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Fiber 4Life

4Life's Fiber 4Life is a high quality source of fiber developed to help you improve your daily fiber intake and increase your overall health. Fiber 4Life also contains the patented Transfer Factor XF, providing a powerful immune boost to keep you going strong each and every day.

The truth is, most Americans consume only about half the fiber they need each day. Adding fiber to your diet is easy and a high-fiber diet can provide long-term health benefits to you and your family.

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a high intake of dietary fiber, particularly of the soluble type, above the level recommended by the ADA, improves glycemic control, decreases hyperinsulinemia, and lowers plasma lipid concentrations in patients with type 2 diabetes. Click here for abstract.

A high-fiber diet protects against:

Heart disease the number 1 killer in the United States.
Elevated levels of cholesterol
Cancer
Diverticulosis
Varicose veins
Constipation
Hemorrhoids
Obesity

Heart Disease claims 1 million lives each year. Currently there is an estimated well over 60 million Americans living with heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, fiber is important for the health of the digestive system and for lowering cholesterol. The total dietary fiber intake should be 25-30 grams a day from food, not supplements. Right now dietary fiber intake among adults in the United States average about 15 grams. That's about half the recommended amount.

According to the Health and Science Research Institute, the diets of many third world cultures show that they consume, on the average, between 150 and 175 grams of fiber daily! Further consideration of their state of health reveals that they are not plagued with most of the "industrialized" disorders which include colon cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, weakened immune systems, personality disorders, and all of the hormone-based female disorders.

Additionally, fibers have been shown to have a gentle brooming effect on the inner walls of the intestines, performing what might be called "daily house cleaning." They also increase overall transit time, thereby reducing exposure of the inner lining of the intestines to dietary (or prescriptive) carcinogens.

And read this!

As an example, when one pound of meat is charcoal grilled, it contains the equivalent level of the carcinogen benzopyrene as 300 cigarettes! Of course, this is just one of the detriments of smoking. Test animals fed benzopyrene quickly develop stomach tumors and leukemia. Meat cooked at high temperature, even though by other more conventional methods, forms methycolantrene, another carcinogen.

The broad prevalence of dietary and environmental carcinogens alone, certainly offer a good argument for the adaptation of a high fiber diet and anti-oxidant supplementation.

Dietary fiber slows the absorption of food by the body. This helps keep levels of blood sugar and insulin steady and appetites satisfied longer.
By lowering cholesterol absorption from food and reducing cholesterol production by the body, dietary fiber may help protect the cardiovascular system.

What is the difference between insoluble and soluble fiber?

Soluble fiber forms a gel when mixed with liquid, while insoluble fiber does not. Soluble fiber helps bind cholesterol in the digestive tract causing cholesterol to be eliminated from your body. Insoluble fiber passes through your digestive tract largely intact. Both types of fiber are important in the diet and provide benefits to the digestive system by helping to maintain regularity. Soluble fiber has some additional benefits to heart health.

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