How Fibre Boosts Your Metabolism, Mood and Motivation!

There’s a type of carbohydrate that boosts your workout results, fat-burning power, mood and motivation. It’s fibre – and you probably haven’t been getting enough. Until now.

- Marnie Soman Schwartz

New research shows that fibre, which helps food pass through one’s system, is critical for active women as it helps them to work out harder and longer.

Fibre’s fuddy-duddy image is getting a makeover – and a well deserved one. For starters, new research shows that fibre is critical for active women as it helps them to work out harder and longer. A type of carbohydrate, it helps food pass through your system, which is where its potency lies. “Fibre slows down the digestion and absorption of food, so you get steady energy that lasts,” says Sarah Romotsky, director of health and wellness of the International Food Information Council Foundation in Washington, D.C. One way it may ensure stamina is by boosting the population of a type of gut bacteria that improves the way your body handles sugar, research published in the journal Cell Metabolism shows. A better workout isn’t the only benefit from the rough stuff. Check out the three other important ways your body uses fibre to stay healthy, slim, and strong.

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