Healthy Fiber – “Eat more fiber”. Easy to say but hard to do? You have probably heard that before, but why is fiber so good for us?  A high fiber diet (approximately 30-40g per day) reduces the risk of some chronic conditions. It is also a great way to help you feel full quickly and lose weight. Fiber comes from plant foods: whole grain cereals, vegetables, legumes, fruit, nuts and seeds, and is necessary for your gut to function properly. However, it is important to drink plenty of fluids in order for the fiber to swell and act as a sponge and regulate your gut movement.

Fiber acts like a sponge and soaks up sugar in the foods you eat, and releases it slowly, helping control blood sugar levels. It also reduces cholesterol absorption and excretion, therefore reducing blood cholesterol. But that's not all. Foods that are high in fiber expand in the stomach and intestine like a sponge, to help you feel full, and these foods tend to be those low in energy. These foods are said to have low energy density. If you compare to a bag of candy, there is no fiber in it and they are very high in energy, and candy does not act like a sponge and expand in your stomach to help you feel full and stop eating!

CAOH® Acai berries can help you bulk up your diet with fiber, and therefore decrease its energy density. This way you!ll be eating less energy for the same weight of food and therefore help in weight management. CAOH® organic freeze dried Acai has a fiber content of 1.35g (per 5g serve) compared with an apple (1.8g) or a weetbix (1.8g). In an Acai berry smoothie with 3 scoops of organic freeze dried All the information on acai berries. powder, you get around 4g of dietary fiber! The recommended intake is  suggested to be 30g of fiber per day.

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A review concerning nutritional and physiological properties of edible seaweeds is presented. Seaweeds are traditionally consumed in Asia as sea vegetables, but in Western countries they have been used as sources of gelling or thickening agents. From a nutritional point of view, they are low-calorie foods, with a high concentration of minerals (Mg, Ca, P, K and I), vitamins, proteins and un-digestible carbohydrates, and a low content in lipids. The quality of protein and lipid in seaweeds is acceptable comparing with other dietary vegetables mainly due to their high content in essential amino acids and their relative high levels of unsaturated fatty acids. Dietary fiber content range from 33% to 75% of dry weight, and mainly consist of soluble polysaccharides (range from 17% to 59%).

Seaweeds constitute a source of dietary fiber that differ chemically and physiochemically from those of land plants and thus may induce different physiological effects. Referenced data indicates that algal dietary fiber may show important functional activities, such as antioxidant, antimutagenic and anticoagulant effect, antitumor activity, and an important role in the modification of lipid metabolism in the human body. In conclusion, seaweeds have a high nutritional value, therefore an increase in their consumption, would elevate the nutritional value of foods offerd to the population.
Original in Spanish. personal edits are in italics.

Jimenez-Escrig A, Goni Cambrodon I.
Arch Latinoam Nutr. 1999 Jun;49(2):114-20.
Departamento de Metabolismo y Nutricion, Instituto del Frio, CSIC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espana.

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