The dietary fiber you need for better health.- By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com The socioeconomic crisis in Sri Lanka has enabled the people to go on a plant-based diet and become healthier as a nation, as meat and fish are out of reach of the common person. Dietary fibre is that part of plant material in the diet which is resistant to enzymatic digestion and includes cellulose, noncellulosic polysaccharides such as hemicellulose, pectic substances, gums, mucilages, and non-carbohydrate component lignin. Fibre is found in Carbs. Now what is fiber? Dietary fibre is found in wholegrain cereals and fruit and vegetables. Fibre is made up of the indigestible parts or compounds of plants, which pass relatively unchanged through our https://youtu.be/a0Dc3WAiJ2s Website: www.Doctorharold.com stomach and intestines. Fibre is mainly a carbohydrate. The main role of fibre is to keep the digestive system healthy. High protein-containing foods also have high fiber. Lentils ...

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“THE PRICE OF RICE” – by Des Kelly Definitely not nice, is the price of rice AND other foodstuff, so very important for everyone in Sri Lanka to even exist. It is almost impossible for anyone to share the sorry details of what is really happening there, at the moment, so, my thanks go out to Charley Schokman for sending out this true story. This will give e’Lankans everywhere, a chance to see how our homeland is struggling at the moment. Desmond Kelly. (Editor-in-Chief) e’Lanka. How do they survive? Sunday Times, May 1, 2022   People fed up as essential food items soar in price by 200-500 percent Essential goods have shot up in prices by 200-500 percent compared to the period when the present government took over in 2019, statistics reveal. Rice, dhal and sprats are no longer affordable essential items. Dhal, which was sold at a price of ...

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