Natalie: Our companies is lying to you about the foods that you are buying, can we really trust the food labels on products that we are buying at the grocery store. Our foods being manipulated to look healthy when they are really not, is your pantry full of foods that say high fibre, but they are really not high fibre, well I'm about to answer those questions.
So now that you here for all the great benefits about fibre, I'm sure you are thinking gosh I need to eat more fibre, and you go to the grocery store and buy more stuff. Well I want to let you know that when you are at the grocery store and you are looking at package and process foods and box foods and things like that. There are marketing campaign's that you know are really targeting high fibre foods and they are labels out at there at there say that a product is high fibre, and they are really not. So companies are actually adding fake fibre to foods that don't naturally contain fibre. Some of these ingredients that you will see on ingredient list on packaged foods are called Inulin, Maltodextrin, Oat Fibre and Poly dextrose these are ingredients that actually help to boost the fibre content as for as the label goes but they don't do the same thing in your body as regular dietary fibre.
The difference is one fibre is intact meaning that it was in the natural whole food, before it got processed. These ingredients that I just told you about these are know as isolated fibers, these isolated fibers are not the same, they don't help with all the benefits that we've already talked about they don't do the same for promoting regularly bowel movements preventing constipation promoting reduce risk of diabetes, and heart disease, so the benefits are completely different yet on the label it may say high fibre get your, you know get your total fibre for the day in this one product, and that's not the case.
To give you an example of the benefit of fibre, we've talked about that fibre can help lower your cholesterol, it does that because soluble fibre helps to lower your aldol which is considered the bad cholesterol which comes from saturated fats, so the reason why that fibre can lower your cholesterol, and there is two characteristics that fibre has to have in order to do that. One it has to be soluble, and two it has to be whiskers. It has to be a certain size molecule in order, so that you get the benefit. So with these fibers that I am calling fake fibers, Maltodextrin, Polydextrose and Inulin these types of fibers yes there are soluble but they are not large enough to actually help reduce cholesterol, so even though the label and even in the package says high fiber you know show in to reduce cholesterol, if you look on the back of that package and any ingredient list it says Maltodextrin you are not getting the benefit.
Now not only are you not getting the benefit from these so called fibers, you actually can experience negative side effects, so there is gas in their exploding and even diarrhea associated with ingredients Inulin and Polydextrose, and actually if a food has more than 15 grams of Poly dextrose its is required to have on the label a warning that says laxative properties, so another words there is a lot of reasons why you don't want to ge eating food with these ingredients in them. Now I want to put a little disclaim right in here because Inulin yes it is classified as one of these you know fibers that are quite real fibers, but there are some positive benefits to Inulin it can help promote the growth of healthy bacteria in your colon, so you know its kind of a given and take with the Inulin but the other ones they don't have that benefit.
I mentioned it already but the isolated fibers that you want to watch out for and look for on ingredient list that you know the actual amount of fiber that you are getting, Inulin, Maltodextrin, Polydextrose and oat fibre. So those are the four that you really want to watch out for an again, if it says high fiber on the label If feel look it so great on the package out wall look on the ingredient list if it has its ingredients chances are it's really not the good kind of fiber that your body needs. With fruits vegetables and whole grains that's what you get all the fibre. So if the food is not made from fruits, vegetables and whole grains chances are it has the added fake fibre.
Coming up I am going to do a video about the benefits of breast feeding. And we are going to talk about is it really true that if you don't breast feed your kids long enough that it can promote obesity for them in the feature, and then the other video I am going to do Is the truth about alcohol, because you hear you know at one end always so good for you helps to reduce to your risk for heart disease on the other end you know you can die for liver damage, so we are going to talk about the truth about alcohol, and I also want to say thank you so much to every body who rates my videos and especially the people who leave comments, I read every single one of your comments and I may not be able to reply to every one but I do read it and I really appreciate that you take the time to just to let me know what you do think about the video, thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time bye, bye.
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