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Dietary fiber (also spelled "fibre" and also called "roughage") helps you maintain an ideal weight by absorbing water, slowing the emptying of your stomach, and adding volume to food so that you feel full longer. Foods high in fiber often require more chewing, so it takes more time to eat, and you can't eat a large number of calories in a short amount of time. It helps to prevent Diabetes by slowing the entrance of glucose into the bloodstream, reducing glucose and insulin spikes after meals. Fiber helps prevent deaths from coronary Heart disease. Fermentation of fiber and resistant starch by bacteria in the large intestine helps to prevent colorectal cancers.
Insoluble fiber, found in the cell walls of plants, makes stools softer and bulkier. It also helps move food along the digestive system by peristalsis (waves of muscle contractions), preventing constipation. Insoluble fiber also prevents diverticulosis, a painful inflammation of the intestinal wall.
Soluble fiber, found inside plant cells, increases the viscosity of food, which slows the movement of food through the intestines, preventing diarrhea. Soluble fiber also lowers LDL ("bad") cholesterol in the bloodstream. One of the fatty acids produced by the fermentation of soluble fiber in the large intestines may also inhibit the amount of cholesterol produced by the liver.
Dietary fiber is found only in plant foods: fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. Meat, milk, and eggs do not contain fiber. Canned and frozen fruits and vegetables contain just as much fiber as raw ones. Drying and crushing, however, destroy the water-holding qualities of fiber. Removing seeds, peels, or hulls also reduces fiber content. For example, whole tomatoes have more fiber than peeled tomatoes, which have more than Tomato Juice. Likewise, whole wheat bread contains more fiber than white bread.
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Why is it important to eat fiber even though the chemicals in it are not used by your body?
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate that the body can't digest.
Why is it important for your body to have fiber?
fiber provide free motion that is the major reason to need fibre
Is fiber a nutrients?
Fibre can't be absorbed by the body, so it is not a nutrient.
Are calories in fiber stored as fat in the body?
Your body does not digest fiber
Are the calories in fiber stored as fat in the body?
Your body does not digest fiber
What is the importance of fiber in a diet and where is it found in food?
Fiber is important for increasing the motility of GIT. It adds bulk in the diet & helps passage of stools from the body easier, thus helps in avoiding constipation. One important function of fiber is that it binds with the cholesterol produced in the body and present in the food we eat. As fiber itself is not digested in the body it hampers the absorption of cholesterol bound to it and removes it through the stools. Good sources of fiber are whole cereals, bran, pulses with husk, vegetables & fruits with skin and dried fruits.
Why is it important to get enought fiber in your diet?
if you don't you die nah... It just helps your body out and go poo
2 Nutrients that regulate the body processes?
The two most important things are water and fiber. This is because:Fiber: Fiber keeps the digestive system up and running properly.Water: Water is the most important things for your body-chemical reactions such as the breakdown of nutrients take place in water.Hope that helped!! : )
What is a form of carbohydrate that the body can't digest.?
Fiber
What Carbohydrates provide the body with .?
starches; fiber
What is important in diet but not a source of fuel for the body?
Dietary fiber and "roughage", which is fibrous vegetables like celery, lettuce and carrots.
What it is important to human diet?
legumes because they contain protien, starch, fiber, minerals, calcium, magnesium, antioxidants but there are many other things important to the human body
