The Fiber Menace

[mas]

Of course main stream media's worship of fiber to cure all is yet another bunch of lies wrapped in scientific distortion and fraud.

Konstantin Monastyrsky (Former pharmacist who wrote a book to bust the Fiber Myth)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Monastyrsky

Excerpts from his book, The Fiber Menace

http://gutsense.org/fibermenace/fm_chapter1.html

 

[pboy]

im aware of his work and agree with it mostly, but not really the details...just the fact that fiber is more often than not worse than it is better. However, fiber is too broad a term to be talked about as such...there are so many different fibers with all having an almost unique characteristic, you'd almost have to talk about every fiber separately. But I agree, you actually don't need any fiber and 90% of them are irritating, the other 10% being benign