| Fiber and Your Brain There has been an | | | | hormone sends a memo to your brain |
| increase in recent years of the numbers | | | | telling it that you have had enough to |
| of people who experience a variety of | | | | eat and that you are full. High-fiber |
| weaknesses in their bones and brains. | | | | foods also help moderate blood sugar |
| But new studies believe that if you | | | | levels by breaking down slowly. Fiber |
| follow a healthy, high-fiber, diet it | | | | also assists in weight loss by acting as |
| may stop the break down of the brain and | | | | a cleaner as it moves through your |
| bones, and actually keep those parts of | | | | system. When it is making its way |
| your body healthy into your later years. | | | | through the digestive tract, it picks up |
| Unfortunately the numbers of those who | | | | extra calories that have not yet been |
| are suffering with the brain disease | | | | absorbed and are sitting around, then |
| Alzheimer's is growing. Right now there | | | | removes them from your body through |
| are 4.5 million American's who have it. | | | | bowel movements. Bones and Fiber When |
| Another 350,000 will find out this year | | | | it comes to the war against weakening |
| that they do as well. Even worse, some | | | | bones with old age, fiber may be a great |
| 60,000 will die from it. At the rate the | | | | ally. Framingham Heart Study researchers |
| numbers are growing, there should be | | | | in Massachusetts conducted a long |
| over 13 million Americans suffering the | | | | duration survey of the effects of diet |
| mentally debilitating effects of | | | | on bone health. Over the years, they |
| Alzheimer's by 2050. With that | | | | discovered that the people surveyed who |
| frightening number in mind, what if | | | | kept their diets full of higher-fiber |
| someone told you there was a simple path | | | | foods such as fruits, vegetables, and |
| to not being one of those numbers, just | | | | beans had better bone health than those |
| by eating more fruits, vegetables, | | | | who had less of these items in their |
| beans, grains and other fiber-rich | | | | diet. As you consider that 30 million |
| foods. This is exactly what a group of | | | | Americans have the osteoporosis bone |
| scientists in Sweden are saying. In | | | | disease, you may wonder if fiber can |
| their study they found that there are a | | | | help you prevent being next. While |
| number of things that may help determine | | | | various studies cannot guarantee that |
| who gets Alzheimer's and dementia. They | | | | fiber is the catalyst to being healthy, |
| discovered that regulating blood | | | | it could be. They do believe that it is |
| pressure, cholesterol levels, and weight | | | | most important that the fiber consumed |
| control might help people avoid getting | | | | is raw fiber from fresh, non-processed |
| these brain-related disorders are. | | | | foods. Processed foods end up with a |
| High-fiber foods could be the key since | | | | lower fiber level because of the |
| they have the benefits of helping to | | | | processing. |
| regulate blood pressure and keeping good | | | | Brandon H. Masters is a Health |
| and bad cholesterol levels in check. In | | | | Enthusiast, Researcher and Veteran of |
| addition, fiber may be a friend to your | | | | the Natural Products Industry. He is |
| weight loss plans. As you ingest fiber, | | | | passionate about educating others on the |
| it sends a message to your body release | | | | benefits of wellness solutions through |
| CCK hormone (cholecystokinin). This | | | | better nutrition and detoxification. |