Fibers become a determining factor for digestive health. Here are tips for a healthier gastrointestinal tract.
Digestive Health is a picture of the general health of your body, where most of the production of immunity to the immune system comes from there.
The sign of a healthy digestive are:
1. Can digest, absorb and utilize nutrients optimally
2. Preserved immune system function so that a strong immune
3. Intestinal waste residue (feces) containing food scraps, regularly, the moisture (water), the germs, including the pathogen and various toxins.
Disposal of residue that is not well organized and not very harmful, because it will be reabsorbed by the body, including toxins and pathogens in it. If it is sustainable can be a problem and can disrupt the body's systems.
An important point to note is that consumption of fiber, which often lack even missing from the list of our daily foods. In fact, the function of fiber is very important for health.
Based on their solubility properties, fiber divided into dietary fiber soluble and insoluble. Both have a function related to gastrointestinal health.
- The nature and function of insoluble fiber include retaining water, not fermented, giving the volume and weight of feces, colon cleaning, gives a sense of satiety and slows absorption of sugar.
- The nature and function of soluble fiber is concentrated, thus slowing the stomach emptying time and make sense of full longer, slowing the absorption of carbohydrates and fats, affect the composition of gut bacteria to be better (prebiotic effect) and increases absorption of calcium.
It is important to remember that the fibers are retaining water; it is useful to moisturize, soften and give weight feces. Therefore, need to drink enough water for optimum fiber function.
The successes of food technology for the extraction of soluble fiber from certain foods give many benefits. The result is the consumption of fiber with a small volume (does not meet the chamber of the stomach), but the obtained amount of fiber and great benefits.
