Though there is no doubt that dietary fiber can lower cholesterol, understanding the proper ways will be discussed in this article.
Dietary fibers act to bind the bile acids, which those bile acids made in the liver from cholesterol. Each time you eat, the bile acids carried to the gallbladder and into the intestines, which those are helping to digest the food. Usually, the body will digest back those bile acids after digesting of food, and then the body will use them back continuously. While fiber binds the bile acids, which usually digested back by the body, but it did not happen due to fastened by the fiber then ejected through feces.
Then the liver works to produce the new cholesterol from the bloodstream to make more the bile acids that have ejected through feces before. At last, it will lower the cholesterol level in the blood. Another fact have proofed that dietary fiber will be fermented in the colon by the bacteria those live in inside. This process be also produce the fatty acids, so that restrain the liver to produce cholesterol.
Although, it is only a part of its process, dietary fiber provides satiety, which allows you to eat less and replacing fats in the diet. That's why the fiber is also helped to lose your weight and in the same time it would work to make cholesterol become lower due to lack consume the fats.
If you are taking the dietary fiber in low-level at 10 to 12 grams a day, then you should aware to increase your dietary fiber up to 25 grams a day. When you are increasing dietary fiber, had better coupled with drinking a plenty water. Fiber is acting like a sponge that absorb many fluids in the body, this is will give you satiety and help the purpose of fiber to lower cholesterol.
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