Are USDA Dietary Guidelines Unrealistic?
unprocessed foods are high in fiber? Anthropologist Dian Fossey never mentioned that the huge distended abdomens of vegetarian Silverbacks go flat if they don’t eat for a couple of days. The USDA dietary recommendation are “25 grams for women and 38 grams for men.” This seems nearly impossible without resorting to buying expensive fiber fortified foods such as Fiber One. The British minimum fiber guidelines is 12 to 24 grams a day, half of USDA recommendations. The USDA guidelines are assuming a very active lifestyle in order to be under the daily caloric limit while maintaining high fiber. It has been postulated that the real reason for lowered health risk associated with a high fiber diet is because those people generally eating a high fiber diet are very active in order to maintain a healthy BMI. It is possible to get 20 to 38 grams of fiber if diet is based on 2,000 to 2, 5000 calories a day. If your daily limit for calories is less than 1,500 calories a day then half of USDA recom
