What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber for a person with prediabetes?




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Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Is one better than the other? I know most fiber is soluble, so it’s very bizarre to me that this cereal that I’m eating has only 3 g of soluble fiber and 10 g of insoluble fiber. It’s usually the other way around. So what does this mean for my blood sugar level and bowel movements?

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3 Responses to “What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber for a person with prediabetes?”

  1. David Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 8:01 am

    soluble fiber digests. insoluble passes thru. this will keep the pipes unclogged. might be a little rough coming out.

  2. Miz Lamb Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 8:44 am

    the strings in a stalk of celery are non soluble fiber other green veggies and all lettuces are soluble fibers. If you can”t chew it up easily it is non soluble. It does nothing but give you gas and hard time eating.

    Why worry about it if you are eating a good balanced food plan? Salads and meats will give you all the nutrients you need,

  3. rickyoutfield Says:
    January 17th, 2010 at 9:23 am

    Your body needs both.

    Pre diabetes is Insulin resistance and you need to have a low carb diet 20-30 carbs a day.

    Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.

    If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!

    This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)

    Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.

    The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.

    You can also get help with insulin resistance by taking specific vitamins and herbs. You can read about that here http://www.realfoodnutrietns.com/db/home.htm

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