• Fiber is Preventive Medicine

  • Jul 18 2024
  • Duración: 17 m
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  • It might not be a sexy topic, but the value of fiber is preventive medicine! In this Navigating Nourishment podcast, Wendy and Debbie discuss the importance of fiber in our diet, highlighting its various health benefits, including preventing constipation, lowering cholesterol, promoting gut health, and providing prebiotics. They emphasize the importance of increasing fiber intake through whole foods, a gradual approach, and tracking fiber intake to maintain optimal health resilience. Link to the Grams of Fiber in Foods https://nourishcoaches.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Fiber-is-Preventive-Medicine.mp3 Transcript Wendy 00:00 Welcome to Navigating Nourishment. We are national board certified health and wellness coaches. And we know everybody wants to look feel and perform their best - your hosts included. And so on today's Navigating Nourishment podcast, we're going to be talking about fiber, the preventive medicine. We all know that fiber is good for us - but because we don't lump it in with carbs, proteins and fats, we often forget about it. So we want to highlight the benefits of fiber and how good it is for us. Debbie 00:37 In doing a little bit of research for this podcast, of course, it reminded me and probably you too, Wendy, I can still add more fiber! We defiantly benefit from these podcasts, too. So today, we're going to be talking about how fiber is considered a preventive medicine because of its many health benefits. Wendy 01:01 The definition of fiber: a type of carbohydrate that the body can't digest. And we'll dive into that a little bit more, Debbie 01:11 There are three types, you might know two, but there are three: soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, and prebiotic fiber. Wendy 01:21 We're just going to drive home the importance of fiber in our overall diet, and how we will all be eating more fruits and vegetables and nuts and whole grains after this podcast. Adequate hydration is crucial when increasing fiber, water helps fiber move through digestive system. Debbie 01:33 Right after this podcast probably because it's going to be lunchtime for me. So let's dive into those benefits. The one that's most obvious, and the one most people think about probably is our digestive health and fiber adds bulk to our stool, it makes it easier to pass our bowel movements, which prevents constipation, obviously. But it also absorbs water. And so if you have loose stools and you're on the other side of constipation, fiber helps absorb water to solidify our stools. So it's good either way. Wendy 02:07 And I wanted to jump in here too, and just say that many people define constipation as not having a bowel movement every single day. There might be some controversy about that, because we are all individuals. Most people who don't have a bowel movement every day are constipated. Debbie 02:31 Right, and it doesn't always mean that you're uncomfortable, it just might mean that you're backed up. And that might not necessarily be uncomfortable. Wendy 02:39 Fiber helps reduce the risk of hemorrhoids, diverticular disease, and colorectal cancer. Debbie 02:50 I've heard of people having these issues in my peer group recently. Some fiber ferments in the colon, and that prevents colon diseases. So that's another good reason what we need to get fiber in there for its fermentation benefits. Wendy 03:12 Fiber also catches things, it's kind of a clearing house, it helps pull harmful elements out of our body into the waste, maybe it's allergens or hormone byproducts, which was new to me in this recent research. Fiber also helps eliminate environmental toxins. So the fiber helps if you know there are some environmental toxins that we can't necessarily control, like neighbor's spraying Roundup and mosquito repellent and that sort of thing. I can't control what my neighbors do.
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