The Importance of Fiber in Your Diet!

You’ve finally accepted the need for diet. That’s great. You’ve gone past the denial stage already- something that’s more than you can say for other people. But there’s more to ponder, like what type of diet should benefit you?

If you don’t have any answers for that at the moment, we suggest that you give a closer look at the importance of fiber in your diet. It could lose you a lot of pounds!

Fiber? What Fiber?
Food with fiber should always be a part of everyone’s diet. Fiber helps in treating many digestive disorders, especially those having to do with the colon or the large intestine.

Where On Earth Can You Find Fiber?
There are several tasty sources of fiber that you can include in your diet: whole grain foods and breads, certain types of fruits, root vegetables such as potatoes, and raw and fresh vegetables.

How Can Fiber Help You?
There are a number of ways that the inclusion of fiber in your diet will help in improving and maintaining good health:

Twin Problems: Diarrhea and Constipation
It doesn’t matter which of the two you’re suffering from because both digestive disorders are equally problematic and irritating. With diarrhea, you need to rush to the comfort room ever so often. With constipation, there’s a physiological urge to do so as well, even if there’s no actual need.

If you have diarrhea, you must increase your intake of fiber. If you are constipating, you must temporarily decrease your intake of fiber. It’s that simple!

Better Weight Management
Do you want to eat less but feel full at the same time? That’s easily achieved with a high-fiber diet. Because fiber is more difficult to chew, the eating process becomes longer and makes you feel full even if you’ve eaten less than you ordinarily do. To maximize the benefits of this technique, you can also drink lots of water while eating your high-fiber meal. By doing both, you’ll feel like you’ve been to a buffet when in actuality, you’ve just eaten a bird-size meal.

Diverticulosis: Worse than IBM
Let’s say that you ignored our advice and neglected treating any of the twin problems we’ve mentioned earlier. If you did, your not-so-little problem will grow into a big one, like diverticulosis. This illness causes small pockets to develop in the colon. If these pockets are in any way infected or become inflamed, calls of nature will become tortuous to answer. A high-fiber diet is de rigeur if you want this illness to vanish.

Longer Intervals between Meals
Besides being harder to chew, fiber is also equally difficult to digest. This will make you feel full for a long, long time, creating a longer interval between meals.

Fiber versus Colon Cancer
Earlier, we’ve talked about the lighter side of things that a high-fiber diet could treat. Now, it’s time to get down to serious business. Colon cancer has been found to be prevalent in the Western region of the globe. It’s curable if the illness is detected and treated immediately, and when symptoms are only starting to manifest. But why wait for colon cancer to develop, right? A high-fiber diet will significantly minimize your risks of developing colon cancer. You should also avoid eating foods with high quantity of carcinogenic ingredients.

Fiber against Glucose
Are you suffering from diabetes or any similar disorder that stems from having too much glucose in your body? If so, you might wish to adhere to a high-fiber diet as well. We’ve already mentioned that fiber is very difficult to digest. This affects the overall digestive system, causing the whole process to slow down. When this happens, glucose also takes a longer time in entering the body. Simply put, more fiber means less glucose. And that’s what you need right now, isn’t it?

Other Ways to Improve Diet and Health
Take it one bite at a time. As long as there’s no need to rush, savor each bite. Eating slowly and chewing your food carefully and completely will make you feel full without consuming as much as you ordinarily do.

Drink lots of water or other liquids, just as long as they don’t contain too much sugar or alcohol.

Lastly, exercise. Diet will get the fats off, but exercise will whip your skin and body back to shape. Good luck!


Make it a great day!

Chris Walker

Kitchener's Weight Loss expert!

Chris Walker has helped thousands obtain " permanent weight loss, quick and easy everytime!" To download a free copy of "Why Can't I Lose Weight? How to lose 10 pounds in 30 days visit http://www.chriswalkersfitness.com/