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Weight Control and High Fiber Diets
HOW FIBER CUTS CALORIES
This is a primer on sustaining your diet, using foods that can fit your daily pattern and give you pleasure.
Fill up, not out!
A high-fiber diet can help people lose weight because roughage, which has no calories, fills them up quickly.
Fiber blocks digestion of fat!
Researchers have found that when people were restricted to set calorie diets, with more fiber they absorbed fewer calories. This meant easier and better weight control.
Cut out 130 calories painlessly.
If a man kept his calories the same but chose foods that doubled his fiber intake from 18 to 36 *grams a day, he would end up with about 130 fewer calories daily!
A woman who doubled her fiber from the woman's average of 12 grams to 24 grams per day would get 90 fewer calories a day, equal to nine or 10 pounds worth of calories lost a year's time.
(*One tablespoon = 15 grams)
This information is from the Tufts University Newsletter.
How do Wax Orchards natural products fit into a weight control diet? Look at our nutrition information, and study the comparisons.
Very few (if any) preserve nutrition labels on the grocery shelves show
any fiber. This means that there isn't enough fiber in the product to
be counted. Water has been added, along with pectin to thicken it.