Why YSK: fiber is important for optimal human health. It helps us avoid diabetes, heart disease, colon cancer, obesity, and other diseases. This is particularly important in developed countries such as mine (USA) that are suffering greatly from these diseases.
The recommended daily fiber intake is 25g for women and 38g for men in the USA, and 95% of us don’t meet this amount. This suggests an urgent need for us to increase our daily fiber intake, which can be achieved by swapping out ultra-processed foods and animal foods that are void of fiber with whole plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.
Wow, why such a discrepancy between men and women?
On average, men big, women smol.
The fiber ratio in this post is extremely close to the weight ratio between my wife and me.
Shouldn’t it just be weight dependent then, or is that too complicated to communicate?
i’d wager a lot of people have no earthly clue what their weight is, though i do think there’s little point in even bothering with giving any sort of specific advice about fibre at all, just state the number that covers 90% of people. There isn’t really such a thing as too much fibre, and i can all but guarantee that anyone who reads it won’t get even close to the recommended amount anyways, they’ll just eat a bit more vegetables (which is good).