If you are one of the millions of people who get MORE «stopped up» rather than less when trying to
increase fiber intake
via whole grains, consider a new tactic:
increase your fruit and veggie intake, decrease your grain intake, drink plenty of water, and make sure you ingest plenty of healthy fats (more info on fats coming).
As blood glucose levels
increase, glucose also
increases within the aqueous humor, glucose readily diffuses across the lens capsule, an aldose reductase pathway converts glucose to sorbitol, sorbitol accumulates within the lens as it can not diffuse through lens cell membranes, the osmotic gradient
increases, water enters the lens and irreversibly changes the lens structure
via lens
fiber swelling and rupture, vacuole formation, and clinically evident cataract.