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