Sentences with phrase «low roughage»

If an adult horse eats feces, it is usually due to low roughage or lack of protein in the diet that can easily be corrected by increasing both.

Furthermore high intake of low roughage (purified) carbohydrates cause rapid increases in blood sugar followed by rapid insulin increase and subsequent steep fall.

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The fermented cabbage and onions are softened a lot in the fermentation process, but they are still very healthy roughage, able to make it through 90 % of the digestive process to your lower gut, offering some protection to bacteria and providing surfaces on which those replacement bacterial spores can begin to grow.

Although not as beneficial for lowering your LDL cholesterol as soluble fiber, insoluble fiber adds roughage to your diet, which aids in digestive health and helps prevent constipation.

Dietary fiber, or roughage, has been found to promote several health benefits in addition to bowel regularity, including better control of cholesterol and blood sugar, lowering risk of diabetes or heart disease, aiding in weight loss and preventing obesity, and even reducing the risk of cancer.

However, if this percentage is too low, the horse will not receive enough roughage.