What is dietary fiber?

Is it good for you? the more the better?

Yes too much can be bad for you, end up constipated. The concept is that instead of having 'white' bread in a lunchtime sandwich you have 'brown hi fiber bread'. Instead of having fries, you have a jacket potato and eat the skin. Instead of having cereal for breakfast, you eat bran flakes, or bran.
However it is all about balance because I know I cannot keep eating bowl of bran every morning everyday for the rest of my life, so skip the breakfast but have brown hi fiber bread at lunchtime. I try to find a Pizza made with wholemeal flour, as it contains fiber.

Dietary fiber is good for you. There IS such a thing as "too much of a good thing".

Fiber keeps us regular. It gives us carbs that don't hurt us. It is recommended to add fiber to your diet if you are dieting.

Do a google search for dietary fiber and how much dietary fiber and find the articles that appeal to you to read.

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