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<blockquote data-quote="AliB" data-source="post: 103393" data-attributes="member: 16907"><p>Sid.......if you don't like the debate - get out of the kitchen. Nobody asked your opinion....... :| </p><p></p><p>Fibre, or not to fibre - that is the question......</p><p></p><p>It all depends where you live. Going back to my old favourites the Inuit and others who eat a similar diet, apart from possibly a bit of seaweed and a few blueberries when they can find them, they eat little in the way of fibre.</p><p></p><p>Then you go the other way and look at cultures that eat a lot of fibre. I remember Gillian McKeith doing a skit one day where she compared the quantity of poo excreted in a year by, I think, your average Nigerian, and the amount excreted by your average British 'Joe'. It was something like three times the amount.</p><p></p><p>At the end of the day how much you 'go' is more likely dictated by what, and how much, you eat than anything else. What dictates how well you go is an entirely different matter and probably has as much to do with how balanced, or imbalanced you gut flora is.</p><p></p><p>If you don't have the right mix down there, then there are going to be problems, as different food wastes will not be processed as they should be, and may end up being processed by the wrong type of bugs.</p><p></p><p>As i mentioned somewhere else, it seems that we carry something in the region of 5500 different types of microbe in our digestive tract. One course of antibiotics can wipe out a third of them in one fell swoop, never to return. That has to have a huge impact on how well, or badly our digestion works. What we eat will also impact on us. Lots of carbs and sugars will change the balance too. Someone pointed out that Candida is one of the microbes that helps to break us down when we die. Unfortunately, due to gut imbalance, drugs, mercury and all sorts of other rubbish it sometimes starts to do its job whilst we are still alive! If we are consuming stuff that leads to unnatural cell death, perhaps it <em>is</em> actually doing its job!</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately gut flora and how it impacts on us is an area of research that has had little money or interest thrown at it and what is known is very patchy. Whilst some microbes have been studied still little is known or understood about what they really do in the body and whether they are 'good' or 'bad'.</p><p></p><p>What most healthy cultures have in common is not whether they eat loads of fibre or not, or whether they eat loads of fat or not or even whether they eat loads of grains or not - it's the fact that they don't eat anything processed or 'mucked about with' or highly sugared or HFCS'd or adulterated from it's original and highly nutritious form. They also are not generally exposed to our 'civilised' 'Western' drug (prescription) culture either.</p><p></p><p>If and when they adopt our 'Western' diet and culture, unfortunately they adopt our Western diseases too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AliB, post: 103393, member: 16907"] Sid.......if you don't like the debate - get out of the kitchen. Nobody asked your opinion....... :| Fibre, or not to fibre - that is the question...... It all depends where you live. Going back to my old favourites the Inuit and others who eat a similar diet, apart from possibly a bit of seaweed and a few blueberries when they can find them, they eat little in the way of fibre. Then you go the other way and look at cultures that eat a lot of fibre. I remember Gillian McKeith doing a skit one day where she compared the quantity of poo excreted in a year by, I think, your average Nigerian, and the amount excreted by your average British 'Joe'. It was something like three times the amount. At the end of the day how much you 'go' is more likely dictated by what, and how much, you eat than anything else. What dictates how well you go is an entirely different matter and probably has as much to do with how balanced, or imbalanced you gut flora is. If you don't have the right mix down there, then there are going to be problems, as different food wastes will not be processed as they should be, and may end up being processed by the wrong type of bugs. As i mentioned somewhere else, it seems that we carry something in the region of 5500 different types of microbe in our digestive tract. One course of antibiotics can wipe out a third of them in one fell swoop, never to return. That has to have a huge impact on how well, or badly our digestion works. What we eat will also impact on us. Lots of carbs and sugars will change the balance too. Someone pointed out that Candida is one of the microbes that helps to break us down when we die. Unfortunately, due to gut imbalance, drugs, mercury and all sorts of other rubbish it sometimes starts to do its job whilst we are still alive! If we are consuming stuff that leads to unnatural cell death, perhaps it [i]is[/i] actually doing its job! Unfortunately gut flora and how it impacts on us is an area of research that has had little money or interest thrown at it and what is known is very patchy. Whilst some microbes have been studied still little is known or understood about what they really do in the body and whether they are 'good' or 'bad'. What most healthy cultures have in common is not whether they eat loads of fibre or not, or whether they eat loads of fat or not or even whether they eat loads of grains or not - it's the fact that they don't eat anything processed or 'mucked about with' or highly sugared or HFCS'd or adulterated from it's original and highly nutritious form. They also are not generally exposed to our 'civilised' 'Western' drug (prescription) culture either. If and when they adopt our 'Western' diet and culture, unfortunately they adopt our Western diseases too. [/QUOTE]
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