Research has shown that dietary fiber may help prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. As more studies emerge, health experts are telling people of all shapes, sizes, and ages to consume more dietary fiber. Dietary fiber is known to support the body’s own cleansing and waste elimination process.
Processed foods are one of the causes of a lack of dietary fiber in our diets. As we have less and less time to ourselves in this hectic world, proper cooking takes a back seat. So we move to processed foods (packaged, frozen, or microwavable foods) because they save us time. Pop it in the microwave and we’re ready to eat! But processed foods are known to lack real nutritional content, and at the same time provide very little dietary fiber. In some cases, we might as well be eating cardboard.
Highly refined, processed foods, such as sugar and white flour, make us prone to intestinal problems such as constipation, colitis, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel (IBS) and Crohn’s disease. These disorders listed are much rarer in the parts of the world where native foods provide many times more fiber than our typical American diet that is high in processed foods.
Fiber is not technically a food. It is actually a complex carbohydrate, which is not digestible, that comes from plants. Fiber has no caloric value because we cannot digest or absorb it, but it is incredibly important to our long-term health.
We can find fiber in our fruits and vegetables, but in today’s average diet, fiber is hard to find. The more processed foods we consume, the less healthy food we are eating. Lack of fiber leaves a huge deficiency that can cause long-term problems with our digestive tract.
High-fiber foods are usually low in fat and calories (fruits and vegetables) because the fiber that makes up the food is not digestible (thus providing no calories). As dietary fiber moves through the digestive system, it absorbs water and eases bowel movements.
There are two types of fiber found in foods. Soluble fiber (nuciligenic) and non-soluble (course) fiber. Both types of fiber have different health benefits, and the amount of each type of fiber we find in food will depend on the type of plant.
You can use Total Cleanse to eliminate the toxic build-up that happens due to a low-fiber diet.
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