AIMHerbal Fiberblend™
AIM Herbal Fiberblend™ can help meet your dietary fiber needs
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Constipation, Dietary Fiber, Sluggish Colon
Constipation
Constipation is the most common chronic
digestive disorder in the United States, affecting
4.53 million people a year & costing over $200 million for prescribed cathartics alone
each year.(5) Although constipation affects everybody, the elderly are
especially affected resulting from prescription & nonprescription medication,
inactivity & diseases.(5)
Decreased transit time help fight constipation, & some researchers & health practitioners, believe that faster fecal matter movement through our colon, lessens chances of carcinogens developing. An editorial in the British medical journal The Lancet states that "Many diseases & conditions are improved when transit time through our gastrointestinal tract is decreased."(4)
Overall, increased dietary fiber causes more frequent stools, larger & softer stools. According to an article in Pediatrics,(1) fiber shortens overall transit time by as much as 50%. Fiber also increases defecation frequency & reduces incidence of constipation.
Transit time is the time that it takes food to move through the digestive track. It is generally divided into three phases. Gastric phase (emptying of food from the stomach) which usually takes 2 to 5 hour. Small intestine phase (time it takes food to travel through the small intestine) 3 to 6 hours. Colonic phase is the longest taking any number of hours. It is here that problems of prolonged intestinal transit result in fewer bowel movement, constipation, & disease.
Dietary fiber in general prolongs transit time at the gastric phase helping the body to feel fuller longer. This is caused by soluble not insoluble fiber.
Dietary fiber generally decreases transit
time through all phases of the colon. It softens & enlarges stool, leading to a
shorter transit time.
Citation:
(1) Hillemeier, Craig. "An overview of the effects of
dietary fiber on gastrointestinal transit." (The Role of Dietary Fiber in Childhood:
Proceedings of a Conference Held on May 24,1994, in New York, NY) Pediatrics.
November 1995.Vol.96, No 5.
(2) Gray, David S. "The clinical uses of dietary fiber." American
Family Physician. February 1, 1995. Vol. 51, No. 2
(3) Heaney, Robert P., M.D., and Connie M. Weaver, Ph.D. "Effect of psyllium on absorption of co-ingested calcium." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. March 1995. 43:3.
(4) "Hastening gut transit." (editorial) The Lancet. October 20, 1990. Vol. 336, No. 8721.
(5) Donatelle, Edward P. "Constipation: Pathophysiology and treatment." American Family Physician, November 1990. Vol. 42, No.5.
(6)Cheskin, Lawrence J., M.D., Neel Kamal, M.D., Michael D Crowell, Ph.D., Marvin M. Schuster, M.D. and William E Whitehead, Ph.D. "Mechanisms of constipation in older persons and effects of fiber compared with placebo." Journal of the American Dietetic Society. June 1995.43:6.
(7) Abyad, Abdul, and Fadi, Mourad. "Constipation: Common Sense care of the older patient." Geriatrics. December 1996. Vol.51, No.12.
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