I went to google trying to get a explain about the fiber and carbs and how do fiber affect the body , what I mean is fiber does the same bad effect of carbs in excess? I been trying to understand but I don’t get it
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– Carbs are sugars, either alone (e.g., glucose) or a complex of multiple (e.g., starch or amylase).
– Fibre is also made from sugars, but sugars in an arrangement that makes them indigestible to humans.
– Certain bacteria in the gut (if healthy) **can** digest fibre and this has some positive effects on us.
– As fibre cannot be absorbed by us, it also helps to bulk up poop and help it to be pushed along the digestive tract.
– Too much fibre can lead to blockages and excess gas (from the bacteria having a banquet).
– Carbs can cause similar effects in excess, due to both carbs and fibre absorbing water in the digestive system and potentially causing bloating.
– As fibre cannot be absorbed, it cannot cause things like glucose spikes and diabetes, whereas regular carbs can.
plants (mostly) make carbohydrates and you can eat them to get energy. But some things are carbohydrates but you can’t really digest them. Like wood. So if You ate a block of wood they would write it like “1000 calories, but not any you can use so -1000 as fiber”.
its not like eating fiber is magic food that removes calories you ate some other time, it’s just things that theoretically could have been calories but not for humans.
it’s like if there was a drink made with Motor oil and milk it would list itself as a million calories but only the milk ones do anything so -999,900
Fiber is a carb you can’t digest. That’s why it’s good for cleaning out your colon. Other carbs give you energy which unused turns to fat. That’s why fiber is listed seperately.
Fiber is material your body can’t digest. It’s often found in plants, so fruits and vegetables are high in fiber. This (along with their high water content) is one of the main reasons that a diet of entirely fruits and vegetables will have very few calories. A cow could digest that lettuce, but our stomach doesn’t really know what to do with it. There are also lots of plants that other animals eat (like grass and wood) that have so little nutritional value to us that we don’t even bother trying.
It’s unclear what you mean by “bad effect” (please, if you take nothing else from this, understand that associating vaguely negative feelings and concepts with huge food groups is not mentally or physically healthy behavior), but it is possible to eat too much fiber. It may fill you up before you have eaten enough calories to sustain yourself. Some people also get gas from certain kinds of fiber.
Hitting on the how does fiber affect the body part of the question. Fiber does two main things when you eat it, slowing digestion and cleaning your pipes.
If you were to eat a large amount of fiber and then eat some sugar (say a bunch of broccoli and then some skittles), the sugar from the skittles would enter your body slower than if you ate them on an empty stomach. Due to the slowing of digestion, you tend to stay fuller longer and feel less hungry shortly after eating. You know that “I just ate 30 minutes ago why am I starving” feeling? It’s because the meal lacked fiber and fats, which do similar things.
As for cleaning the pipes, there is soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber becomes a jelly like substance in your gut which helps the waste stick it and properly clump up to be released. Insoluble fiber acts like a rake in that stays fairly like it is and pushes stubborn waste material out of the system as its moved along. Both of these are required components of a healthy BM.
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