High-Fiber Diet

High-Fiber Diet, Since time immemorial, diet advice has been handed out just like opinions. Everyone’s got one and no one is afraid to share.

Sometimes, in the midst of the latest greatest diet craze, common sense gets lost or overlooked in favor of a quicker (but sometimes less healthy) way to shed a few pounds.

The road to weight loss is generally the same road to general good health and well-being, with a common sense approach.

Eating a diet high in fiber not only helps you to lose those stubborn pounds, but also helps stave off some pretty serious, and uncomfortable, illnesses and diseases.

A high-fiber diet helps prevent such diseases as diverticulosis, hemorrhoids, high cholesterol, high blood sugar, obesity, colon cancer, diabetes and even heart disease.

The general American diet is very low in fiber, only about 10-13 grams per day, but we reportedly need 30-40 grams per day to get the fiber we need for our bodies to do their thing properly.

The best way to get fiber is not through a supplement or icky drink mix. The very best way to get that fiber is from fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

Try adding a few more fruits and vegetables into your diet, like apples, blueberries, strawberries, and apricots, as well as carrots, kale, cucumbers, and spinach. These are delicious and add lots of healthy fiber as well as other vital nutrients. Summer is coming, and these are about to be readily available at your local grocery or farmer’s market.

Also tray adding more fiber with grains, beans and legumes like almonds, cashews, quinoa, brown rice, and whole grain bread. There are many ways to add fiber with these kinds of grains just by making small changes like switching to brown rice instead of white or whole grain bread instead of the plain white varieties. Make your PB&J with whole grain bread and grab an apple instead of a bag of chips.

There are many ways to add important fiber to your diet and by changing a few things about the way you eat, and it will be worth it if you could prevent some unsavory body function issues, right?

High-fiber Diet

High-fiber Diet, Scientists have found strong evidence showing that people who consume high fibers through their diet have lower risk of developing colorectal cancer.

Previous findings had suggested a link between eating whole grains and other high fiber food with lower colorectal cancer risk but now a large review of 25 different studies has brought strong evidence to support the idea.

The analysis which included nearly 800,000 individuals showed that every 10 grams of daily intake of total dietary fiber and cereal fiber was associated with 10 percent lower colon cancer risk.

A team of UK and Dutch researchers added three servings including overall 90 grams of whole grains to the daily diet of participants and found that it decreased their risk of colorectal cancer by about 20 percent.

According to the report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the most strong association was found when the fiber s came from whole grains and cereals while the evidence was weaker for the fiber coming from fruits, vegetables, and legumes.

Lower colorectal cancer risk is not the only benefit of consuming more fibers, the researchers added. Previous studies had found a range of other health benefits for eating fibers including lower rates of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity, and possibly overall mortality.

Scientists emphasized that future investigations may explore and explain many of the specific mechanisms involved in the health benefits of whole grains in detail.