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the only food that fills you up by passing through you untouched.
means The tough, indigestible part of plant foods that aids digestion and bulks up what passes through you — or, more broadly, any thread-like strand or filament.
from From Latin 'fibra,' meaning a thread, filament, or the fine root of a plant. It wandered into English through French as 'fibre,' first describing the stringy threads inside plants and bodies before it ever meant the stuff in your breakfast cereal. The dietary sense — the part that runs straight through you — is a thoroughly modern nutritional twist on that ancient idea of a thread you can't break down.
- indigestible
- your body can't break it down, by design
- gut tenant
- feeds trillions of bacteria living inside you
- two types
- soluble gels, insoluble sweeps the pipes
- modern deficit
- most people eat half what they should
- longevity link
- higher intake tracks with longer lives
carbon fiber — composite material used in boeing 787 airframe, making up 50% of primary structure
optical fiber — glass fiber carrying 99% of transcontinental data traffic, enabling internet backbone
kevlar fiber — aramid material in body armor and helmets, developed by dupont in 1965