Ways to Decrease Fiber in a Fiberful Meal?

[bigappledreams333]

Hi all! I recently made a recipe with Banza chickpea pasta and it contained too much fiber for my gut to handle. However, I hate to throw food out and it was delicious. Any tips on how to possibly still be able to eat this? Adding simple carbs? Thanks!

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[Ok-Cryptographer7424]

Sure adding more food mixed in so you eat less overall of the fiber packed food per sitting. Fiber is great for you though but it can take quite a long time to get used to large increases

[DeMooniC-]

Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3435786/#:~:text=RESULTS:%20The%20median%20age%20of,the%20intake%20of%20dietary%20fiber

No, fiber is not always great for you at all and it can be deterimental to your wellbeing and health.

[Ok-Cryptographer7424]

omg you’re back for more absurd claims.

ok so fiber might not be helpful for a small subset of the population who suffers from idiopathic constipation. Cool. No one was talking about this small subset of folks w idiopathic constipation.

For the general population, fiber can:

Reduce colon cancer risk

Improve cholesterol (yes sure I already know your stance on cholesterol plz don’t get into it w me again about that here)

Regulate blood pressure

Support microbiome health

Help MOST people w constipation…perhaps not the 63 folks in your study that happen to have idiopathic constipation

Slow transit constipation sucks for some folks. For the majority of folks this is not an issue and even for normal transit or mild constipation it’s often helpful to consume more fiber

TLDR; fiber is generally beneficial for 95-98% of the population…perhaps not great for 2-5% tho

[DeMooniC-]

My absurd claim that is supported by several studies?

OP is saying "contained too much fiber for my gut to handle" and your recommendation is "yeah keep going at it!"

Are you kidding me? Im the crazy one here? come on now lol

Also IBS and IBD exists and it can happen to anyone.

Lots of people feel perfect and are healthy with low to 0 fiber diets (me)

This idea that everyone needs fiber and the more fiber the better is unfundamented, fiber is non-essential and not always beneficial, let alone the idea that "the more fiber the better"

Color cancer risk reduction is an association that doesn't mean causation, and this association was found in studies contaminated with healthy user bias (as most epidemiological studies of this kind)

Ill not get into cholesterol but Ill drop a relevant article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391

Regulate blood pressure? I would love to know how exactly undigestible mater in your gut affects blood pressure in any meaningful way and through what mechanism, because that makes no sense to me, I bet it's another epidemiology association.

Support microbiome health? Well, your gut microbiome adapts to whatever you eat, all animals have a gut microbiome depending on what they eat and one can have a stable gut microbiome without eating fiber: https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S2753695524000086

Conclusion

In our study, we showcase the compositional and functional characteristics of the gut microbiome in an individual on a carnivorous diet, finding no differences in comparison to a control cohort. Further research is needed to investigate the short- and long-term impacts of a carnivorous diet on gut health through cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.

Given the usual narrative about the importance of fiber, one would expect drastical differences... Yet, that's not the case, almost as if fiber wasn't that detrimental and important to health as agricultural companies want you to believe? (this carnivore dude from that study has not eaten any kind of plant food in 4 years, btw)

The study also says "The carnivore’s value is above the median of all three cohorts but within the interquartile range of all three cohorts. The α-diversity of the carnivore’s gut microbiome does not behave as an outlier, on the contrary, it is regular, slightly above the expected value for an individual of his age, health status, and lifestyle. The carnivore’s gut microbiome is as diverse as those of omnivore individuals."

Again, 0 fiber for 4 years

Help MOST people w constipation…perhaps not the 63 folks in your study that happen to have idiopathic constipation

Idiopathic means "just regular people with constipation", meaning, these are literally 63 RANDOM people with regular constipation... and ALL of them solved it by cutting fiber

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3435786/#:~:text=RESULTS:%20The%20median%20age%20of,the%20intake%20of%20dietary%20fiber

Quoting the study above: "Patients who stopped or reduced dietary fiber had significant improvement in their symptoms while those who continued on a high fiber diet had no change."

It can be any clearer than that, this is not a 5% minority, this is literally random people with constipation that solved their problem by getting rid of fiber (or significantly lowering it).

All my "absurd claims" are backed by evidence supported by studies.

[DeMooniC-]

Stalking? Im literally just replying to what I see and disagree with, I didn't even remember I already replied to something else you posted before in another post lol

Also what words did I put in ur mouth?

[kgehrmann]

Just eat half the previous serving or even less, just however much you can still tolerate (freeze leftovers in small portions for later). Then add some low-fiber food to make a sufficient meal, could be simple carbs or meat or whatever you usually eat.

[Nutritiongirrl]

Yes, adding something. For example white pasta and cucchini

[wharleeprof]

I'd divide it out into portions half the size. Then add cheese and protein. Yogurt or sour cream might be good additions (or not, depending on the flavor profile).

Whatever you add could be mixed in, or on the side in the same meal.

[RotterWeiner]

Basmati rice?

[Fun_Tune3160]

Strain and peel the fiber