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Originally Posted by fgummett  fibre , like low-fat and low-salt is not the universal panacea it has been made out to be and not being scared to eat fat will prevent any constipation issue you may have when eating low-carb. |
I've done a lot of reading on fiber preventing colo-rectal cancer, my Mom just had a cancerous polyp removed (thankfully it hadn't spread to the lymp nodes so she's A-OK), as she's always had a really high fiber diet and thought she'd be safe. I did read a lot of studies saying there is no evidence that higher fiber diets necessarily prevent colo-rectal cancer, but this article from Harvard, I thought, was interesting.
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I'm not necessarily scared to eat fat, I eat lots of olive oil and I love bacon and sausage. I'm probably eating more fat now that I'm "lower" carbing than I ever have in my life. But it does seem that fiber, nevertheless, is also quite beneficial and shouldn't necessarily be swept under the rug along with the bad carbs?
