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Chris, what did you have for breakfast this morning?

Black coffee as usual.

What about your fibre intake, Chris?

How are you going to keep yourself regular, not to mention manage your risk of all kinds of gut problems?

Well, I've taken to having breakfast cereal for pudding.

Really? Kids eat wheativics and I have it for pudding. You have wheatibics for pudding?

Already break. I don't think this is wellness advice. Maybe I'll just eat my orange peel

like our producer Maya. Good source of insoluble fibre right there.

While Chris munches away on his orange peel, in today's daily dose, we return to our conversation

with Dr. Dairdra Tobias.

Dedritus on a tour of fiber, why it's important for our health and where we should be getting

it from.

Is it important to have a variety of fiber in our diets?

Given the sources of fiber come from a variety of food groups, we have fruits, vegetables,

different amounts across the vegetables within them, nuts, legumes, variety for the other

nutritional benefits across these food groups is important.

Fiber subtypes are probably less important for the bigger picture. I think just thinking about

getting overall fiber from these whole foods is enough of a win. One distinction is when fiber is

added either industrially or consumed as more of like a

supplement that you might sprinkle or add to water for a drink. That's where we see there might

be differences in some of these health effects. And the reason for that is not entirely known,

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