibre as well. Children that are older than two years of age should consume a daily intake of fibre. Kids are most receptive to fibre found in fruits, vegetables, and even fortified breakfast cereals.
Six: More fibre requires more water. In order to keep fibre moving through your digestive tract, you’ll need to consume a lot of water. With your diet of fibre, you’ll need eight or more glasses of water every day.
Seven: Fibre cannot be cooked out. When you cook your fruits and vegetables, don’t worry about cooking the fibre out, as it stays. The fibre found in fruits and vegetables aren’t just in the skin or in the peel.
Eight: You can get too much fibre. If you eat more than 50 grams of fibre in a day, you can get diarrhoea and bloating, which can interfere with your body’s absorption of other key minerals. Scary, huh?
Nine: Getting the right amount of fibre in your diet doesn’t have to be hard. Even though you may think so, getting the amount of fibre you need isn’t very hard to do. All you have to do is eat the right foods and you’ll be well on your way to a fibre-rich lifestyle.
As one of the key ingredients to healthy eating, fibre is something you don’t want to skip. Fibre can serve many different purposes, which were covered above. If you aren’t getting enough fibre in your diet – you should do something about now instead of waiting until it is too late. Now that we have righted this wrong, check out the following too:
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