Chapter 4 - “Hay”, What About Fiber?Want More Diabetes Info? Search HERE
Dietary fiber is very important and there’s a lot of information in the mainstream media about it – in magazines, newspapers, talk shows. Most of it’s true and logical. But, although the majority of the popular information about fiber may work out for some people, some of it simply doesn’t apply, at least to some diabetics. Unfortunately, some information can even prove to be quite harmful, especially for the type II diabetic. Not all bodies are the same and you’ll be able to prove that to yourself with your daily testing. We’ll go over those testing procedures in much more detail later in this book. First, let’s look at some of the more universal benefits of fiber. Primarily, fiber is indigestible, which ironically offers us one of its greatest benefits. Eating fiber is kind of like chewing up and swallowing wood. These woody little fiber molecules are basically the same as some sugar or other carbohydrate molecules, except that they’re shaped somewhat differently. It’s that slight difference in the shape of the molecule that makes fiber impossible for humans to digest. Our bodies don’t recognize it as a food nor do they have the enzymes needed to digest it, so our bodies can’t break it down into its simple components of glucose, carbon dioxide and water. We simply pass the fiber through our systems, more or less in its original form.
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