Welcome To The PGX Fiber Diet Digest

The PGX Fiber Diet Digest provides information on a simple and healthy way to lose weight and obtain better health. Clinical studies have proven that eating high soluble fiber foods during the day will result in weight loss.


Slim Styles PGX Fiber -The Weight Control Breakthrough

The most important advantage of SlimStyles over other weight loss products is the clinically proven ingredient PGX (PolyGlycoplex). PGX is the result of extensive clinical research at the University of Toronto in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Functional Medicine.

PGX is a completely unique blend of highly purified soluble fibers processed using advanced proprietary EnviroSimplex technology. Compared to other soluble fibers, significantly less PGX is required to obtain the same important health benefits including glucose balance, appetite control and reduced food cravings.

PGX Fiber Can Lower After Meal Blood Sugar Levels

PGX® fiber increases food viscosity (gel-like quality), slowing the rate at which food is digested and absorbed. This prolongs after-meal satiety and helps normalize blood sugar levels and insulin secretion. Leveling out sugar absorption eliminates the “blood sugar roller coaster” - when food intake causes excess insulin to be secreted, which then causes hunger due to blood sugar dropping, which then causes you to consume more food, which then causes more insulin secretion, etc. These ups and downs in blood sugar are very hard on the body and make it very difficult to lose weight.

In addition, the American Dietetic Association, in their position paper on the health implications of dietary fiber, state that considerable experimental evidence demonstrates that the addition of viscous dietary fibers slows gastric emptying rates, digestion, and the absorption of glucose to benefit immediate postprandial glucose metabolism and long-term glucose control in individuals with diabetes mellitus (Marlett et al, 2002).

Sunday, March 23, 2008

New Findings on Fiber

Research Confirms Benefits of Fiber for Weight Loss,
Lower Cholesterol, and Reduced Blood Glucose.
By Stephen Laifer

Recent interest in the importance of including fiber in the diet belies the fact that nutritional specialists have advocated its benefits for more than half a century. Even before the fifth century BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates, often regarded as the father of Western medicine, recommended consuming fiber-rich natural foods. In 1953, nutritionist E. H. Hipsley introduced the term “dietary fiber” to represent intake of the indigestible components of plant cell walls.1

A more precise definition of fiber was established in 1969, as prevailing nutritional habits were linked with the prevalence of various diseases.2,3 In their study of traditional foods consumed by different cultures, Drs. Hugh Trowell and Dennis Burkitt noted that cultures with diets rich in plant foods rarely suffered from illnesses like diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular disease.4 By contrast, these diseases had become widespread in developed Western societies in the late 1800s with the advent of a milling technique that produced a new, fiber-depleted dietary staple: white flour.3 Fiber, they therefore reasoned, might offer protection against many of the diseases prevalent in modern Western societies.

These early nutrition research findings have been borne out by countless subsequent studies. One recent study found that every additional 10 grams of fiber consumed on a daily basis cuts the risk of coronary heart disease death by 27%.5 Modern medicine recognizes fiber—the edible parts of plants that are resistant to digestion and absorption in the human small intestine—to be an essential component in maintaining a healthy body. Today, a growing body of research is examining one of fiber’s least-publicized benefits: its ability to help reduce caloric intake and thus maintain a healthy weight.

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