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seethishat 2 hours ago

IMO people should eat more fiber. A lot more fiber. It cleans the gut, the liver, absorbs cholesterol, slows insulin response and makes you feel full longer. The microbes in our guts need it to function.

Rather than jumping from one fad diet to another, just eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each day.

rossdavidh 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Agreed, but I think the mechanism relates to different microbes. If there are two microbes in your gut, and type A requires a dose of high-calorie, low-fiber food coming down the pipe every day, and type B is not able to reproduce as fast as type A but is able to live on high-fiber food, this tells you two things:

type A cannot have been living in humans thousands of years ago, but type B might have

type A benefits from making your brain worse at choosing healthy foods, and type B does not

Which kind would you rather have in your gut?

behehebd 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To do this eat stuff that grows and not further processed.

memonkey 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The post is about a scientific study and your response is your opinion with nothing else to back it up?

igleria 2 hours ago | parent [-]

they IMO are trying to help by giving good ideas to keep a healthy gut. Add that to the study and at least to me, it´s a nice idea.

btw people, do drink water to keep up with the fiber. Otherwise it might not help.

jstanley 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> eat what you like and be sure to get a lot of fiber each day

Sure sounds like another fad diet.

lelele an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> Sure sounds like another fad diet.

Yeah! A fad lasting millions of years of human evolution, however.

vablings an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This has been the recommendation for general health for as long as I have been alive. Fiber is really important and there are plenty of easy healthy options that are cheap, unlike the astroturfed beef checkoff primal diet

nomel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The charitable interpretation is "just eat more fiber, regardless of the rest"