What is Fiber?
Fiber is the special form from a substance that does not change the characteristics of its chemistry although passing the process of the digestion in the human body. It come form the fruit, vegetables, and food like wheat. This fiber is digested and disposed from the body with help of intestine peristaltic movement. Because of could not be digested, fiber helps the disposal process of leftovers in the body.
Two kind of fiber that is received in your everyday consumption:
Soluble Fiber
This kind of fiber is protracted in water and form a kind gel. It is useful to help unloaded the level of cholesterol in blood. This fiber usually comes from the fruit like apples, the citrus fruit, lemons and carrots. Insoluble Fiber
This kind of fiber is not protracted in water and could push the movement of food in the digestion system. Normally it comes from the food like wheat, beans and vegetables.
Important Benefits of Fiber
The mechanism of fiber could protect your body from the degenerative illness like heart disease and cancer. Fiber helps the balance regulation of energy, decrease level of blood sugar, the absorption regulation and fat metabolism. Fiber also useful to tie toxin, cholesterol and reinforced the system of body immunity because of fiber able to stimulating the growth of good bacteria (pro-biotic). Obesity that becomes the illness in this modern live also could be eradicated by fiber. This is due to fiber could hinder the absorption of fat by the intestines and extended the full feeling.
Illnesses that can be Prevented with Fiber
Heart Illness
Fiber affects the level of cholesterol and sugar in blood. Fiber also prevents the hardening of heart blood vessels so as the circulation of smooth blood and the important substance like oxygen and iron could spread well. Cancer
Consumption of fiber speeds up body metabolism and could prevent the substance sedimentation being poisonous on the intestines that could develop intestine cancer. Moreover, fiber also helps to prevent breasts cancer, ovaries cancer and prostate cancer. Diabetes
Increase fiber in your daily menu will help to stabilize the level of blood sugar in the body. It will avoid diabetes. For the diabetes sufferer, fiber helps reduce the jump of the rise in sugar in blood and reduced the release of excessive insulin by increasing the process of the change in the carbohydrate into sugar. Senility
Consumption of fiber will produce excrement with the bigger mass, so as to stimulate the peristaltic movement of the large intestine to press excrement out. The Japanese scientist found that around 30-40% oldest man that experienced senility, in their young age they often experienced senility. This happened because of the vandal's available substances in the intestines will be absorbed by blood, afterwards is mixed to poison. Stroke
Helps against hypertension, the main cause of stroke that is number 3 of the cause of the death in the world. Obesity
Help to maintain weight by giving the longer full effect to control the hungry feeling.
To get the maximum effect, the daily fiber consumption should be around 20-35 grams per 2.200 kilo calories or equal with 10 apples daily.
