TO BE SLIM AND HEALTHY WITH FIBER

 

by Achmad Sulton

                                                                     An English Teacher of State Senior High School 1 Batu 

     An invitation is on your table, take and read what it is about. You are invited by your pal to attend in his birthday party. You have prepared everything. You want to be seen as a good looking girl. Brush your teeth, rinse your hair, wear a charming dress, choose the proper shoes and ready to go. When you pass a mirror hanging on the wall in your bedroom, you’re very startle. You see your body in it. It is getting bigger. You don’t rely on what you have looked at. Your dress doesn’t fit anymore, your shoes aren’t nice to be put on and you feel uncomfortable. You are reluctant to go there so you cancel it. You still think about your body hard. You are ashamed showing up in front of public. Stay at home and look for the way to reduce your weight. There are sorts of  method that you have done to lessen your weight but they are useless. You want to repair it instantly. You begin to drink some medicines, try the herbs, avoid dine and do the tight diet. In fact they bring worse impact for your body. It means you don’t be slimmer but you will get a stress because you have to change the pattern of your eating. Meanwhile you don’t know that they carry the huge risk for yours. In this case, Why don’t you try fibrous food?  

A glance about the fiber

     Two British scientist found the relationship among eating pattern that is less fiber and metabolic syndrome in 1970. They observed the South of African people that are seldom contagious the diseases such as heart attack, cancer, hypertension, and the other diseases that attack the European.

     The existence of fiber in the food can be detected from feces production when you went to the bathroom. If you consume enough fiber, your BAB pattern will become a routine. It’s shown that the feces consistence and bulky will be soft and big so you don’t need to strain during it.

Want to be slim, don’t ignore the fibrous food

     If you wanted to be slender, you should take attention for nutrition entering in your body. The good way to do this is you may choose the kinds of food that is better consumed for our trunk. So you’ll get enough nutrient and avoid from over weight.

     Fiber is the series of plant cells. It’s sorts of Carbohydrate, Hydrogen, and Oxygen, have long chain that can’t be digested by the body but it takes protection effect for ours. That’s why many nutrient experts suggest it because It can also reduce the hunger taste for who want to diminish the weight.

     Some studies show that the fiber consumption can arrange blood sugar level and insulin, also bad fat (Low Density Lipoprotein/LDL) in ours. Someone consuming fibrous food tend to have normal of blood sugar level and low risk of coronary or metabolic syndrome. We find it in vegetables, fruits, serelia and starchy root crops.

     Based on kinds of fiber above, It can be classified in to:

1. Soluble Fiber

It dissolves in to the water, can absorb it in the colon, and compose gel in the digestion duct, so it can retard the bilge clearing. It’s suggested to reduce your weight. The experts recommend it to fight bad cholesterol by hampering its absorption from the food. The soluble fiber can be seen as the follows:

-          Pektin                    : fruits, such as apple, strawberry, and orange

-          Beta- Glukan         : Various kinds of seeds, such as barely, and red rice

-          Gum                      : Legumes, green vegetables (spinach, broccoli), seaweed, serelia, like                                  paddy, hull of rice (It can be used for supplement).

2. Insoluble Fiber

This sort of fiber is insoluble in the water, but it can make intestine healthy by effect of detoxification in large intestine and maintains its PH, so It can curtail colon cancer risk. There are some examples of insoluble fiber, they are:

-          Cellulose               : The vegetables that is grouped as the leaves, like cabbage, bit                                                  and carrot

-          Hemicellulose        : Whole wheat

-          Lignin                    : The vegetables’ stalk and fruits’ peel.

     It’s clear stated that you may choose one of the fibers around you. It’s hard to do but if you set with one of them, you’ll feel how useful they are. Besides, there are some profits in consuming two types of the fiber above, such as: prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, heart attack, hinder and heal diabetes, overcome high blood pressure, cure diarrhea, control your appetite and help to lessen the weight, also they can keep your healthy and fairly skin.

    After reading all the issues above, Have you still keep away from them? Or Will you try them as soon as possible?. Only you can reply that questions. Obviously, prevention is better than treatment.              

Vocabulary list

-       Attend (v)               : Visit

-       Startle (adj)            : Surprise

-       Proper (adj)            : Suitable

-       Reluctant (adj)        : Unwilling

-       Strain (v)                : Force

-       Diminish (v)           : Reduce, Lessen

-       Retard (v)               : Obstruct, Delay

-       Soluble (adj)           : It can be dissolved in liquid

-       Maintain (v)           : Keep

-       Constipation (n)     : Not able to empty waste matter from the bowels easily

-       Hemorrhoids (n)     : There’s a problem in your bottom so you feel injured when you want                                                          to throw your waste. In the serious case, It can be bleeding.

-       Appetite (n)            : Strong desire, especially the food