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I had planned to revisit the subject of fiber for weight loss (and health in general) and as I was checking around to make sure that I didn’t leave any information out (or have mis-information) I found this great article below about fiber. It was so good in fact that I decided to post it here.
Enjoy!

All About Fiber
By Vince DelMonte

If you are trying to create a healthy diet for yourself, you cannot overlook the importance that fiber will play. The main benefits you’ll receive from dietary fiber include improvements in the cardiovascular and digestive system along with providing a high degree of satiety.

Unfortunately, in today’s world of overconsumption of processed foods, a high fiber diet is hard to come by. Here are the top facts about fiber you need to know.

Promotion Of A Healthy Digestive System

Fiber’s primary role in the body is going to be to help promote a healthy digestive system. It does this by helping to keep the intestines in proper working order and prevent the accumulation of cholesterol along the lining.

Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol Levels

Another thing high fiber foods will do, is help to decrease the level of LDL cholesterol that’s seen in the blood. They do this by binding with the dietary cholesterol you take in while it’s in the small intestine and then removing it from the body.

Therefore, a high fiber diet can be a very good defense against the heart disease.

Fiber And Weight Loss Women who are consuming high fiber diets on a regular basis generally maintain a much lower weight than those who don’t, simply because they typically consume fewer total calories as a result.

Because it takes fiber a long time to be digested by the body, this means you will stay feeling fuller longer than if you would have done without it.

Since it is your end of the day total calorie intake that determines weight gain or weight loss, this is absolutely essential for weight loss.

Getting Enough Fiber

It’s recommended, when it comes to being sure you are getting enough fiber in your diet, to try and average 14 grams per 1000 calories you eat. Most women will have diets consisting between 1500 and 2000 calories, depending on your body weight and activity levels, so that will translate to 21-28 grams of fiber total.

Increase Your Intake Slowly

Be sure that if you have not been eating much fiber in your diet at all in the past few months, increase your intake slowly.

If you go from eating very little fiber a day to getting a very high dose, you will likely suffer from extreme digestive upset and will not feel well at all.

Try and increase the consumption over the period of a few weeks to ease this process.

Soluble Fiber

Soluble fiber is the type that plays the more predominant role in the lowering of bad cholesterol levels and is fully broken down the by the body. Sources to try and aim to consume include oat bran, oatmeal, beans, peas, rice bran, barley, and fruits.

Insoluble Fiber

Insoluble fiber, on the other hand is not digested by the body and rather, helps to slow down gastric emptying, causing that increased satiety effect discussed above. This is what will provide the biggest benefit when it comes to weight control for you.

Good sources of this type of fiber include whole-wheat breads, whole-wheat pasta, brown rice, wheat bran, cabbage, beets, carrots, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and the skin of apples.

So, be sure you do not overlook the importance of fiber in your diet. If you do get your consumption levels in line, you will most definitely notice a change in how you feel, and more than likely, a change in how you look as well.

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About the Author:

Vince DelMonte is the author of No Nonsense Muscle Building: Skinny Guy Secrets To Insane Muscle Gain found at http://www.VinceDelMonteFitness.com
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As you can see fiber is important for good health and it’s easy to incorporate more fiber into your diet while eating good tasting food and not from a container of grainy powder.

Why I love Yummie Tummie Shapewear

Lets just say that you have been watching your diet and exercising as you should. Your body is slimming down nicely but not quite as quickly as you would like and you’ve got an important occasion coming up.

What do you do? It’s not possible to lose those extra pounds in time.

Yummie Tummie to the rescue!
Yummie Tummie is a line of shape wear that is much different than standard shapewear. You know when you wear shapewear you dread the fact that someone will notice or worse yet, they will give you a big hug and feel what you have under your clothes. Not only will this embarrass you, but most shapewear is hot and uncomfortable and you can’t wait to take it off.

Not Yummie Tummie!
Yummie Tummie was designed by a Mom who also happened to be a fashion designed for 15 years. Heather Thomsom noticed that after her first baby her belly was not quite in shape like she wished it would and didn’t always have to time to workout. She tried other brands of shapewear but nothing she found held her body in they way she wanted and also at the same time felt comfortable.

Heather then went to work on designing a line of shape wear that not only shapes, eliminated bulges and bumps but is designed to appear to look and feel like normal clothing. You see Yummie Tummie is the line of shape wear that is actually meant to be seen!

No more embarrassing situations, no more tugging at your shapewear and no one but you knows your secret. BUT, Yummie Tummie is so effective at shaping that you’ll be amazed.

There are several different Yummie Tummie tops and tanks and my favorite one is on the graphic below. This particular style come in 9 different colors, so you won’t have any problem matching it to your outfit. And it smooths you all the way from your bust to hips.

Yummie Tummie shapewear is one of the best fashion purchases I have ever made and I know once you try Yummie Tummie you’ll feel the same way.
To learn more just click on the Yummie Tummie banner below.

What if you could naturally eat less, without going hungry and without relying on diet products?

It’s something that we all can do-every one of us - and it will help you eat less -naturally.

Diet is undoubtedly the best way to lose weight, what is even more important than diet is how to eat what you eat. In this article I will tell you about one little known food trick that will put all other weight loss tricks to shame!

The trick is to slow down the speed of your eating. There is a reason why the percentage of overweight people in other countries is fewer than in the US; the reason is that people in other countries eat food slowly. They would talk over meals and stretch the meal over hours. Not so in the US, where people barely have enough time to devote to eating. They cannot spend more than 10 or 15 minutes on an average over a meal. Some people eat food even faster than that! The faster you eat, the less satiated your mind is, and the more you want to eat, even when you are not hungry.

On the contrary, if you eat slowly, you will spend a lot of time over your dinner, and eventually, you will lose your appetite and finish your dinner sooner by eating less. See how by eating slow you can easily cut down on your food intake without depriving yourself in any way? By eating slow, your mind is satiated completely and you ‘feel’ full. I say ‘feel’ because overeating is often associated with feelings. You feel full, or you feel hungry; sometimes hunger has nothing to do with your stomach at all!

On another note, eating food slowly and chewing them properly helps you to digest your food quickly, thereby speeding up your metabolic rate and helping you to burn fat!

Several studies conducted over the recent years have proved that people who eat steadily for a short time tend to eat more than those who take breaks in between meals or eat more slowly. Eating slowly is a surefire way of killing your appetite quicker than it would otherwise. On the hind side, slow eating won’t harm your body in any way unlike weight loss supplements; on the contrary, slow eating will help you digest food quicker!

There are many different ways to lose weight quickly but sometimes the basic weight loss tricks are overlooked in favor of fads and pills. I hope this article gives you something else to look at!