They're not entirely bad though, like candy for instance, though perhaps they should be treated like candy. There appears to be some evidence that fibre suppresses the insulin response required to turn sugar to fat.
Honestly, maybe you aren't getting enough fiber. I take a psyllium husk pill a few times a week. If I take one daily I could literally get away with zero wipes some days if I wanted...
Yep, the best selling fiber supplements on Amazon right now are made of wheat dextrose, polydextrose, and psyllium husk, all of which are forms of soluble fiber.
This seems fundamentally the same as insoluble fiber component of plants/vegetables. Why not just eat a bunch of cellulose/lignin/chitin/other non-starch polysaccharides, seems less likely to have some bad/unexpected side-effect.
But there is a ton of evidence that eating more fibers does help. And this should be favored before any random supplement of more often that not dubious quality.
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