Ideas On Adding Fiber?.

Nutrition
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There is no question that GI health is important for all of us…and fiber (along with Probiotics) is an important component.

I’m looking for a concensus on how many of you get the recommended 30gms per day in?

How do you do it?

Oat Bran? Wheat Bran? Whole Grain Cereals? Other?

(…and believe me…fiber AIN’T just for 'ole folks!)

Mufasa

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I do two things to add fiber to my diet. First, I usually add a tablespoon of psyllium husk powder to any protein shake I make (with the exception of my post workout Surge). The second thing I’ve recently been doing was to follow Chris Shugart’s suggestion of adding guar gum to my green tea. I haven’t quite gotten used to the texture it adds to the tea, but it’s a pretty easy way to add several grams of fiber to my diet.

Hope this helps.

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Primarily four ways:

  • Oatmeal - plain without any flavloring
  • Fruits and Veggies
  • Beans - believe it or not, it’s pretty easy to load up on fiber with beans
  • Finally, any grains that I consume is as unprocessed as possible - eg: brown rice, sprouted bread etc.

Hope this helps.

G

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Beans, oatmeal, leafy greens, psyllium husk. I eat brown rice too but I don’t think that has much in the way of fiber. Spinach is good, however.

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2 cups of oatmeal on workout days
1 cup oatmeal on other days
Super Seed by Garden of Life several times a day

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Vitamin Shoppe has a great supplement that has about 8 different types of fibers – I use it sometimes on low-carb days.

Other good sources: beans, nuts, oatmeal, fruit, vegggies, wheat bran powder and oat bran powder.

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i HAve a fiber question too. I eat sugar free popsicles on occasion and on the nutrion it facts it states that in one serving there are four grams of fiber. How can this be? Is it the guar gum they add? Can I count these towards my daily fiber intake?

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[quote]Mufasa wrote:
How do you do it?

Oat Bran? Wheat Bran? Whole Grain Cereals? Other?[/quote]

I get a large part of my fiber from breakfast, which usually consists of one of the following:

  • 1/3 cup oat bran[1], mixed with 1/4 cup wheat bran[2].
  • 1/3 cup 7-grain cereal[3] (red wheat, rye, oat bran, triticale, oats, barley, brown rice, and flaxseed), mixed with 1/4 cup wheat bran.
  • 1/3 cup rolled 5-grain cereal[4] (rolled whole wheat, rye, oats, flaxseed, barley, and triticale), mixed with 1/4 cup wheat bran.

Additionally, I keep a bag of raw corn bran[5] and oat fiber[6] on hand, too. The corn bran is over 85% fiber by weight. Oat fiber, which is a little more expensive, is almost 95% fiber by weight. At that rate, just a few spoonfuls can cover half your daily requirement.

I tend to throw a little corn bran or oat fiber ‘into the mix’ whenever I’m cooking something, or even in a protein shake (I usually only put it in a protein shake when it’s a fairly thick shake with more than just protein powder and water/milk).

[1] Products
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[5] http://www.store.honeyvillegrain.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=541
[6] http://www.store.honeyvillegrain.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=620

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(Wow for Topher’s answer).

I broke down recently and added a commercial fiber product to my routine, that has guar gum and psyllium husk and a few grams of carbs.

I use a scoop or two in a glass of water, whenever I’m going to have a protein shake. It’s been working well for me.

When I am able to eat lots and lots of green fibrous veggies like collard greens and broccoli, I don’t need any extra help, but lately I’ve been eating a more mainstream diet, and the fiber supplement has been a big positive.