Sport Is this True About Fiber?

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Is it true that for every gram of fiber you eat, you can subtract 10 calories away from anything you eat?

For instance, if I have a serving of beans which had 7 grams of fiber and 90 calories, I could only count myself as actually receiving 20 calories from them?

I've heard this a few times before, but it seems too good to be true.
 
Hi there!

As far as I know, one of the properties of fibre is that it takes a while to digest, which has 2 main effects:
- Keeps you fuller longer
- The digestion process uses more energy.

That's how celery has negative calories, the amount you extract is outweighed by the amount required to digest it. Though it belongs to a special group of plants, out of which it's very hard to extract energy.

Though I'm not at all sure what the answer to your question is :D
 
Man, I wish this were true. If it were I would go to the the store and buy a bottle of fiber pills and eat how ever many it would take to cancel out a piece of cheesecake.

No Luv, you can't subtract 10 calories for every gram of fiber. What you do subtract is the carbs. Lets say your apple has 20 carbs in it and 2 grams of fiber. Only 18 carbs count towards the trotal calories because fiber doesn't have any calories. If you're looking at nutritional information on a label the makers of the product of course know this and it is how the calories are added up.

Understand?

~Nicole
 
The calories you get from fiber don't really count towards your intake, they not readily absorbed to keep it simple. So at least for every gram of fiber you take in you can subtract 4 calories (the ones it gave you lol)
 
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