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Did you know that the fiber in your food can help reduce your cholesterol?

Image Credits: Randy Glasbergen Did you know that fibre in your diet actually helps to reduce your cholesterol? Dietary fibre has many health benefits. Some, like this one, are not known widely. Dietary fibre includes the parts of plant foods that the body can’t digest or absorb. Instead, it passes relatively intact through the...

Why Your Diet Should Contain More Fiber

Dietary fiber includes the parts of plant foods that body can’t digest or absorb. Instead, it passes relatively intact through stomach, small intestine and colon and out of the body. Fiber is commonly classified as soluble and insoluble. Soluble fiber. This type of fiber dissolves in water to form a gel-like material. It can help lower...