High Cholesterol, Diabetes, or Weight Problems? Add Fiber!

Most people would think that the primary benefit of fiber in a diet is relative to bowel issues, such as relieving or preventing constipation or, in older people especially, in helping to keep one regular.

Did you know that fiber has significant health benefits such as lowering cholesterol, maintaining glucose levels in diabetic patients (and to reduce the chance of the onset of type two diabetes), reduced risk of heart disease, and it is most helpful in weight loss.  

The key to the way that fiber works for the body is in the ways that it is not really digested. Meaning, it passes through the body virtually unchanged. It helps to literally carry cholesterol out of the body, and slows sugar absorption, especially soluble fiber.

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