By now, it’s pretty common knowledge that dietary fiber is an
important part of a healthy, balanced diet. And countless
studies have shown that fiber can help prevent colorectal
cancer, cardiovascular disease and even type 2 diabetes. Fiber
not only reduces the digestion and absorption of macronutrients,
it also decreases the time carcinogens stay in the intestines by
providing bulk and softening your stool, helping to encourage
faster elimination. Considering how nutritious and beneficial
dietary fiber is, there have to be other health advantages
beyond these well-known ones… and that is exactly what three
researchers from the University Of Illinois aimed to find out by
conducting a clinical review of existing studies on dietary
fiber’s benefits beyond these three diseases. For purposes of
their study, researchers defined dietary fiber as non-digestible
food ingredients that include non-starch polysaccharides,
oligosaccharides, lignin and analogous polysaccharides. Fiber-
rich foods that contain these natural