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High fiber with a Southern accent.
At one time, adding fiber to the diet meant having to ladle spoonfuls of sawdustlike unprocessed wheat bran onto otherwise low-fiber dishes. Wheat bran may not be the tastiest of delicacies, but at 50 percent pure crude, it's what our bodies need to stay healthy. Large cereal companies have made it their business (and a good business, too) to make bran both presentable and palatable. Their high-fiber breakfast cereals are, to be sure, tasty, but no one wants to eat breakfast three times a day.
Fortunately, scientists have learned more in recent years about fiber in food. They can now measure total dietary content, rather than just crude fiber, and what they've found revolutionizes our views of some fruits and vegetables. Peas, for example, are extremely high in fiber; so are carrots, grapefruits, spinach noodles, kidney beans, pinto beans, broccoli, garbanzos, corn and baked potatoes--such a list (far from complete) could actually make a person hungry. Obviously, getting fiber into the diet...See the full content of this document
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