The Five to One Fiber Rule
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-12-16

A guideline is suggested for how to read food labels for grain products such as bread and breakfast cereals.

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I love doing these practical day-to-day decision type videos. If you go to the grocery store and find products that fit the 5 to 1 ratio rule, please share them in a comment below. They aren’t easy to find!

Eating fiber rich foods is more than just avoiding constipation. For example, watch my videos Fiber vs. Breast Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fiber-vs-breast-cancer/) and How to Prevent a Stroke (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-to-Prevent-a-Stroke).

There’s this misconception that we can’t digest fiber. We can’t do it alone, but we can with a little help from our little gut flora friends. See Prebiotics: Tending Our Inner Garden (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner-garden).

But that’s not to downplay all the suffering caused by constipation. Feel free to check out How Many Bowel Movements Should You Have Every Day? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-bowel-movements-should-you-have-every-day) and Should You Sit, Squat, or Lean During a Bowel Movement? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-you-sit-squat-or-lean-during-a-bowel-movement)

Isn’t this talk of fiber reductionistic? Good question! So good, in fact, that I did a whole video about it. Is the Fiber Theory Wrong? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-the-fiber-theory-wrong) is queued up next.

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-five-to-one-fiber-rule and he'll try to answer it!

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