In This Lab...
What is Fiber?
What Does Fiber Do?
Types of Fibers
Fiber Recommendations
How Can I Increase My Fiber Intake?
Fiber Content Food Chart
Resistant Starches
Fructans
Arabinoxylans
Printable Fiber Content Food Chart & Checklist
Key Habits
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AT A GLANCE
Unlike many areas of nutrition, there has been little dispute on the role and benefits of consuming diets with adequate fiber—for decades now. Yet advice on how best to do so has been less clear. As a result, few today are consuming sufficient high fiber foods to optimize their GI and systemic health. Much of the confusion comes from the aggressive advertising of commercial food manufacturers, with their processed food products being “fortified with fiber.” This perpetuates the illusion that your needs for adequate fiber can be met in this way.
This Lab will ensure you know what types of fiber are critical to your health, what foods contain them, in what quantities, and how much of them you will be better for consuming. The benefits are vast and varied. Your attention to this Lab and its partner Lab: Digestion & Your GI Microbiome will pay huge dividends in health in the months and years to come.
This Lab will provide you with what you need, whether you are seeking simple, practical guidelines on best choices, or a more comprehensive understanding of dietary fiber and its many roles in our health.
This Lab will ensure you know what types of fiber are critical to your health, what foods contain them, in what quantities, and how much of them you will be better for consuming. The benefits are vast and varied. Your attention to this Lab and its partner Lab: Digestion & Your GI Microbiome will pay huge dividends in health in the months and years to come.
This Lab will provide you with what you need, whether you are seeking simple, practical guidelines on best choices, or a more comprehensive understanding of dietary fiber and its many roles in our health.
HEALTH SCENE INVESTIGATION
- What foods are you eating that contain the soluble and insoluble fiber you require for proper GI and systemic health? How much fiber do these foods contain?
- How much fiber do you consume per day on average?
- How much fiber are you best to consume per day?
- Which fiber-rich foods are also rich in other important nutrients?
- How might improving my fiber intake impact how I feel, function, and look over time?
HYPOTHESIS
The more thorough and practical understanding of fiber’s role in your health and taking steps to optimize it will have far reaching effects on many aspects of your metabolism, function and health. Positive effects include improved health of your microbiome and GI system, better blood fat and sugar regulation, more effective liver and systemic detoxification, better body composition, and lowering of your risk to many degenerative illnesses.
This Lab ensures you have the knowledge and guidance you require to capitalize on the many benefits of improving the quality and quantity of health-supportive plant fibers in your diet.
This Lab ensures you have the knowledge and guidance you require to capitalize on the many benefits of improving the quality and quantity of health-supportive plant fibers in your diet.