Gut healthy super foods with high fibre content. Acai berries
Eat more fibre?. Easy to say but hard to do? So why is fibre so good?
A great way to feel full quicker and lose weight is consuming a high fibre diet (30-40g per day). This can also reduce the risk of chronic disease, cancer, and heart disease.
Plant foods are the best sources of fibre, foods such as vegetables, legumes, fruit, whole grain cereals, nuts and seeds. These are important for the gut to function properly. It is also very important to drink lots of fluids such as water which causes the fibre to swell and act as a sponge, and to regulate gut movement.
Fibre soaks up sugar in the foods eaten because it acts like a sponge, releasing is slowly and helping control blood sugar levels. it also reduces cholesterol absorption and excretion, reducing blood cholesterol and risk of heart disease.
That's not all. Foods that are high in fibre expand in the stomach and intestine like a sponge to help the feeling being full, and these foods tend to be those low in energy. These foods are said to have low energy density. If compared to a bag of lollies, there is no fibre in lollies and they are very high in energy, and they don't act like a sponge and expand in the stomach to help the feeling of being full, thus preventing more eating.
Eating the acai berry helps to prevent weight gain and risk of obesity because it means eating less energy for the same weight of food.
There is a relatively high fiber content in organic freeze dried acai of 1.4g (per 5g serve) compared with an apple (1.8g) or a weetbix (1.8g). In an Acai smoothie with 3 scoops of organic freeze dried Aa powder, there is around 4g of dietary fibre! The new recommended intake for Australia and New Zealand suggest we consume 30g of fibre per day. - 17273
A great way to feel full quicker and lose weight is consuming a high fibre diet (30-40g per day). This can also reduce the risk of chronic disease, cancer, and heart disease.
Plant foods are the best sources of fibre, foods such as vegetables, legumes, fruit, whole grain cereals, nuts and seeds. These are important for the gut to function properly. It is also very important to drink lots of fluids such as water which causes the fibre to swell and act as a sponge, and to regulate gut movement.
Fibre soaks up sugar in the foods eaten because it acts like a sponge, releasing is slowly and helping control blood sugar levels. it also reduces cholesterol absorption and excretion, reducing blood cholesterol and risk of heart disease.
That's not all. Foods that are high in fibre expand in the stomach and intestine like a sponge to help the feeling being full, and these foods tend to be those low in energy. These foods are said to have low energy density. If compared to a bag of lollies, there is no fibre in lollies and they are very high in energy, and they don't act like a sponge and expand in the stomach to help the feeling of being full, thus preventing more eating.
Eating the acai berry helps to prevent weight gain and risk of obesity because it means eating less energy for the same weight of food.
There is a relatively high fiber content in organic freeze dried acai of 1.4g (per 5g serve) compared with an apple (1.8g) or a weetbix (1.8g). In an Acai smoothie with 3 scoops of organic freeze dried Aa powder, there is around 4g of dietary fibre! The new recommended intake for Australia and New Zealand suggest we consume 30g of fibre per day. - 17273
About the Author:
Jeremy James Liddle is a respected manager in importation and marketing of acai berries in Australia. He has been managing food and beverage businesses in Australia & Singapore for over 7 years. RioLife now offers free delivery in Australia for a limited time. Click here to buy acai berries now, and click here for more nutritional information about the acai berry.
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