The Cool Wrap features grilled chicken breast, green leaf lettuce, and shredded Monterey Jack and cheddar cheeses all rolled up into a flaxseed flour flat bread. It's simple, filling, and delivers 14 grams of dietary fiber and 43 grams of protein, both of which are essential daily nutrients.
Fiber is essential for stabilizing gut health, easing digestion, regulating bowel movements, and staggering the absorption of carbohydrate sugars into the bloodstream. By slowing down the glycemic load of these sugars flooding our bloodstreams, we can even reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Eating vegetables is always an excellent way to help you get your daily intake of fiber, but people who need an extra dose in their diet need to choose the most fiber-rich veggies possible. Broccoli is often named as a great source of this essential nutrient, yet you can find some superior options in the produce kingdom. Green peas are a nutritious legume that outclasses broccoli in terms of fiber content.
When it comes to protein, packaged food and beverage brands have gotten increasingly creative about ways to pack more of the nutrient into their products. Now, a shift is underway. "Fiber will be the next protein," PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta said during an earnings call Thursday. "Consumers are starting to understand that fiber is a benefit that they need," he added. "It's actually a deficiency in US consumers' diet."
Ex-vegan turned carnivore Isabella Ma, better known to her nearly half a million followers on Instagram as @steakandbuttergal, has glowing skin and a flat stomach. She looks directly at the camera as she chomps down on an entire stick of butter. It's part of her high fat carnivore diet to which she attributes a whole host of health benefits, not least of which is the claim she literally never fart[s] any more and has a single scentless bowel movement a week.
Participants received either a fiber-rich supplement or a placebo for four weeks, showing that dietary fiber, specifically beta-glucan from oats and barley, can effectively lower PFAS in blood.
