A Fibre Diet for IBS and IBD Sufferers

Fibre is crucial to a healthy diet and for maintenance of the digestive system, and people diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome are often encouraged to eat more fibre. For many years the patients diet may have created stress on their digestive system, where their diet was lacking in fibre. Eating more fibre has its difficulties unless the patient manages their fibre consumption and understands the difference between soluble and insoluble fibre.

Fibre is either soluble or insoluble and each plays a role in our diets. With soluble fibre the fibre dissolves in water, whereas in insoluble fibre it doesn't. Insoluble fibre is rough in texture and it will pass through the intestine tract intact and increases bowel frequency, water content and looseness of the bowel motion. Insoluble fibre actually adds bulk to the stool and prevents faecal matter from building up in the colon, which reduces exposure to carcinogens. This also reduces the risk of colon cancer and keeps the bowel motions regular, creating an efficient waste system.

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