A Dieter’s Best Friend
One of the best foods that block the absorption of fat (as well as burn up calories from stored fat cells) is dietary fiber. This little wonder-food sounds almost too good to be true, but it does just that and much more.
By combining the proper amount of high-fiber foods along with some of your favorite “fatty” foods allow you to cheat on your diet – so to speak, as the fiber entraps those fat globules in a web-like mesh structure and escorts them through your digestive tract system without allowing the fat to be absorbed by your body and stored as fat.
Fiber Is The Ultimate Fat Burner
Fiber is a highly efficient fat burner as well. It causes your intestinal tract to work doubly harder in order to digest foods containing fiber. This actually boosts the body’s metabolism since it needs to burn more energy to process the fiber, and will get the calories it need from your existing body fat to produce the needed energy.
Each gram of fiber that you eat with your meal can burn approximately 9-10 calories of stored fat, therefore eating just 30 grams of fiber a day, you can burn an additional 270 to 300 calories daily. You can see why fiber is referred to as one of the best “cheat foods” you could eat.
Feel Fuller On Less Calories
Another great benefit of making fiber part of your weight loss plan is that fiber binds well with water in the digestive system – thereby forming bulk which makes you feel fuller early on in your meal. This ultimately helps you to eat less and consume fewer calories at mealtime.
Furthermore, your hunger mechanism (known as the appestate) is satisfied for longer periods of time due to the longer length of time it takes to digest fiber foods – and this helps you to cut down on snacking between meals.
Fiber Makes for Better Digestion
As the fiber absorbs many times its own weight in water, it creates a soft bulk in the stool. This speeds up the passage of waste products through the intestinal tract and out of your body. This greatly enhances your bowel regularity and can be used to treat and prevent many types of constipation, hemorrhoids, and diverticulitis. An added benefit of dietary fiber includes a lower risk of colon cancer since is dilutes many harmful substances that are present in the colon.
