Huge study finds correlation between fiber and longevity

sweet_lotus

This isn't about weight loss but over-all health. It might be a point of consideration when putting together a meal plan!

People who ate high fiber diets (over 29 grams/day for men, and 26 grams/day for women) were less likely to die of cardiovascular, infectious and respiratory disease than their lower fiber counterparts. Men also were less likely to die of cancer.

The study involved 400,000 people. (The larger the group, the more likely the results are considered to be true.)

Foods like whole grains, fruit, vegetables and legumes are good sources of fiber.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/health/research/22diet.html?src=me&ref=health

somename88

i read a really great explanation of why that is

so your liver cleans out your blood, right?, toxins and hormones and broken pieces of stuff that are floating around causing problems, and then you liver secretes all this poisonous stuff into your bile duct. The bile duct empties into the colon and your body assumes that right then there will fiber going by, both soluble and insoluble to soak up the toxins and carry them out of the body. If there's just a bunch of saturated oily stuff the toxins puddle around on top until they are reabsorbed into the bloodstream where they float around till your liver cleans them out again.

So now i think of my poor liver like an frazzled house cleaner who is saying "I would love to do my job, if you would give me towels and paper towels (insoluble and soluble fiber) but all you're sending me is this oily stuff!"

i dont know if that helps you but i find it easier to remember to eat fiber since i started thinking of it like that.
towels and paper towels.