Forget Popular Fat Burners and Try Fiber!

If you are like millions of other dieters who have tried unsuccessfully to burn fat and lose weight with so-called natural fat burners (pills that contain potentially harmful ingredients such as ephedra) there’s something you should know: Mother Nature provides a truly safe and effective alternative to those unhealthy fat burners, and it is called fiber.

That’s right, fiber works in some pretty incredible ways to help you lose weight and keep it off, and one of those ways is particularly important if you want to burn fat. Basically, foods that are high in fiber add necessary bulk to the diet, so naturally they take longer to digest. And because they remain in the intestinal tract longer, the body spends more time and energy trying to digest them, a process that includes breaking down the food particles to absorb valuable nutrients and eliminating what is not needed as waste.

Since the body is spending all of that extra energy to digest the fiber you have eaten, that means it is burning up calories too. The result is that in order to find energy to perform all of the other functions the body needs to carry out each day—like breathing, exercise, and detoxification—it needs to draw that energy from somewhere else. So where does it get that energy? From fat stored in fat cells throughout the body. What’s more, the whole process of breaking down high-fiber foods in the body works to promote and maintain a healthy metabolism, allowing you to more successfully burn fat and calories as long as you continue to follow a healthy, high-fiber diet.

Not only that, but fiber works in the body to make sure glucose (blood sugar) is absorbed from your food at a slow, steady rate so that it provides an ongoing source of energy throughout the day. This helps to keep you from feeling tired and sluggish. Essentially, more sugar gets used as energy, and less gets stored as fat. Plus, fiber-rich foods help control hunger by stimulating a powerful anti-hunger hormone called cholecystokinin (CCK) that tells your brain that the body is full and it is time to stop eating.

In addition to its fat burning and weight loss benefits, fiber is also important to overall health because it supports healthy heart function, bowel regularity and detoxification. Fiber35 Diet creator Brenda Watson recommends at least 35 grams of fiber each day, but if you find it hard to get enough fiber just through the foods you eat, natural fiber supplements are a smart, healthy and convenient alternative. Our Fiber35 fiber shakes, bars, powdered supplements and chewable wafers are available in our online store to help you boost your fiber intake and burn fat safely and effectively.