March 16, 2011

A miracle remedy

If we offer a magic cure for heart disease, some cancers, diabetes, obesity, tooth decay and varicose veins, prevents you would buy? You definitely. There is one such product. But this is not a recent discovery and you will not find in a drugstore, but in the supermarket. We talk about the fiber.
A study in the Netherlands of 871 men over a period of ten years, showed that subjects who had a low-fiber diet were three times more susceptible to the deadly disease - any cause - than those who ate lots of fiber (Future Youth).
That said, can not be confirmed today that the fibers of the above diseases occur in all cases. But there is convincing evidence that they are more common in populations with a diet low in fiber, which is precisely the case in the West. According to The Lancet (British Medical Journal) a diet containing at least 37 grams of fiber per day (the equivalent of one cup of bran, apple, potato and half cup of cooked spinach) contains the body can effectively protect against chronic diseases of Western society .
So the fiber is useful in the fight against many diseases in addition to constipation

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