| While at the grocery store, have you noticed that | | | | "Four years of consective growth is pretty good |
| you have more choices than ever from food | | | | evidence of a trend." The revisions in the new food |
| manufacturers? Low-fat, high-protein, low-sodium, | | | | pyramid will help promote the trend for high fiber |
| and especially high-fiber foods have become the | | | | foods and high-fiber diets as well. |
| growing trend impacting our shopping carts, taste | | | | The daily recommendation of dietary fiber by |
| buds and our health. High fiber is no longer the | | | | nutritional experts is 20-35 grams. Studies support |
| 'neglected nutrient'. Its role in healthy lifestyles has | | | | over and over again the health benefits of consuming |
| become the buzzword for today's health-conscious | | | | high fiber foods. A high fiber diet helps to protect and |
| consumer. The whole-grain trend has apparently | | | | prevent cardiovascular disease, reduces the risk of |
| surpassed the low carb movement. Fiberlady says it's | | | | some cancers,aids in weight loss,lowers cholesterol |
| about time. | | | | levels, and helps regulate diabetes and high blood |
| Continued research encourages the food industry to | | | | pressure. |
| develop whole-grain products that are more appealing | | | | Fiberlady recognizes that we have come along way in |
| and acceptable to you and me. By exploring new | | | | the evolution of our species, but we didn't get this |
| technology for grain-processing, the texture and | | | | far by eating highly-refined, processed foods. Fast |
| taste of whole-grain products is being altered. There | | | | food for our ancestors meant grabbing an apple off |
| is currently marketed a fiber-enriched flour that | | | | the nearest tree. There was an undeniable instinct for |
| tastes and has a similar texture of white bread. The | | | | nutrient-rich fibrous plants. |
| mounting presence of dietary fiber in our food | | | | Today, we descendants of the apes eat barely |
| sources should easily satisfy a wide range of dietary | | | | enough high-fiber foods to keep a monkey in |
| needs, tastes and choices. | | | | bananas. There is a challenging road ahead to |
| Fiberlady has curiously noticed foods such as cereals, | | | | redefine overly-refined foods. The food industry |
| breads and pastas, the once dreaded low-carbs, have | | | | needs to consciously bridge the gap in nutritional |
| now become the darlings of health-conscious, | | | | awareness among consumers. Informative websites |
| high-fiber food fans. There are good carbs that not | | | | are abundant and can address all of your high fiber |
| only help you with weight loss and control, but also | | | | questions and/or doubts. |
| protect your health. | | | | Fiberlady wants you to raise your high fiber IQ and |
| "The percentage of products being marketed as | | | | do the same for the people you care about, choose |
| fiber-enriched has increased from 2.3 percent in 2000, | | | | high fiber foods. Even if you have to read every |
| 2.5 percent in 2001, 2.8 percent in 2002, 3 percent in | | | | nutritional fact on every food label on the grocer's |
| 2003, to 4.2 percent this year," comments Tom | | | | shelf, choose high fiber foods. Think about the |
| Vierhile, the executive editor of Productscan Online. | | | | alternative. |