Enjoy long life – go in for high fiber diet to stay healthy

#HighFiberDiet #chronicdiseases #heartdisease Chinese researchers have concluded that people who eat a high fiber diet live longer and are less prone to die from any disease – the study was carried out on nearly one million people.
This is because the fiber has the potential to lower the risk of chronic diseases including heart disease, stroke, diabetes and several types of cancer, hence people should be encouraged to increase their dietary fiber intake 'to potentially decrease the risk of premature death.'
The interesting study was conducted by Yang Yang, of the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China and published in in the American Journal of Epidemiology. He and his colleagues correlated data from 17 previous studies that tracked 982,411 men and women – most of them were from Europe and the U.S. The team also examined about 67,000 deaths.
Yang's team divided the participants into five groups based on their daily fiber intake and observed that those in the top fifth consumed the greatest amount of fiber daily and were 16 percent less likely to die than those in the bottom fifth, who consumed the least fiber products.
Incidentally, the norms laid down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is that adults should consume 14 grams of fiber in every 1,000 calories they take in which, in turn, works out to nearly 25 grams every day for women and 38 grams for men.
Food with high fiber content are fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, beans, legumes, seeds and nuts.