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How Much Fiber To Eat, Where To Get Your Fiber, And Is Fiber *Really* Killing Your Insides?

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A couple months ago, I published an extremely controversial guest article: "Is Fiber Bad For You? The Top 12 Myths And The Real Truth About Whether Fiber Is Killing Your Insides." 96 comments later, it still seems some confusion persists about exactly how much fiber to eat, where to get your fiber, and whether fiber [...]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com podcast.

0:13.2

This has been, and if you missed the podcast on Monday, then you missed the announcement

0:20.1

that I am actually over in Vietnam right now, competing in a triathlon that actually takes

0:27.6

place this Sunday called the Laguna Lang Triathlon.

0:31.3

Don't worry, I'll put a bunch of updates out on the Facebook.com slash BG fitness page

0:38.0

if you want to predict my race time and win some cool swag and stuff like that.

0:43.9

But in the meantime, that's why Brock isn't with me today for this episode, and that's

0:49.3

why it might sound a little bit different.

0:52.0

So today, in this special episode, we are revisiting the controversial topic of fiber.

1:01.0

And a couple of months ago, on the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com website, I published an extremely

1:07.0

controversial guest article entitled Is Fiber Bad For You, The Top 12 Myths, and the

1:13.0

Real Truth about whether fiber is killing your insides.

1:18.1

Well, 96 comments later on that blog post, it still seems that some confusion persists

1:23.4

about exactly how much fiber to eat and where to get your fiber and whether fiber really

1:28.2

is a dangerous villain that is killing your insides.

1:31.2

So in today's episode, I have Constantin Monastersky on the line, and we're going to talk

1:39.4

about everything that you need to know about fiber.

1:42.0

If you still are confused and you have more questions after this episode, just head over

1:46.6

to BenGreenfieldFitness.com where I have the show notes for this podcast.

1:53.1

Now just a couple of things I wanted to mention before we jump in.

1:57.6

First of all, and you may have missed this if you didn't listen in to Monday's episode,

2:02.4

the official video, audio slides, takeaway notes, and DVDs are now available from the

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