Dietary Fibre

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importance of high fibre foods in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle is presented as the 'formula' for a healthy body and avoidance of fibre depleted foods, a fact which is sadly abundant nowadays, is also mentioned.
Since ancient times, foods containing complex carbohydrates have been considered to be the ones with most nutritional value. Even the Bible speaks of how the complex carbohydrate manna miraculously sustained the children of Israel during their progress through the wilderness. Bread, of course, became known as the staff of life, and potatoes, a New World food, were grown on the private lands of Frederick the Great in 1774 to set an example to the German people as an inexpensive and easy way to avoid starvation.
Potatoes, breads, cereals, and other foods high in complex carbohydrates have always been regarded as cheap but essential, a staple for the poor. Now, however, as diets high in fats are being linked to heart disease and some cancers, as protein-rich meals are ...

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strands of simple sugars for example glucose. They can found in seeds, fruits, legumes (peas and beans) along with a broad range of other vegetables. Complex carbohydrates include three types of dietary fibre - cellulose, hemi-cellulose and gums - and starches.
Dietary fibre (found mostly in plant foods) is the part of food that is not digested by the human body, such as the skin of an apple and the husk of a wheat kernel. The normal functioning of the intestinal tract depends upon the presence of adequate fibre. There are two broad classes of dietary fibre, water-soluble and insoluble.
Insoluble fibre, more broadly known as roughage, is associated with hastening food through the ...

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