World Famous Comics: Fiber Menace: The Truth About the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease, and Colon Cancer
Fiber Menace: The Truth About the Leading Role of Fiber in Diet Failure, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, Crohn's Disease, and Colon Cancer
What's The Real "Menace": Fiber Or Konstantin Monastyrsky? Eat your fiber, get your whole grains, you need to make sure you eat your fruits and veggies to promote good digestive health. Has anyone ever bothered to ask if all that advice is prudent or not? Well, Konstantin Monastyrsky has done the research on fiber and it's not as essential as we have been led to believe. In fact, he contends that fiber is not only NOT good for you, but it can wreak havoc as a "menace" on your health.
The book goes on to talk about all the horrific conditions that consuming high amounts of fiber can lead to and it's quite graphic for those of you who have queasy stomachs. But what made my stomach turn the most was how incredibly ignorant Monastyrsky was about the low-carb diets such as Atkins and South Beach.
An avid zero-carb diet supporter, he describes these more traditional low-carb diets as a "passing fad" and dismisses them completely. Since I lost 180 pounds consuming that Atkins "fad," I think it is quite arrogant of him to come down so hard on a way of eating that is very clearly helping a lot more people than he thinks. It looks like fiber isn't the only "menace" we learn about in this book!
Child Safe - Child Helped The information in this book is solid, easy to read, and practical. It can be implemented, as our family did implement it. I am grateful because my daughter no longer struggles with constipation on an ongoing basis. I no longer fear butter and have not struggled with my weight, either since getting the fiber out. I never would have eaten butter in the past AT ALL but I've had no problem now, as I have employed a low fiber, low carb diet. I have been delighted that I am not bloated off and on anymore, either. My husband likes my basic cooking. The author is very up front about the transition that it will take and gives tools to accomplish it. This works. Don't be discouraged -- there is hope.
Paradigm shift - long overdue I have been suffering from sugar addiction, binge eating disorder and depression for long enough to know what sweets and other forms of carbs are doing to your body and mind. It's like a foggy cloud comes over you until you clear this nastiness out of your system. Atkins diet has worked well for me (I wasn't overeating on it at all), but constipation was one of the problems, so I'd quit it for a while and restart again. Every time I stop Atkins, with the very first dosage of sugar my body would go into diarrhea mode literally within 15 minutes.
I think this book clearly makes sense, it's well supported by facts, and is written with passion that only true believer and advocate can exhibit. I think the author has a lot of guts (pun somewhat intended) to pull us into a controversial discussion and bring our attention to our digestive, and overall health.
I noticed that Americans in general, though being for the most part health-obsessed, don't know the basics which we learned in my country from the very early age. In example, pasta, bread and potatoes were considered low quality foods and only truly poor people were having those in their diet constantly, because those were the cheapest groceries you could get. Here, pasta is a part of the food pyramid and is considered healthy. I remember in my childhood, every time I ate pasta, I had painful stubborn constipation bout for days.
Anyway, those are just some musings that I attempted to put together to make a point - do what makes sense, listen to your body, do your homework, and you will find that everything is this book is written to put you back on track.
I particularly enjoyed the opening, where the author introduces us to "forefathers" of the fiber madness.
How have we been so wrong for so long? For years, I thought that by eating Fiber One and Psyllium I was doing my body a favor. As I gradually weaned myself off processed foods and starting eating fresh & fermented fruits and vegetables, good fats like coconut oil & butter, homemade Kombucha & Kefir, low and behold I found that I didn't need all that fake stuff to keep everything moving.
This book describes a condition most of us who eat the Standard American Diet are afflicted with and don't realize it - "disbacteriosis". When fiber eliminates the friendly bacteria throughout our digestive system, we are exposed to a whole host of problems.
Highly recommended for anyone suffering from all digestive related illnesses. As well as for folks who want to avoid them.
Fiber Menace A fabulously informative book for those seeking knowledge on how to achieve optimal digestive function, and a must read for those interested in the repair and recovery of the entire GI system. As a person who suffers from chronic constipation I found the author's advice extremely effective and perhaps even life saving. I have resolved much of the suffering I encountered and have improved by about 90%. I continue to use the recommended recovery supplements, eat a healthy tasty diet, and am free of all fiber supplements which I had used for many years. The author's writing is clear, easy to read, thorough, and even fun for the delicate topic of digestion and elimination. There is plenty of room to tailor the program to one's specific needs or preferences. This book helped me realize how resilient the digestive system is, and how proper nutrition is more beneficial than the fiber fix. I am forever thankful to the author Konstantin Monastyrsky. georgia
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