CherryAA
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I'm not a lover of celery - do you think psyllium husk would do the trick (stirred in to water and drink before a meal?)
Fibre comes in two kinds - soluble fibre and insoluble fibre.
When you eat real food fibre you are eating to- two things
Insoluble fibre ( the stringy bits) that forms a lattice work to which the soluble fibre sticks - when you then ingest food , it has to penetrate the filled lattice work before it can start sending your glucose through the roof, so taken as a whole food, fibre slows down the glucose.
All real high fibre foods has a mix of both - celery is 58% insoluble, various seeweeds are 48% to 15% insoluble as per here.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2740540410/abstract
I have read two different articles about the contents of pysllium husk - some saying its entirely soluble, other saying that as part of fibrogel ( the stuff @oldkentlady1 used) its about 1/3 insoluble. So I guess if it is 1/3 soluble then it probably works, but I've no clue if that is because the stuff they put in fibrogel is any different to the stuff for sale commercially on its own.