INCREASING FIBER IN YOUR DIET

Over the past few years I have really learned a lot about the importance of fiber. It is one of our body's most basic needs. It is needed to pull excess fats, toxins, sugars through your intestinal tract and out of your body. In today's world of manufacturing chaos where most people ingest large amounts of processed flours and sugars, most people only get about 6-7 grams of dietary fiber daily when they should be getting about 36 grams per day. In addition to this, those processed foods are gumming up and clogging the intestinal tract causing the system to back up. Over time this will lead to all kinds of problems. Increasing your daily fiber can help reduce blood pressure, even out blood sugar, help with gallbladder problems and better the digestive processes, which can help many other health problems as well such as allergies, colon cancer and intestinal inflammation to name just a few.

How can we increase our Fiber?
This is a question I am asked frequently. Here are some things I have done and have seen all of the health problems I've experienced over the years (gallbladder inflammation, uric acid over abundance, intestinal swelling, indigestion and acid reflux and infrequent bowel movements) to become non existent.

#1 Eat Fresh and Raw Fruits and Vegetables
This should make up about 2/3 of your daily diet.

*Stop cooking away the nutrients. I know so many people who eat mushy over cooked vegetables and consider themselves to eat well in this area. Fresh Fruits and vegetable should be eaten raw or only slightly steamed so they are still crunchy. You can saute them in a little garlic and herbs if you want to add a little more flavor.

*Often people over do it on the Juicing of their fruits and veggies as well. Juicing became quite a fad over the past few years and there are some good results obtained from Juicing. I am not against juicing, but it is better to eat those fruits and vegetables whole. When we Over juice instead of eating these fresh fruits and vegetables whole we miss out on a lot of the fiber content and can tend to absorb too much of the natural sugars too quickly. Many people who over do it on juicing find down the road they have a problem with their blood sugar. If you want to juice just make sure you aren't over doing it.

#2 Enjoy a Delicious bowl of Oatmeal a few times a week
Here is a great recipe.
Cook your Oats according to the box. Add in:
Raisins
Pecans or Walnuts
Frozen or fresh berries
(I like the frozen because it helps to cool down the oats- just run under water and then drain before adding into Oats)
If you must - Sweeten with 1/2 tsp. of brown sugar or drizzle with a little Honey.

#3 Below I will list some Excellent High Fiber, All Natural cereals that I have found. Stay away from the other side of the Cereal isle that has hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils, sugar, refined ingredients, chemical additives and coloring. Your body is unable to process these types of ingredients and when eaten they cause inflammation and diseases. Read Labels and Stop buying Non Nutritive food items . When you buy them you are voting for these companies to continue selling them. Instead vote for Good Nutrition and Ingredients which will optimize your health such as are in the products that follow. If you read the ingredients on these All Natural Cereals you will begin to understand the types of ingredients your body needs.

Check out these Delicious and Fully Nutritious High Fiber cereals:

Nature’s Path Brand Cereals
www.naturespath.com
*Optimum Power
*Flax Plus
*Multi Grain Flakes

Back to Nature Brand Cereals
www.backtonaturefoods.com
*Flax & Fiber Crunch
*Hi Protein Crunch
*Multi Grain Harvest

Kashi Brand Cereals
www.kashi.com
*7 Whole Grain Flakes
*Good Friends regular
*Good Friends Cinna-Raisin Crunch
*Autumn Wheat
*Cinnamon Harvest
*Heart to Heart
*Go Lean Crunch


If you are needing to add in a Fiber Supplement to help, Here are a few Excellent choices from Nature's Sunshine.

Nature's Three(12 oz)

Everybodys Fiber(4.6 oz)

Psyllium Hull Capsules(100)

LOCLO(12 oz)

And of course when you are increasing your fiber make sure to increase your Pure clean water intake as well. As a general rule you should drink 1/2 your weight in ounces (i.e. 200 lb person should drink 100 oz. Water).

Check out our Reverse Osmosis Water System on Special. Once you begin drinking clean pure water you will wonder how you were ever able to stomach the tap water.