Fiber For Beginners: How to Get Started Fast
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We're talking F-words on the show today! That's right: Fiber! From gut health to glucose control, fiber is the unsung hero of your diet.
Registered Nurse and mom Kylie Buckner joins us to explain why she’s a fiber fanatic — and how she’s teaching her 3-year-old (a self-declared vegan) to love fiber, too. This plant-based advocate joins us to drop some F-bombs (family-friendly ones) and share everything you need to get started on adding more fiber to your diet.
She joined Chuck Carroll at the National Health Association conference in Cleveland.
In this episode of The Exam Room, you'll learn:
- How much fiber you actually need in a day (hint: it’s more than you think)
- How to talk to kids about gut health and good food
- How fiber slows sugar absorption and protects blood sugar
- Kylie’s go-to high-fiber foods that taste great
- How much protein you really need
- The best fiber-rich plant-based protein sources
Check out Kylie's new podcast Green Glow Lifestyle on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:04.0 | If you're looking for how do I know what to eat and you're concerned if you're approaching a plant-based diet and something that you're concerned about, |
| 0:13.0 | the good news is that fiber and protein travel together. |
| 0:15.0 | So if you're only looking at your fiber and you're concerned about your protein, |
| 0:19.0 | just start tracking your fiber and your protein will probably end up being around that amount. It's not 100%. And fruit's a little different than the vegetables. But like I said, if you look at like a full day's worth of your meals, it tends to be pretty even. It's just interesting to me. That is wild. I never really thought about that because that is like that's always the huge concern is where are you going to get your proof? Totally. You get it from your fiber. Yeah. |
| 0:41.4 | Apparently. How about that? Who knew? |
| 0:46.1 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the physicians committee. Hi, I'm the weight |
| 0:51.3 | loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:56.8 | Hi to the exam roomies listening in St. Petersburg, Florida, Menefi, California, and Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| 1:04.3 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:08.9 | This is episode 61 of Season 8, number 660 overall. |
| 1:14.7 | And today we are talking about F-bombs, but you don't need earmuffs. We are talking about fiber, |
| 1:21.6 | my friends, from gut health to glucose control. Fiber is the unsung hero of most people's diets. Unsung, except for a lot of |
| 1:32.3 | guests who come on this show, including a first-time guest today, registered nurse and amazing mom, |
| 1:39.1 | Kylie Buckner. She is joining us to explain why she is a self-proclaimed fiber fanatic and how she's teaching her three-year-old, adorable daughter, Indigo, to love fiber as well. |
| 1:52.5 | So she and I got the opportunity to sit down together in Cleveland at this year's National Health Association Conference. |
| 1:59.0 | And she was dropping F-bomb after F-bomb after F-bomb |
| 2:03.8 | in a family-friendly way, of course, sharing everything you need to know on how to add more fiber |
| 2:09.9 | to your diet. And speaking of adding fiber to your diet, do you know how much fiber you actually |
| 2:16.9 | need in a day? Well, here's a hint. It's |
| 2:20.0 | probably more than you think. We've thrown around a lot of numbers here on the show, but Kylie has |
| 2:25.0 | her own, and it probably is more than you think. And we're also going to be talking about for parents |
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