Enzymatic Therapy: Fiber Delights

Most Americans consume only about half of the recommended fiber intake each day. Fiber Delights™ is a great-tasting, convenient way to get your daily fiber. Not only does it help promote and maintain regularity, it also helps support a healthy immune system, and promotes healthy cardiovascular function.* And best of all, you get natural fiber without having to swallow a gritty drink mix. Delicious Fiber Delights™ are convenient, chewable tablets you can take anywhere.

Any Other Advantages in Fiber?

Many health experts are advising people of all ages to consume more dietary fiber. Much research suggests that fiber may promote a healthy heart and body weight heart.*

What is Dietary Fiber?

There is more to fiber than crunch. What Grandma calls roughage, scientists know as fiber. Fiber is an undigestable complex carbohydrate found in plants. Fiber is not a single food or substance. Fiber in itself has no calories because the body cannot absorb it. Therefore, high fiber foods low in fat are low in calories such as fruits and vegetables.

Fiber can be divided into two categories according to their physical characteristics and effects on the body: Water insoluble and water soluble. Each form functions differently and provides different health benefits. Insoluble fibers, such as cellulose, hemicellulose and lingnin, do not dissolve in water. Soluble fibers, such as gum and pectin, do dissolve in water.

Health Benefits of Fiber

Fiber "bulks up" waste and moves it through the colon more rapidly, reducing the occurrence of occasional constipation.* The trickiest accomplishments of fiber may lie with the stickiest kinds called gums and pectins, as they support cholesterol levels already within a normal range by removing bile acids that digest fat.* The same types of fiber may support healthy blood sugar levels as well.* This is accomplished by coating the gut's lining and delaying stomach emptying.

As a result, they can slow sugar absorption after a meal and may reduce the amount of insulin needed.* Fiber is a weight watchers dream since fibers called cellulose and hemicelluloses take up space in the stomach, making us feel full, therefore food intake may lessen.*