How Does Fiber rich diet keeps a check on unnecessary weight gain?
Dietary fibre has various health benefits. consuming adequate fibre rich food should be integral part diet on a daily basis. In recent times, obesity is a major health issue among the individuals, most of which is contributed by unhealthy food habits and lack of exercise (people prefer soft, fibre-free comfort foods and snacks also they prefer to eat out to avoid cooking at home and end up eating fibre free food).Obesity further predisposes to various diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and Diabetes Mellitus..
How Does consuming fiber keep a check on weight gain?
Dietary fibers helps to keep our body weight under check via hormonal regulation that is, when we consume fibre rich diet, several appetite and satiety (feeling of fullness) hormones in the organisms of the gut(Intestine) are activated(Bacteria breakdown fibres to produce hormones), which provide a sense of satiety which decreases food consumption.
How do I include enough fibre in my diet?
- Consuming whole Grain food is the key, avoid consuming packaged, processed, refined foods and polished rice.
- Consuming at-least 3 different fruits
- And 3 different coloured vegetables throughout the day eg.2 carrot, beetroot, spinach. Eg. 2 Broccoli, cucumber, bell peppers (red and yellow capsicum) Â
