Do You Eat Enough Of These High Fiber Foods?

High fiber foods are very important for keeping a high level of health. They keep your digestive system in excellent working order and they have many different health benefits.

If you're not sure...Fiber is the part of your food that doesn't get digested when it passes through your body...

...Imagine it as though you're eating sand. Well, not the grittyness...

But imagine how the sand would behave inside your body... It would travel through your digestive system and scour out all the fatty, gluey, gummy, squidgy, oopy, gloopy deposits. Then it would move those deposits into your bowels for ELIMINATION!

Fiber is like internal sand-paper. It's the house cleaner for your body.

Here's Just a Few Of The Health Benefits of Eating High Fiber Foods
	High fiber foods help to stop constipation...Constipation sucks!
	They help to eliminate waste from your body on a regular basis. This keeps you feeling great... Nice-n-clean on the inside.
	They keep you fuller for longer. Absolutely essential for weight loss. Learn more about how to lose weight and look fantastic here.
	They can help with hemorrhoids...need we say more?
	Eating foods high in fiber lowers the glycemic index of whatever meal you're eating. This keeps your blood sugar levels even and keeps you mentally and physically alert.
	High fiber foods reduce the stress your digestive system feels when it has to tackle a large meal. The easier it is for your tummy the more energy you will have.
	They help to remove the excess fat from your diet.

Fruit, vegetables, legumes, grains etc. These are the foods which contain the most fiber. As always, whole, natural, unprocessed foods are the way to go.

Take an apple for example... 1 cup of sliced apple with the skin on contains 2.6gms of fiber. Now if you had that same cup of apple without the skin, it would only contain 1.4gms. That's almost halved the fiber content just by peeling it. This shows how little "processing" it actually takes before fiber levels plummet.

And if you're a meat-lover, sorry...

...there is no fiber at all in meat. So when you eat meat, it's a good idea to mix it with other high fiber foods... like spinach.

The recommended daily intake of fiber is

• Men - 30gms
• Women - 25gms
• Children - 20gms

Of course, it's not going to harm you if you have more than this (assuming it's from natural food)

Here's a table of some high fiber foods.

As you can see, it's not that difficult to get the fiber you need. The funny thing is that so many people don't even manage it. But you're not one of those people... are ya?

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