Soluble fiber and Diabetes
Dietary Soluble Fiber and Diabetes 2
Clin Excell Nurse Pract 2000 Sep;4(5):272-6
Tabatabai A, Li S.
Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
How does soluble fiber help control diabetes?
Soluble fiber along with complex carbohydrates (starches) can make the hormone
insulin work better. This allows patients to take less diabetes medication while
keeping their blood sugar normal. Persons with diabetes often have sharp rises
of blood sugar following meals. Increased soluble fiber in meals slows down the
release of food into the intestine and keeps the blood sugar from rising
rapidly.
How do soluble fibers lower cholesterol?
Soluble fiber forms a gel that binds with certain digestive acids made from
cholesterol in the liver, and then takes the acids away in the stool. In
response, your liver draws cholesterol from your blood to make more acids, thus
lowering your blood cholesterol.
How does soluble fiber regulate blood sugar?
·Soluble fiber slows the passage of food into the intestine, leading to greater
control over the amount of glucose entering the blood stream.
-Soluble fiber slows absorption of blood sugar from the small intestine, making
sugar levels easier in control, it slow down the digestion of carbohydrates,
which results in better glucose metabolism.
·Higher consumption of sugary foods can cause drastic highs and lows in your
insulin levels. By controlling blood sugar, soluble fiber takes the edge off
your cravings. This makes it a lot easier to avoid snacking on high calorie
foods.
·It improves mineral absorption by slowing down the passage of food into the
colon. Better mineral absorption leads to smooth functioning of many enzymes and
hormones, which play an active role in effective digestion and absorption.
What is the best available soluble fiber?
Soluble fiber is found in oats, oatmeal, oat bran, beans, legumes, barley,
citrus fruits and certain fruits, psyllium, vegetable gum include konjac gum,
pectin, guar gum and gum arabic, to name a few. Oats have the highest proportion
of soluble fiber among cereals.
Usually, soluble fiber is hard to get from foods. Normal food has a very small
percentage soluble fiber. The cereal containing highest level of soluble fiber
is oat bran, which has about 14% soluble fiber. All other food grains contain
much less soluble fiber than oat bran.
Glucomannan is soluble fiber derived from the konjac plant (tuber). Fresh konjac
contains an average of 13% dry matter, 64% of the dry matter is glucomannan, 30%
is starch. That makes Glucomannan the richest soluble fiber resource in nature.
Glucomannan is nature’s most viscous soluble fiber, with the highest water
holding capacity, and largest molecular weight among any dietary fiber. These
properties help to increase its effectiveness against stroke, cancer, diabetes
and gastrointestinal disorders.
January 28th, 2005 at 5:37 pm
According the medical research, Clinical Excellence for Nurse
Practitioners. 2000 Sep;4(5):272-6
Dietary fiber and type 2 diabetes
"Water-soluble fiber appears to have a greater potential to reduce
postprandial blood glucose, insulin, and serum lipid levels than
insoluble fiber. Viscosity of the dietary fiber is important; the
greater the viscosity, the greater the effect."
The konjac glucomanann is the most viscosity soluble fiber in the
nature.
I just found a new kind pasta, which was made by konjac glucomannan
and water, is very low calories and very low glycemic nature food,
which contain about 96% water and 4% soluble fiber
Nutrition fact(250gram)
Servings per container: 3
Serve size 85 gram
Fat 0
Saturate fat 0
Protein 0
Carbohydrate 3g
Soluble fiber 3g
Insoluble fiber 0
Sugar 0
January 29th, 2005 at 3:39 am
I think you’ve found something there Jennifer.
What it means is that besides sugar and insulin, LDL cholesterol goes
down too with soluble fiber…
The science is valid, I was getting the same information from Inulin,
and from FOS (fructo-oligosaccharide) which are also water-soluble
fibers. They reduce LDL and especially VLDL cholesterol, insulin, and
blood sugar.
However, while Inulin and FOS are bifidogenic, glucomannan is not
identified as bifidogenic soluble fiber, meaning it does not support
the growth of beneficial bowel flora.
Also, guar gum, another soluble fiber, is strongly bifidogenic and
highly viscous.
Duncan Crow
January 29th, 2005 at 3:44 pm
-How does it taste? Is this website where you found it, or was it
in a store?? What IS "konjac glucomannan" …? How does psyllium seed