Fibre and fluid
A healthy fluid intake, that is at least 1.5 litres a day, is always a good idea. When you eat a good fibre-full diet it is especially important. Dietary fibre acts much like a sponge, when you eat it the fibre tends to be dry, without fluid to lubricate it becomes a tough job to get it through to the other end.
To illustrate this, get a sponge and try and push it through the cardboard tube in the middle of a toilet roll – dry this is not easy, wet the sponge and it slides through. The same is true for your body, if you do not supply the fluid you need to help the passage then some will be pulled from other parts of your body – but essentially the fibre is going through dry.
Dry fibre passing through you is not healthy – it cannot perform its proper function without out adequate hydration. Like your brain, your gut performs best when well hydrated!
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