What is "fiber"?

What is "fiber"?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: Why is fiber important for my health?; Which foods have the most fiber? and more...

Fiber is the non-nutritive part of food. It's found fresh fruits and vegetables and beans and legumes and whole grains. Fiber is important for many reasons. First of all it acts like an intestinal broom, kind of sweeping out our digestive tract, and our eliminatory tract; so that we can eliminate a number of offending chemicals and toxins. So fiber can bind up and escort out circulating hormones and carcinogens that promote cancer. Also can help clean out our arteries and protect us from cardiovascular disease and it helps bind up our sugar levels, so we protect also against diabetes.