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Why it's important to eat fiber?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Fibre in our diets helps to add bulk to food we eat to make it easily move through the digestive system by peristalsis (waves of muscle contraction that help food to move along the digestive system) . It helps to prevent constipation and it's thought that it also helps prevent bowel cancer.

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