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Most everyone who's ever looked into the paleo diet, is aware of Dr. Michael Eades, and his blog. Dr. Eades, as you know, is a close personal friend, and associate of Dr. Cordain, of paleo diet fame.
I posted about a research article describing the damage that fiber does to the intestines, a long time ago, (I don't even recall when), but at the time, I suspected that l might be the only one who thought that there was nothing good about the way that it worked, considering the damage that it does to the intestines. Of course, the researchers thought that it was all hunky-dory.
I discovered today, that Dr. Eades agrees with me, and he does a beautiful job of explaining in one of his blogs, why using fiber to damage cells in the intestines is not a good idea at all, and he does a beautiful job of comparing it with a great example of another bad habit that can do major damage to the upper part of the digestive tract - namely cigarette smoking.
Anyone who believes that supplementary fiber is good for you, should read this blog. Note that Dr. Eades is not saying that the fiber in fruits and vegetables is bad for us, it's the "designer" foods, that have high amounts of added fiber, (such as high-fiber cereal, high-fiber this, and high-fiber that), that should be avoided. "Whole" foods are safe - supplemental fiber should be avoided.
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/fibe ... e-and-aft/
I agree with him 100%, obviously.
Incidentally, while we're on the topic of eating fiber, and doing other things to increase motility, there's something else that I'd like to point out. Bearing in mind that we can't do much about our rapid transit while our MC is reacting, for anyone without active MC, trying to follow the advice of the high-fiber advocates, and the "colon cleanse" sales pitches, which advocate 2, 3 or even more BMs per day as "normal", is definitely counterproductive. Research shows that rates of colorectal cancer, for example, correlate almost directly with the number of BMs per day. IOW, the more trips to the bathroom, the higher the risk of colorectal cancer, according to this study, while constipation lowered the risk.
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/e ... 7.abstract
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