The High Fiber Diet

Suitable for Constipation, Hemroids and other conditions

Contents:  The high fiber diet -- Hemroids Diet - Some food table comparisions of high and low fiber foods -- Low fiber foods not good for a high fiber diet -- OK foods for a high fiber diet -- Great foods for a high fiber diet -- There is more to a hemroids diet and constipation diet than just the high fiber diet -- High fiber diet for constipation and or hemroids in Summary.

The high fiber diet

You're suffering from constipation and or hemroids and you've probably read our other pages and are now confronted with the dietary suggestion of high fiber to control, alleviate or cure your hemroids - that you need a high fiber diet.

Why a high fiber diet? Constipation causes hemroids by causing pressure on the hemorrhoidal area and hard stools are more likely to cause hemroids to bleed by scratching them.

If you are the typical Joe Blog who loves white bread and ice cream, your fiber content in your diet is most likely around 11 grams, going on current studies - in other words, you have adopted a low fiber diet.  A high fiber diet, actually is only a meagre 20 grams MORE fiber a day - 4 teaspoons by and large MORE - than the low fiber diet. 

If your doctor has suggested a high fiber diet with more than 30 grams daily to control your hemroids or constipation, like 100 grams of fiber a day, which can apparently happen, then high fiber supplements and dietary changes may both be necessary to master your hemroids or constipation.

  100 grams of fiber daily is a big ask to pull out of a high fiber diet alone, as with most high fiber foods, we are only talking about a couple, maybe three - 2 to 3 - grams of fiber per serve.  You would need to eat so much food that you would most likely end up obese and needing to lose weight, or eating just a very small number of foods that are super high in fiber that most people couldn't put up with for very long at all - the high fiber diet just becoming too restrictive and oppressive at such a point.

A caution on high fibre diets to control constipation and or hemroids:

With hemroids, one can easily jump at the idea of increasing fibre to soften stools, but people can get hard stools from having too much fibre in their diet, which is definitely not what one wants with hemroids. Check the amount of fibre you are eating and adjust it accordingly. People with counterproductive amounts of fibre for hemroids often find themselves sitting on the toilet five or so times a day, passing out small hard stools, finding their tummies bloated with wind, passing alot of wind out the rectum.

Every human being needs between twenty to thirty grams of fiber per day in their diet. Fiber is not broken down by the gastrointestinal system, but is rather passed through it serving as regulator and scrubber at the same time. 30 grams of fiber is what is desirable in a high fiber diet.

The best places to get enough fiber are whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and the ever popular beans. Getting fiber through your diet is the best option because these foods carry vital nutrients and trace minerals as well as constipation-banishing fiber.

However, it's a good idea to introduce new foods into your diet slowly, one new food every two to four days. Doing otherwise won't kill you, but you might wish it had. Your intestinal tract needs time to get used to new, fiber rich foods, and failing to give it that time will land you with some terrible gas, nausea, and general misery.

If you have made these diet changes and still cannot get enough fiber into your system on a daily basis, then taking fiber supplements made from plaintain, psyllium husks, or ground flax seeds may be necessary. These fiber supplements come in different forms from edible wafers to powder that is meant to be suspended in water and drunk. Your pharmacist would be happy to help you pick out the right supplement for you.

On another side to this, the low fiber diet that may have contibuted to the development of hemroids, may also have done other things to your body that you may not have yet noticed. High cholesterol, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes or uncontrolled diabetes, heart disease, increased risk of stroke plus many more are common side effects of such a diet as well.  The hemroids tend to be an early warning sign, from my experience anyway, that the symptoms of cholesterol, diabetes, metabloic syndrome etc., may be just a few years away.

  Remember though, that you can have undetected hemroids for quite some time, meaning that once you have diagnosis hemorhoids, these other disabling conditions - cholesterol etc - should be checked for as well.

Anyway, here are the common higher fiber foods and their normal amount of fiber, which you can possibly incorporate into your diet for hemroids.

Hemroids Diet - some food table comparisions:

Low fiber foods not good for a high fiber diet

Dairy products, icecreams, ices, fats creams and oils, chocolate, eggs, 100% meat or meat products, salad dressings, ALL have zero, zilch, no fiber.

Desserts and Frozen meals have very little fiber for the most part - lucky if you get 2 grams fiber out of any of them; mostly they are less than 1 gram per 300 gram portion.

OK foods for a high fiber diet

Tofu, most fruit and vegetables have 2 to 3 grams fiber per 100 gms (about 3 oz) and therefore good for a high fiber diet.  Nuts and seeds have around 3 gms fiber per 30 gm serving.

Great foods for a high fiber diet - the high fiber foods

FRUIT:   Apple - 1x200g large with skin, but cored - 6.0 gms fiber.

Guava - 1 x 120 gm medium - 6.5 gms fiber

Orange - 1x300g large - 5.5 gms

Peach - 1x225g large - 4 gms

Pear - 1x200gms large - 6 gms

SALADS:  Bean salad - 1/2 cup - 5 gms

VEGETABLES:  Peas / snow peas - 100 gm ( about 3 oz) - 4.5 gm

LENTILS, PEAS AND BEANS:    Have about 5 grams of fiber per 100 grams cooked.  (The fresh french or runner beans from the green grocer that many buy have about half the fiber content)

There is more to a hemroids and constipation diet than just a high fiber diet.

A hemroids diet / constipation diet is more than just adding some fiber to your diet.

Fiber is only one of the important ingredients to controlling and eliminating hemroids and constipation. 

Fiber and Water

If a high fiber diet is included in your constipation and hemroids diet, then water becomes very important to it.

In addition to getting enough fiber, you'll want to drink at least eight decent-sized glasses of water per day.

Taking a high fiber diet without getting enough water is about as sensible as eating glue, and that's exactly what it'll feel like in your stomach.

Fiber absorbs excess water, which produces the sort of firm, easy to pass stools that will convince your constipation and hemroids to go away.

Oil and Fat

Yes, your body needs oil and or fat to function properly - it helps keep everything slippery, including your poop and helps keeps your brain and nerves healthy.

  Due to its high calorie count, most of us reduce our fat and oil intake to lose weight, but this can lead to constipation, which in turn can lead to hemroids. 

So be sure to include into you hemroids high fiber diet home remedy plan at least some oil, whether by a topping on a bread or by eating something fried or... .  Try to use better oils that at least do something more than add calories - olive oil for example in salads and cooking.

Failing adding oil, then try adding more fruit and vegetables and more water to help keep constipation away.

High fiber diet for constipation and or hemroids in Summary

As can be seen, increasing the fiber content to a high fiber diet one, is not as difficult as it may have first appeared.  It's not too hard to munch on an apple and an orange each day, have a portion of nice snow peas with your dinner.  If you love baked beans, well, you are really set for an easy high fiber diet.

One of the big plusses of developing a high fiber diet, is altering your taste buds to become accustomed to wholemeal products. 

Not only do wholemeal products, multigrain products etc add much more fiber than their highly refined white alternatives, but they are excellent for reducing many problems, including cholesterol and your risk of deadly pancreatic cancer. 

Yes, a high fiber diet can be very good for you in more ways than just for your hemroids and or constipation.

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