Very interesting post! I remember a few years ago there was a high fiber diet trending with celebrities, and I saw reports of people experiencing stomach pain when they tried this diet. For me, the everything in moderation approach works. I definitely experience GI issues when I eat too much or too little fiber.
Oh yes! Thanks for that reminder, I have heard of that and the controversy behind it. A good friend of mine used this fiber product and ended up stopping because she finally realized it was causing her stomach issues.
I find myself increasingly coming round to the idea that fibre is most definitely overrated. It can be coarse and irritating to the gut, and many clients find relief from IBS by reducing fibre or breaking it down through cooking. Those on raw plant foods seem to suffer the most.
When dealing with IBS and inflammatory gut symptoms, sometimes less is more. But like other health narratives, fiber may be getting too much air time. And the fact that many people use a processed fiber product rather than the whole food with fiber as a component
The foods that most Americans consume is processed in some form or another. They are loaded with chemicals that we can’t even ascertain what they are actually doing to our health. But if you’ve ever been to any grocery store and saw the obesity that is riding around in their little Motorized shopping cart, you’ll understand that our food supply is poisoning our system. Our body can only handle so much before it is overwhelmed and begins to break down. The homeostasis that is the balance of our body is disrupted by these chemicals and processed foods. Process foods are essentially dead in nutrients. If you were to take a yellow crookneck squash and cooked it until it was mush, you would have a dead non-nutritious pile of squash that is essentially not able to provide you with any nutrition. Eating raw foods is best or slightly cooked, but not overcooked. Processed foods are exactly that.They are loaded with chemicals nutritionally dead, and our intestinal tract and gut bacteria cannot break down some of these chemicals and therefore they end up in our liver in our kidneys and create other areas of concern with our organs. Fiber is good for you in certain amounts, but not overdone. Often we are focusing on one issue and one issue only. This is not the way to study the process of consuming foods. Returning back to the natural way of life with eating raw foods and increasing protein in our diet is best. As we age we need more protein than we did when we were younger. When you go to a nursing home and see what the patients eat. It is overcooked loaded with sugar and salt, and it is essentially just dead food. And they do not respond well. It is a death sentence.
Fibre studies haven’t been done on those following a carnivore lifestyle. That’s the problem with making any blanket statements about every single human.
If you’re eating the SAD diet, will fibre help? Yes. Because you’re gluing your insides shut with gluten, sugar and other sticky stuff. Fibre could only help. What about when you take away all that glue? No longer as necessary to have fibre to sweep out the insides.
If your animal products are sticky, there’s something wrong with them.
Great points Tim. Sadly I think it might be a while before studies are done on Carnivore and fiber. So now we can just go on anecdotal evidence. And stop eating the standard American diet.
Very interesting post! I remember a few years ago there was a high fiber diet trending with celebrities, and I saw reports of people experiencing stomach pain when they tried this diet. For me, the everything in moderation approach works. I definitely experience GI issues when I eat too much or too little fiber.
I have not heard of that diet trend. Hopefully it fizzled out because of the stomach issues. Yep, It can be a fine line to get to a good balance.
Look up the F-Factor diet and you will be 😮!
Oh yes! Thanks for that reminder, I have heard of that and the controversy behind it. A good friend of mine used this fiber product and ended up stopping because she finally realized it was causing her stomach issues.
I find myself increasingly coming round to the idea that fibre is most definitely overrated. It can be coarse and irritating to the gut, and many clients find relief from IBS by reducing fibre or breaking it down through cooking. Those on raw plant foods seem to suffer the most.
When dealing with IBS and inflammatory gut symptoms, sometimes less is more. But like other health narratives, fiber may be getting too much air time. And the fact that many people use a processed fiber product rather than the whole food with fiber as a component
The foods that most Americans consume is processed in some form or another. They are loaded with chemicals that we can’t even ascertain what they are actually doing to our health. But if you’ve ever been to any grocery store and saw the obesity that is riding around in their little Motorized shopping cart, you’ll understand that our food supply is poisoning our system. Our body can only handle so much before it is overwhelmed and begins to break down. The homeostasis that is the balance of our body is disrupted by these chemicals and processed foods. Process foods are essentially dead in nutrients. If you were to take a yellow crookneck squash and cooked it until it was mush, you would have a dead non-nutritious pile of squash that is essentially not able to provide you with any nutrition. Eating raw foods is best or slightly cooked, but not overcooked. Processed foods are exactly that.They are loaded with chemicals nutritionally dead, and our intestinal tract and gut bacteria cannot break down some of these chemicals and therefore they end up in our liver in our kidneys and create other areas of concern with our organs. Fiber is good for you in certain amounts, but not overdone. Often we are focusing on one issue and one issue only. This is not the way to study the process of consuming foods. Returning back to the natural way of life with eating raw foods and increasing protein in our diet is best. As we age we need more protein than we did when we were younger. When you go to a nursing home and see what the patients eat. It is overcooked loaded with sugar and salt, and it is essentially just dead food. And they do not respond well. It is a death sentence.
So true on all your comments.
Fibre studies haven’t been done on those following a carnivore lifestyle. That’s the problem with making any blanket statements about every single human.
If you’re eating the SAD diet, will fibre help? Yes. Because you’re gluing your insides shut with gluten, sugar and other sticky stuff. Fibre could only help. What about when you take away all that glue? No longer as necessary to have fibre to sweep out the insides.
If your animal products are sticky, there’s something wrong with them.
Great points Tim. Sadly I think it might be a while before studies are done on Carnivore and fiber. So now we can just go on anecdotal evidence. And stop eating the standard American diet.
Reports indicate that only around 9% of adults are meeting the recommended 30g.