2. Fiber helps with weight — and weight-related diseases
If you’re trying to lose weight — or maintain your current numbers — doctors and nutrition experts will tell you that fiber is your friend. The body can’t digest fiber like it can other nutrients, so it moves slowly through the stomach and helps keep you feeling full for longer.
“It’s so easy to binge on a bag of potato chips, but we’re not going to binge on carrots, for example, because there’s so much fiber your body is going to feel full; it’s not even going to allow you to binge on something like that,” says Shonali Soans, a dietician in the Integrative Health and Wellbeing program at Weill Cornell Medicine.
“It…