Foods To Eat More Of If You’re Trying To Lose Weight
Fiber is a nutrient experts say you probably aren't eating often enough. Fiber is a bona fide nutritional superstar. It plays a key role in various important physical processes like increasing your satiety, keeping you regular, and helping maintain good heart health, and it can even promote weight loss when you chow down on sufficient amounts. Only issue is, even though fiber is undeniably important, you may accidentally be skimping on your intake. “Nine out of 10 Americans are not eating enough fiber,” Ashvini Mashru, R.D., L.D.N., author of Small Steps to Slim, tells SELF. She’s referring to a July 2014 report in the journal Nutrients, which says Americans have “persistent and alarmingly low intakes of fiber.” (For full disclosure, the study received a funding grant from Kellogg Company.) A March 2013 study in the American Heart Association‘s journal Stroke also found that “most people do not get the recommended level of fiber.” Luckily, the very simple solution to this problem i...