Sentences with phrase «fiber and water found»

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The fiber and magnesium found in coconut water have a gentle laxative effect that draws water into the stool, making it softer and therefore easier to pass.

The insoluble fiber works like roughage, while the soluble fiber (pectin), which is found primarily in the skin, acts as a stool softener by drawing water into the stool and increasing stool bulk.

Lignin is found in two types of cells: fiber cells that make up the structure of a plant and cells that make up the vessels that carry water throughout the plant.

It may also help to decrease the intake of insoluble fiber, especially during a flare; found in nuts, seeds, and vegetable skins, insoluble fiber can draw water into the gut and cause bloating, gas, and cramping.

Foods that you can find directly in nature, and foods that are high in water, fiber and protein.

In the U.S., common bowel transit times are found to be two to three days, a good indicator of the need for more fiber and water in the diet.

Soluble fiber, found in most fruits, nuts, seeds, dry beans and peas, oat bran and oatmeal, dissolves in water to form a gel - like substance that can help lower blood levels of cholesterol and glucose.

They don't taste like fruits, but they are full of water and fiber, which is great for us, and also have many of the micronutrients we find in sweet fruits.

Made up of the mucilage compounds, gums and pectins found on the inside of plant cells, soluble fiber swells with water in the digestive tract and forms a thick, viscous mass.

Soluble fiber, found in most fruits, many vegetables, and legumes like beans and peas, soaks up water, turning into a «gel» - like substance inside your body.

GGs are the best - I love them, and have found that they really help you lose weight (but you have to drink a TON OF WATER to get the fiber to pass).

Though the water and the fiber (and maybe the antioxidants) found in whole tomatoes may offer some small health benefits for your cat, ketchup does not.

When the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco tested the effluent of eight Bay Area wastewater treatment plants last year, they «found that 80 percent of the microplastics and other microscopic particles were fibers.»

Put more simply, from the New York Times, «Examining washing - machine waste water, they found that 1900 fibers can rinse off a single garment during a wash cycle and that those fibers look just like the microplastic debris on shorelines.

You may have even gone to the effort of finding out ways you can stop contributing to the problem, by refusing plastic straws and shopping bags, or by purchasing clothing with natural fibers instead of plastic fabrics that release microscopic plastic fibers into the water system.