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Tips to Increase Fibre Intake

191.   The following simple changes in your eating habits will give you all the fibre you need to stay healthy: –

• Consume wholegrains, brown rice, wholegrain cereals and brown bread, dalia, oats instead of white refined foods, refined cereals and white bread.
• Put whole beans, pulses, legumes on your plate rather than meat or chicken which never has any fibre.
• Eat well-washed whole fruits with skin and membranes instead of drinking fibre-deficient fruit juice.
• Eat raw or steamed vegetables with tender skins.
• Add dried fruits, nuts or seeds to yoghurts, salads etc.
• Do not eat any meal without salad.
• Limit or avoid your intake of processed junk foods like chips, chocolates, cakes, pies, pizzas, pastries, ice-cream, burgers, noodles, puddings, cookies, biscuits etc. etc.
• It is important that increase in fibre intake should be accompanied by an increase in water intake.

THREE WHITE POISONS!

192.   Most naturo-foods therapists consider that there are three white poisons (three Ss) namely sugar, salt and starch (maida). The intake of these should be avoided as far as possible.

 Sugar

193.   Sugar is not a natural substance and it is foreign to the body. It is the result of an industrial process that refines sugarcane and sugarbeet with the aid of harmful chemicals which strips off all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other nutrients. So it becomes a pure carbohydrate with zero nutrients and empty calories which induces weight gain and obesity. In the western world consumption of too much sugar is referred to as “suicide with a spoon!” This is how dangerous and deadly it is.