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Keeping you "regular" is fiber’s most advertised benefit.  Medical studies show that fiber helps prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, and diverticulitis, a painful inflammation of small pouches along the colon wall.  What’s not as well known is fiber’s increasing role in preventing chronic disease. Unfortunately, most North Americans don’t get enough fiber.  To increase your daily intake, […]

Keeping you "regular" is fiber’s most advertised benefit.  Medical studies show that fiber helps prevent constipation, hemorrhoids, and diverticulitis, a painful inflammation of small pouches along the colon wall.  What’s not as well known is fiber’s increasing role in preventing chronic disease. Unfortunately, most North Americans don’t get enough fiber.  To increase your daily intake, […]

Some of the prettiest plants can be dangerous if their flowers or leaves are eaten or they come into contact with the skin or eyes.  Acute inflammation of the skin is caused by contact with such poisonous plants.  The inflamed, swollen, and intensely itching skin areas, thickly covered with tiny blisters in the early stages, […]