about fiber?

Question

What is fiber? Does it make you poop? what are some foods that have lots of fiber?

Answer 1

Fiber is suppose to push the waste thru the intestinal track. Many cereals and vegtables have high fiber. Bread marked whole wheat not just wheat. Check the nutritional label on bread,they vary. The apple is one of the higher sources of fiber in the fruit category. Benefiber a fiber power is great because you can add it in your cooking it instantly dissolves and is tasteless.

Answer 2

Fiber is essential for a healthy gut and helps to prevent all kinds of health problems. My favorite source is the cereal Fiber One.

Answer 3

Fiber helps in digestion and cleans your stomach.

It doesn't directly make you poop but since it helps you in digestion the manifestion is having a regular poop.

Wheat and Oatmeal is a good source of fiber.

Answer 4

Fibers are complex carbohydrate which are not wholly digested.This is the major portion of your poop.Vegetables,brans and fruits are good source of fiber.

Answer 5

It keeps you regular. If you have diahrea, it will slow it down or stop it, and if you have constipation, it will make you go. It's not going to cure you, but it does have beneficial effect. Your body cannot absorb fiber, so it goes right through you.

Answer 6

fibre is great for making you go poop -as you put it :)
if you are constipated its always worth eating fibre its in things like branflakes wheat bread bananas in fact fruit and veg in genearl. its great for your body to keep your bowls moving stops stomach ache and fills you up for longer too.

Answer 7

yes, it does. Vegetables, fruits, integral cereals

Answer 8

Fiber or fibre is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. Fibers are of great importance in the biology of both plants and animals, for holding tissues together. Human uses for fibers are diverse. They can be spun into filaments, thread, string or rope. They can be used as a component of composite materials. They can also be matted into sheets to make products such as paper or felt. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials.

Fibres used by man come from a wide variety of sources.

> Natural fibers include those produced by plants, animals, and
geological processes. They can be classified according to their
origin:
- Vegetable fibers are generally based on arrangements of
cellulose, often with lignin: examples include cotton, linen,
hemp jute, flax, ramie, and sisal. Plant fibers serve in the
manufacture of paper and cloth.
- wood fiber, distinguished from vegetable fiber, is from tree
sources. Forms include groundwood, thermomechanical pulp
(TMP) and bleached or unbleached kraft or sulfite pulps. Kraft
and sulfite, also called sulphite, refer to the type of pulping
process used to remove the lignin bonding the original wood
structure, thus freeing the fibers.
- Animal fibers consist largely of particular proteins. Instances
are spider silk, sinew, catgut and hair (including wool). Polar
bear fibers are noted for being hollow.
- Mineral fibers comprise asbestos. Asbestos is the only
naturally occurring long mineral fiber. Short, fiber-like minerals
include wollastinite, attapulgite and halloysite.
> Man-made fibers may come from natural raw materials or
from synthetic chemicals.
- Many types of fiber are manufactured from natural cellulose,
including rayon, modal, and the more recently developed
Lyocell. Cellulose-based fibers are of two types, regenerated
or pure cellulose such as from the cupro-ammonium process
and modified or derivitized cellulose such as the cellulose
acetates. Fiberglass made from specific glass formulas and
optical fiber, made from purified natural quartz, are also man-
made fibers that come from natural raw materials. Metallic
fibers can be drawn from ductile metals such as copper, gold
or silver and extruded or deposited from more brittle ones
such as nickel, aluminum or iron.
- Synthetic fibers are a subset of man-made fibers, which are
based on synthetic chemicals (often from petrochemical
sources) rather than arising from natural materials by a purely
physical process. Such fibers are made from polyamide
nylon, PET or PBT polyester, phenol-formaldehyde
(PF),polyvinyl alcohol fiber (PVOH), polyvinyl chloride fiber
(PVC), polyolefins (PP and PE), or acrylic polymers, although
pure polyacrylonitrile PAN fibers are used to make carbon
fiber by roasting them in a low oxygen environment.
Traditional acrylic fiber is used more often as a synthetic
replacement for wool. Carbon fibers and PF fibers are noted
as two resin-based fibers that are not thermoplastic, most
others can be melted. Aromatic nylons such as Kevlar and
Nomex thermally degrade at high temperatures and do not
melt. More exotic fibers have strong bonding between
polymer chains (e.g. aramids), or extremely long chains (e.g.
Dyneema or Spectra). Elastomers can even be used, e.g.
spandex although urethane fibers are starting to replace
spandex technology.

Coextruded fibers have two distinct polymers forming the fiber, usually as a core-sheath or side-by-side. Coated fibers exist such as nickel-coated to provide static elimination, silver-coated to provide anti-bacterial properties and aluminum-coated to provide radar chaff. Radar chaff is actually a spool of continuous glass tow that has been aluminum coated. An aircraft-mounted high speed cutter chops it up as it spews from a moving aircraft to foil radar signals.

Micro fibers in textiles refer to sub-denier fiber (such as polyester drawn to 0.5 dn). Denier and Detex are two measurements of fiber yield based on weight and length. If the fiber density is known you also have a fiber diameter, otherwise it is simpler to measure diameters in micrometres. Microfibers in technical fibers refer to ultrafine fibers (glass or meltblown thermoplastics)often used in filtration. Newer fiber designs include extruding fiber that splits into multiple finer fibers. Most synthetic fibers are round in cross-section, but special designs can be hollow, oval, star-shaped or trilobal. The latter design provides more optically reflective properties. Synthetic textile fibers are often crimped to provide bulk in a woven, nonwoven or knitted stucture. Fiber surfaces can also be dull or bright. Dull surfaces reflect more light while bright tends to transmit light and make the fiber more transparent.

Very short and/or irregular fibers have been called fibrils. Natural cellulose, such as cotton or bleached kraft show smaller fibrils jutting out and away from the main fiber structure.

Answer 9

FIBRE!