Fibre is fabulous, and it impacts your daily life in more ways than you think.

You know you need more fibre, but did you know that increasing your dietary fibre intake with wheat can be easy and delicious?

Dietary fibre has a lot of benefits outside the bathroom, like reducing your risk of diabetes and heart disease, and promoting good digestion.

Dr. Megan Racey offers a closer look at dietary fibre and the important impact it can have on your overall health.

Meeting your daily fibre target has many benefits, like improved blood cholesterol levels and a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.

Dietary fibre promotes satiety or fullness and can help you meet your weight loss goals. Fibre also feeds your gut bacteria, which promotes good digestive health.

Fibre is an important nutrient to consider when managing constipation, but did you know that fibre can also help lower the risk of diabetes? Fibre helps to slow digestion and regulates your blood glucose levels after a meal.

Unfortunately, most Canadians aren’t getting enough. Dr. Racey recommends adults should aim for 10 g of dietary fibre per meal to help you reach the daily target of between 25-38 g per day.

Looking for fibre rich foods? Wheat can make it easy.

Start your day with whole wheat bread or add wheat bran to your smoothie or yogurt. Whole wheat pasta or a salad with wheat berries can help you start feeling the benefits.

There’s lots more to learn about wheat and fibre. You can read more here.