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Benefits of dietary fibre

Posted on August 30, 2006 in Food & Nutrition

What is dietary fibre?

Dietary fibre could be defines as anything that moves through gastro-intestinal tract and is not digested as food.

Refined foods are responsible for many diseases prominent in urban and rich societies. Due to this there is growing awareness to put back fibres in one’s diet. The major sources are plant cell wall material which is not digested by human enzymes. The high energy and low fibre foods like sugar or flour causes diseases by:

Common Foods – How body absorbs carbohydrates?

  1. Sugar/soft drinks: Shoot into the blood
  2. Starches, Bread or potatoes – Stream into the blood.
  3. Fruits: Flow into the blood
  4. Milk items: Drip into the blood.
  5. Vegetables: Seep into the blood.

Benefits of dietary fibre: Diseases that could be avoided by taking fibre rich diet:-

  1. Constipation and hence hernia or varicose veins could be avoided
  2. Carcinoma or bowel
  3. Colon or cancer
  4. Piles/Hemorrhoids
  5. Diverticular diseases
  6. Arteriosclerosis and hence heart attacks

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