Think your body is really getting the nutrition it needs from that high-fiber toaster pastry or vitamin-enriched marshmallow cereal? You may not be getting the whole story. As more and more food manufacturers are beefing up their product packaging with statements like “high in fiber” and “essential vitamins”, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to make [...]

Are you thinking about beginning a weight loss program and want a little extra boost to help you get started? Try adding fiber powder to your daily diet. Fiber works in the digestive tract to absorb and eliminate waste, literally “flushing” away stored fat and toxins that can build up in the body and contribute [...]

Promising news for those with high cholesterol: increasing your daily fiber intake may significantly boost your efforts to lower harmful LDL levels. Parade magazine recently featured an article highlighting a list of foods recommended to help lower bad cholesterol, and (not surprisingly) most of those foods are high in soluble fiber–a natural substance shown to bind with cholesterol in the bloodstream and help eliminate [...]

When it comes to weight loss, we’re all looking for that magic bullet—the one product amid a sea of diet products that will finally help us shed those unwanted pounds and have the body we’ve always wanted. But here’s the thing about diet products: many of them simply don’t work, and all too many of [...]

It’s no secret that a diet high in fiber is good for your digestive health and bowel regularity—doctors and nutritionists have been telling us that for decades. But did you know that in addition to fiber, natural digestive care supplements play a pretty big role in making sure your body is able to digest the [...]